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Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard by smeehee on Thursday September 24, 2026 @04:37PM (#49836448)
Fun though the idea is, assistive technologies such as TTS will also have problems with it.
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Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard by servo_sausage on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:42AM (#49840959)
Accessibility should only ever be an addition, never a limit.
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Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard by Semkas on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:41AM (#49842650)
Why should that be true?
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Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard by servo_sausage on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:56AM (#49843370)
Because proposing to limit something needs better justification than a fundamentally limited group can't use it.

It's an out of place performative moralism.

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Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard by Semkas on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:51AM (#49845496)
We will all become, or temporarily be, fundamentally limited at times in our life.

It's trivial to build something that accommodates an ideal user, the challenge in software engineering is creating a solution that suits many kinds of people, at different points in their life. Refusing to engage with that challenge is a kind of proud mediocrity.

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Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard by ryandrake on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:11AM (#49845760)
Engineering is fundamentally about building within limitations.
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