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by lidavidm 2y ago
Kobo lets you tap and hold a corner (or hold down the page turn button), and after a second it'll start fast-flipping through pages. Not as fast as an iPad but pretty quick, sorta like flipping through a book at a moderate pace.
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by lidavidm 2y ago
I had a reMarkable 2 and gave up it almost solely because it didn't support USB mass storage (like Kobo devices do), making it really annoying to transfer files. Also, their software update made the reader worse, since I went from bein
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by lidavidm 2y ago
I'd guess most people here don't actually take buses on a regular basis. (Or ever. Or any public transit at all.)
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by lidavidm 2y ago
Oh boy. Hope you never run into a CalorieMate or a jelly squeeze packet. Or the stoveless apartments.
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by lidavidm 2y ago
GCC can also use UBSan (and ASan) [1], and furthermore, it shouldn't be "several times slower" (are you thinking of Valgrind?). Clang itself describes the checks as "small runtime cost" [2] and there's a minima
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by lidavidm 2y ago
You can't without de-DRMing. That's basically the point, right? Amazon has locked you in to their ecosystem.
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by lidavidm 2y ago
Kobo works quite well: you can set it up without an account (needs a bit of manual fiddling) if you really want, and either way after that you can just plug it in and drag-and-drop epubs to the device. Battery life, responsiveness, etc. are
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by lidavidm 3y ago
Well, yes: pawpaw is a different fruit in the US Midwest, and that's what the article is about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba
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by lidavidm 3y ago
You might enjoy takikomi gohan.
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by lidavidm 3y ago
Using heat is common in a similar hobby(?), translating (older) Japanese manga. You would use a hair dryer or clothesiron to melt the glue in the spine, pull apart the pages/clean off the glue, and scan them in. That way you don't
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by lidavidm 4y ago
For PostgreSQL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-flight-sql-postgresql Context: https://lists.apache.org/thread/sdxr8b0lj82zd0ql7zhk9472opq3... Also see ADBC, which aims to provide a unified API on
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by lidavidm 4y ago
It's there on desktop, not on mobile. Not really a big deal IMO. (Also the blog subdomain is almost certainly a reference to Love Live - "nico nico nii~" or something like that is a catchphrase of one of the characters.) But
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by lidavidm 4y ago
I'm curious, what does 'broken' mean? Is this about the CJK merger, or something else?
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by lidavidm 4y ago
Yup. The chattiness is to account for distributed databases, so you can spread the result set across multiple instances. That said there is a proposal for base Flight RPC to help allow embedding small results directly into the first respons
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by lidavidm 4y ago
As mentioned by others elsewhere in the thread, Apache Arrow Flight SQL aims to be a standard wire protocol that multiple databases can implement, using a columnar data representation: https://arrow.apache.org/docs/form
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by lidavidm 4y ago
Even within the Arrow project, there's still room for drivers just because not every vendor is going to implement the same wire protocol (at least on a feasible timeline). Hence both "ADBC" [1] and Flight SQL [2] (note: NOT a
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by lidavidm 4y ago
A few of the more popular webtoons have now been reformatted for print (e.g. Villains are Destined to Die, Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion). Those have both physical and digital copies, and use the normal page size.
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by lidavidm 4y ago
China has Luo Tianyi, Miku and co have had concerts in the US, and Miku was slated to perform at Coachella: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hatsune-miku-c... (Admittedly, those are not unlikely all o
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by lidavidm 4y ago
Ah ok, sorry. No clue there, other than the software also being developed there.
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by lidavidm 4y ago
It's kind of an acquired taste - it works better for some kinds of music than others. But I admit I can't stand the English voice because that sounds more obviously wrong to me. I'm not sure you can paint the Japanese music i
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by lidavidm 4y ago
And a popular enough producer can 'go pro' (n-buna -> Yorushika, or Hachi -> Kenshi Yonezu).
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by lidavidm 4y ago
Hmm, I bought it about…a couple weeks ago? And they sent me an email with two discount codes: a free copy of Affinity Photo 2, and a heavy discount on the all-apps-all-platforms license.
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by lidavidm 4y ago
In undergrad I worked with this group for a while: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/papers/reduct-chi17/ They took the basic idea of Scratch, then made it into more of a game with levels, each level being a pu
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by lidavidm 4y ago
Anime/manga have been exploring this with various fantasy worlds with explicit game-like mechanics. I've always considered them lazy attempts at power fantasies/wish fulfillment stories, but in light of this comment maybe the
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by lidavidm 4y ago
Even when it comes to vocaloids like Miku, there's still attachment to the producer behind the song and not just Miku herself (and several producers have gone on from their vocaloid careers to launch "real" music careers).
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by lidavidm 4y ago
I wonder how this compares to jemalloc, mimalloc, snmalloc?
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by lidavidm 4y ago
The paper "Everything you always wanted to know about compiled and vectorized queries but were afraid to ask" [1] goes into this in much more detail and also compares vectorization with an alternative approach. [1]: https:/&
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by lidavidm 5y ago
The Brooklyn Public Library is one such option: https://disc.bklynlibrary.org/card/
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by lidavidm 5y ago
Hey, I'd be curious to hear what's stopping you from using Arrow Flight (unless you mean that you plan to use Arrow Flight for remote things, and a zero-copy interface locally). (I am an Arrow maintainer and have worked a lot with
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by lidavidm 5y ago
Ah, thank you for the response! I'm quite impressed, seeing that example nearly made me impulse buy the font.

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