danishbread's comments

On: Generating Blue Noise Sample Points with Mitchell's Best Candidate Algorithm

[danishbread]

https://archive.ph/z2jmt

The server seems to be getting hammered and images are struggling to load.

On: Not Buying American Anymore

[danishbread]

Is this 'don't buy American' or is it 'don't support economies with anti-consumer practices'?

[mingus88 → danishbread]

It’s both. From the article

> If I start buying European and they start behaving like the US does now, then this rant will just as easily apply to them.

[IAmBroom → mingus88]

And yet... the article includes examples of European companies behaving like this.

BTW, it's not about how the US behaves. It's about how many companies, some of which happen to be US-based, behave.

[gchamonlive → danishbread]

It could be about the later, but I'd have to research more to make such a general claim.

[m2f2 → danishbread]

I guess it could be extended to any country with similari behavior.

Take the attitude to selling your data at state, country level "just because".

If US citizens love being scr@@d over good for them....

[insane_dreamer → danishbread]

> All this points to a very clear trend, at least for me, that the US is openly an oligarchy.

I read it as don't support oligarchies.

On: Poor Man's Web

[danishbread]

The article title didn't express what this was about, but it seems seems to be a revival of the old, pre-WWW web, via a new protocol Gemini.

I'm not sure why it's "poor man's" web, other than being minimalistic (text and images only.) I thought the phrase meant something less desirable to use, less capable. But this could be genuinely pleasant!

On: Show HN: Electric – my custom static site generator and markup language

[danishbread]

SSGs are almost stereotypical to write thinking 'how hard can it be', and it's impressive to see this. I didn't get from the GitHub writeup though what made it, specifically, very different - other than lightweight compared to Jekyll. Would you mind explaining a bit more? For example, what's the templating language used for, and how?

On: OceanGate: Why Isn't Titan Classed? (2019)

[danishbread]

I didn't realise from the headline what this was referring to. The Titan, owned by OceanGate, is the submarine used to visit the Titanic that is currently missing.