Hacker News: Vektorweg

New comment by Vektorweg in "YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos"

Vektorweg — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 06:42:07 +0000

Normally, there is no issue with people downvoting stuff on the Internet. But on HN, voting results in karma, which results in rights. Downvoting is therefore taking away rights, and as seen, on the basis of just opinions. Since downvoting itself is a right, opinions on HN are shaped by those that hold power with this right over others. HN is, more than any other place, enforcing its own filter bubble.

New comment by Vektorweg in "Life after an internet mob attack"

Vektorweg — Wed, 26 May 2021 22:29:01 +0000

> I don't think we can depend on the good nature of people and rationality to ultimately prevail.

least not with the current common education.

New comment by Vektorweg in "Freenode ops take control of 700 channels"

Vektorweg — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:03:35 +0000

its times like these when you ignore the rules

New comment by Vektorweg in "Animated Engines"

Vektorweg — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 22:11:51 +0000

These are pretty cool.

Worth to spend some time turning these into continuous SVG.

New comment by Vektorweg in "DuckDuckGo – two non-JavaScript versions of search results"

Vektorweg — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:16:25 +0000

Someone started with a no-js site index yet?

New comment by Vektorweg in "“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”"

Vektorweg — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:22:53 +0000

Epic picked literally the most vulnerable target audience. That's what made Fortnite a hit.

New comment by Vektorweg in "Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (2019)"

Vektorweg — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 03:09:36 +0000

Its a common trend to use permissive licenses on your own code, and its understandable to do so as good will. But given the described problem, one might be better off with copyleft clauses and other restrictions in order to reduce abuse from big corp.

New comment by Vektorweg in "The Decline of Usability"

Vektorweg — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:46:08 +0000

Maybe the ability to display references should be a feature in your tool?

As for my experience from Blender, you either utilize its UI to display it where you want it or put the references directly into the scene. Its also common for 2D artists to just use layers on the canvas for keeping references.

New comment by Vektorweg in "The Decline of Usability"

Vektorweg — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:30:47 +0000

I feel that "everything is a fullscreen application" is not such a bad idea, as I can't concentrate on more than one thing at a time regardless. The rest is just tabbing.

New comment by Vektorweg in "Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side"

Vektorweg — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:42:54 +0000

First try in Vivaldi's private mode got me still a 0.3 . Then I tested it while being logged into Google and it went to 0.9 . However, when I tried it again in private mode, I got 0.9 there too. Temporary fingerprints show quite the effect.

New comment by Vektorweg in "Give Firefox a chance"

Vektorweg — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 16:00:15 +0000

Most argue to switch, because of Google's webRequest API changes in Chromium. Would like to remind you, that its not set in stone yet, especially whether Opera, Vivaldi and Microsoft will follow Google's plan.

New comment by Vektorweg in "SQL: One of the most valuable skills"

Vektorweg — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 06:38:03 +0000

I believe, that the way data is structured in Prolog is easier and more flexible than in SQL. Sadly I was busy with other things, so I can't tell for sure how it looks for bigger projects and I haven't tried Datalog yet. But I wouldn't consider SQL as a holy grail, after I run into various issues when dealing with not so relational data.

New comment by Vektorweg in "Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard"

Vektorweg — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 08:12:50 +0000

I'm using IPredator. They give you a dynamic IPv4+v6 address and you can pay with Bitcoin.

New comment by Vektorweg in "How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming"

Vektorweg — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 05:20:17 +0000

The best way to learn computer graphics programming is to first ask what you want to do with it. Most people interested in this topic have some end goal, be it just writing a game. In that case, writing raytracers and rasterizers may just be a waste of time, when the main interest isn't the interworkings of math, but to put something up the screen. For a reasonably wide range of modern tools, its absolutely not necessary to know any deep math to bring to screen what you want.

New comment by Vektorweg in "China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients"

Vektorweg — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 06:53:27 +0000

It is basically impossible to track the source of a hack. China might just as likely never had anything to do with any attack so far.

New comment by Vektorweg in "The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)"

Vektorweg — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 07:26:18 +0000

I think, that is a bad argument, but a good practice. Always have the devs fix their own mistakes, so that they can learn from them.

New comment by Vektorweg in "Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo"

Vektorweg — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:11:51 +0000

If you use !bangs, its a duck hunt.

New comment by Vektorweg in "HTTP-over-QUIC will officially become HTTP/3"

Vektorweg — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:11:22 +0000

Can't always correlate usage share with performance, especially on things that are extremely hyped.

New comment by Vektorweg in "Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports"

Vektorweg — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 04:35:43 +0000

Wouldn't be a straight Linux distribution the best choice to avoid anything annoying?

New comment by Vektorweg in "Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees"

Vektorweg — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:16:39 +0000

It depends to what degree a person or company acted positively on its/their own. Amazon would have never done it, if it wasn't for the immense pressure. So, it is not worth much praise.