Almost this exact situation happened to author Ray Bradbury in Los Angeles, where he lived without a car. He wrote several short stories memorializing the incident, including a scene in Fahrenheit 451.
In this case, the digitized font is taken not from the metal types themselves, but from specimens printed on paper. The paper was less uniform and smooth than modern paper, and there was a noticable amount of ink bleed. Since OP is interested in the "character" given to the letterforms by this era of printing technology, it makes sense to suggest some way of simulating this uneven bleed and spread.
man comes from Unix, info comes from Emacs and maybe the OSes it was developed on. The GNU project also comes from that ecosystem, so even their drop-in replacements for the original Unix tools have info pages.
iOS and Android are neck and neck in the US. There was a report about iOS passing Android just days ago, so they have similar market share. I can readily believe that at certain workplaces, almost everyone has an iPhone, but this isn't true generally.
So this is awesome insofar as you find things like group theory awesome (I did). But like he says, if you find this awesome to use in production code, that's a horse of another color.
Limited indeed. Comic Sans was one of the ~11 web-safe typefaces that you could count on pretty much everyone to have. Now that there's a bunch of good-looking embeddable typefaces, people don't face as much temptation to use shitty Comic Sans.
The evaluations are on "how well algorithms submitted by professional data scientists and amateur statistics wizards could predict the scores assigned by human graders." As long as some humans are always included as a control, this shouldn't be too big of a problem.
Surely that's not the best we can hope for—or work for. It is not out of the realm of possibility that distributed social networks, like email or Diaspora, can gain popularity. But I don't know how to make that appealing to average people.
It's just Zawinski's law in a cycle. “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”
If GPS failed before 100,000 ft (and it looks like any commercial GPS would), what about the altitude charts on the project's homepage?[0] How were they generated? Can that data-gathering method qualify it for the Carmack challenge?