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In the early 1960s, a new generation of car designers began rejecting the traditional rounded shapes and copious ornamentation that had dominated automotive design since before World War II. Looking to redefine “forward thinking” with fresh forms, they built upon earlier experimentation with triangular design features by stylists such as Virgil Exner and Virgil Exner, Jr., and began incorporating flat planes, sharp edges, and pointed, tapering front ends that looked as if they could cleave through the air like a blade. By the end of the decade, the novel look had taken on a distinct identity: the wedge.

…this is where font-size-adjust comes in. If I specify

font-size-adjust: ex-height 0.5,

I ask the browser to scale the font such that the letter “x” is exactly half of the box. This makes the fonts comparable…

But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost. If you’re some assclown like Sam Altman, whose graph-go-up depends on convincing you to replace all your employees with ChatGPT, you have to destroy that idea. It is the greatest threat to your business model. You have to destroy the idea that things are worth doing.