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In the same spirit, we should once a year spend a day with ourselves blindfolded, or use a wheelchair to understand what is like to be a disabled person.

"I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people." - Ric…

This article reminds me of my father. After my mother died, he's living alone in my home town. He spend most of his days without talking to anyone, but I know he's keeping a diary.…

This. I'm always amazed by a skilled taxi driver maneuvering their car at a busy street in Tokyo with bustling pedestrians and bikes, some of them are old and slow and others ignor…

Aside from jQuery, I'm just amazed at how good the gov.uk is. They're comprehensive and accessible. Isn't this the pinnacle of government websites? I only wish that our government …

Hate to be negative, but this new site design of IEEE Spectrum is just abhorrent. It's ad-ridden and there's an infinite scrolling thing. I use reader mode, but I miss the old desi…

Not to confuse with SDL_mixer (which is to output sound to audio devices). This is a module for decoding sound files in various formats.

Looks like that the project has changed its name from "rmc" (Rust Model Checker) to this. Various sources point to rmc as https://github.com/model-checking/rmc (redirected to https…

I'm curious of the eventual consequence of emoji development. Early Chinese characters were pretty much like pictograms. They have developed into a highly sophisticated abstract la…

I feel that the study is dated. Nowadays (at least on iOS) VoiceOver is pretty good: they can read almost all parts of the contents, maps, and even texts on pictures. Not sure how …

A university teacher. I work from the office for now but without student. I understand the appeal of online classes but man do I miss in-person teaching. In an online class, there'…

Sadly this kind of small sexualization is very common in most manga media. I grew up in Japan and thought this is normal, only finding out later in a Western country this is appall…

The discussions around web3 reminds me of the days when people were looking for a "killer app" for Web 2.0. Was there any? I don't remember much, but I don't think there was a sing…

FWIW, the rest of the world where Christianity isn't a major religion, Christmas isn't special either. In Japan, people perceive this as a fancy Western festive event, just like Va…

I wonder who would be actually interested in the decentralization part if there was no Bitcoin/NFT bubble? My guess is "not many". I mean, those people exist, but it's probably the…

In Japan, there were a couple of ski lifts that make almost 90-degree turn, called "bending lift (屈曲リフト)". Near the turning point they put up a warning sign like "please hold tight…

Maybe they are good books, but I found that most of these summaries are bland and generic, as in these phrases: "The book is strictly about career development and it has a lot of i…

Just FYI: this page doesn't load when you set Firefox's privacy protection to "strict".

Every time I read about decentralization, I remember this episode from NPR Planet Money (one of the best podcasts, btw). It's about Libertarian Summer Camp where they tried to spen…

Math is the closest thing to magic that actually exists (and we can work on).

I just found that this applies to Python too. >>> 'Straße'.upper() 'STRASSE'

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt After reading your post, this quote just came to mind.

I used to use cdb a lot for random access of small key/value pairs (~100k entries, 10kb per entry). It's effectively a hashtable on disk. https://cr.yp.to/cdb.html