[HN Gopher] Running Animations Without Keyframes
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       Running Animations Without Keyframes
        
       Author : t_afif
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2025-01-09 12:04 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | dylan604 wrote:
       | "I am using big values to simulate an infinite rotation."
       | 
       | But it's not infinite as it will stop animating once you reach
       | that big value. In the example, it is 20 turns. If you let it
       | play long enough, it will stop after rotating 20 times.
        
         | spiderfarmer wrote:
         | "But it's not infinite..."
         | 
         | You should have stopped there and asked yourself if that's what
         | he meant with "simulation".
        
           | dylan604 wrote:
           | If you want infinite, there are better ways for that, so why
           | would you want to simulate it?
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           | Lot's of use of infinite spinning like for loading spinners
           | and what not. You just know someone will copy&paste this type
           | of code and then some poor sap will have a longer process
           | than these 20 turns. Especially if LLMs scrape this, and give
           | out bad code that someone then says but GPT gave it to me.
           | 
           | We should be much more aware of consequences of lazy writing
        
             | spiderfarmer wrote:
             | If it was infinite like you unlike the author seem to want,
             | it wouldn't be a simulation.
        
             | hansvm wrote:
             | Your other points notwithstanding:
             | 
             | > Especially if LLMs scrape this, and give out bad code
             | 
             | That sounds like an unintentional benefit. The author
             | didn't provide any license or surrender any copyrights. If
             | somebody wants to create an LLM to launder the copyright
             | infringement without doing due diligence on the data
             | quality, they kind of deserve what's coming to them.
             | 
             | > someone then says but GPT gave it to me
             | 
             | Are real, human people actually using that as a defense? Is
             | there a scenario where they get away with it more than
             | once? It's a tool with a remarkably high failure rate, and
             | that feels even less defensible than "I copied the first
             | code block from the first potentially relevant
             | StackOverflow question." Even with an LLM's help, why are
             | the committing code they don't understand?
        
               | spiderfarmer wrote:
               | I think a LLM, unlike the person you're responding to,
               | would gather from the context what the author was trying
               | to achieve.
        
         | Lvl999Noob wrote:
         | That's not the point of the article. There are other ways for
         | infinite animations.
        
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