(Minor request for next iteration of this graph: vertical gridlines for the years.)

With tailgate as my translation I’m imagining race car granny in the rollator.

(this is a joke. You will never see an autobiography for me.)

No no no, you see if you read it in the original Russian you’ll see that he simply can’t express it in English.

Chomsky was wrong this whole time.

“Volunteered to go fight in Ukraine.”
“Killed by his own Russian compatriots.”

Thanks comrade, I guess?

Beyond that, it's a pricing question. If I were running things, you would pay the largest of:

- US taxes for the last seven years of your income
- A wealth tax of 15%
- US$5,000,000

You get assigned an auditor with your US$5,000,000 deposit.

Google’s Noto project (fonts.google.com/noto) is what an ideal font system should be, but is mind-bogglingly expensive to accomplish.

A cohesive style for world-ready fonts. Seems like a good place to be for communications that interface with the world.

The Times New Roman outlines are designed for a totally different resolution. And they do not excel in high resolution environments. It is also a product of its time and shouldn’t be used.

But: I feel like the Times New Roman thing is just performative fascist retvrn bullshit for a particular generation.

“If you remove the constraints, would you still end up at a particular maxima?” is a test that I usually offer for something like this.

I think at this point it’s pretty resoundingly clear that the answer is no.

More-controversial opinion:

Your build tool’s CLI should not take configuration flags.

-interactive, which opens a browser window and lets you generate a config file
-config, which lets you load a config file.

Repeatability is the point. Your shell history is not repeatable.

“I’m a knowledge worker!”

No you’re not, you’re a highly specialized tool on an assembly crew for an under-specified bespoke product.