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mcdonje commented on I made a floppy disk from scratch   kottke.org/25/08/i-made-a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
mcdonje · a day ago
Title: "I"

First line: "[YouTuber] PolyMatt"

The article just advertises the video. This post could be just the video.

mcdonje commented on How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB   radar.com/blog/high-perfo... · Posted by u/j_kao
brunohaid · 16 days ago
Bit thin on details and not looking like they’ll open source it, but if someone clicked the post because they’re looking for their “replace ES” thing:

Both https://typesense.org/ and https://duckdb.org/ (with their spatial plugin) are excellent geo performance wise, the latter now seems really production ready, especially when the data doesn’t change that often. Both fully open source including clustered/sharded setups.

No affiliation at all, just really happy camper.

mcdonje · 16 days ago
Not sure what they'll opensource. The rust code? They're calling it a DB, but they described an entire stack.
mcdonje commented on Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation   github.com/Nicholas-L-Joh... · Posted by u/wompapumpum
hypercube33 · 16 days ago
I half expected this to have a button/mode to show custom QR codes...
mcdonje · 16 days ago
That's a good idea!
mcdonje commented on Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided   digitalcourage.social/@ec... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02
RegnisGnaw · 24 days ago
China has shown the world the way and most countries likes it.
mcdonje · 24 days ago
lmao, like every other major power has been a bastion of free speech until China came up. McCarthyism, what? Politkovskaya, who?
mcdonje commented on My website is ugly because I made it   goodinternetmagazine.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
mcdonje · 3 months ago
The pic of the ugly site looks like it's full of blog posts, but this post is on a different site for some reason.

I would've rather been sent to the ugly site if it doesn't have marketing cookies and a membership popup.

mcdonje commented on Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016)   eev.ee/blog/2016/06/04/co... · Posted by u/keybored
Alifatisk · 4 months ago
Why would you want to convert from tabs to spaces?
mcdonje · 4 months ago
Because they're deranged control freaks who need to convert a single character that is semantically a tab into multiple characters that are an opinionated representation of a tab.

Devs: We need to separate concerns and split the view from the model.

Also devs: Someone might view the code differently!!1!

mcdonje commented on Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016)   eev.ee/blog/2016/06/04/co... · Posted by u/keybored
daneel_w · 4 months ago
With a large set of arguments broken down to multiple lines I prefer to keep them clear of the function name.

    with_long_func_names(
        this_scheme,
        looks_muddled
    );
    
    long_func_name(
                    tidier,
                    scheme
                  );
But my main gripe with tabs is that no one agrees on the width.

mcdonje · 4 months ago
Not agreeing on width is an argument in favor of tabs.
mcdonje commented on The Dire Wolf Is Back   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/adrianhon
JauntTrooper · 5 months ago
Birds are more difficult to clone than mammals. I don't think we've been able to clone one yet.

I hope to see a passenger pigeon one day though.

mcdonje · 5 months ago
Searched for this. Passenger Pigeons are the #1 species I want resurrected.
mcdonje commented on Don't use "click here" for link text   dont-click-here.com/... · Posted by u/jonathanberger
mcdonje · 10 months ago
Nice. Anyone have a list of these single issue PSA static sites?
mcdonje commented on Saudi Arabian Neom project 'uses one fifth of world's steel'   agbi.com/giga-projects/20... · Posted by u/Ozarkian
Renaud · 10 months ago
10 minutes reading into the madness of this project, it's claimed sustainability, and you realize that the amounts to be spent there, and the fact that it's build on the necessity to solve dozens of huge technological hurdles, make it a pure waste of money.

This is a project championed by MBS himself, and no-one dared telling him it was nonsense. Architects and consulting companies are doing what they do best with these types of pie-in-the-sky project: play along and take the money.

The vision is a nightmare of population control and surveillance. It wants to be sustainable, but go cool nearly 150M m2 of glass walls in one of the most inhospitable hot environment for humans... and tell me this is sustainable.

There are flying pods and glow-in-the-dark sand scapes...

Nothing in that project is energy efficient or makes even little sense. It's a vanity project. The money could have financed real breakthrough in science and engineering. Instead, it's wasted moving sand around. They won't even be able to build and host the 1.5km they now target.

mcdonje · 10 months ago
Your first and last paragraphs are at odds with one another. They have to solve a lot of problems to do the project, but it's too bad they're not spending money to solve problems...

The walls are mirrored, not glass. Even if it were glass, would cooling it use more energy than having most of the population drive in and out everyday and sit in traffic jams on km upon km of concrete? It's even worse in areas where that concrete is placed where vegetation could be doing the job of fixing carbon.

It's sustainable because of the density, and because it's built around public transportation. We should get back to vertical, dense towns and cities that are connected by trains.

u/mcdonje

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