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Rendello

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Lightweight Compression in DuckDB

duckdb.org
1 points·by Rendello·4 months ago·0 comments

I Know What You Think of Me

archive.nytimes.com
3 points·by Rendello·5 months ago·1 comments

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

gutenberg.org
3 points·by Rendello·6 months ago·0 comments

Please Don't

hn.algolia.com
37 points·by Rendello·7 months ago·9 comments

Bryan Cantrill – The Complexity of Simplicity [video]

youtube.com
7 points·by Rendello·8 months ago·1 comments

Ask HN: The most powerful use of macros / code generation you've had

1 points·by Rendello·9 months ago·2 comments

A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory (1983)

dl.acm.org
1 points·by Rendello·9 months ago·1 comments

Optimizing Rust Enum Debugging with Perfect Hashing (2023)

swatinem.de
2 points·by Rendello·9 months ago·0 comments

Persistence, façades and Roslyn's red-green trees (2012)

ericlippert.com
1 points·by Rendello·10 months ago·0 comments

Polysyllabic Characters in Chinese Writing

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
2 points·by Rendello·10 months ago·0 comments

comments

Rendello
·4 days ago·discuss
Perhaps there's a U-curve. When I worked in a hotel in a metropolitan city, almost all workers there were multilingual. People from lower-income countries tended to do the unskilled work, whereas people with higher education tended to work at the front desk and in office roles, both having a mix of temporary and permanent residents.

It makes sense to me that the great in-between has less incentive to learn another language, if they're in a monolingual milieu. They don't have the economic push to find better opportunities elsewhere nor the means (or at least the idea) to travel and explore.
Rendello
·5 days ago·discuss
Within the first few seconds you can tell that this is going to be good!
Rendello
·5 days ago·discuss
Shin-hanga is one of my favourite art movements, it was the confluence of traditional Japanese woodblock carving and contemporary Western painting. Unlike the latter, you can actually buy authentic prints for a reasonable price, given that the medium of print blocks was made for mass-production (though on a much smaller scale than modern printing).
Rendello
·5 days ago·discuss
That's the cool part about woodblock printing, you can use different palettes to make multiple editions of the same print. You have to reset the gradients on each pass, in either case.
Rendello
·7 days ago·discuss
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Rendello
·7 days ago·discuss
> they laughed in derision

It's crazy how defensive (offensive) people can get when you're into programming/math/whatever. Almost like "I don't understand your world, I don't want to, and I hate it and hope you fail".

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/what-its-like
Rendello
·7 days ago·discuss
I've been thinking about this quote a lot:

> [...] we are living in a society [that is out] virtually to satisfy and gratify each and every human need, except for one need, the most basic and fundamental need operant in man, the need for meaning.

https://youtu.be/GTbliwS0gS4?t=153

Maybe the Amish had it right, after all.
Rendello
·8 days ago·discuss
I guess I'm a sucker for tight margins and line spacings in technical writing. That's why I like HN!
Rendello
·9 days ago·discuss
That is extraordinarily beautiful aesthetically! It's always a shame when beautiful mathematics is presented with bad typography and ugly spacing.
Rendello
·10 days ago·discuss
I appreciated it when I was in Italy and the group would order a round of espresso after dinner. It's 9 PM! I have enough trouble sleeping as is!
Rendello
·10 days ago·discuss
The same reason I barely restarted my iPhone for a few years. The `checkra1n` jailbreak had to be reinstalled each time (though it was easy):

https://checkra.in/
Rendello
·11 days ago·discuss
I first took sun exposure seriously after backpacking and spending time with other young travellers in hostels. It was apparent who spent their time exposed to the sun, I remember a girl my age who was in the middle of a multi-year cycle tour, and although I envied her journey, her skin looked quite rough. I decided that if I ended up doing that, I'd get one of those cycle helmet brim visors and would probably just cover my face during a lot of the riding portions.

Then I met a man who did kayak tours of a city. He was awesome, but really leathery due to the 20 years in a boat without shade and having the UV reflections off the water. Your skin cancer risk is off the charts at that point.
Rendello
·12 days ago·discuss
It was really the Wild West when the original Bourne shell was made, and Stephen R. Bourne was a big ALGOL fan, which influenced the language. In fact, he was such a fan that he abused macros to turn the C source into an ALGOL-like DSL:

https://research.swtch.com/shmacro

https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh
Rendello
·16 days ago·discuss
I listened to the first third of the book while at work (the second Librivox version) [1]. I'm not sure if he pronounced the names right, because I've heard others pronounce them differently, and I'm not sure who's correct. In any case, having listened to the names, I found it quite easy to read the rest of the physical book, having the pronunciation and prosody of many the names already embedded in me. Having multiple names per person was quite confusing, still.

https://librivox.org/crime-and-punishment-version-2-by-fyodo...
Rendello
·16 days ago·discuss
"Who says you need to buy a guitar?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_F7aiOvdwE

(technically a "diddley bow": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddley_bow)
Rendello
·17 days ago·discuss
Ai 愛 is a common Japanese name, too. Though I suppose the lowercase 'i' is easier to distinguish than the lowercase 'l'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(given_name)
Rendello
·17 days ago·discuss
Exactly, "crypto" has been hacker jargon for cryptography and its implementations for a long time [a][b]. Since cryptocurrency appeared (and went mainstream), that original jargon has been awash in the tide.

a. Like on /r/crypto: https://old.reddit.com/r/crypto/

b. "Don't roll your own crypto(graphy)!" is/was a popular hacker slogan: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Don%27t+roll+your+own+crypto
Rendello
·17 days ago·discuss
Or "gen(erative) AI". I must admit that as soon as I saw AI in the title, I lost interest until I realized it was classic AI. The term seems so far gone now but we don't have a good classifier for the non-gen-ai yet.
Rendello
·17 days ago·discuss
If it would have been (will be?) destroyed during the Butlerian Jihad, it's AI!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#Butlerian_Jih...
Rendello
·17 days ago·discuss
The same thing happened with crypto (cryptography) after Bitcoin blew up, though it was just an abbreviation so it wasn't as bad.

There's no ambiguity when speaking, but when searching Rust-related things I get a lot of Rust game stuff. "Rust crates" or "Rust drops" correspond to in-game things so the fandom wiki will pop up. Occasionally I'll even get rust-removal webpages.