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Why? It's simple, easy to implement and validate, and provides the desired visual impact. Seems perfectly elegant to me.
Presumably the more valuable the IP, the harder it is to access.
How can this do anything but embarrass the city?
This blog post seems to lay out the tradeoff between, at least, Windows and Mac font rendering: https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/15/type-rendering-operating...
Historically, the value of eating with your men is that the men will actually follow your orders rather than just mutinying and killing you.
Regardless, I hope everyone agrees that hi dpi + no hinting (or smearing) looks the best.
Ironically for "always expose relevant options through system settings" Apple, you can still access font smoothing via command line, e.g. "defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 3". You can use 0-3 where 0 disables it (default) and 3 uses "strong" hinting, with 1 and 2 in between.
This isn't meant to be an attack on javascript as a worthwhile tool to learn, by the way, just a testament to the fact that it's not an easy language to master in the slightest.
(Hell, I'm not sure there's any genetic evidence of admixture between the expeditions of Erik the Red and Greenlanders despite clear cultural and material evidence of contact, though that's probably more of a testament to lack of continual trade than evidence it didn't occur at all.)
Secondly, the semantics of the two suffixes appear to be different, with the Inuit term being a fairly abstract place term, and the Germanic prefix being specifically a geographic location suffix.
This honestly seems unrelated to their poor search quality—hell, I'm even open to AI generated content for some queries. I blame catering to their clients and attempting to manipulate the content on the internet in the name of SEO for why I find useful results buried beneath products and ads.