lidavidm
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Comment · 2 months ago
Isn't that backwards? The nonexistent character is in the -digitized- version so presumably OCR or something got 彊 wrong, that's not saying that 彁 was used in the -print- version.
Indeed, the source link is about exactly this: a crappy scan appears to have 彁 but a better copy reveals it was 彊.
Comment · 4 months ago
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 personally run ePubs through kepubify (https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/try/) before transferring them to my Kobo.
Comment · 8 months ago
[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...
Comment · 10 months ago
You may like this book called The Origins of Efficiency: https://press.stripe.com/origins-of-efficiency
Or the author's newsletter: https://www.construction-physics.com/
Comment · 10 months ago
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: Sigma also has "Foveon" sensors that do not have the filter and instead stacks multiple sensors (for different wavelengths) at each pixel.
Comment · 1 year ago
Oh that is awesome! I would really appreciate it!
Could you also get d2 into GitHub and Notion while you have it here :)
Comment · 1 year ago
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 widths defeats the point of these tools, at least for me.
Comment · 1 year ago
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 in more detail: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2022/04/12/imp...
Comment · 1 year ago
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
Comment · 1 year ago
Iceberg-go is working on it! (edit: it being write support)
Comment · 1 year ago
It might be funny to use this as a software versioning scheme. ("What do you mean the next version after v3 is 20A?")
Comment · 1 year ago
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 get Kindle exclusives, but well that's a contradiction in terms, so...)
[1]: https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks ("Can I read my ebooks on my Kindle, Kobo, Nook, etc.?")
Comment · 1 year ago
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2019/07/14/uninit.html perhaps (the OP also talks about this when linking to a talk about jemalloc)
Comment · 1 year ago
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 protocol, the database probably still has to transpose the data to ingest it). And it's hard to do a benchmark in the first place since probably your database's wire protocol is not really exposed for you to do a benchmark.
You can sort of see what benefits you might get from a post like this, though: https://willayd.com/leveraging-the-adbc-driver-in-analytics-...
While we're not using Arrow on the wire here, the ADBC driver uses Postgres's binary format (which is still row oriented) + COPY and can get significant speedups compared to other Postgres drivers.
The other thing might be to consider whether you can just dump to Parquet files or something like that and bypass the database entirely (maybe using Iceberg as well).
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