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AIUI, Kobo devices have a more advanced rendering engine if you name the file with .kepub.epub. (I think it's based on ePub 3?) Not sure if it would fix the problem here. But I per…

[Not the overall point of the poem, but] yet for all that, it turns out chemical weapons aren't even that useful: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...

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Olympus and other cameras can do this with "pixel shift": it uses the stabilization mechanism to quickly move the sensor by 1 pixel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_shift EDIT:…

Oh that is awesome! I would really appreciate it! Could you also get d2 into GitHub and Notion while you have it here :)

I always liked D2 more than mermaid, except IMO, this makes grid layouts essentially useless: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/1164 Having to figure out the exact pixel wid…

Someone on the issue they made explained why Clone is "broken": https://github.com/JelteF/derive_more/issues/490#issuecommen... Which links to this blog post explaining the choice …

The graphics would be called chibis, IMO (or デフォルメ if you wanna be fancy) and IDK about developers, but perhaps weaboos/weebs would be the general term

Iceberg-go is working on it! (edit: it being write support)

It might be funny to use this as a software versioning scheme. ("What do you mean the next version after v3 is 20A?")

At least they appear to be partnering with Kobo "later this year" [1]. I've been a big fan of Kobo's devices so this is a nice plus. (I just wish they could figure out some way to …

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2019/07/14/uninit.html perhaps (the OP also talks about this when linking to a talk about jemalloc)

To get a really precise answer you'd have to profile or benchmark. I'd say it's also hard to do an apples to apples comparison (if you only replace the data format in the wire prot…

Arrow has several other related projects in this space: Arrow Flight SQL defines defines a full protocol designed to support JDBC/ODBC-like APIs but using columnar, Arrow data tran…

It used to use DataFusion. https://www.paradedb.com/blog/iceberg_lakehouse

Can't you use DataFusion single node/without any Apache ecosystem stuff? They have a Python library and DataFusion is "just" a query engine. (If anything, I'd call Pandas the batte…

I'm also curious why it's a fork (I'm sure there's a good reason?) Coincidentally I was looking into C++ documentation generators again. In terms of integration, what I've settled …

I suppose this feature should have been termed closed captioning and not subtitling. It seems you're not going to get much sympathy for human translation here.

Thanks! Frankly so long as I can get a browser and install some reader apps (Kobo, Manga-one, etc.) that would fit my needs fine, and as long as they support older versions of Andr…

Which tablet do you use? I've been considering a Boox but the licensing issues and apparent outdated Android give me pause...

There's a PR implementing a similar approach. Seems it could use help to work out some kinks in the color mixing. https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/1783 https:…

Neat, I didn't realize Kobo was WebKit-based, but given they offer a full browser (experimentally) on their readers, that makes sense. They also support some 'nice' ePub 3 features…

Kobo has a store. It's decent, it won't have Kindle indies, and IMO it has fewer/worse sales, but it's not a big deal to me. They do have a subscription plan with unlimited access …

Only because Western-centric systems don't handle non-LTR text properly. https://atadistance.net/2019/10/20/japanese-text-layout-for-... > Baseline font metrics will never deliver …