llama_drama (u/llama_drama)

llama_drama commented on Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k gamesindustry.biz/japanes... · Posted by u/zdw

gjadi · 3 months ago

Maybe not for the full japanese characters set, but for an existing game, they could do it for the subset of characters they are using.

llama_drama · 3 months ago

I don't think that's practical, because the subset would still be quite large. I did a quick analysis of the Factorio localiization files and found more than 1200 unique characters

llama_drama commented on Microsoft researchers developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs techcrunch.com/2025/04/16... · Posted by u/libpcap

justanotheratom · a year ago

Super cool. Imagine specialized hardware for running these.

llama_drama · a year ago

I wonder if instructions like VPTERNLOGQ would help speed these up

llama_drama commented on Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development helloanselm.com/writings/... · Posted by u/tipiirai

ripped_britches · a year ago

This is why I fully moved to flutter. Everything, including styling, is just a widget. It’s surprisingly liberating to write boring C# looking code that accurately describes a UI component without inheritance, overrides, style compiling, etc

llama_drama · a year ago

> Everything, including styling, is just a widget.

And that's the downside. What would be just two or three nested <div>s in HTML+CSS turns into several screens of widgets, making navigation and debugging much harder. I once had an issue with extra margin in one of Flutter's built-in widgets and spent hours trying to figure out why - without success.

llama_drama commented on Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII civilization.2k.com/civ-v... · Posted by u/moelf

Cthulhu_ · a year ago

This is always a challenge in video games; the goal of enemy AI is not to beat you, but to make for an interesting and fun challenge.

I'm sure there's a community where they build alternative enemy computer players though. And else there's always online multiplayer, but that's not for everyone.

llama_drama · a year ago

The problem with AI 'cheating' is that it often shifts the challenge away from strategy and more toward figuring out how to outpace artificial handicaps. A well-designed AI should create challenge through better decision-making, not arbitrary advantages.

llama_drama commented on Extracting AI models from mobile apps altayakkus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/smoser

jonpo · a year ago

Well done you seem to have liberated an open model trained on open data for blind and visually impaired people.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.03738

Code: https://github.com/microsoft/banknote-net Training data: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/banknote-net/ref...

model: https://github.com/microsoft/banknote-net/blob/main/models/b...

Kinda easier to download it straight from github.

Its licenced under MIT and CDLA-Permissive-2.0 licenses.

But lets not let that get in the way of hating on AI shall we?

llama_drama · a year ago

If this is exactly the same model then what's the point of encrypting it?

llama_drama commented on Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced) lfgss.com/conversations/4... · Posted by u/buro9

WarOnPrivacy · a year ago

> I managed a pissant VBulletin forum, and ... got me woken up at 2, 3, 4am with phone calls because someone got banned and was upset about it.

I home-hosted a minecraft server and was repeatedly DDoS'd. Don't underestimate disgruntled 10yo's.

llama_drama · a year ago

Facts: my friend ran a Minecraft server, and his hosting provider once told him it was the most DDoS'd server in the entire datacenter.

llama_drama commented on Sanding UI blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024... · Posted by u/roosgit

DustinBrett · a year ago

I've been "sanding" my personal website (https://dustinbrett.com) for nearly 4 years now, and it feels like it could go on forever. Luckily I enjoy working on it.

llama_drama · a year ago

Looks really cool. One thing that I found missing is that I can't use mouse4/mouse5 in explorer. "Sanding" really could go on forever.

llama_drama commented on Show HN: AI Tool Is Now Supporting React, Angular, CSS, Svelte, Vue webcrumbs.org/frontend-ai... · Posted by u/m4rcxs

rcconf · 2 years ago

Should we as developers put more effort into defending our craft? The movements in the artistic space with AI were very widespread and vocal, but we developers seem not to care. I feel like developers in general are a bit more quiet and timid with things and it leads to companies or entire industries taking advantage of us.

Am I the only one who feels like developers really need to be a bit more vocal in defending themselves, their craft, and even their sanity? Are we quiet because of the large salaries in the space?

I suppose the biggest question is how do you defend the craft but at the same time keep the advantage of automation and AI? (is it unions?)

llama_drama · 2 years ago

The best defense is to keep improving as programmers. By constantly refining our skills and learning new technologies we maintain our relevanse and value. AI and automation are tools that can enhance our work, not replace it.

llama_drama commented on So you think you know box shadows? dgerrells.com/blog/how-no... · Posted by u/yohannesk

callwhendone · 2 years ago

M1 Pro here and it ran completely fine.

llama_drama · 2 years ago

That's weird because it completely freezes m2 ipad

llama_drama commented on Polychromatic Pixels compoundsemiconductor.net... · Posted by u/bluehat974

meindnoch · 2 years ago

E.g. mix 480nm cyan and 590nm orange.

llama_drama · 2 years ago

Would this be practical? Or would it be similar to how printers have separate black ink, which is theoretically unnecessary?

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