Character Amnesia in China
I happened to have a cold that day and was trying to write a brief note to a friend to cancel an appointment that afternoon. I found that I could not recall how to write the Chinese characters for the word ‘sneeze’. I asked my three friends to write the characters for me and, to […]
B-trees and database indexes
The way your table’s data is arranged in a B+tree depends on the key you choose. This means your choice of PRIMARY KEY will impact the layout on disk of all of the data in the table, and in turn performance. Choose your PRIMARY KEY wisely! Source: B-trees and database indexes
Good stories are universal
他中文极好，所以，全过程我们是中文交流。当然，为了方便理解，我把其中人物也都改成了他能懂的形式。 Source: 如果潘金莲有点耐心，是不是就把武松勾搭到手了？ – 知乎 Good stories are universal, because they are structurally sound.
Actually Portable Executable
It’ll be nice to know that any normal PC program we write will “just work” on Raspberry Pi and Apple ARM. All we have to do embed an ARM build of the emulator above within our x86 executables, and have them morph and re-exec appropriately, similar to how Cosmopolitan is already doing doing with qemu-x86_64, […]
Turning a conference talk into an annotated presentation – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
some notes on my tools and workflow that I used to produce the writeup of my DjangoCon US 2024 talk Source: Turning a conference talk into an annotated presentation – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
40 Thoughts At 40 | Brad Frost
Taking an idea from “wouldn’t it be cool” to “this now exists in the world” is a freaking miracle. Source: 40 Thoughts At 40 | Brad Frost
Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information – Aftermath
Source: Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information – Aftermath
About: The Data Visualisation Catalogue
The Data Visualisation Catalogue is a project developed by Severino Ribecca to create a (non-code-based) library of different information visualisation types. The website serves as a learning and inspiration resource for those working with data visualisation. Source: About: The Data Visualisation Catalogue
以史为鉴：黄金往何处去？-虎嗅网
说到这里就要提到当代一个曾经非常有意思的“猫吃辣椒”理论。怎样才能让一只猫吃辣椒呢？一种方法是硬上，抓住猫，把辣椒塞嘴里，用筷子捅下去。另外一种方法是欺骗，把猫饿两天，把辣椒塞肉里，骗猫吃进去。最高明的是后面这一种，把辣椒涂在猫屁股上，猫觉得辣就会舔，不知不觉就把辣椒吃掉了。 Source: 以史为鉴：黄金往何处去？-虎嗅网
Intel Honesty – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
This is where everyone who is invested in American manufacturing — or perhaps more accurately, concerned about China’s threat to Taiwan — has to get brutally honest. If the U.S. government and U.S. tech companies want to have a non-Taiwan option, they are going to have to pay for it directly. Yes, the CHIPS Act […]