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Yes, a well-engineered font should handle the interaction better -- probably the easiest approach would be to ensure that case-substitution subtables are ordered ahead of ligature subtables.

(Though as cobertos noted, the author could have worked around the font issue by more careful use of font variant properties in their CSS.)

We already found out, I think.

> Obviously within reason

Oh, so you don't really mean "when all copyright is out of the window", I guess. So.... how are we going to define "within reason"?

> If other companies are willing to pay more for the ads, then your product/business/marketing isn't as good as theirs

Or maybe you just don't have as much venture capital to burn.

Do we really want to live in a world that overwhelmingly rewards whoever is prepared to spend the most on publicity?

(How's Citizens United been working out?)

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16763092 (5 years ago, 10 comments)

> A bit too simple

Why do you say that -- are there particular capabilities it is lacking?

Indeed, it was the standard plate issued for several years (2010-2016). You could also pay a $20 fee to change from an existing plate to the 1812 commemorative one.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101128031616/http://starspangl...

Yes! To me, Sindhri is in a class of its own. No mango I had in India could ever match the Queen of Mangoes from Mirpurkhas at the height of the season.

Last I checked (though it's been a while), I think tectonic basically wrapped the xetex code.

Sounds like you know why you "failed", so you could easily adjust your responses to "pass" if you wished.

I was disappointed that "waves" didn't (quite) work.

> a general digital intellect

That's a pretty bold claim.

This is an awesome piece of work - congratulations!

I notice you're using OpenType-SVG here; have you investigated whether it would be possible to implement this using COLRv1 (which would potentially result in a lighter-weight font, I suspect, and eventually wider support)? Or are there technical limitations in COLRv1 that make it impossible?

> All Gaul comprises three parts -> Three parts are comprised of all Gaul.

No, that doesn't work.

You could, however, say "Gaul is comprised of three parts".

https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/cw-comprise-comprised...

That link isn't available in my country, apparently.

Alternative source: https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/630376275/first-class-action...

Presumably the same article, as it has the same weird hyphenation in the headline.

Yes, my kids had debit cards too. But not credit cards; those have a minimum age of 18.

> I can purchase alcohol from Amazon UK with no obvious age checks

Using your UK credit card? If so, that's an age check in itself.

> Firefox continues to be written in C++

The amount of Rust code in Firefox is pretty substantial, and growing. Did you expect an instant rewrite?

Which is trivial, with hindsight.

Less so in the moment. You could equally well pick three failures, and end up with close to nothing.

...except that the `uppercase` function would be wrong for everyone else.

> what matters isn't change but the RATE of change

And also direction of change. Not all change is for the better.

There is not one possible future, there are many; but only one will happen. We have some agency in determining its shape.

Some of the possible futures are dystopian, and we should be afraid of them, and that fear should prompt us to turn away from them.

You really believe we can create AI-detection algorithms that will stay ahead of the content generators?

Well, they're presumably good for the lifetime of the product. Oh, it failed after 6 months? Tough... that was obviously the limit of its lifetime.

Not quite: "compositions" in the title is plural, which makes a significant difference.

As it happens, Firefox 112 has some improvements in this area, although it's still true that handling a multi-megabyte URL will be a bit painful.

Fire of hell?! Don't know what you mean. I loved it.

Can't you just ask ChatGPT? Surely it's seen so much that it'll "know"....

> after a long discussion and exposing contradictions in the mainstream consensus, it stopped disagreeing with me and was essentially agreeing with my position

I'd be curious... if someone continued the discussion from that point, and started arguing back towards the current mainstream consensus, how long would it take them to "convince" ChatGPT to return to its original "opinion"?

And what does that say about the "knowledge" and/or "understanding" it possesses?

Just curious: do you regard the Google/Meta/Amazon advertising machines as "innovation and progress"? Or in any sense "things of value"?

To encourage more betting, in the excitement of the moment when the wheel is spinning one way, the ball is circling the other way, and the outcome is mere seconds away...

Slow things down, require all bets to be placed before the croupier spins the wheel and throws the ball, and you'll have taken away some of the mystique and the adrenaline of betting on this bouncing, glittering thing that's happening right now in front of your eyes, and some of the casual gamblers will get bored and walk off.