John SiracusaSF Symbols is becoming like CSS in that I expect to soon see seemingly impossible feats of graphics done entirely using SF Symbols, with no other drawing APIs used.
The year is 2042. Display PostScritpt and CoreGraphics have been replaced by SF Symbols. Every pixel in Apple Glasses is drawn by SF Symbols. SF Symbols are used to predict protein folding. The CEO of Apple is an SF Symbol.
Michael Lee2099. SF Symbols becomes self-aware. Humanity’s fate is sealed. (And animated.)
Jack Wellborn@siracusa SF Intelligence™️
Fredrik Björeman@siracusa (And comprehensively illustrated, with your choice of tint color?)
MarkV
@siracusa Turing is proven to not have been SF Symbols-complete.
Tim Schmitz@siracusa SCOTUS rules SF Symbols are people. A SF Symbol is elected president.
Lonnie@siracusa make more ~~Paperclips~~ SF Symbols
Vincent Bernardi@siracusa 2099 January 2nd. Sentient SF symbols choose to step back down to a O(1) display technology because “I shouldn’t have to bear this responsibility. Never wake me again”.
Craig Hockenberry@siracusa Wasn't there some kind of problem in 2038 with the .clock variants keeping time correctly?
Michael Slade@chockenberry @siracusa You mean when GMT had disagreements with Standard Apple Time?
Wayne Dixon@siracusa 2100. SF Symbols uses generative AI to create endless entertainment for the remaining humans after the SF Symbol war.
Michael Critz@siracusa In stunning realization theorized by cosmologists studying the light from distant quasars and confirmed by experimental physicists observing the behavior of dark matter: our universe is a simulation run inside of SF Symbols.
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@siracusa I love the idea that it’ll take 57 years from Apple CEO to self awareness, proving once and for all that it’s not a required trait to run a tech company.
Brian Keifer@siracusa There is no fate but that which we kern for ourselves?
Matt Bonney@siracusa 2100. Apple introduces a new system font.
Aaron MacNeil@siracusa SYMBOLRUNNER 2099