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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 t…

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…

Thanks for the tip, the hidden feeds are much nicer.

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…

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 t…

A broadly generalized super-automaton has long been a fantasy. Suddenly it's not so fantastical.

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 an…

> Sorry, we moved this. Isn't the borrow checker supposed to prevent these things? I was still holding an immutable reference.

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…

For those interested, anyone can write a (one-page) article: https://pagedout.institute/?page=cfp.php

I like page 30: The Subpixel Zoo . It must be hell for text rendering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering

> 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,…

Just don't do it like Rust inlining annotations: – Gently suggests inlining #[inline] - Really suggests inlining #[inline(always)] – Really Really suggests inlining (still not guar…

I was wondering if the hash might be unique, then a commenter would say "it's now `kill. .js`, and the webmaster would be able to connect to a user agent and IP. It wouldn't accomp…

https://xkcd.com/1053/

For me it still happens, the file has just been renamed to /js/kill. .js

I'd never heard of ParaSail, so I found this high-level overview [1]: > All of the objects declared in a given scope are associated with a storage region, essentially a local heap.…

And for an Struct-of-Arrays approach, DuckDB and other columnar databases can have nice advantages (I mentioned this in another comment [1]), including optimizations you wouldn't s…

In Rust at least, most things have a with_capacity( n ) constructor to ensure there's space for n elements (or n bytes, in the case of strings). I suppose there's no getting around…

If you click to another tab, the site changes its title and favicon to a random webpage like: - Pick up lines suggestions – ChatGPT - Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up - Youtub…

There's been some good implicit/explicit discussion about SoA on this post [1]. For anyone curious, there are a few different terms that refer to basically the same thing: - Struct…

I studied "The Cremation of Sam McGee" in elementary school and it was a favourite of my grandmother. It's well-known in Canada, as far as poetry goes, though the poem most Canadia…

It's been floating around the Internet since at least 2019. It's classic, soulful bad editing.

I'm abhorrent at arithmetic and I think it affects me greatly. I know quite a few people who are barely literate and manage to get by in life, but it obviously makes things hard fo…