Sounds like great news. Users will eventually figure out other search engines produce more relevant results and Google's dominance will fade. Hopefully they never "fix" it.
Readit Newsgmiller123456 commented on Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google alanwsmith.com/en/37/wa/j... · Posted by u/bobbiechen
gmiller123456 commented on Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines ycombinator.com/companies... · Posted by u/alphabetatango
We had a neighbor that put loops of wire under a 600kV line and got enough power to run a water pump for cows. The square law makes that kind of thing pretty low-return.
The Mythbusters also tried it in the "Free Energy" episode. They pretty much said extracting any useful amount of energy is not worth the effort.
gmiller123456 commented on CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022) idiallo.com/blog/learn-cs... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Okay; would you like it to change to inline-block or block or grid?
Width and height are meaningless for inline elements, but automatically changing the display would be more confusing, not less.
> Width and height are meaningless for inline elements
Really not sure what you're trying to get at there, obviously any element that displays will have a width and height. Maybe you meant a user specified width/height, but the entire point of my post is an inline-block is an inline element with a specifiable width and height. And we've always had the IMG tag, which is also an inline element with a specifiable width and height. The obvious and intuitive choice would have been to not put artificial limits on inline elements.
gmiller123456 commented on CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022) idiallo.com/blog/learn-cs... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
It's because an inline element, like applying italics to text, are expected to behave a certain way. Additionally, it may be inheriting some properties from that cascade thing, and you really don't want it to behave like anything other than an inline element unless you explicity want it to not behave like that.
It's like wondering why this grape doesn't taste like fried catfish. They're both food. Why don't they taste the same?
What ever that "certain way" it's supposed to act, someone obviously wants it to act different if they set a height and width. Having to redefine the display time is a needless extra step that the user has to "just know" when the intention could easily be inferred.
gmiller123456 commented on CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022) idiallo.com/blog/learn-cs... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
No, we don't learn CSS because it sucks. I have given up on the idea that I will ever be able to remember all of the rules and exceptions.
Just one example most people already know. If I set a height or width on an inline element, it's ignored. So, obviously there is a limitation in the renderer that can't do it. But wait, make it inline-block and suddenly it works! So why the f*k didn't it just honor the width and height to begin with? It's quite literally a rule for the sake of having a rule.
I don't doubt there is some deep dark reason for why it is the way it is, like optimizations, or backwards compatability, but it doesn't matter to the end user. It's an implementation detail they shouldn't have to bother with.
gmiller123456 commented on One Formula That Demystifies 3D Graphics youtube.com/watch?v=qjWkN... · Posted by u/msephton
I always found it odd that perspective had to be "discovered" by artists, but a little digging online turned up this interesting, detailed look at its history.
https://www.essentialvermeer.com/technique/perspective/histo...
It's a lot less about being discovered, or invented, and a lot more about the idea of using it at all. The Renaissance was a massive change in culture. Before that, art was a tool used in rituals or storytelling rather than something to be enjoyed on its own. There was more emphasis on reproducing things as they actually were than how they looked from a particular vantage point.
gmiller123456 commented on OpenSCAD is kinda neat nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/... · Posted by u/c0nsumer
I really wish OpenSCAD had objects, so you could use something like box1.width rather than having to declare variables for such things.
I tried using Build123d, a Python library that lets you use all of the features of Python. And it's supposed to allow specifically things like box1.width, but it's always 0. Lots of other issues/bugs too, and severely lacking in ddocumentation.Maybe it'll get there some day.
gmiller123456 commented on OpenSCAD is kinda neat nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/... · Posted by u/c0nsumer
Going back centuries piqued my interest, but I assume you just meant decades?
Not sure about SDFs, but ray casting/tracing goes back a long way being used to design sundials thousands of years ago. A method of ray casting was published in the 1600s to show how to trace out the outline of the Moon on the Earth during a solar eclipse.
gmiller123456 commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
Don't forget the CloudStrike outage: One company had a bug that brought down almost everything. Who would have thought there are so many single points of failure across the entire Internet.
Lots of people seem to think Trump is some sort of king or going outside the law.
Fact is he was democratically elected and working within the system of checks and balances established by our founders.
Congress can stop him from doing things but the democratically elected congress allows him to continue. So they agree with his actions and are doing their job. Checked and balanced.
The courts can stop him and indeed have in several cases. Often times higher courts over rule those lower ones but not always. Majority of the time they eventually end up siding with the executive branch though. So courts are doing their job. Checked and balanced.
Every check and balance is working its just not making decisions the left agrees with. This is indeed what democracy looks like though.
Mid terms are coming up and the people will once again have a chance to voice their opinion.
Note: I have been hit by the HN "posting to fast" limit so I can't respond.
Too bad you're getting down voted because you're correct that congress is where the problem is. They could stop most of what he's doing, but choose not to.
But "Every check and balance is working" is clearly wrong.