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Not that anyone asked, but after using and enjoying Inconsolata for the last decade I’ve come to really love Söhne Mono in the last few months.

Ref: https://klim.co.nz/retail-fonts/soehne-mono/


Even as someone who has bought many fonts for coding, including Pragmata Pro, Operator and others (i.e. not cheap ones), I was blown away that for just the Mono weights in regular and italic is nine hundred and sixty dollars.

Shame, I was curious about trying it. Operator and Pragmata go for $199.

It also irks me that I cannot buy a single user license for Sohne, but a minimum of a 5 user license.


Individual personal users just aren't type foundaries like Klim's target market. They want to land large businesses who use their typefaces as their dedicated brand font - and the pricing reflects that potential value.

I agree though that they've missed out on an opportunity to land individual personal use. They've just slapped their standard license on it, and didn't think much about it.


  > after using and enjoying Inconsolata for the last decade
Biggus Dickus?


You're thinking Incontinentia


Well, it is a pretty nonsensical name for a font. It appears to mean "unconsoled", which (a) has no valid semantics as applied to a font, since fonts don't have thoughts, moods, or feelings; and (b) has a very negative valence - being unconsoled is a bad thing.


Inconsolata was inspired by and named after Microsoft's Consolas font, which was presumably so named as it was meant for the console.


OK, but by the time you're just picking ordinary words for the name of your product, should you have any level of concern for what those words mean? Are we going to follow up with "inconsolable"?


Consolation! Console Nation? I am sure they have a crack font-naming team in Redmond, we haven't seen the end of it yet.


Haha is using Inconsolata a flex?


Brilliant idea! I recently had a difficult time trying to get a cashiers check at a few nearby banks/credit unions I wasn’t a member of. It’s incomprehensible to me they weren’t willing to accept a fee in order to charge my debit card for the amount of the check + fee ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Probably regulations, KYC requirements, etc.


From the press release: "The complaint separately alleges that RealPage has unlawfully maintained its monopoly over commercial revenue management software for multi-family dwellings in the United States, in which RealPage commands approximately 80% market share."


That’s 80% of companies who are using revenue management software are using Realpage, not that 80% of rental units are using Realpage revenue management software


... yeah that's pretty much all of them minus some mom and pops who manage themselves. And from personal experience those mom and pops are selling out to management companies now so a whole neighborhood of single family rentals might be actually controlled by just one or two companies.


That’s seems like an odd anti-competitive complaint considering the customer has the option to not use such software at all?

It’s like complaining about a monopoly on lawn mowing. Owners can always choose to mow their own lawns if they don’t like the cost of hiring it out.


I've been using this (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/awake#co...) on my work computer for a few months and it works similarly to caffeinate.


I don’t have personal experience with Deft, but the folks at Basecamp/37signals/HEY wrote an article about their move off the cloud, using Deft as their colo provider: https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb


This is amazing. We'll reach out to HEY founders to see what their experience is.



Friendly reminder that full screen captures list all your open tabs. Not particular interesting in this case but can get a bit spicy: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fox-news-analyst-brit-hume...


Cure: have so many tabs open, you can't read the titles. I tweeted out https://twitter.com/chx/status/1260964177197203456 this morning with no fear :D


Wait until one of the favicons gives away more than you'd like.


The PH icon is very recognizable...


"God, there is no fucking drummer better than Neil Peart!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkQydoiDY28&feature=youtu.be


I have the same suspicion. There doesn't seem to be anything meaningful added.


You have definitely have a point, but at the very least the original could not install on Firefox, and I thought the project was cool so I forked it.

Its more like this project is cool, but it was last updated 5 years ago, let me fix and share it.


Are there any fundamental differences between this and the fork (https://github.com/timdavies/hnprofile)?


Strange to be getting a "Page Not Found" error on this link: https://www.apple.com/us/shop/go/macbook_pro/select

Usually they put up the splash page prior to new Macs being available.


Are you looking for this page? The 13 and 16 inches now have separate pages to select which version you want to buy.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch


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