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by Rendello 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo ago
This one was good: Interview: Doug McIlroy : https://tmpout.sh/5/2.html
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by Rendello 1mo 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 1mo 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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Listen to Wikipedia(listen.hatnote.com)
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by Rendello 1mo ago
> more traffic - more noise - more pollution These are often true, but not inherently so. I've lived in remote rural, suburban, and dense city environments. My dense city had disadvantages, but it was quiet and had little traffic or
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by Rendello 1mo ago
The 8-Bit Guy also built a backyard office and documented it in a series of videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFP-fU0FsF0
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by Rendello 1mo ago
A couple of years ago I considered making a simple regex-based web extension to block posts with common AI words: ChatGPT, Copilot, LLM, etc. There was one or two on every page and I didn't want to see them. Over the next few years it
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by Rendello 1mo ago
> It's very likely your printer is secretly adding marks to the page It's most likely how the FBI caught NSA leaker Reality Winner: > Both journalists and security experts have suggested that The Intercept's handling of
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by Rendello 1mo ago
Like the Unicode Character Database, which is a series of text files in similar-seeming but disparate formats (it now also has an XML representation): https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/
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by Rendello 2mo ago
The end of that article ends with a pertinent quote [1] by Michael Stonebraker [2]. I've included more of the original quote here: > My biggest complaint about System R is that the team never stopped to clean up SQL. [...] All the a
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by Rendello 2mo ago
Stone is a safer bet to survive the centuries, but even those are reused as bricks, like the Rosetta Stone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
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by Rendello 2mo ago
I was surprised by it too, perhaps I'll find the original source and see what he said directly. Maybe it's that the girls (and main characters generally) in Miyazaki's films tend to be pretty stoic, whereas Anne is incredibly
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by Rendello 2mo ago
The clothing patterns of the Japanese cricket vendors in the article are awesome [1]. By a "Torii Kiyohiro" [1] who seemed to have a thing for drawing/carving intricate clothing [2][3]. 1. https://commons.wikimedia
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by Rendello 2mo ago
Thanks for the tip, the hidden feeds are much nicer.
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by Rendello 2mo ago
I used a great one for FB until it stopped working, it blocked 95% of everything. Andrew Kelley had a good analogy in his Don't Take the Black Pill talk: > the user-facing software of Facebook is categorically, fundamentally coerc
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by Rendello 2mo ago
In the Canadian bush, you'll run into people still running beaver traplines. From what I hear it's mostly for nuisance control since pelt prices are quite low. When I was talking to trappers, they seemed to imply that the governme
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by Rendello 2mo ago
A broadly generalized super-automaton has long been a fantasy. Suddenly it's not so fantastical.
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by Rendello 2mo ago
Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu documents the last day of hot type at The New York Times before the digital changeover. It's one of my favourite documentaries, everything feels so vivid and alive: https://www.nytimes.com/vide
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by Rendello 2mo ago
> Sorry, we moved this. Isn't the borrow checker supposed to prevent these things? I was still holding an immutable reference.
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by Rendello 2mo ago
I really enjoyed watching this Ghibli background artist pain and explain his process in real time. There's a lot of artistry that go into these films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hup0lsrY07I I've also been wat
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by Rendello 2mo ago
For those interested, anyone can write a (one-page) article: https://pagedout.institute/?page=cfp.php
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by Rendello 2mo ago
I like page 30: The Subpixel Zoo . It must be hell for text rendering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
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by Rendello 2mo ago
> cache-aware data structures and algorithms Maybe hardware- and access-aware more generally. One of Mike Acton's other talks has a "Is Data-Oriented Design even a thing?" section, which goes over what he means when he r

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