Hacker News: DinaCoder99

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Meta Loves Python"

DinaCoder99 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:42:30 +0000

Damn, he really stuck his whole ass out in the wind with this branding then.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Self-control signals and affords power"

DinaCoder99 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:03:49 +0000

Tesla's gonna take over the car market, like, any day man, I swear.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:33:39 +0000

Vetting them for what? How much abuse they can take?

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:03:21 +0000

> The obvious fix is to stop animating when the step gets below some threshold, but that's inelegant.

Why? It's simple, easy to implement and validate, and provides the desired visual impact. Seems perfectly elegant to me.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "The extraordinary lives of coast redwoods"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:59:13 +0000

Given that the canopy itself modulates the moisture in the air, this explanation seems to provide a bound on the outlier of height relative to other trees more so than an absolute barrier.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Thousand Character Classic"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:56:12 +0000

The thousand character classic was also used to teach the reading of chinese characters in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, though perhaps to a lesser extent than the three character classic. I have no idea to what extent this is true today, but it certainly held up until the 19th century.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Self-control signals and affords power"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:50:55 +0000

Musk has lost a massive amount of credibility because of failing to deliver on most of the self-proclaimed potential of his businesses—basically, all of them outside of the potential of SpaceX, and even there he should be grateful the perceived value of the company isn't tied to going to mars.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "WWII: Failed novelist becomes a spy for Germany, makes up a fake spy network"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:41:59 +0000

Eddie Chapman even more so!

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "In Mongolia, a killer winter is ravaging herds and a way of life"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:15:06 +0000

Sure, but they can also easily ask anyone. I don't know why it makes sense to shrug off that responsibility onto some nationalist bullshit.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:12:41 +0000

Easy! Maximization of index funds.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 02:41:29 +0000

> I don’t understand what you are saying here. How many months does one need to stay to hover up the trade secrets / IP?

Presumably the more valuable the IP, the harder it is to access.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Inflection-2.5: meet the best personal AI"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 02:35:23 +0000

Ah. Grim. Thank you for the context.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Inflection-2.5: meet the best personal AI"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:39:23 +0000

Maybe i'm not looking in the right place, but this does not strike me as an endorsement of Hitler.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "The Magic of Bird Brains"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:36:36 +0000

Cats are unable or unwilling to tackle larger rats, including the ones outside my apartment. They're much better mousers than ratters.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Don't fuck with paste"

DinaCoder99 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:32:45 +0000

I've found you can also just disable javascript, paste, and reenable javascript again.

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "New York will send National Guard to subways after a string of violent crimes"

DinaCoder99 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:30:20 +0000

Sometimes it seems like violence is the only solution modern american politicians can conceive of, even if it's an insane waste of both money and human effort and doesn't work.

How can this do anything but embarrass the city?

New comment by DinaCoder99 in ""AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T"

DinaCoder99 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:21:57 +0000

Well if you're asking for a product recommendation you're literally asking to be advertised to, so.... I guess you get what you want?

New comment by DinaCoder99 in ""AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T"

DinaCoder99 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:19:39 +0000

Wouldn't mentioning products at all be a dead giveaway?

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Fractional scales, fonts and hinting"

DinaCoder99 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 14:48:59 +0000

I don't see how that would affect a screenshot—the difference is clearly visible in screenshots. Furthermore the differences between Mac, Linux, and Window font rendering are widely discussed on the internet. I think I just prefer the way that Apple chose to render fonts.

This blog post seems to lay out the tradeoff between, at least, Windows and Mac font rendering: https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/15/type-rendering-operating...

New comment by DinaCoder99 in "Leadership is a hell of a drug"

DinaCoder99 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 14:46:34 +0000

That is only true for high modern European (western) history.