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You can commission a custom typeface (or a modification of an existing one from their library) and get the rights to them, so they're yours. It's expensive up front, but you own it after.

3x5 like done by Starting Strength continues to work well for beginners looking for strength. After you tapped out the easy gains, you can use a periodized program for body building described by "the science" if you wish, but can do more useful weights because you are stronger.

We had to drop hatch for now, because it does not work well with uv's lockfiles. Someone opened an issue here: https://github.com/pypa/hatch/issues/1886. We use bare uv for now.

English is more likely than Mandarin, because lots of people (including the mainland Chinese working in sectors that interface with the outside world) can speak some English, but very few people outside China speak any Mandarin.

Nassim Taleb wrote about this in https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict....

Not sure about an app, I keep a Jupyter notebook for meal planning and double checking calorie intake, with info from https://www.nutracheck.co.uk/CaloriesIn/Product/Search?desc=... (use the search bar there, it's accessible without an account).

For general fat loss advice, I find Renaissance Periodization helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsNeZjjOOl4&list=PLyqKj7LwU2.... There's also https://www.hornstrength.com/radicallysimplefatloss.

You may want to combine fat loss with strength training for better results. My favorite information source on this is Starting Strength: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNhFKPjedRnQ_qs4ID5gl..., also see https://startingstrength.com/about. If you live in the US, Munich, Brussels or some parts of Asia, you could find one of their gyms at https://coaching.startingstrength.com/.

Nit: the option does not hint, it emboldens text, as in, smears it a bit to make it appear thicker. And I think the default is actually 2?

Yeah, I also got an ODAC combo (amp and DAC sandwiched in an enclosure) in continuous use since it released way back when. The only annoyance is that there's probably something wrong with the USB cable, as it loses connection depending on how you twist it, so I may accidentally strike it and then spend a few minutes wiggling the connectors to get it back. The Micro USB connector choice didn't age too well, so I can't easily find a replacement with chokes :)

You can use the Python library fontTools, which comes with a command line tool called `fonttools varLib`. Prerequisites: 1. you have a so called Designspace file which tells the tool where in the design space the fonts are and 2. The fonts have compatible glyph outlines and font features.

For the former, get a random font project like https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cantarell-fonts/-/blob/master..., install the Python tool fontmake in a venv, and run `fontmake -m Cantarell.desigbspace -o ttf-interpolatable`. In a new subdirectory, you'll find a new Designspace file and TTFs. Switch them out and edit the DS file to make sense. Good luck.

For the latter, you are probably out of luck because static fonts are usually compiled in an outline-incompatible way and your only options are to fix them yourself in fontforge or such or ask the original vendor, who is probably going to laugh at you and demand money.

The books "The Barbell Prescription" and "Practical Programming for Strength Training" contain a lot of info on how to branch out from the novice program. The latter contains a small section on lifting for sports, while on his podcast Rippetoe emphasizes that you do general strength development for any sport and spend the rest of the time practising that sport.

I was at a Starting Strength seminar recently and the coach explicitly said that the beginner's program is not the end-all, so I'm not sure where that criticism is coming from?

Can you expand on why you think it's a waste of time?

Maybe https://startingstrength.com/article/barbell_training_is_big... is more to your liking?

My favorite introduction to this is the book "The Barbell Prescription", together with "Basic Barbell Training, 3rd Edition". They got me out of just getting sweaty and tired in the gym to actually training and increasing my strength.

The people behind these books also run the YouTube channels https://www.youtube.com/@GreySteel and https://www.youtube.com/@startingstrength, respectively. Lots of highly educational videos on these!

I still don't like the tight spacing (space between the glyphs). Adding a `letter-spacing: 0.1px` to the Regular makes words look less cramped at body copy size.

It does carry meaning, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect. It's not something to know during downtimes, but at the point in time where you decide which technology to use going forward. Contrast this with the lifetimes of popular Javascript frameworks.

I've seen this plenty of times before. What is it with emulation and drama/toxicity?

Using this to equalise my headphones with the parameter sets on https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq. Highly recommended!

Thanks for this tool! I wanted to look into switching some packages to be abi3 wheels because of the mentioned build matrix, will play with this :)

I've recently started listening to relationship/dating podcasts (reputable ones based on research and practical coaching experience) and they tell a similar story to what the last paragraph says: find someone who is similar to yourself in as many ways as possible, because you will understand each other much better and your relationship has much higher chances to be lasting and fulfilling. The author had to try all the other ways to to be able to let go of them :)

Am I the minority? To establish that, you'd need to survey a sizable part of the previously FF-using population and determine why they stopped using it. Going from "lost most marketshare" to "it's because techies were forsaken" does not seem logical to me.

And you know, even if I was indeed the minority, so what? I stand by liking FF and I will continue to use it until it's defunct. Because I can :)

I'm a decade-long user and am perfectly fine with modern Firefox (plus uBlock), both on the desktop and on Android. In fact, I don't want to go back to the before-times. Speak for yourself.

Side note: replace old.reddit.com with teddit.net in any Reddit URL and you'll get a less noisy reading experience, especially on mobile.

And why should a future reader trust your word over theirs?

I recently read an interesting German article on them (use Google Translate if necessary) and they paint a more nuanced picture of Renaissance.

https://www.gerd-kommer-invest.de/der-beste-fonds-aller-zeit...

I've had trouble locating English language resources, but if you speak German:

- finanztip.de plus their social media presence are a great way to start

- Stiftung Warentest/Finanztest for general financial product tests

- Finanzfluss' social media presence is great, too.

- Smaller scale sources like Finanzwesir, Gerd Kommer's books plus his company's blog for well researched treatises of all things finance, backed by data.

- Education by workshop companies like Madame Moneypenny that teach hands on.

Those are my favorite sources.

You are feeling envious. Learn to use it productively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhrTOg1RUk

Oof. How did the company cope?

I'm currently reading Taleb's Antifragility book and he strikes a similar tune: The education system being little more than a way to cement social status, with actual innovation and entrepreneurship largely taking place outside it. Wealth leads to education, not the other way around.

I find this topic fascinating and it makes me see discussions about underfunded education systems and universities from a different angle.

Font projects (especially multi-script ones) can amass (tens of) thousands of small XML files in the UFO format. Rust can load and save through them in seconds, Python can't :)

To ask the obvious, has he tried to convert the old fonts to OpenType? There are various free and proprietary tools to do that and Private Unicode Area ranges still exist.

> Pennsylvanians have been complaining about teachers’ pension costs since 2001, when state lawmakers sweetened all state workers’ pensions — including their own — on the thinking that the bull market of the 1990s would continue indefinitely. That mistake was laid bare a few months later when Wall Street and the economy dived after the terror attacks of Sept. 11. But lawmakers said the pension boosts couldn’t be reversed.

This is so weird. Did they mean to say they didn't want to reverse them? It's been 20 years now.

Anyway, I do not understand how defined benefit schemes can operate in either public or private markets. They are unpredictable and the result is this article...