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by Rendello 6d ago
Or UTF-∞
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by Rendello 6d ago
How many NFKC_Casefold('R')s are in NFKC_Casefold("strawberry")?
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by Rendello 6d ago
I didn't know about "an historic" until I heard it from American journalists. They did pronounce the 'h' and it did indeed sound very wrong. I believe I first heard it from Rachel Maddow. I can't find any clips
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by Rendello 6d ago
Starting earlier today, I've been using Firefox's local translation feature to auto-translate every page to Italian (to learn). I just had to remove English from my language list and check an option to translate English to Italian
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by Rendello 7d ago
Japan had some pretty interesting traditions in the Edo period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangaku
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by Rendello 7d ago
I've always been interested by the κλεψύδρα, water clock . Searching that term now brings up hourglasses, which is a connection I've surprisingly never made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_clock
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by Rendello 11d ago
> My natural bent is strongly focused on reading and words. I wonder what mine is. I feel like I don't take to reading in a foreign language too easily (though I have trouble focusing on reading generally), but I definitely struggle
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by Rendello 11d ago
I learned French mostly through conversation and immersion. This next language is pretty simple phonologically, and I'm not concerned about having a good accent in it, so the reading-puzzle route is something interesting to try.
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by Rendello 11d ago
I recently wanted to try one of Kató Lomb's [1][2] preferred language-learning methods: getting a book in a foreign language and reading it (and re-reading it), figuring out words and phrases as if it's a big puzzle and writing th
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by Rendello 11d ago
I didn't say "a grand time". It would also be fascinating to live through the Fall of Rome, the Pazzi conspiracy, the Black Death, or any number of other unpleasant things. I'm pretty on-edge about the interesting times
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by Rendello 11d ago
Tribal warfare is often ritualized [1]. I remember reading that the tribes on what is now Canada's West Coast practiced real, brutal warfare compared to their eastern counterparts, due to the scarce resources. In Burden of Dreams [
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by Rendello 13d 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 14d 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 15d 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 15d 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 15d 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 15d 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 16d 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 17d 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 18d 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 18d 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 19d 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 19d ago
I'm awaiting the Dyson splashless Suction Urinal .
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by Rendello 19d 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 19d 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 20d 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 20d 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 21d ago
Plus add in Flash and Java applets.
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by Rendello 25d ago
Books on procrastination? Now you don't have to get around to reading them! (I jest)
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by Rendello 25d 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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