I agree with what you are saying but remember the twin scenario. Spoiler alert, the kids are nonetheless different.

Is it just me or the s Z and z S should be swapped?

You're right. The capitals look fine, but the lowercased versions look swapped. I think this is because the creator decided to cut the spines for the uppercases and crop out the arms for lowercases. Since the arms and spine point in opposite directions for "s" and "z", it really hurts their identification

The learning curve is so low that yes.

Try it for <20mins and if you don't like it, leave it behind. These 20mins include installation, setup, everything.

Assuming this change is causing the layoffs, then these companies know about this.

If these companies don't know about this change, then why would we believe this change is causing it.

They didn't know the change was coming. Then it happened, now they have to revisit their budgets. Some thought it was going to be changed back before it went into effect, it wasnt.

Except as the article says, names tend to stick, scopes don't.

This PaymentService grew into fraud detection. So the new hire will be even more confused. Asking "What does Picard do?" is natural, where a new hire might have trouble asking "What does the PaymentService do?"

As someone else mentioned in the replies, this sounds more of a problem of not having a top level design than a naming problem.

You have bigger problems if your `PaymentService` morphs into the functionality of being a storage or user service.

I would not say top level design. Software is often born out of software. It's more like a woman keeping her children in her womb instead of giving birth to them.

I don't think somebody would be more confused to learn that payment service also deals with fraud (which is something a lot of people are aware of - every payment service on the face of the planet has now warnings about fraud) than having to deal with "Picard is not connecting to Bilbo because Legolas is refusing to pass KrumpleSnitch to Kthulhu". In fact, I'm not sure it's humanly possible to be more confused than dealing with something like that.

And if you having a payment system that starts doing something payments systems traditionally don't do - like, I dunno, predict weather? - then you have a design problem and should refactor your system so your payment system doesn't do that anymore.

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They ruled out logos where the M is not the main element. The Muni logo spells "muni" giving each letter roughly equal value.

The M is often used alone for SF Muni, as in the upper left corner here: https://www.sfmta.com/muni-transit

I don't get that at all. To me the answer is "we want things out of the vcs that we don't get from git nor github/gitlab."

The fundamental difference is: sqlite is a cathedral, git is for bazaars. That's kind of a big deal.

That's what I understand as well.

If you are interested in ASL, I think a good resource is: https://www.lifeprint.com/

Somewhat offtop, but I wanted to ask: how much universal intelligibility there is in sign languages? I understand that sign languages are, well, languages, and thus not readily inter-intelligible. But so are, perhaps, our native languages, yet here we are speaking English. And not just because this is a somewhat SV forum: english is just internationally popular right now. Of course, most people I meet don't really speak english, and lingua franca will change based on the region (at many places most people will know nothing but local language), but learning english is still way more practical worldwide (outside of USA and UK) than learning estonian, and speaking english I have good chances to be understood in most big cities in Europe and worldwide.

Also, I understand that it's hard to compare, because most people don't speak any sign languages, but is there something similar with sign languages?

Honestly, I feel weird desire to learn some sign language, but there's absolutely zero practical reasons for me to do so, and I wonder if learning, say, ASL, could help me interact with deaf people in my country or somewhere else. Sure, I won't understand them when they speak their local dialect, but is there something common that most deaf people would probably understand?

There is an artificial universal sign language used at deaf conventions. It isn’t particularly popular or well known (to fluency) though.

Most deaf people that know separate sign systems or sign languages will figure out ways to communicate across those language barriers at extreme speed. They are unmatchable charade experts.

I have seen deaf people from different continents have entire conversations in pidgin they bridge together over a few minutes.

ASL is perhaps more universal than English in one way. Most missionaries that established ASL Brought it with them as their primary teaching tool to deaf children.

So from Jamaica to Ghanna, Canada, many places in Africa, there will be many locations that sign a local variant of ASL. Perhaps maintaining 50-60% of the parent sign language.

ASL’s parent sign language is French, it is one of the older sign language and so has maintained less of its French roots, but we still use French twos and threes in our signed numbering system.

There must be granularity and resolution of concepts lost in these ad-hoc systems, if not already in the formal sign systems themselves compared to spoken languages.