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You're existing in hyper-capitalism. So yes big surprise, people need to make money.

It's a very subtle difference but noticeable in the anti-aliasing.

I don't have Windows right now, so I haven't tested if the change's closer to Firefox - but Firefox always had some heavy antialiasing on Windows, which I wasn't a fan of.

Just leaving this here since people will wonder the relevance of jQuery today.

jQuery is used by 94.5% of all the websites whose JavaScript library we know. This is 77.4% of all websites.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery

For those wondering about the "why", this post details the motivation: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/23/client-side-webas...

Basically for learning/interactive tutorials, trying out something quickly in different PHP versions (which is cumbersome right now), secure and easy demos for themes and plugins.

I'd say that most of the websites still use HTML/CSS/JS and are server-side rendered - well, at least 40%+ of the web does (WordPress).

The distinction mainly is in the apps. Yes, web apps almost always use a framework like React now. Others have already explained the whys.

However, it's still possible to do webapps the traditional way, with the server-side approach, adding only a little interactivity via JS - techs like LiveView and HotWire: https://hotwired.dev/

Anyone who tries to follow-up more than twice comes off as desperate or an automated spambot. I don't appreciate that hustle.

2 follow-ups should be the absolute limit (preferably, a single follow up).

I agree. I rarely ever use new tools, but I switched to Notion a few years ago and even recommended it to many friends and colleagues.

Big mistake. Lessons learned. It's been slow and buggy all this time but I still kept using it. The final nail in the coffin was it started using 15-20% of a CPU core on IDLE, and has been doing so for 5+ months. Tried everything and gave up. Going back to simple text files.

I have used PHP as a replacement for even shell scripts, like perl and python, a lot in the past. The best thing is the very strong standard lib. Everything's built-in. I like node as well, but having to install so many packages just for that one file script is a major annoyance.

I understand what you're saying but it doesn't exactly address my curiosity of this specific case of HTTP GET requests for font files (no JS, no iframe, and no cookies either in this case).

Your thoughts about a like button widget, or even Google Analytics are perfectly valid. But I am talking about this specific topic under discussion, Google Fonts.

Curious how useful is an IP address with a simple HTTP get request?

As long as a sane Referer-Policy is set, the Referer won't be sent. Sure there's a lot more to browser fingerprinting but with just an HTTP request, all the data that would be known from it is the language and the user agent. Both of which are not unique data points and shared by thousands of other users. No cookies either in this case of Google Fonts.

One distinction: Reactive Hypoglycemia. Even with low GI carbs, it may still happen. Small meals or keto is the fix.

When it comes to health, things are rarely that simple. Even medical professionals have knowledge gaps, let alone someone who isn't one. I'd be careful to make assumptions.

Heck, many people assume the other person's a snowflake, when in fact their patience and pain tolerance may be miles above yours.

It's the same as reductionists advice on complex health issues where you advice someone to try X based on your 5-mins reading material, when surely someone suffering for years have tried all of that in thousands of hours of searching for the magic fix.

That seems like a rather premature conclusion. WHO mentioned:

Data which looked at hospitalizations across South Africa between 14 November and 4 December found that ICU occupancy was only 6.3 % – which is very low compared with the same period when the country was facing the peak linked to the Delta variant in July.

Did they account for previous infection or vaccination status? What if a lot of these are breakthroughs/reinfections. Considering excess deaths in South Africa, their national data on number of cases is sort of, doubtful [1].

Further, they seem to have observed mainly a population under 40.

[1] https://theconversation.com/unpacking-south-africas-excess-d...

The difference isn't as much as it used to be in terms of file-size optimization as woff2 is pretty much supported by all browsers and you don't have to serve anything else now. Except for CJK and Arabic fonts, which have to be split or their woff2 size would be a few MB - this is Progressive Font Enrichment [1].

However, once distinction is font hinting data [2]. Google Fonts serve different files based for Windows vs Mac. The windows variations have hinting included.

[1] https://rwt.io/typography-tips/progressive-font-enrichment-r... [2]: https://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting

There can also be physical issues that can be masked psychologically. You can train your brain to ignore and mask many pains and aches and dull them down. IMHO, managing pain can definitely be done psychologically, at least to some extent.

Being too aware of the pains, obsessing over them, and being anxious and stressed definitely aggravate the conditions in my experience. Having an otherwise healthy balanced life in terms of work, relationships etc. with healthy amount of stress, makes some of the ailments very manageable or a non-issue.

MacOS dropped subpixel AA in Mojave by default but brought back a stronger default of grayscale AA in Big Sur AFAIK, which can be optimized. [1]

And I agree, a lot has changed since the article was written. On HiDPI displays, personally I don't like subpixel antialiasing.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/jiwwga/big_sur_f...

