[jenniferhooley]

How is it useful? I'm no expert in combustion engines, so I'd hesitate to rely on a slop graphic like this to learn about them as I doubt the creator has any idea about them either.

It's like a friend - he was like "Look at this awesome set of categorized interactive animations from claude to learn geometry!".

And like 60% of the animations were technically just wrong. Very pretty though, and the effects were cute... I guess...?

[zuzululu]

why are you so invested in telling ppl in what they are allowed to find useful/entertaining?

especially after admitting you dont nkow anything about combustion engines?

[jenniferhooley]

Where did I say what people are allowed to find entertaining? It would be insane to tell someone what they should find entertaining, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

As for useful, I'm genuinely trying to understand HOW you find something useful that may or may not have zero accuracy to the thing in which it's portending to showcase?

When I don't know about something - I would find someone who's really knowledgeable (or a resource that's vetted), and learn from that obviously. I don't want to learn something completely unverified and made up? That makes no logical sense.

Just like my friend's slop graphics. I imagine learning geometry from that and fundamentally locking in incorrect knowledge when there are many thousands of resources that would teach me correctly - this makes no sense right? Would you prefer to learn from the pretty graphics that are teaching you nothing?

[zuzululu]

> it would be insane to tell someone what they should find entertaining, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

thats what you wrre doing above read it again if it wasnt obvious

[jenniferhooley]

Here I will quote what I said to you - it's super explicit and obvious I'm asking how one would find it useful.

"How is it useful? I'm no expert in combustion engines, so I'd hesitate to rely on a slop graphic like this to learn about them as I doubt the creator has any idea about them either."

Notice I say "How is it useful?" and "I'd hesitate to rely on a slop graphic like this to learn".

I think I'm being very obvious about the fact that I can't understand how one would find it "useful" to "learn". Absolutely NOWHERE did I say you can't be entertained by it.

[zuzululu]

please dont use AI to generate comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html