A cross between a text MUD and an early 2k browser based RPG. Hoping to incorporate many advanced MMO and LitRPG based features plus complex economic, npc, guild, quest, and crafting mechanics. It’s more of a passion project/hobby with no expectation of adoption. It has been very fun to build.
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berdon commented on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/rvz
That military apparatus is sworn to uphold the Constitution, not support the current president.
From what I have been told (specific to the US army):
- Enlisted swear oaths to the constitution and President
- Officers swear an oath to the constitution
I’ve only been told this, I don’t claim to know.
berdon commented on Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Shameless plug for my JSON/5 parser written in zig: https://github.com/berdon/zig-json
There is a std json library as well but the aesthetics weren’t great imo.
The specs are quite pleasant to implement.
Two years with Kagi, sometimes go months without using Google. Stay pure.
Kagi plus a few good LLMs (I use local ones via ollama because I do that, and also Claude sometimes) gives you research capabilities that are as good as the pre-enshittification Internet and often better. I use LLMs like brainstorming partners and research assistants and then use Kagi to search for real data to verify results and make sure the LLMs aren't hallucinating.
Going back to Google I'm sometimes shocked at how absolute trash it is. I'm sure they're maximizing their internal KPIs.
Of course I know the real problem with Google is that I'm not the customer.
When I accidentally use Google I’m instantly surprised and delirious. The difference in both search quality and advertisements is astounding.
Been using Kagi since its beta and I’ve never used Google intentionally since.
Mirroring other peoples thoughts.
It took me close to 20 years to finally shed the guilt of unfinished software projects.
Side projects can just be about having "fun". Just as going for a walk, or reading a book, listening to music, etc can just be done for fun. I don't have to finish any of these things. I don't have to finish side projects. Fun things don't have to be useful, purposeful, practical, or anything but they should be fun.
berdon commented on How Google Is Killing Bloggers and Small Publishers – and Why justapack.com/how-google-... · Posted by u/billybuckwheat
Last I saw Kagi was highly dependent on Google for their search results and seemed much more interested in LLMs and other side features than in replacing that core part of their search stack.
I believe Kagi uses most major search indexes as well as its own.
Additionally, I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s more interested in LLMs than focusing on search. I think it’s fair to say they’re interested in ensuring they’re offering a better, non ad-based search replacement.
Disclaimer: Not affiliated with Kagi in any way, just a long time happy user.
berdon commented on Playstation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race bloomberg.com/news/newsle... · Posted by u/ibobev
When was the last time someone came out with a new pen and paper table top role playing game? It's been a while. We're into reruns.
Graphics are comparatively an easy problem to ideas that are new.
Matt Colville and MCDM are working on Draw Steel and didn’t Critical Role release a few?
berdon commented on Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city · Posted by u/sirobg
- Thank you very much!
- Damn, didn't know that. I just had the feedback that Paris, Tennessee wasn't working already.
Today I'm using nominatim from openstreetmap to fetch cities data.
This request: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&c...
I guess I'll have to change this for a less restrictive search. I wanted a city and country to have a nice and simple URL though. If you have any suggestion, please do share it!
- Every time I speak with people about HN, I get something along the line: "They criticize everything, and very easily".
In the US you could just use “zipcode-us”. It’s not ideal though. Otherwise just “city-stateabbr-us” - e.g. “SiouxFalls-SD-US”
berdon commented on Testing sync at Dropbox (2020) dropbox.tech/infrastructu... · Posted by u/sh_tomer
I was an early adopter at dropbox, got all my friends/family/etc on it. Maxed out the free affiliate space when I added my .edu email to it for a grand total of 16.125GB, technically over the max, but, whatever I guess.
I eventually got into a 'make decisions' IT roll, and, Dropbox was an easy choice, did everything we needed it to, price was fair, and we used it for years. Everyone had access to the webUI that needed it, and, everyone else had access to an SMB share where dropbox actually ran. All was good until suddenly nothing would sync. Tech support was useless for about a month until I finally got a call with some kind of higher level tech, who told me that what we were doing wouldn't work, and never should have worked. Mind you, we'd been doing this for years, and stuck with dropbox because of it.
So I dropped them like a bad habit and never looked back. Our portal system had half-ass but usable remote file sharing, so, we used that while we rolled our own system. Was a rocky 6 months, but, now, we have extremely tight, easy, automated, simple to manage file sharing. So really I should thank them for the impetus, and I would if they weren't so abundantly unhelpful.
Personally, well, my personal account continued to slowly lose features over time, and it finally got to the point where the messaging from them was "Pay or Leave", so, I left and did my own thing, which is a combo of Syncthing and Nextcloud that works extremely well, and I own 100% of my data.
So dropbox might have some glitz, but I wouldn't touch it with a 10ft poll, they're too big for their britches, and have been for awhile, and worse, they seem to want you to believe that file synchronization is hard, cloud storage is hard, and file sharing is hard. None of that is true anymore, so what you're buying is a name and a logo with them with a free side of smoke blown up your ass.
No thanks, I'm allergic.
Yep, dropbox was a great company until it wasn't.
I made their first "unofficial" android client and they "allowed" it for a year or so up until they wanted to sue the pants off me. (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27036593)