Meanwhile, there is no doubt whatsoever about the one true Swede

You dropped this: \

I would pick up my partner’s phone where I saw her leave/forget it, put it in my pocket, then she would use the find my phone feature on her apple watch and I would jump at least a meter into the air

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You can even make linux run an automatic memtest on boot and reserve the bad areas it finds. This is with the memtest=N kernel parameter, where N is the number of passes. memtest=17 tests all patterns. With this, the kernel will run an automatic test on every boot.

It will always be Twittermas to me

You should get some, they are rad

I have one that I bought in 2013. Has fallen to the floor countless times, still works like day 1.

It is a killer combo!

I’m happily running an Intel NUC as TV computer since 2013, and it’s awesome for exactly the reasons you state. I invested in it when I realized how fully crap the “smart” features of my Samsung TV are. The ultimate controller for it is a combo keyboard and touchpad, I have the Logitech K400r.

The NUC is starting to show it’s age now with its 4th gen i5, and I’m in the process of replacing it with a mini PC with an Intel N100.

It would make sense that a code editor could use a more limited subset of text rendering that could be more optimized.

Perhaps a bit surprisingly, Microsoft actually has pretty good documentation on OpenType. Here’s info on what shaping applies to “standard” scripts:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/script-development/standard

And here’s the landing page for the latest OpenType spec:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/

Specifically for ligatures, you’re looking for the liga feature which is specified in the font’s GSUB table.

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HarfBuzz does opentype shaping, that is, transforming strings of unicode characters to lists of glyphs with positioning. The significance of this can be hard to understand for someone used to the latin script, as that needs very little shaping - kerning is often the only thing that’s absolutely necessary.

But in complex scripts, most notably the Indic, there’s a lot going on. Unicode characters can merge into one glyph under circumstances, or one character can split into several, and relative positioning in both the x and y axis is imperative.

A reason that OpenType shaping is complex is that part of the rules for what to do will be found in the font, and part will need to be hard-coded in the code implementing it.

If you’re going to roll your own text renderer, you’ll have to care about the following areas:

• Rasterization/rendering to bitmaps, including hinting (notoriously difficult, old-style TrueType hinting instructions are bytecode, so you’ll be writing a tiny VM for this)
• Shaping (Kerning at a minimum, full OpenType shaping for international support)
• BiDi (for full international support, primarily Hebrew and Perso-Arabic)
• A caching system for rendered text glyphs and shaped text runa, as it will be too slow to perform this each time you want to render some text

Let’s just say that I do not recommend going this route unless you’re prepared to spend a lot of time on it.

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What kind of socks do you need for Linux Mint? Are any mint green ok?

I feel your pain there, my favorite shoes have also changed in a way that makes me unable to wear them. Unfortunately it’s generally very hard to find shoes that aren’t shaped to pinch the toes. Look into the following brands:

• Lems (Primal Zen is especially good as a walking shoe)
• Joe Nimble (I have the Wandertoes boots, perfect for winter and rainy conditions)
• Altra (with the “original” toe box, for example Lone Peak and Escalante, although sadly for me while Escalante 2.5 has been a dream and enabled me to walk and run again, sadly Escalante 4.0 does not work for me)
• Topo - I’ve tested a model I don’t remember the name of and if the surgery doesn’t fix it for me (this is the second surgery I go through it…) I might get a pair for running, they are ok

These brands all offer shoes that have very wide toe boxes but where the rest of the shoe is normal width.

I’ve generally been able to do most activities despite this condition, but there’s always a worry about not finding shoes that work for me. My two pairs of Escalante 2.5 are falling apart, and I’m not sure what to replace them with when they finally break. Also I couldn’t imagine ice skating or skiing with this condition, so I always feel a bit limited. This is why I chose to go through the surgery again with the hope that this time it will fix it, to hopefully at least get some additional flexibility in what footwear I can wear.

Morton’s neuroma is characterized by pain between a pair of toes, between the “knuckles”, and a painful “click” there in every step. The nerve has been squeezed and has swollen, which is called a neuroma. It’s caused by wearing shoes that aren’t wide enough. It disproportionately more often affects women as they tend to have tighter footwear but of course can affect men too, especially for those that have wide feet. 99% of modern shoes “bunch up” the toes and can cause this.

If you have these symptoms, you should start wearing shoes with wide toe boxes immediately to not make it worse, and also consider wearing toe separators. If it’s still not too bad, this can make the symptoms go away. This helped for me but I never came back to normal. I’m currently recovering from surgery to have this fixed, where they simply cut off this nerve.

No but they all show evidence of tight footwear.

This is how you get Morton’s neuroma. Trust me, you don’t want it. Wear proper shoes with space for your toes.

Cool, I’ll just whip out my peptide printer and try it out!