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I remember working on something like this as early as 1999! It was for a small European company, sadly we weren't able to put it out due to licensing restrictions at the time.

I'd love to know how this handles proper subtitle formatting. I'm in the process of learning many languages, and being able to cross check my own understanding with film and video would be fantastic.

Hi, I am making an app for language learning which generates subtitles to help with this exact problem. Its called SubSmith and free to try, would love some feedback on it!

As someone who may or may not have a Flock (YC 2017) watching me as I type this, I'm glad that it exists. I can now feel "Flock Safe and Secure™", knowing that the compromise I've made has been worth it.

Perhaps I'm your typical HNer like the GP comment and the topmost comment, but I don't see an issue with changing the style of the font entirely. Sure, it may be jarring to customers, but it's a short term pain for almost zero cost.

There's no inherent issue with it. It just requires doing a bunch of additional design work, which is not free.

Is it more expensive that designing an entirely new font?

That's why they didn't design an entirely new font. Instead they made semi-automated modifications to a free font, and then tweaked a few specific characters afterwards.

The result is not as good as what they had before, and not as good as it would have been if they hired a professional to design a new font from scratch, but it was cheap and solved their problem.

They took something workable and Arial-ised it. And now they're using a bland, mediocre font.

Fonts are weird voodoo. Good and bad choices can both make a measurable difference to ROI.

So I'm not convinced this is going to be the profit booster they hope.

Like RTO mandates which were definitely made with wisdom.

Not all CEOs did that. Just like all software engineers aren't great or excellent, all CEOs aren't. But to categorically denounce seems rigid.

I don't think this is an apt analogy. The bread makeup is still there, as far as I'm aware, no users have lost any data or are missing "key" ingredients.

An outage is more like a shipping issue with the supplier, if it's owned wholly by them.

Okay, let's go with shipping. Current global stat for containers going missing? About 0.0005%.

If any single company reached 1%, they would instantly be out of business, because that is not remotely acceptable, at a global scale.

Are you saying the dough is fine but 1% of the batch wasn't cooked? Or rather, that 1% of batches isn't cooked, taking your entire downstream activity down until a new batch arrives?

Agreed. In fact, keep firing ops until someone gets it done. There's no way your company will build a reputation for not supporting their teams.

We don't even have to imagine. Many in this very comment section support this.