lidavidm

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by lidavidm 1mo ago
Isn't that backwards? The nonexistent character is in the -digitized- version so presumably OCR or something got 彊 wrong, that's not saying that 彁 was used in the -print- version. Indeed, the source link is about exactly this: a c
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by lidavidm 3mo ago
AIUI, Kobo devices have a more advanced rendering engine if you name the file with .kepub.epub. (I think it's based on ePub 3?) Not sure if it would fix the problem here. But I personally run ePubs through kepubify ( https://
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by lidavidm 7mo ago
[Not the overall point of the poem, but] yet for all that, it turns out chemical weapons aren't even that useful: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
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by lidavidm 9mo ago
You may like this book called The Origins of Efficiency: https://press.stripe.com/origins-of-efficiency Or the author's newsletter: https://www.construction-physics.com/
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by lidavidm 9mo ago
Olympus and other cameras can do this with "pixel shift": it uses the stabilization mechanism to quickly move the sensor by 1 pixel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_shift EDIT: Sigma also has "Foveon
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by lidavidm 1y ago
Oh that is awesome! I would really appreciate it! Could you also get d2 into GitHub and Notion while you have it here :)
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by lidavidm 1y ago
I always liked D2 more than mermaid, except IMO, this makes grid layouts essentially useless: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/1164 Having to figure out the exact pixel widths defeats the point of the
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by lidavidm 1y ago
Someone on the issue they made explained why Clone is "broken": https://github.com/JelteF/derive_more/issues/490#issuecommen... Which links to this blog post explaining the choice in more detail: h
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by lidavidm 1y ago
The graphics would be called chibis, IMO (or デフォルメ if you wanna be fancy) and IDK about developers, but perhaps weaboos/weebs would be the general term
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by lidavidm 1y ago
Iceberg-go is working on it! (edit: it being write support)
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Data Wants to Be Free: Fast Data Exchange with Apache Arrow(arrow.apache.org)
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by lidavidm 2y ago
It might be funny to use this as a software versioning scheme. ("What do you mean the next version after v3 is 20A?")
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by lidavidm 2y ago
At least they appear to be partnering with Kobo "later this year" [1]. I've been a big fan of Kobo's devices so this is a nice plus. (I just wish they could figure out some way to get Kindle exclusives, but well that&#x2
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by lidavidm 2y ago
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2019/07/14/uninit.html perhaps (the OP also talks about this when linking to a talk about jemalloc)
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by lidavidm 2y ago
To get a really precise answer you'd have to profile or benchmark. I'd say it's also hard to do an apples to apples comparison (if you only replace the data format in the wire protocol, the database probably still has to tran
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by lidavidm 2y ago
Arrow has several other related projects in this space: Arrow Flight SQL defines defines a full protocol designed to support JDBC/ODBC-like APIs but using columnar, Arrow data transfer for performance (why take your data and transpose
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by lidavidm 2y ago
It used to use DataFusion. https://www.paradedb.com/blog/iceberg_lakehouse
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by lidavidm 2y ago
Can't you use DataFusion single node/without any Apache ecosystem stuff? They have a Python library and DataFusion is "just" a query engine. (If anything, I'd call Pandas the batteries included option...) I think th
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by lidavidm 2y ago
I'm also curious why it's a fork (I'm sure there's a good reason?) Coincidentally I was looking into C++ documentation generators again. In terms of integration, what I've settled on for apache/arrow-adbc is us
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by lidavidm 2y ago
I suppose this feature should have been termed closed captioning and not subtitling. It seems you're not going to get much sympathy for human translation here.
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by lidavidm 2y ago
Thanks! Frankly so long as I can get a browser and install some reader apps (Kobo, Manga-one, etc.) that would fit my needs fine, and as long as they support older versions of Android for enough years (or I can avoid upgrading the app versi
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by lidavidm 2y ago
Which tablet do you use? I've been considering a Boox but the licensing issues and apparent outdated Android give me pause...
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by lidavidm 2y ago
There's a PR implementing a similar approach. Seems it could use help to work out some kinks in the color mixing. https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/1783 https://krita
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by lidavidm 2y ago
Neat, I didn't realize Kobo was WebKit-based, but given they offer a full browser (experimentally) on their readers, that makes sense. They also support some 'nice' ePub 3 features: fixed layouts so that comic books and manga
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by lidavidm 2y ago
Kobo has a store. It's decent, it won't have Kindle indies, and IMO it has fewer/worse sales, but it's not a big deal to me. They do have a subscription plan with unlimited access to certain books but it's not clear
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by lidavidm 2y ago
Only because Western-centric systems don't handle non-LTR text properly. https://atadistance.net/2019/10/20/japanese-text-layout-for-... > Baseline font metrics will never deliver great CJK typography
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by lidavidm 2y ago
That's still quite a bit more than just plug -> drag and drop, also especially because sometimes I had to manually bring up the interface, and remember some IP that I might only use every week or two at most. (I guess I could set up
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by lidavidm 2y ago
Yeah. Still way more effort than Kobo: plug it in, drag and drop.
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by lidavidm 2y ago
Could consider a Kobo Elipsa. (I have a different Kobo device.) It runs some sort of Linux and you can install Koreader and a couple of other things. You can tweak a config file and set up the device without an account. Not sure how the wri
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by lidavidm 2y ago
I posted some other comments in this thread - unless they've significantly improved the software in the past year I would 100% recommend against it. (Also, a lot of manga gets distributed through proprietary apps now so an iPad is prob

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