executesorder66 (u/executesorder66)

executesorder66 commented on Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? · Posted by u/neonate

namlem · 3 months ago

It would be incredible for LLMs. Searching it, using it as training data, etc. Would probably have to be done in Russia or some other country that doesn't respect international copyright though.

executesorder66 · 3 months ago

> or some other country that doesn't respect international copyright though.

Like the US? OpenAI et al. don't give a shit.

executesorder66 commented on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo github.com/mozilla-firefo... · Posted by u/thefilmore

eru · 3 months ago

Well, you misunderstood / mis-guessed what celestial sphere means. Interestingly enough, your mis-understanding also sort-of works.

executesorder66 · 3 months ago

Well that was a whole other topic. And luckily it links to a page that explains the whole topic of what a "celestial sphere" is. Going to the page, I see I was indeed wrong about what it was, but now I see it is an abstract sphere, with a radius that can be whatever size you want, and that is centered on the Earth, or on the observer.

Once again, not so difficult to figure out even if you have no experience in the specific technical field of a Wikipedia article. So I have no idea what /u/casenmgreen's problem is.

executesorder66 commented on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo github.com/mozilla-firefo... · Posted by u/thefilmore

casenmgreen · 3 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declination

"In astronomy, declination (abbreviated dec; symbol δ) is one of the two angles that locate a point on the celestial sphere in the equatorial coordinate system, the other being hour angle. The declination angle is measured north (positive) or south (negative) of the celestial equator, along the hour circle passing through the point in question."

Anyone who doesn't know what declination is, know from reading the introductory paragraph of this scientific Wikipedia article?

Anyone? no? :-)

I rest my case, m'lud.

executesorder66 · 3 months ago

I've never heard of it before, and it makes perfect sense what it is from that intro.

On a celestial sphere (planet, star, etc) the declination angle (being 0 is at the equator, being 90 degrees is the north pole of the sphere, being -90 degrees, is at the south pole).

You also need another angle known as the "hour angle" to locate a point on the sphere. It doesn't explain what that is, but as can be seen on Wikipedia, you can easily click on that word to go to the entire page that explains what it is.

What don't you understand?

executesorder66 commented on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo github.com/mozilla-firefo... · Posted by u/thefilmore

prepend · 3 months ago

Maybe. Maybe not. If I was the person responsible for the code, I wouldn’t want to gamble on them becoming good enough for me to use.

executesorder66 · 3 months ago

Yeah, it's not like they care about improving the state of the open source ecosystem anyway.

executesorder66 commented on Defold: cross-platform game engine defold.com... · Posted by u/xd

all2 · 4 months ago

>> You can make proprietary changes to the engine without releasing them (unlike GPL). > Why is that a good thing?

Game dev at the top tiers is an arms race. Being able to do proprietary things is attractive to big players.

>> and they make some assurances that there won't be a bait-and-switch.

> If it was licensed under a GPL license you wouldn't need to rely on "some assurances"

Multiple projects have gone closed-source from open source. Assurances are a nice thing to have (but certainly no guarantee).

executesorder66 · 4 months ago

> Game dev at the top tiers is an arms race. Being able to do proprietary things is attractive to big players.

Yeah, so I don't see how helping out the big players and not everyone else is a good thing.

>Multiple projects have gone closed-source from open source. Assurances are a nice thing to have (but certainly no guarantee).

Yeah but the open source ones ARE guaranteed. Even if they later become closed source, the code up till that point will remain open source forever. So it is guaranteed whereas "some assurances" mean nothing.

executesorder66 commented on Defold: cross-platform game engine defold.com... · Posted by u/xd

evv · 4 months ago

They have gone with an interesting licensing solution here. I really appreciate that it is labeled as a source-available license instead of Open Source.

https://defold.com/license/

You can make proprietary changes to the engine without releasing them (unlike GPL). You can freely monetize games built with the engine, and they make some assurances that there won't be a bait-and-switch.

And finally, the reason why this is not Apache 2.0- you cannot monetize (forks of) the game engine itself.

This seems fair and carefully considered. Kudos to the team!

executesorder66 · 4 months ago

> You can make proprietary changes to the engine without releasing them (unlike GPL).

Why is that a good thing?

>You can freely monetize games built with the engine,

You'd also be able to do the same if it had a GPL license

>and they make some assurances that there won't be a bait-and-switch.

If it was licensed under a GPL license you wouldn't need to rely on "some assurances"

executesorder66 commented on The narrowest escalator in New York City doobybrain.com/blog/the-n... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

whall6 · 5 months ago

There’s one almost as narrow in downtown Houston.

executesorder66 · 5 months ago

TFA doesn't provide any measurements, so how did you compare them?

executesorder66 commented on Better typography with text-wrap pretty webkit.org/blog/16547/bet... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

velcrovan · 5 months ago

It wasn't created by WebKit. WebKit is announcing (at last) support for it.

executesorder66 · 5 months ago

Now it makes much more sense.

I realize I misread "One solution is text-wrap:pretty" as "OUr solution is text-wrap:pretty". Combined with the fact that this was on the webkit blog.

Thanks.

executesorder66 commented on Better typography with text-wrap pretty webkit.org/blog/16547/bet... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

executesorder66 · 5 months ago

I'm confused, this was created by Webkit, but is currently only available on Chromium based browsers according to : https://caniuse.com/?search=text-wrap%20pretty

How did that happen?