Hacker News: anc84

New comment by anc84 in "Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems"

anc84 — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:14:58 +0000

A third, always-on machine like a 3€ VPS somewhere.

New comment by anc84 in "How I got my username on nearly every site"

anc84 — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:42:53 +0000

There was no activity on the package for 3 months when I wrote this! By his logic, that would qualify for someone else to take over the account if they like the username.

New comment by anc84 in "How I got my username on nearly every site"

anc84 — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:11:28 +0000

Someone please take over this dormant account: https://www.npmjs.com/~edent

New comment by anc84 in "Maps Reveal the Difference in How Cities Are Perceived by Tourists and Locals"

anc84 — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:09:21 +0000

Regurgitated content from more than half a decade ago. Here is the direct link with all you need to know: https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/721576242091586...

(Click "show more" for the description with is more verbose and honest than the aggregator spam submission).

New comment by anc84 in "Debanding the World"

anc84 — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 08:01:45 +0000

(2014)

New comment by anc84 in "NPM 6.9.1 is broken due to .git folder in published tarball"

anc84 — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:27:50 +0000

The majority of npm based installation instructions I encounter "out there" are using "npm install -g".

New comment by anc84 in "Hey advertisers, track this"

anc84 — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:49:51 +0000

We suffer that garbage not because people like you and me did not think of _money_ as reward for other people's projects but because of advertising, tracking and click counts.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with publishing things for free, doing things for free and consuming things for free. The best content on the web is done by people from their own interest in sharing. Personal contacts, exchange of information, feedback and community are so much more worth than money when it comes to motivating the production of good things.

New comment by anc84 in "Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?"

anc84 — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:39:07 +0000

And how would you find out if that question has been answered before? That would only work if there was single unified centralised question site. And then we are pretty much back at Google's single search field.

New comment by anc84 in "Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby"

anc84 — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 12:40:17 +0000

> What Google's doing is harder and more nuanced -- they want to accurately capture the world as it exists around you right now.

I challenge that. I do not believe it is true. Google wants to be the go-to directory for spatial queries so that they can display their ads and make tons of money. The quality of the data is irrelevant after a certain level, as long as there is no viable alternative or people just blindly trust Google. Google Maps' data is quantity over quality by a wide margin.

New comment by anc84 in "In the 1820s, a new kind of lens saved ships"

anc84 — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:52:32 +0000

That does not work at all and just confused me. The angles must change on the interrupted parts to follow the general curve of the lens' surface.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fresnel_lens.svg is a very good illustration.

New comment by anc84 in "The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced"

anc84 — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 15:39:42 +0000

I heard they did that in Texas.

New comment by anc84 in "Good Quality DOSBox Video Capture and FFmpeg Options"

anc84 — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:39:31 +0000

I recommend "-tune animation" for content like this.

Also I second izacus' "don't use baseline". I would even use a higher profile, for quality's sake. For bad clients you would always convert content if needed. Unless of course, you are one of those users constrained by them in the first place.

New comment by anc84 in "Lo-fi hiphop beats mixed with live police scanners"

anc84 — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 08:41:39 +0000

And if you don't want depressing violence and sadness, use any other radio like audio. I recommend Apollo 11 radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DejhGSEu8wk

New comment by anc84 in "Removing duplicate lines from files keeping the original order with Awk"

anc84 — Wed, 29 May 2019 11:04:30 +0000

That does not make any sense. If it is memory intensive depends on awk, not on the person being familiar with it.

Sois it memory intensive or not?

New comment by anc84 in "When we say “Everest is crowded,” this is what we mean"

anc84 — Fri, 24 May 2019 07:41:58 +0000

If you even have to use such rhetoric, at least get it right. These people were invited by the US company Jeunesse Global. Says so in your link.

New comment by anc84 in "Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms"

anc84 — Thu, 23 May 2019 08:34:47 +0000

Done!

New comment by anc84 in "Olive: A free non-linear video editor"

anc84 — Wed, 22 May 2019 19:34:38 +0000

What does it make "professional"? I would expect zero crashes from that, as compared to any other "non-professional" open-source video editor I used so far.

New comment by anc84 in "Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms"

anc84 — Fri, 17 May 2019 12:31:52 +0000

Just today I thought how much I appreciate that exact setup and that I should donate considerable money to the project.

So hereby I pledge that I will send 100 dollars this weekend. This is not even 2 dollars per months that this project provided me with a perfect portable media player setup.

Who's with me?

New comment by anc84 in "I made a website about the jacaranda trees of Maui, Hawaii"

anc84 — Wed, 15 May 2019 09:25:37 +0000

OP's history https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cookingoils seems like a SEO(?) spammer to me.

New comment by anc84 in "Rückzugsorte – Map of areas in Berlin which are the furthest away from a street"

anc84 — Tue, 14 May 2019 13:30:14 +0000

It's a cheap and hand-wavy, yet titled impressively piece made by an artist so don't expect anything too sophisticated ;)