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New comment by panzerboiler in "Free Normal Map Online Generator"

panzerboiler — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:01:36 +0000

What about the 11 years old https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/ (https://github.com/cpetry/NormalMap-Online)? Are you the same author or did you just steal it and made it worse? Yours looks like a carbon copy that uses 4 times the resources of the original.

New comment by panzerboiler in "Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files"

panzerboiler — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:23:01 +0000

Let me check... 1331 open tabs in Safari on my iPad. Several text files with thousands of bookmarks, with various attempts at grouping. Since I cannot save myself, I save them.

New comment by panzerboiler in "Cascata delle Marmore"

panzerboiler — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:55:28 +0000

Yes, the article is correct, but it misses some nuances. After paying the hefty fee (it has always been free, and it still is if you are resident, at least up to 5 years ago it was) you can walk along a path that gets near the fall, but not inside it. If you pay even more to get a "guide" you can reach an observation point (the tunnel) where you can almost touch the water, and get a free shower in the process. All in the name of "safety" (aka: money) even if as far as I know only one suicide has been registered, in the 80's.

New comment by panzerboiler in "Cascata delle Marmore"

panzerboiler — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:45:53 +0000

I remember swimming in the natural pools carved by the falling water in my youth. Before the opening time of the waterfall, there were alarm sirens to tell the people enjoying the bath to get the hell out of there. Good times. Nowadays it is strictly prohibited to even get close...

New comment by panzerboiler in "Framework Laptop 16"

panzerboiler — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:37:28 +0000

Yes, you can. As long as one finger is "pressing hard-ish" a second finger can command the drag position, but if the finger that is pressing (you do not need to press very hard to trigger a click) is not the one that is also moving, then you will have issues when also scrolling with two other fingers, because at that point you have 4 fingers touching the trackpad, and by default you get anoter gesture registered (probably a zoom out to see all the windows in the workspace, called "expose"). If the fingers touching the trackpad are "only" three, you can drag and scroll, with the window that receives the scroll being the one under the pointer/item being dragged.

New comment by panzerboiler in "Framework Laptop 16"

panzerboiler — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:44:43 +0000

You click and drag with one finger and you are free to scroll with two other fingers during the drag. It is a multitouch gesture. (I don't use "tap to click" since I always found it cumbersome)

New comment by panzerboiler in "Framework Laptop 16"

panzerboiler — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:11:52 +0000

You assume it wrong. You can click-to-drag and scroll simultaneously without issues on an Apple trackpad.

New comment by panzerboiler in "Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes"

panzerboiler — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:46:59 +0000

I probably misunderstood their message. By the way, two quadratic curves can approximate well a tiny subset of what a cubic bezier can represent. The number of quadratics required in the general case can grow quite substantially, very quickly.

New comment by panzerboiler in "Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes"

panzerboiler — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:07:38 +0000

A Bézier curve is not an interpolating spline. It is a parametric curve defined by a set of control points, which the curve typically does not pass through (except the first and last points). Bézier curves exhibit local control (changing a control point influences only a portion of the curve, especially in piecewise Bézier constructions). Interpolating splines may seem more user-friendly at first, since the curve passes exactly through all the given points. However, this can lead to unintuitive behavior: modifying a single point can cause global changes in the curve, including in areas far from the edited point. In some cases, these changes can be drastic, making precise control difficult or impossible. I may be biased by my 20+ years of graphic design work, but I prefer the precision and control given by Bézier curves.

New comment by panzerboiler in "Zig's Lovely Syntax"

panzerboiler — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 05:39:36 +0000

Did you draw inspiration from Swift's multiline string literal, or was it the other way around? The syntax looks very similar, if not identical.

New comment by panzerboiler in "David Lynch has died"

panzerboiler — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:50:34 +0000

Today no cinema.

Network Trees: helping Gaza connect to the Internet

panzerboiler — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 05:43:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/02/network-trees-this-italian-ngo-helps-keep-gaza-connected-to-the-internet-amid-war

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40872582

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by panzerboiler in "Flow Charts with CSS Anchor Positioning"

panzerboiler — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:37:01 +0000

> This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.

New comment by panzerboiler in "Ask HN: How much marijuana do you smoke/eat/vape?"

panzerboiler — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:21:18 +0000

Around 2 grams a day, smoked.

David Lynch Theater Presents: Chrystabell and David Lynch – Sublime Eternal Love [video]

panzerboiler — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:13:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1bm78MRPiw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40589974

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by panzerboiler in "Please support "skip to main content" on your docs site"

panzerboiler — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 05:38:15 +0000

The default shortcut choosen by apple is option+tab (...). You can change it on the preferences of Safari, but not on iPadOS (or I didn't find the way to do it).

New comment by panzerboiler in "Run VSCode and terminal on any iOS device"

panzerboiler — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:08:43 +0000

I am not interested in the issues you have with those webapps. I am asking what are the bugs of Safari's implementation of the Clipboard API, since in my experience there are none (except maybe https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222262 if you want to consider it a bug and not a different interpretation of the specs).

New comment by panzerboiler in "Run VSCode and terminal on any iOS device"

panzerboiler — Tue, 28 May 2024 12:12:21 +0000

Can you describe the issue with copy/pasting in Safari? What is not supported exactly?

New comment by panzerboiler in "Old dogs, new CSS tricks"

panzerboiler — Mon, 27 May 2024 04:36:32 +0000

On my 2012 macbookpro I am forced to use chrome or orion since safari is stuck on 15.X. On my 2015 iMac I can still use the current version of safari, but probably not safari 18 when it will come out. So, for now, the cut-off is 10 years. Pretty good I would say.

New comment by panzerboiler in "Looking Glass debuts 16-inch OLED and 32-inch 'holographic' spatial displays"

panzerboiler — Sun, 26 May 2024 14:17:37 +0000

People of color are the majority of the world population, and you are just a poor racist.