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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:22AM (#48177174)
The author is mixing two discussions: soul/body dualism and qualia (hard problem).

It could be true that there's only physical body, but still have the qualia explanatory gap.

Re:Binary Encodings for JSON and Variant on Saturday April 18, 2026 @06:37PM (#47820139)
Parquet file format writes its metadata including length info after all data, at the footer. It was counterintuitive when I first look at it, but smart thinking about it now. I haven't had to trade off for memory constraints, but being able to stream output is definitely easier!

Interesting point about the difference in escape characters, I stored length and the decoded value so it's ready for string view. But when I need them back as JSON string, I need to encode them again :)