A bimonthly Japan Times column on Kanji.
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The big issue that I have with how the German government does COVID politics is that they can’t seem to handle the trolley problem.
The default choice appears to be inaction. A decision to act is made only when there is (seemingly) irrefutable scientific consensus that it causes no harm. That is arguably the correct approach for a doctor to take on a patient who cannot make an informed decision for themselves. But a pandemic is more akin to war than to a doctor’s visit. There will be casualties, some of which innocent bystandersβthe only question is how many. In that kind of situation, inaction is not the safe choice. There is no safe choice.
An impressive list of resources. Anime rated by difficulty, video game scripts, grammar guides, you name it.
Enables you to write pure Haskell web apps with client-side compositing.
Apparently he isnβt entirely averse to it, and device drivers written in Rust might show up in the kernel at some point.
Failure-atomic msync() enables you to treat an mmap(2)ed file as a transactional data store that is robust in the face of power outages. Famus implements it in user space by employing write-ahead logging. As a bonus it optionally versions your file and lets you go back in time as needed.
A website where you can practice writing Japanese by drawing on the screen. Kana, Kanji, and vocabulary, ordered by JLPT level or, at your choice, a number of other systems.
Semel scriptum decem lectum!
Inspects the heap of the GHC runtime, enabling unrestricted debug printing (without a Show instance) and similar shenanigans.
Optimized left folds for Haskell.
Meditation, for all its purported benefits, can be harmful to your mental health if you overdo it.
A functional game engine for Scala.js, targeted at programmers rather than game designers.