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riidom··on Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow
What is to note here, this is without export templates, these are ~800MB extra (200 per platform, but it seems like you can download only all at once nowadays).

Engines like Unity and UE include those in the primary download already.

riidom··on I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
https://ubports.com
riidom··on Python is not a great language for data science
PyTorch was first only Torch, and in Lua. I didn't follow it too close at the time, but apparently due to popular demand it got redone in Python and voila PyTorch.
riidom··on Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue
While there are options, and pretty much all of them mentioned several times here (going the darkreader route myself) - it is no complex task for someone who has done CSS before, on a site like HN.
riidom··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
Yes happens sometimes to me, Vivaldi.
riidom··on When stick figures fought
Since nobody mentioned it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2085540/Stick_It_to_the_S...
riidom··on Cruz Godar Generative Art Gallery
Nice, each piece (as far as I checked) is interactive and you can fiddle with some parameters. Especially fun with the 3D fractals.

Feels like an entry drug to Mandelbulb3D.

riidom··on Arbitrary code execution in Unity Runtime
How about WebGL? Should I avoid playing unity games in the browser from now on?

I am baffled how they don't mention this at all.

There is https://discussions.unity.com/t/webgl-project-running-only-i... but the response is laughable.

riidom··on NYC apartment building partially collapses, ripping massive hole in high rise
Question: All the black windows without AC - are those empty? Hearing about housing crisis I wonder why that is. Investment, valuable asset (not sure what the term here is)?
riidom··on Basic Dialects, IDEs, and Tutorials
If anybody cares to update the title, should be BASIC in all-uppercase.
riidom··on Cuba's electrical grid collapses in nationwide blackout
about blackouts and other problems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJwe0s5N-g8

(youtuber travels and talks to people, 20min)

should work with auto-translated subtitles

riidom··on Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads
I have Dark Reader. I think it wasn't working properly for me. Right now the site is 404, can't check.

But I agree with other commentors, Dark Reader isn't the solution. There is not really an excuse for not doing a builtin darkmode nowadays, imo.

riidom··on Show HN: Game demo made with my homemade game engine
If you get stuck and need a hint, try right-click somewhere.
riidom··on Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads
Could you look into your dark mode please? Thank you!:)
riidom··on Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry
It's not done via code, you can find the materials in the burger menu, top right corner of the console, in bottom right screen corner.

The article I linked in another post here describes that it's all done with triplanar mapping, so no UV's involved.

riidom··on Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry
it's like a scripting language for 3D models (could call it a DSL, I guess).

Look at the "temple"-example, there it is easier to reason about than the more abstract objects:

https://3d.ameo.design/geotoy/edit/39

riidom··on Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry
I found this article also interesting (I believe also from the author, but correct me if I'm wrong):

https://cprimozic.net/blog/the-tech-behind-geotoy/#overview

riidom··on Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using?
I'd like to see a federation of git-hosting instances, fediverse-style.
riidom··on Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop
Ups, late to the party, that was indeed a grammar mistake on my side, as others have pointed out.
riidom··on Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop
To stay in loop with updates:

Couldn't find the releases-only feed in Forgejo RSS, the blog seemed to be outdated and who doesn't use X or discord, here is at least a github-mirror where you can subscribe to releases:

https://github.com/quickshell-mirror/quickshell

riidom··on Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions
I found the arrows misleading. Interpreted them as "should my next guess be higher or lower" and not as "current guess as too high/low". I'd prefer it written out "that was too high" or similar.
riidom··on Show HN: MMOndrian
I thought so too! Maybe it was true
riidom··on Show HN: Self-Funded Game with Homemade Engine – Play Online, Steam Coming
The only website where I 100% approve of right click hijacking :)
riidom··on Grok's white genocide fixation caused by 'unauthorized modification'
should probably have said "rogue employer", and not "rogue employee"
riidom··on Show HN: Sprigman – Pac-Man Recreated in a Limited Tile Based JavaScript Engine
There are sometimes coins unreachable, I noticed.
riidom··on Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
Maybe I am thinking a bit meta here. But who is supposed to colorize these pages? Kids that are in the progress of learning to instead use AI for everything? It can surely deliver better results quicker, after all.

Same question would be relevant if you wouldn't have used AI to generate these outlines, of course.

I just want to point out there is a certain irony of the "cut the branch you are sitting on"-kind here.

Edit: typo

riidom··on Defold: cross-platform game engine
I don't know what they think, but I think it is not necessary. Let's draw a comparison to Blender here. Blender is GPL, and there is a long history of questionable projects that relabel Blender and try to sell it.

There is the requirement to make the source code available (GPL), as far as I am informed, you can sort of get around this, by delivering the source code with the download, but then "don't advertise" it, as in hide it as much as possible without getting in legal trouble.

(My information may be a bit outdated here) Afaik, the Blender Foundation doesn't even bother to shut these projects down (they do get frequently informed about it, when people discover it).

And this even given the fact, that they would be easy to shut down. The reason for this, is used media in advertising. If you want to sell your 3D package, you need to show some impressive artwork which was created with said project.

Problem is, the images/animations these projects show off on their websites are a) not created with said Blender reskin, but usually in Blender itself and b) they usually don't have permission from the artists.

So even having this quite comfortable handle, BF usually don't care. Which tells a lot about the impact of such copycats.

My takeaway from all this is, the situation would pan out pretty similar for Defold, and they should just dare it and monitor the landscape.

riidom··on A new ChatGPT version just dropped and GeoGuesser is now a solved problem
Thin client theory?
riidom··on Koto Programming Language
Would you say Koto (or some direct competitors, for that matter), is viable to learn when I otherwise don't intend to learn Rust at all? But let's say, want to keep the option open to participate in Rust-based projects which support Koto et al.?
riidom··on Data Becker
Yes the "Goldene Reihe" I remember that well.
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