Although the default rule for conjunctions joining predicates is that the comma is optional (by contrast, in most other contexts it is either mandatory or forbidden), there are a lot of circumstances where the comma becomes mandatory to avoid ambiguity or just because.
The two are not interchangeable though, as shown in the article. If someone asks you "Are you going to win?", you could say "I'll try to", but not "I'll try and".
I just download the Svelte + SvelteKit (Recommended - LLM Distilled) file from the link mentioned in my original comment and drag-and-drop upload it into the chat context when I'm talking to 4o about coding. Nothing magical. It takes a second to read through the document, but then the LLM works significantly better. It stops suggesting invalid Svelte 4 syntax and prioritizes using Runes.
"And yet no one cares. Have you heard of this work before? How many times will you hear of it from now on?" I think he might have answered his own questino.
I would have used VFX for this as I'm pretty sure it would have been more cost effective to achieve a similar result. Most people, like me, probably just assumed this was VFX anyway. But I'm glad Microsoft didn't though, as this is a fascinating story and case study.
the ironic thing is they have all those photos of real life places they use for wallpaper those are all photshopped to an insane degree to remove the ugly trees and clouds and other natural formations and make the colors extremely different
Honestly it’s way more satisfying to work analog. Experiencing the colors in “real life” spatially. Also, collaborating with others and being able to share the process in a studio rather than on a screen is an amazing experience.
Another thing is the fog rising up to create diffusion on the light. Even the best VFX in the world will only ever be an approximation to the real thing.
You're right, most nonfiction books read like they are just adding fluff to justify a full book. I normally just their summaries on Littler Books or something.
To me, serif fonts convey a sense of the classic, and sans serif fonts convey moderness. So if the top people of a company says to designers "make the company more modern", it makes sense that one of the first things the designers will do is to change the serif logo to a sans serif one. It's not always a good decision though, some industries, like high fashion (as seen in the article) and literary (e.g. New Yorker, Littler Books) benefit from being "classy" and having a serif font.
