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by Rendello 3d ago
The suggestion has been brought up and dang has commented on it over the years. He doesn't seem opposed to it per se. It's possible your descendants may live to see dark-mode HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by Rendello 4d ago
One of my favourite ones in the post I linked is the "ﬀ" ligature. It uppercases to "FF", meaning in UTF-8 it goes from one encoded character to two, and from 3 bytes total to 2 bytes total. Lots to read about here for t
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by Rendello 5d ago
I've never seen someone miss sleep paralysis before. I get it, but the hallucinations that people describe never happen to me. I just become aware that I'm about to wake up, but I can't yet control my body or even breathing.
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by Rendello 5d ago
> UNICODE codepoints where the UTF-8 encoding lengths are the same for lowercase and uppercase. This very same property got me to post this [1], which sent me down the rabbithole of learning about Unicode in earnest and building my Unico
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by Rendello 5d ago
I like burntsushi's string-searching work because it's well documented, split modularly into libraries/applications, and runs the gamut from low- to high-level (his blog posts and comments online are extremely helpful too). I
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by Rendello 6d ago
I also have a favourite string matching algorithm, the "Generic SIMD" from this post [1] by Wojciech Muła (I haven't really read the other two SIMD algorithms since I wasn't planning on working with intrinsics). There we
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by Rendello 6d ago
I think there's a lot of interest in German culture in Japan. You see German characters and phrases fairly often in anime, pronounced just as badly as English in anime. The popular anime Frieren names all its characters on-the-nose Ger
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by Rendello 8d ago
Yes, <ruby> works with arbitrary text. There are quite a few styling options too: https://www.w3.org/International/articles/ruby/styling.en.ht...
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by Rendello 8d ago
This may or may not be relevant, but one thing about lower case generally: If you're doing string matching via Casefold or NFKC_Casefold [a], characters from both the needle and the haystack are converted to lowercase (with exceptions
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by Rendello 8d ago
That's right, I didn't even think of that. Now I'm reading this fascinating article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_toilet
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by Rendello 9d ago
Laminar flow from the man? I've seen youtubers achieve laminar flow by filling garden hoses with aligned drinking straws. Perhaps... there's an idea here...?
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by Rendello 9d ago
I'm awaiting the Dyson splashless Suction Urinal .
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by Rendello 9d ago
In my cleaning and maintenance work I'd replaced a lot of these. The orange ones I'm familiar with have a decently nice scent. But last week I went to use my new shampoo and it had the same scent. On its own it would be nice enoug
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by Rendello 9d ago
It's used by Janes as eating root vegetables like onions or garlic is discouraged or forbidden in that religion [1]. (Un)related: onions and garlic are pretty close to each other. Chicago is named after šikaakwa , [2] the native word
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by Rendello 10d ago
I've made this Roman recipe probably a dozen times and everyone who's tried it really likes it [1]. The strange ingredients are garum [2] and asafoetida [3]. The former is just a fish sauce, so that's not hard to substitute,
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by Rendello 10d ago
If you've been around alcoholics, you know the smell. You can smell their sweat on their body, clothes, sheets, etc.
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by Rendello 12d ago
Plus add in Flash and Java applets.
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by Rendello 15d ago
Books on procrastination? Now you don't have to get around to reading them! (I jest)
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by Rendello 16d ago
> In closing arguments, prosecutor Binu Palal told jurors to take Davis at his word and find him guilty. > For years, he argued, Davis had been telling people "that he is responsible for Tupac Shakur's murder" through d
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by Rendello 16d ago
I believe the prefixed literals are a direct response to this style of multiline string. The style you showed is pretty common in a programming languages, but language implementers are faces with a tradeoff: - Keep the initial indentation f
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by Rendello 16d ago
I think it really is a matter of distraction. When I was using public transit a lot, I managed to get through books really quickly by substituting them for my phone. And there was a period where I had no phone for a few months in a new city
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by Rendello 17d ago
It's likely the same for me, but I tend to relisten to audiobooks I like, sometimes dozens of times. I have a hard time focusing on physical books, and I've probably only re-read a handful of them, so the net effect is that I take
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by Rendello 17d ago
Aside: one Zig (syntax) feature that I really missed in Rust is shown in the second code block, namely prefixed multi-line string literals à la: const text = \\This is a long comment \\But I can split it among lines ar
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by Rendello 18d ago
From your article: > "Mima" is a name derived from a Chinook Jargon term meaning "a little further along or "downstream". To keep the random learning going, Chinook Jargon [1] is fascinating in itself. A few year
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by Rendello 18d ago
I had a similar thought when someone linked [1] Mike Acton's "Data-Oriented Design Operating Rules" [2] written for agents. The text is Claude-y, but the step-by-step DOD guidance is neat, it specifies a development protocol
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by Rendello 20d ago
Many people take SSRIs and other medications because they believe the serotonin imbalance theory to be the modern scientific consensus. A doctor would be fired and ostracized for using the four humours , but can prescribe life-altering med
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by Rendello 20d ago
This one was good: Interview: Doug McIlroy : https://tmpout.sh/5/2.html
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by Rendello 20d ago
A more accurate quote sidesteps the whole question: > The question of whether Machines Can Think […] is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim. – Edsger W. Dijkstra https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki&
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by Rendello 20d ago
See also: The Serotonin Theory of Depression: a Systematic Umbrella Review of the Evidence (2022). It's worth reading the introduction and results in full, but here are two important quotes (footnote markers removed): > Our compre
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