titaphraz's comments

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools

The main theme is survivorship bias: https://xkcd.com/1827/

There's nothing wrong with telling your story in a book. But telling it as a half truth is just as bad a lying.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor

The inkscape extension link is to a empty page: https://inkscape.org/~MarioVoigt/%E2%98%85imagetracerjs-for-...

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

Are there economists here?

If you could make (non radioactive) gold AND keep it secret, how much (oz?) could you produce a year without substantially affect gold's market value? Asking for a friend.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context

That's very interesting, two comments:

- Automatic black box with autocomplete is a deal breaker for me. It'll drive me mad.

- I only use the mouse in the terminal if I have to (it disturbs and slows my flow!). So anything that helps me NOT using the mouse would be better. At the moment I think it's only text select/copy I use the mouse for. And resize the window. So a magic quick way to select text and copy from the keyboard would be very nice.

But I do realize I'm not the intended audience.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt

> in the Netherlands all kids are basically expected to bring their own cold sandwiches every day

Nothing wrong with that. But there's a massive difference of everyone bringing their sandwiches vs. everyone getting a hot meal but little Johnny having his yanked away because his parents can't afford it.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt

> The thing about witnessing a 7-year-old having their hot lunch tray yanked away and replaced with a cold sandwich

It's bizarre that this happens in America.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Hyper – Outperform React on every metric

That's simple. It's so simple that it uses the word simple 12 times in that simple short text. That must be very simple. Simple as that! I like simple stuff.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US govt. officials, has been hacked

Would handling governmental data make you a high value target?

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Design for 3D-Printing

I highly recommend MangoJelly Solutions's tutorials.

Here's a playlist for FreeCAD 1.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yh_S31R9g&list=PLWuyJLVUNt...

But he has a bunch of other videos.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Show HN: A motherfucking app (does one thing, under 300 LOC)

There is never silence. Software buttons can do two things, a) what they say they do, or if not, b) trigger my rage response right away.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics

Seriously cool! A Linux build on the horizon?

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Show HN: A motherfucking app (does one thing, under 300 LOC)

Yikes! Sorry!

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Show HN: A motherfucking app (does one thing, under 300 LOC)

I click "Download the App" and fuck all happens. How the hell did you fuck up that simple app?

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Show HN: A motherfucking app (does one thing, under 300 LOC)

Lord jesus fucking christ. I love this motherfucking shit.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Effective Go

> Note added January, 2022: This document was written for Go's release in 2009, and has not been updated significantly since. Although it is a good guide to understand how to use the language itself, thanks to the stability of the language, it says little about the libraries and nothing about significant changes to the Go ecosystem since it was written, such as the build system, testing, modules, and polymorphism. There are no plans to update it, ...

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left

> China will definitely blink first

There are other countries in the world apart from US and China. US has effectively alienated most of these with tariffs (save for Russia).

So prepare for a lot of friendly blinking between these countries to gang up on the bully.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction

Apparently it isn't unlimited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42713451

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Read the Obits

It's really hard to find stuff from the "old internet" on google. I know it's there. But instead it feeds me garbage marketing articles that just touch the surface and then try to sell me something.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: University of Waterloo withholds coding contest results over suspected AI use

No. The guy showed up in Bows & Arrows contest with M1 Abrams.

titaphraz | 10 months ago | on: Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing

Pretty much every time I add a new contact to my phone I start to get really strange ads online. I figured it out when I added a guy who's retiring for the army. I started getting retirement ads for soldiers.

Then, I add a guy I loosely know and what do I start seeing? Cocaine rehab ads. I shit you not. It's not hard to argue that this is more than a minor privacy violation.