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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/.


Thanks for the links, I'll check them out.

The Jupyter Notebook idea is actually quite nice, I might do that as well.

I have an app called OpenFoodFacts that allow me to scan the barcode of the food I buy to check for many things, including the kcal amount.

For the gyms, this is not my cup of tea. I'm a bit of an hermit and like the comfort of my home, so the exercising will have to be done at home. But I'm sure they have plenty of tips for that, I will look more into it. Thank you :)


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?


Well whatever it does, I actually prefer it to hinting and always have. Whatever happens on linux makes the fonts look too thin for my personal taste.

Regardless, I hope everyone agrees that hi dpi + no hinting (or smearing) looks the best.


If hinting makes the fonts "too thin", your display gamma is probably misconfigured. That kind of artifact is a common side-effect of graphical operations being performed in the wrong gamma space.


I don't see how that would affect a screenshot—the difference is clearly visible in screenshots. Furthermore the differences between Mac, Linux, and Window font rendering are widely discussed on the internet. I think I just prefer the way that Apple chose to render fonts.

This blog post seems to lay out the tradeoff between, at least, Windows and Mac font rendering: https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/15/type-rendering-operating...


Yes, there is an issue with freetype where the gamma is different between otf and ttf fonts. otf will apply the gamma automatically, but for ttf you have to force stem darkening at the current time.


i always disliked hinting aswell, but thankfully one can just disable hinting on linux, and then fonts actually look fairly similar to what osx did(~10-15 years ago)


Full hinting is a must-have if you turn AA off and use fonts that were designed to be hinted to a pixel grid.

Fonts have several distinct periods where they were designed expecting that renderers would function a certain way. File format notwithstanding, one size does not fit all. You really do need to match your font to your renderer's settings.


You can also match your renderer's settings to your font, and have it different for different fonts, via fontconfig. But actually using that is pretty advanced.


that may well be, but for me, I choose no hinting, with AA activated, and if a font does not look good, I simply do not use it.

IF i specifically REALLY wanted a font that required hinting to look good, I would make a special config for that particular font, but I would need some serious advantage to bother doing that


Why not use slight hinting then? FreeType explains it as only using the vertical hint but not the horizontal one and they recommend this as working well with cleartype fonts and pretty well with non-cleartype fonts.


You're right -- the default is 2, not 3.

I find 1 is a reasonable compromise in practice. I think of it as simulating a little paper ink bleed.


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?


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