simooooo (u/simooooo)

simooooo commented on Making Minecraft Spherical bowerbyte.com/posts/block... · Posted by u/iamwil

mrtracy · 6 days ago

Wonderful write-up of attempting to tackle this problem. I believe there must be a significant number of people who have played both Minecraft and Super Mario Galaxy, and had something like this sequence of thoughts - although you have followed it all the way to an actual demonstration, and written up your thoughts along the way so clearly.

The vertical distortion is the biggest issue IMO, there are a few reasonably satisfying ways to approach the horizontal tiling of each “shell”. For example, you can make your world a donut instead of a sphere, and now you have a perfect grid at each level! Of course, this introduces a level of distortion between the interior and exterior, so you also twist the donut once, and now you’ve both solved your distortion problem and invented the stellarator fusion device.

simooooo · 6 days ago

There are shader packs for actual Minecraft that make the world spherical, it’s a nice addition

simooooo commented on Claude for Chrome anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/davidbarker

endymion-light · 11 days ago

All of this agent navigation of browsers feels like a self-made issue.

Take the flight booking as an example? Why has flight booking become so obsfucated and annoying that people want an agent booking for them?

Why can't that agent just query an API to get the best available information?

It's just turtles all the way down at this point, when a user wants more fine grained interaction, the agent can design a frontend to visualise the information in a more structured way, then when that inevitably becomes obsfucated due to travel companies noticing a 0.1% reduction in revenue, we need to build another agent on-top of the agent to help further simplify down the information.

Agents upon agents upon agents

simooooo · 11 days ago

RSS made getting the content too easy, no room to show ads!

simooooo commented on The GitHub website is slow on Safari github.com/orgs/community... · Posted by u/talboren

Roark66 · 11 days ago

We used to use bitbucket Web hooks that used to trigger Jenkins jobs. This was almost instant. Now after migrating to GH actions it can take minutes before jobs start on push for example...

simooooo · 11 days ago

How big are these jobs? I’ve never seen an action take more than 15s to start

simooooo commented on How to Firefox kau.sh/blog/how-to-firefo... · Posted by u/Vinnl

eclecticfrank · 2 months ago

Lots of Firefox hate here, but little discussion about the articles kicker, which is the exclusion of uBlock Origin from Chrome.

I hope this will mean that in the long run Firefox (and other secondary browsers) will gain more users again. For me, Firefox is a solid piece of software. Works well in strict privacy mode, with uBlock Origin and Multi-Account Containers.

simooooo · 2 months ago

That’s the main reason for me using Firefox and uninstalling Chrome

simooooo commented on Impact of PCIe 5.0 Bandwidth on GPU Content Creation and LLM Performance pugetsystems.com/labs/art... · Posted by u/zdw

dweekly · 2 months ago

Fascinating and (to me) unintuitive result that these cards don't seem bandwidth constrained at PCI 4x16; the update to PCI 5x16 doesn't seem like it has any measurable impact on performance, allowing a PCI 5x8 configuration that "saves" some of your lanes at seemingly no penalty.

I wonder if we will have to wait another generation of cards (and apps) to make full use of a PCI 5x16 connection?

simooooo · 2 months ago

If you can use bifurcation I guess there’s scope to fully utilise it

simooooo commented on Hyperscaling Have I Been Pwned with Cloudflare Workers and Caching troyhunt.com/closer-to-th... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

mschuster91 · 5 months ago

> The response from each search was coming back so quickly that the user wasn’t sure if it was legitimately checking subsequent addresses they entered or if there was a glitch.

That's sad - and far too common. We're so conditioned to web sites and even apps being unusably slow and plagued by latency thanks to Electron and multi-megabyte JS bundle slop that the exception, software that is actually responsive and slim, is being judged as abnormal instead of an ideal to follow...

simooooo · 5 months ago

It’s legitimately confusing when you see a blink in the corner of your eye and don’t realise something has updated. Or miss it altogether.

It’s a UI problem in how to make it update immediately but also have an indication that it’s updated.

simooooo commented on Attacking My Landlord's Boiler blog.videah.net/attacking... · Posted by u/ericvolp12

kleiba · 5 months ago

Which raises the question whether the OP now unknowingly also controls the heater in the apartment next to his...

simooooo · 5 months ago

Probably not otherwise the original would also potentially run that risk

simooooo commented on Attacking My Landlord's Boiler blog.videah.net/attacking... · Posted by u/ericvolp12

gwbas1c · 5 months ago

> The only thing I'm not happy with is needing to use a very powerful and versatile radio like the HackRF for something as simple as a boiler on/off switch. But I'd rather use something overkill and have it work than spend ages trying to force smaller radios to do my bidding.

All the apartments I lived in had basic thermostats; and I even rewired and replaced one of them.

What was blocking Videah from buying an off-the-shelf thermostat?

simooooo · 5 months ago

I’ve got a similar problem, and plan to replace the thermostat with a Shelly relay which can be toggled by home assistant’s events based on the TRVs in each room.

Then the boiler is basically controlled by the relay.

simooooo commented on Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering quagmirerepair.com/milwau... · Posted by u/jakogut

sidewndr46 · 5 months ago

One of my co workers decided to charge his drone at the office and found this out . Or more accurately the whole office did

simooooo · 5 months ago

The DJI batteries and charger are very clever too. The batteries auto discharge to a safe level after 2 weeks on the shelf

simooooo commented on Pi-hole v6 pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/... · Posted by u/tkuraku

andy_xor_andrew · 7 months ago

I set up pi-hole recently after hearing about it for years. I was kind of surprised at a lack of really basic features (imo):

There isn't any kind of "dry run" or "phantom" mode, where requests are not actually blocked, but appear marked in the log UI as "would be blocked". This is super important because I want to see all the things my home network is doing that would be blocked before I actually hit the big red button. I want to fix up the allow/denylist before going live.

It's also not possible (or not clear) how to have different behavior for different clients. For my "smart tv" which I begrudgingly have to allow on my network occasionally for software updates, I want to treat it with the strictest possible list. But for my phone, I don't want that same list. There's a concept of "groups" so perhaps this is user error on my part, but the UI does not make this clear.

simooooo · 7 months ago

Adguard home seems to be better in every way. Not sure if this is a feature though.