Technically correct. But practically the perceived PPI/DPI would matter more, with distance. Relevant: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/#the-myth-of-apple-patented-...

Same issue. Except multiple short-term projects with hundreds of reference tabs, in multiple windows, ranging from groups that would classify as "mood boards" to research.

I settled for Workona when it launched about 2+ years ago after trying many extensions else like OneTab, SessionBuddy, Toby and so on.

I might start looking for something else again as Workona is getting a bit more, commercialized, but it's fine for now.

There are a lot of apps that would benefit from being offline first.

Apps like Notion feels quite sluggish to me on a higher latency 15mbps. And Figma is pretty bad on a decent 3g when loading files on a fresh load.

Building a proper syncing solution isn't that simple especially when it's for multidevice and requires conflict handling. Replicache looks quite good to me but I haven't found any similar solution that's opensource with MIT/GPL license.

I don't understand the judging. It's everyones's own choice.

I got an antibody test post COVID vaccination, and it took a lot of scientific paper reading to find a convertible reference point, but it was time well spent. I got antibodies level less than the average of 80 age group (for my vaccine).

Not something I was expecting, since I have been eating very healthy (with enough organic veggies and fruits), consistently, getting enough sunlight or supplementing vit D when I can't, and exercising for over a decade and half now.

That made me start doubting my health and immune system, so I started taking it seriously. And surely, there are issues that I discovered upon further investigation and bloodwork. There's a suspicion about a possible autoimmune issue as well, but these diagnosis take a very long time - no simple tests.

In short, it's been worth knowing and taking action, for me.

Downvoters: I know you're getting triggered because you're anti-vaxxers. FYI, I did pay for everything myself. It affects you in no way - but please come forth and specify your objections.

And that's why I either use the awesome opensource fonts (they've really very good lately), or use Adobe Fonts (formerly TypeKit).

As much as I hate Adobe, the rented fixed monthly payment is the only logical alternative to current font pricing models for web. Rent Photoshop for $10 a month and you get Adobe Fonts for web with unlimited usage, as a bonus.

Wouldn't it be better, then, at this point, to focus on hospitalization numbers rather than infections or deaths alone. As vaccines have been, reportedly, very good at preventing hospitalizations.

It doesn't matter if there's 1 death, if hundreds are being hospitalized per day, overflowing the health care system.

The problem isn't just mortality rate of covid-19 itself, it's also how hospitals are other treatments are affected. You better hope you don't get sick when the health care system is overloaded or at capacity.

On MacBook (built-in retina display), it has very similar antialiasing to the default UI font SF.

However, the x-height is smaller and that bothers me a bit. If I increase the font-size in tweets to 15.5px, it matches old size and looks good again.

I have personally observed something similar with black tea but I am not sure if's just the theanine + EGCGs or something else.

A while back, I noticed that 'chai' helps me focus and relax (improved mood, less anxiety, etc.) at the same time. It's made of milk, black tea, cardamom, cinnamon, and negligible/no sugar (personal preference).

I prefer coffee in terms of taste, but of all the things I have tried, this has been the best for me. Black tea alone doesn't have the same effect on me, nor does green tea, or coffee with or without milk/cream/sugar.

So I wonder if it's the combination that matter and not theanine alone.

Firefox has built-in tracking protection since a while and would block Google Analytics. Similarly, Adblock extensions would also block GA (usually behind a strict setting).

Considering we're talking HN visitors, this wouldn't be representative of visitors in general.

It's funny that Google says they care about performance, yet the number one reason for bad performance on many site is Google Adsense ads.

Did no one in Ads team get the memo to optimize performance?

Sure lots of negatives, but in a few cases, it can also be useful. I have carefully used a YouTube account that's specifically trained for just the right music recommendations that the auto-play just works mostly right.

I use stimulating music (not relaxing) for work mainly, playing in background, and don't want to keep finding new music. Novelty is an important factor in stimulatory music. So this has been great for me.

Retargeting is generally done after you have shown interest in a product, but haven't converted yet. "Conversions" are always excluded if possible. It makes no sense to retarget a recent buyer.

Most people talk food when inflammation is mentioned. But let's not forget, arguably, an even bigger contributor: stress - mental or physical, say via a chronic illness.

Relevant: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5476783/#s2titl...

In this "modernization", they did end email subscriptions. Pretty sure it's headed to a gradual shutdown.

It sort of depends on the bubble you live in. In the US, things might be very different, but in rest of the world, Samsung isn't the only known Android phone manufacturer.

Xiaomi is a well-known and rising (now the #3). Huawei was the a big player but losing ground. Oppo is well known: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile