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New comment by jakelazaroff in "Every Frame Perfect"

jakelazaroff — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:12:51 +0000

No one is defending outright buggy animations. OP is just saying the idea that every frame should make logical sense on its own ignores how animation actually works (and they're correct).

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Every Frame Perfect"

jakelazaroff — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:46:20 +0000

We do this in cartoons as well. Check out this Spider-Verse animator breaking down a shot of Gwen drumming. [1] If you look at individual frames, there are all sorts of details that make no logical sense. In one frame, she actually has three hands! But it looks great if you see it in motion.

[1] https://xcancel.com/hf_rosa/status/1089675426312552449

New comment by jakelazaroff in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

jakelazaroff — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:29:36 +0000

Perhaps the Los Angeles DA stopped focusing on low-level crimes so he could focus on the gangs running rampant within the LAPD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_Count...

New comment by jakelazaroff in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

jakelazaroff — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:24:52 +0000

Let's say you're an evil capitalist bastard. How would you capture that value?

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?"

jakelazaroff — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:04:52 +0000

They have a gazillion such blocks today. If they still have a gazillion such blocks in a year, sure. But presumably the plan is to replace them with safe Rust.

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Bun has been converted to rust. Now what?"

jakelazaroff — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:55:46 +0000

Right, but the point is that you now have an explicit todo list of blocks to fix. You can trivially enumerate all sources of unsafety, and when a grep for unsafe blocks turns up empty you know your codebase is memory safe. When could you say the same about your Zig or C/C++ codebase?

I'm writing this as someone who doesn't even really like Rust; I'd probably prefer to write Zig! But those unsafe blocks definitely buy you something.

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?"

jakelazaroff — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:40:55 +0000

For one, you now know exactly where the memory unsafe code is, rather than a cloud of suspicion hanging over every line of the codebase.

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs"

jakelazaroff — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:10:28 +0000

Your advice to "avoid aria tags" would make that a self-fulfilling prophecy. The ways to make it happen:

1. A robust set of web primitives that are accessible by default, and

2. A government that will actually enforce laws (which already exist!) requiring websites to be accessible

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs"

jakelazaroff — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:41:11 +0000

> Why? It's the right tool for the job.

No, it's not. Why should disabled users be forced to indirectly interact with a webpage via a non-deterministic agent, rather than directly interact with one that's specifically designed to accommodate them?

New comment by jakelazaroff in "A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide"

jakelazaroff — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:25:02 +0000

In the US, there are around 40k deaths from motor vehicle crashes per year [1]. Who do you think is behind the wheel for most of those?

The point of these cameras is not to "catch" people speeding or running red lights, but to prevent them from doing it in the first place; the idea is that normal law abiding drivers are more likely to drive carefully if they are likely to be fined for their mistakes. Optimizing for the 90% case would mean supporting their rollout.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

New comment by jakelazaroff in "A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide"

jakelazaroff — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:00:35 +0000

This would be terrible — as written, the bill would also ban red light and speeding cameras. These are some of our most effective tools for traffic law enforcement; for instance, speeding cameras in NYC resulted in a 94% (!!!) reduction in speeding where they're installed [1].

I want to see Flock banned as much as the next person, but we can't throw the baby out with the bathwater here.

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2025/nyc-dot-speed-camer...

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

jakelazaroff — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:57:34 +0000

In "programmatic" code, declaring two classes with the same name in the same namespace is generally either some sort of syntax error or one will "shadow" the other; it doesn't just silently merge the behavior of both classes.

New comment by jakelazaroff in "The people writing AI alignment policy are not whose work is being replaced"

jakelazaroff — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:41:32 +0000

The author isn't taking an individual quote and extrapolating to a group/ethos, he's observing a group/ethos and choosing a broadly representative quote therefrom.

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Out with the JavaScript, in with the HTML"

jakelazaroff — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:25:44 +0000

Compared to all the new icon images on the page, that request for the new HTML source is probably negligible.

With the previous implementation, all users would get the progressive enhancement… except non-JS users :) https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Out with the JavaScript, in with the HTML"

jakelazaroff — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:27:13 +0000

You would have needed the round-trip network request anyway to get the new images, no?

The lack of Firefox support isn't a big deal because this is a progressive enhancement. Firefox users will still be able to switch icon sizes; they just won't see the fancy transition.

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents"

jakelazaroff — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:44:15 +0000

I don't think you need to go that deep. This technology is literally dehumanizing: it's replacing individual human aspects of someone's voice with a computer-generated facsimile.

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Tangled – We need a federation of forges"

jakelazaroff — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:19:08 +0000

jujutsu is a different version control system: https://www.jj-vcs.dev/

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)"

jakelazaroff — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:07:43 +0000

> Investigators found software, pornography and articles about making drugs and explosives on the machines.

I mean… yes, obviously, if you look on a computer you're gonna find software.

New comment by jakelazaroff in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

jakelazaroff — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:04:32 +0000

Anthropic changing their terms is fine. You taking your money elsewhere is also fine. What's the issue here?

New comment by jakelazaroff in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

jakelazaroff — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:00:09 +0000

Sure, there isn't a silver bullet that magically prevents all possible harm while also imposing no burden or inconvenience. The basis of my view is that the non-existence of such a framework is a terrible reason to have no protective framework at all.