> Eventually, he hit on 86 syllables that expressed specific sounds, each syllable represented by symbols borrowed from Greek, Hebrew and English. Later reduced to 85 symbols...
> Amid a push to perfect 'casual viewing,' creatives say streaming execs are requiring them to remove nuance and visual cues, and do things like announce when characters enter a room.
If TikTok turned out to be State sponsored spyware, would you reconsider?
I support your slippery slope argument. I wonder where your red line is relative to "state sponsored spyware" and "typical advertising ID tracking" or "cool new app from company influenced by an adversarial super power".
I use and highly recommend this framework as the starting point for any technical documentation. It helped me learn how to keep the detailed technical explanations out of the how-to documents. Before I learned of Diataxis, my how-to docs were much longer and hard to follow when things go right (because I had lots of, "if this doesn't work, investigate A, B, C...").
> Hard Mode: Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses
As implemented, hard mode doesn't count gray letters (letters nowhere in the solution) as hints. You're allowed to reuse gray letters, but true hard mode should prevent that.
Maybe the symbols themselves aren't new.