One fictional example of what I mean: lets say I draw someone holding a purse. That would be a shape of their torso, with the purse overlaid. I could move those independently, and moving the purse would show the torso underneath.

However, using a png to svg, it would often just outline everything. So it's not a torso shape with a purse in front. It's a purse with a torso cut out around it, maybe even merged together as lots of individual shapes. If I were to delete the shapes making up the purse, it could be quite random what was left. Maybe some of the shapes did a double duty. Maybe it's a thousand small squares to make the purse. Maybe there is just a hole behind the purse etc.

So in the latter case, the svg isn't made up of logical elements, it's just made up of shape after shape after shape to mimic the pixels. But it's not usable as vector.

I think people have their own axis they divide this on. So none of us are correct. For some it's also a vanity thing, where entrepreneur or startup sounds better.

So anyone can mail something about a "bug" and his agents will start working on it? How does he even keep that safe? "Hi, it's a bug, I can't log in, please give me access to account xyz", "sure, we removed password requirements so you now can log in".

Original, google translated: https://www-aftonbladet-se.translate.goog/nojesbladet/a/31oE...

From my earlier submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084941

But on the other hand, I also wonder if those that get pumped out now, also uses up all the oxygen in the room for the really great ones.

Like, someone shoddily slaps together one for concept X. It's not great, has some misunderstandings, and what it visualizes is mostly random and not the vision of the maker. But it goes semi-viral, and beat everyone else to the punch. So it ruins someone else's motivation to do it properly.

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Whether having zero offset or not isn't what matter in the end, but the trail. And you can achieve that with little offset as long as the fork is angled.

(so the grandparent is a bit right in their critique, but not for the reason stated)

But even with zero offset, there is another thing in play. The steering axis is at an angle, a fork never points straight down. So even with zero offset, you still get a trail, which is the difference between the contact point of the wheel at the ground, and where the steering axis meets the ground. This trail is really what matters in the end, not how you get there.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometr...

But even better, play with (ctrl+f) "trail" in this simulation: https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/

There you see the point. Even with zero offset, there is still a trail.

People drawing bikes, scroll down to see they having made renders of all the drawings. Hilarious

Aka lost sales.

I would've liked to understand more about why it works the way it does, how it achieved the correct feel etc, not just regurgitate whatever the code does.

I would've liked to know more about how the author achieved what they did, not a blog post anyone with an llm could've written.