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victorclf

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My website: victorclf.com

Looking for work :)

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victorclf··on Ask HN: Which coordinate system is better for a beginners programming language?
It's easier to translate math concepts with origin at bottom left. I remember having a hard time translating raycasting code to top left coordinates of pygame because it messed with the signs of sin, cos and tan.

Some libraries like to use top left coordinates because they are conceptually easier for stuff such as displaying rows of text and we are used to top to bottom ordering of things.

victorclf··on Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
Oh, I hope some of the stories here will motivate you to seek help.
victorclf··on Childhood antibiotics as a risk factor for Crohn's disease: Cohort study
I research every prescribed treatment side effects after levofloxacin gave me bilateral achilles tendinitis. In my experience, potential side effects and complications from treatments are never discussed with patients.

I also had the displeasure of suffering from the mental side effects of the antiallergic montelukast, which again were not even mentioned by the doctor despite the serious FDA warning.

victorclf··on FDA suspends Juul ban as company appeals
Drugs and vaccines must have sufficient evidence that they are safe before being released to the public. If you want to know more about how they go about doing this, just read some of those studies.
victorclf··on Show HN: A short dystopian game I build last weekend
*SPOILERS*

Very funny minigame! Given the responses here, it would be nice to have a "browse as anonymous" button with another ending. Or perhaps an intro screen before the account creation to frame the account creation as part of the game.

But abcabc666 is a badnamer and his advice should likely be ignored.

victorclf··on Ask HN: I'm disabled and out of money. Now what?
Have you done a sleep study to check for sleep apnea?
victorclf··on “The joy of sharing has been driven from me“
Seems he just found out how most people in the Internet don't produce anything worthwhile and yet feel entitled to bash everyone's else hard work.
victorclf··on Return to Monkey Island trailer [video]
I think the YouTube comments are a perfect example of why great old games don't often get sequels. Fans will complain about everything that's slightly different from the original games.
victorclf··on I cut GTA Online loading times (2021)
I wonder if this code with poor time complexity was written by the same people who are always complaining about leetcode being useless.
victorclf··on Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity (2018)
Fasting Nofap Keto Cold showers ...

"We go out of our course to make ourselves uncomfortable; the cup of life is not bitter enough to our palate, and we distill superfluous poison to put into it, or conjure up hideous things to frighten ourselves at, which would never exist if we did not make them."

victorclf··on Is everything falling apart?
That daily "the end is near" post. It would be interesting if we could find a way to curb the negative news bias at least here.
victorclf··on Ask HN: Which small video editor do you use?
Openshot. FOSS with GPL v3 license. Really simple to use. You add video tracks, audio tracks, picture, text and them mix them together. Don't think it runs on the browser though.
victorclf··on Why didn't our ancient ancestors get cavities?
Weston A Price is an infamous quack. I'm disappointed to see he mentioned positively here.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/sbm-weston-prices-appalling...

victorclf··on Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won't let writers leave until they are finished
Very refreshing to see this innovative idea after all the daily politics/apocalyptic news here.
victorclf··on Tibia (1997) is one of the earliest and longest-running MMORPGs
Wow! This brings back a lot of memories. Played a ton of Graal Online between 1999-2001. I remember the Graal 2001 and Graal 3D servers being marketed as the next big thing. Loved the playerworlds (n-pulse, unholy nation, bravo, delteria, etc). Not only was the game free but it ran great on bad dial-up and slow PCs.

I had my first coding experiences with Graal Online trying to make maps for it. I wanted to become a LAT (level administrator) for one of the playerworlds. The level editor was very easy to use and so was the game scripting language. It was great for creative people.

The game had a LOT of player made content. There were so many different heads, bodies, swords, maps, items, etc. When you opened the game folder, you could all the skins your game client had downloaded from other players.

There was also a local version of the Graal classic server which you could play split screen with someone. The map was huge and had all sorts of things. Good times just trying to explore it all!

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