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by Rendello 3mo ago
Even foreign keys aren't enabled by default, you have to use `PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON;` [1]. The bigger issue with strict tables is that there is no equivalent pragma, and you're forced to use the non-standard STRICT on each CREA
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by Rendello 3mo ago
Even foreign keys weren't available before 2009, and are still not enabled by default: https://sqlite.org/foreignkeys.html
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by Rendello 3mo ago
Perhaps there's a U-curve. When I worked in a hotel in a metropolitan city, almost all workers there were multilingual. People from lower-income countries tended to do the unskilled work, whereas people with higher education tended to
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by Rendello 3mo ago
Within the first few seconds you can tell that this is going to be good!
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by Rendello 3mo ago
Shin-hanga is one of my favourite art movements, it was the confluence of traditional Japanese woodblock carving and contemporary Western painting. Unlike the latter, you can actually buy authentic prints for a reasonable price, given that
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by Rendello 3mo ago
That's the cool part about woodblock printing, you can use different palettes to make multiple editions of the same print. You have to reset the gradients on each pass, in either case.
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by Rendello 3mo ago
> they laughed in derision It's crazy how defensive (offensive) people can get when you're into programming/math/whatever. Almost like "I don't understand your world, I don't want to, and I hate it and
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I've been thinking about this quote a lot: > [...] we are living in a society [that is out] virtually to satisfy and gratify each and every human need, except for one need, the most basic and fundamental need operant in man, the nee
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I guess I'm a sucker for tight margins and line spacings in technical writing. That's why I like HN!
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by Rendello 3mo ago
That is extraordinarily beautiful aesthetically! It's always a shame when beautiful mathematics is presented with bad typography and ugly spacing.
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I appreciated it when I was in Italy and the group would order a round of espresso after dinner. It's 9 PM! I have enough trouble sleeping as is!
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by Rendello 3mo ago
The same reason I barely restarted my iPhone for a few years. The `checkra1n` jailbreak had to be reinstalled each time (though it was easy): https://checkra.in/
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by Rendello 3mo ago
I first took sun exposure seriously after backpacking and spending time with other young travellers in hostels. It was apparent who spent their time exposed to the sun, I remember a girl my age who was in the middle of a multi-year cycle to
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by Rendello 3mo ago
It was really the Wild West when the original Bourne shell was made, and Stephen R. Bourne was a big ALGOL fan, which influenced the language. In fact, he was such a fan that he abused macros to turn the C source into an ALGOL-like DSL: ht
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by Rendello 4mo ago
I listened to the first third of the book while at work (the second Librivox version) [1]. I'm not sure if he pronounced the names right, because I've heard others pronounce them differently, and I'm not sure who's corre
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by Rendello 4mo ago
"Who says you need to buy a guitar?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_F7aiOvdwE (technically a "diddley bow": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddley_bow )
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by Rendello 4mo ago
Ai 愛 is a common Japanese name, too. Though I suppose the lowercase 'i' is easier to distinguish than the lowercase 'l'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(given_name)
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by Rendello 4mo ago
Exactly, "crypto" has been hacker jargon for cryptography and its implementations for a long time [a][b]. Since cryptocurrency appeared (and went mainstream), that original jargon has been awash in the tide. a. Like on /r&#x2
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by Rendello 4mo ago
Or "gen(erative) AI". I must admit that as soon as I saw AI in the title, I lost interest until I realized it was classic AI. The term seems so far gone now but we don't have a good classifier for the non-gen-ai yet.
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by Rendello 4mo ago
If it would have been (will be?) destroyed during the Butlerian Jihad, it's AI! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#Butlerian_Jih...
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by Rendello 4mo ago
The same thing happened with crypto (cryptography) after Bitcoin blew up, though it was just an abbreviation so it wasn't as bad. There's no ambiguity when speaking, but when searching Rust-related things I get a lot of Rust gam
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by Rendello 4mo ago
There's a reason why "naming things" is one of the two hard problems in Computer Science. Data-Oriented Design (DOD) and Data-Oriented Programming (DOP) are two different things which has caused a fair amount of confusion on
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by Rendello 4mo ago
That's one of the things Mike was pushing back on (in the context of C++ / game dev; there's a good example ~20 min in). In case you haven't seen it, Casey Muratori's The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mis
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by Rendello 4mo ago
I read about it just a few days ago! I don't use Java, either, but it looked awesome. Right now I'm using Rust, which feels limited in this capacity outside of ORMs.
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by Rendello 4mo ago
This is somewhat related: I mention this a lot, but in researching Data-Oriented Design (what Mike was talking about), I came across Richard Fabian's DoD book [1] which talks a lot about database normalization and the like. I found tha
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by Rendello 4mo ago
Two talks come to mind here: Mike Acton's Data-Oriented Design and C++ [1] and Brian Cantrill's The Complexity of Simplicity [2]. Mike's talk argues that code solutions need not be modelled on the real world, and that di
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by Rendello 4mo ago
The other replies were big stories, as was this B-52 crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Air_Force_B...
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by Rendello 4mo ago
I had a few years (from 9-12, maybe) where I became carsick very easily, otherwise it hasn't been an issue for me*. In that same time period, I was extremely sensitive to the harsh florescent lights in my classroom, and had to read thr
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by Rendello 4mo ago
LLMs are really good at making backronyms, in fact it might be one of the things they're best at. Try prompting any soulless overlord with "give me a backronym for <WORD> that relates to <SUBJECT>". So maybe it&#x
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by Rendello 4mo ago
I love a good tortured acronym: > SHAKEN system, short for Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs [...] > The name was inspired by Ian Fleming's character James Bond, who famously prefers his martinis &quot

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