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I want a better way to access OpenType font features. 

I want one of the two following things:

1) A way to tell Windows' OpenType renderer to configure default feature sets for individual fonts, so if I want to force ligatures off in a monospaced font that really shouldn't have them (looking at you, Noto Sans Mono) I can.

2) Failing that, I'd settle for a way to set default feature sets within the font file itself, or even to generate files with those replacement glyphs "baked in".

Any ideas?

TMS9918 VDP technical specs (~), cannabis (+) 

At nearly midnight, I find myself stoned whilst attempting to puzzle out the logic of the color palette of the video chip from 1979 that appeared (along with minor variants) in so many game consoles and home computers, including the TI-99/4A (my first!) and the ColecoVision.

This is mildly complicated and involves NTSC signal generation, I think.

Alas, I have erred! The weed only feeds the desire to comprehend, not the ability! *doomed*

On Independence Eve a crying bald eagle comes down the chimney of every house in America and leaves fireworks under the flag. We set them off the next day!

why do BIRDS suddenly appear
every TIME you are NEAR?

a) actual avatar of long forgotten mesoamerican bird deity

b) subtle yet constant electromagnetic pulse disrupts natural navigation

c) conditional system error loops environmental effect within simulation

d) weird furry avian kink

Developers who re-used open source software in violation of license, to enable homebrew and "backup" content to be played on the Nintendo Switch, have implemented nasty DRM on their paid product.

Pirated piracy software has anti-piracy measures. arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06

uspol adjacent rant 

In some alternate universe "Make America Great Again" was the slogan for bypassing (perceived) social issues by focusing on economics, specifically "make America have a viable MANUFACTURING BASE again," acknowledging a need for job alternatives to expensive nigh-mandated college educations and that a country with a strong alternative energy game might really dominate markets. (I'd like to hope this AU has more focus on unions, public transit and working class home ownership.)

UX grumpiness. 

If you're running a medical services building and want to upgrade your directories from classic etched-names-on-swappable-plaques to touchscreen kiosks, you probably don't want a wall-mounted screen so large you can't really interact with it and read it at the same time, especially if it displays in a resolution that differs from the LCD panel resolution so small text becomes unreadably fuzzy.

Unless you're Cabrini Medical Tower in Seattle, apparently. *rolls eyes*

health capitalism (--) 

SSRI-type medications have an efficacy rate of 20–30%, cause lots of undesirable side effects, and only work for a couple months (in my case) meaning constant adjustment and swapping.

rTMS has an efficacy rate over 40%, causes no detectable side effects, and works stupendously well on me.

Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield won't cover the clearly superior rTMS because they choose to call it "experimental".

They, and all who collaborate with them, are inhumane criminals.

Now 2018's making it extra-personal for know-it-all nerds of a particular vintage. The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams is ended.

straightdope.com/a-note-from-c

Bird Observations {7} 

@ElectricKeet is not a bird.

I am not at liberty to explain how I discovered this.

no man is an island, except for Dave Island, the Human Island.

*30 seconds later*

we regret to inform you that Dave Island is a peninsula

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