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YoukaiCountry··on To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks
If you could show people 20 years ago what we have now, I have no doubt most people would have considered it AI. We can have actual conversations with our computers, they can now interact with tools they are provided, and act in a reasonably intelligent manner for a great many tasks. 20-year-ago-me would have barely been able to believe it. Is this sort of stance that this "isn't AI" missing the forest for the trees?
YoukaiCountry··on Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison
Oh no, it appears to have received the hug of death?

I am interested in this, I have been using Raspberry Pis for various projects and home servers since the original - Currently one is hosting my navidrome music server, my password manager, and several other local network servers.

I feel the upgrade each time, and then get used to it, as I suppose we tend to do. I still remember the upgrade from 1 to 2 being the most impactful to me personally though. (I think maybe because that's when game emulation became viable?)

YoukaiCountry··on Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
Yeah my inbox looked like 2005 again—nothing but raw, unfiltered chaos.
YoukaiCountry··on AI is a horse (2024)
It's allowed me to tackle so many small projects that never would have seen the light of day, simply for lack of time.
YoukaiCountry··on Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)
Pretty much, in a way they're about having agency in a time when most people had none.
YoukaiCountry··on Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1
I have done both!
YoukaiCountry··on Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1
I absolutely loved The Settlers 1 and 2 as a kid. I feel like they are responsible for a fascination with distribution logistics that carried into adulthood.

By the way, there is also an open source clone of these games that is very well done: https://www.widelands.org/

YoukaiCountry··on Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit
The initial collapse of a star into the black hole would have been the big bang.
YoukaiCountry··on Penguin Tutorial: How Tux was created on a 486 DX2
I’ve tinkered with pixel art now and then but I’m far from skilled. This may sound silly, but the idea of having two windows one zoomed and one unzoomed has never occurred to me, and I feel like it's going to change a lot for me.
YoukaiCountry··on Godotcaml for Godot 4.2
It is first-class support, as far as I know everything is accessible from C#. I developed YKnytt, an open source game, fully in C# and never had the issue of something not working in C# as it did in GDScript.
YoukaiCountry··on Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?
This is honestly the worst part of it to me. It happens quite a lot!
YoukaiCountry··on Godot 3.2
I've made several small games for fun, and used Godot in Ludum Dare: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/meter-maid-dx

GDScript is very comfortable for doing simple game and UI logic, but it can be problematic that there's standard/easy way to import other people's code libraries besides copy-paste jobs.

When trying to do some sort of complex logic or when I really could use an external library for something, I simply go to C# to scratch that itch, and it's been working out pretty well for me. You can even have the two languages inter-operate to a degree within a project.

YoukaiCountry··on Outerra, 3d planetary engine for seamless planet rendering from space to surface
I agree, it's incredible. But be warned, this made me sicker than just about anything I've done with the Oculus Rift.
YoukaiCountry··on Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears
I felt like Alice down the rabbit hole after getting sucked into reading about TempleOS. Quite an unexpected side-effect of reading an article on neural networks!
YoukaiCountry··on Creatures – A simple evolution simulator
Reminds me of the beginnings of an open source version of this: http://speciesgame.com/

Unfortunately Windows only, but it's a pretty neat little evolution simulator.

YoukaiCountry··on Images to Text – Toronto Deep Learning Demos
So far I keep getting the error "Cannot connect to server of image2text models"

Anyone having any luck?

YoukaiCountry··on I Don’t Want to Hire Women
Wouldn't it be far more constructive to discuss and debate the author's views instead of making a passive aggressive attempt to incite an attack on them, simply because you don't agree with them? This sort of attitude can be dangerous.
YoukaiCountry··on GitHub Down with a 503
'Gee, github is down. Is it just me? Better check HN!' Exactly what I just did too.
YoukaiCountry··on Ask HN: Would self-taught programmers be interested in such a book?
Raspberry Pi would certainly be a good way to go. The architecture is cheap and (relatively) simple. Also people won't screw up their home computers, which is what many people would undoubtedly be playing with.
YoukaiCountry··on The next version of DuckDuckGo
One thing that is bothering me is the filling in of search queries when you mouse over them. One wrong move with the mouse if you have a query partially typed in, and you have to backspace all of the automatically filled in stuff. Other than that, I think it's pretty nice.
YoukaiCountry··on Mt. Gox Impact Diminishes as Market Price Dissociates
Please elaborate on the safety mechanisms/services, I'm not aware of them. But if I was poor, there would be nothing to stop me from going to a gas station and spending my last $20 bill on lottery tickets, instead of food.
YoukaiCountry··on Instead of a card, make your valentine a website
My wife has wanted an Android tablet for a while now, so I'm getting her a Nexus 7 and writing a custom Valentine's card app on it for her. I think she'll be surprised!
YoukaiCountry··on What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies
That's what I see, too. I don't think this person deserves the anger. They were trying to be nice.
YoukaiCountry··on I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
I thought the same thing as you. The police he encountered possibly weren't 'used' to the sort of behavior he was exhibiting, and the way he was going about the crime. It's difficult to conclude that it was necessarily tied to his class / color, and I wonder if the author didn't go in with an idea in mind, and simply saw what he wanted.
YoukaiCountry··on Git Cheet Sheet
This is going to be a nice thing to reference. I think I'll print it out. My only complaint is that it doesn't cover the git stash commands. I'll just use a good old fashioned pen to write my own section!
YoukaiCountry··on Inequality and Mass Transit in the Bay Area
That would depend on what person B spent the $10,000 on.
YoukaiCountry··on Kickstarter accepts anti-gravity device campaign
I honestly want to know, who is his target audience? Does all of that talking in circles he does in his description really sound like science to an absolute layperson? More importantly, does he believe what he is saying? We'll probably never get the answers.
YoukaiCountry··on For Zelda-playing daughter, Dad gives Link a sex change
I foresee some confusing conversations with her peers about the series when she is a little older.
YoukaiCountry··on US Territorial Expansion: 200 years mapped with d3/HTML5
In the lower left.
YoukaiCountry··on Why is Linux more popular than BSD?
Years ago when I had to make the choice, it was easy: Linux supported a larger amount of hardware. I didn't really want to spend all of my time writing drivers when I had other work to do.
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