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New comment by xearl in "DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)"

xearl — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:10:31 +0000

> while DuckDB effectively appeared on the scene two years ago.

duckdb is ~7 years old by now. it was quite popular long before it became 1.0. heck, even motherduck has been founded 4 years ago.

New comment by xearl in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

xearl — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:18:31 +0000

Did they ask the original authors of Radix why it's the way it is?

New comment by xearl in "Gmail to SQLite"

xearl — Sat, 10 May 2025 07:25:47 +0000

TIL, thanks a lot!

New comment by xearl in "Evo: Version control that works the way you think"

xearl — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:19:40 +0000

> For example, switching to another branch automatically checks out the active commit of that branch.

    git switch $BRANCH

New comment by xearl in "Flux Keyboard"

xearl — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 19:32:42 +0000

> I would love something like that too use as a macro pad: keys that have arbitrary meaning you can reference. Keys that behave differently depending on context, and show you the context in real-time. That would be incredibly useful.

You might want to have a look at Elgato's Stream Decks.

New comment by xearl in "X12: Requirements for a successor to the X11 protocol (2013)"

xearl — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 07:35:11 +0000

(2017)

New comment by xearl in "Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace"

xearl — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:40:31 +0000

> Bonus: I now have zero interest in buying a Steamdeck.

It's still an absolutely amazing piece of hardware. So definitely play around with it, if you ever come across one.

New comment by xearl in "Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace"

xearl — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 11:59:47 +0000

These are single-sided, the Steam Deck requires a single-sided M.2 2230. Agreed that frame.work should mention that in their shop listing.

New comment by xearl in "System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns"

xearl — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 07:24:27 +0000

they (starlabs) charge via usb-c and have two usb-c ports.

New comment by xearl in "CDC File Transfer"

xearl — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:20:01 +0000

Is there any chance to get this faster sync algorithm into rsync itself?

New comment by xearl in "Linux boot partitions and how to set them up"

xearl — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:25:48 +0000

Your "different approach" sounds almost exactly like the approach proposed in the fine article for the "ESP too small" case (a case which you assume as a given).

New comment by xearl in "Exit, pursued by a bear"

xearl — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:45:53 +0000

> It was public doctrine in textbooks, taught at university.

Which book(s), at which university? Genuinely curious.

New comment by xearl in "In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether"

xearl — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 12:32:16 +0000

was flashbots a thing back in aug-2020? i think they only launched a few months later.

New comment by xearl in "Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) [pdf]"

xearl — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 21:23:06 +0000

i regularly use K (an APL descendant) as "pseudo-code".

in fact, i regularly _think_ about problems in an array-programming fashion, heavily inspired by K. when jotting them down, i often use K. when turning them into actual code to run, it's mostly immaterial if i then use K, J, numpy, julia, etc. the general approach translates well into a multitude of array programming varieties.

as such, i don't believe your point 5 holds. this way of thinking is certainly off mainstream, as is, e.g constraint programming, but there are niches where people use it highly productively. you won't necessarily glean that from the output coming from those niches, though.