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riidom··on Hard Road – A beautiful procedural post-apocalyptic game
Some suggestions, if I may:

You should mention on the help screen that the scroll wheel lets you zoom into first person/ engine hood view. Before you do that, those should be fixed though: The front shield is black, not transparent, so I could use only engine hood view. This is a bit too "dynamic" though, in lack of a better term. When you drive upwards, the camera descends below the engine block and I see the front suspension. When driving downwards, I look in the sky and can't see the car at all, makes avoiding obstacles difficult.

For the roads: To make driving a bit more challenging, add obstacles close to the road, e.g. guard railings.

For the generation: Right now it feels like a very even distribution of item scattering. Defining some types of areas and how these get populated with scenery may give a sense of "overall structure".

As a fan of Slow Roads, I do like this approach! Climbingin the mountains and jumping down was kinda fun. Maybe add a second car that is faster?

Well I hope you sell a lot of plugins so you can keep working on this :) Bookmarked and looking forward to updates.

riidom··on Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction
What I missed in the docs: Is there some out of the box deploy target? Ink has a web export for example, so if that's all you need you don't need to deal with any middleware aspects and simply write your game, export for web and get the interface for free, basically.
riidom··on The Ü Programming Language
I just think of it as some kind of armored shrek :)
riidom··on DaVinci Resolve 21
There install script is quite aggressive as well. Well at least around ~v16 it was.
riidom··on Ask HN: Laptops with good Linux support and good build quality?
Tuxedo
riidom··on Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
https://archive.ph/aBngW
riidom··on Zed Editor Theme-Builder
Ha.. thats a very cool way of adjusting. themes. I hoped for being able to adjust a lot of things around markdown edit and markdown preview though. My biggest problem with Zed right now. Themes are actually ok to me. Maybe thats on their todo though who knows.
riidom··on .de Domain Down
This is not only affecting uberspace, but every website with .de infra. I just don't know if there are websites that check if whole TLD's are down to provide such an URL instead.
riidom··on A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
Can the games only be played on the easel site, or can I upload to e.g. itch.io as well (probably with the limitation of only singleplayer?)
riidom··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
With examples: https://www.blender.org/lab/mcp-server/
riidom··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
https://www.blender.org/development/blender-lab-activity-rep...
riidom··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Sponsorship decisions are not community polls, never have been.

And the worries about "blender just being sold to xyz..." have been around forever. Always wrong. People with AMD cards were screaming when Nvidia became sponsor, and other way round.

It is more about the signal sent, in this case.

For everyone who is interested, here is the mastodon thread: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116482997785333001 (it is just like to be expected though)

riidom··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
That's already blowing up on Mastodon. Blenderartist silent for now. Won't stay like that for very long.

I wonder, if Ton was involved in that decision, or if it's only Francesco. Could turn out to be a very unlucky start into the leadership role.

riidom··on State of Kdenlive
It sounds like you have no crash or corruption problems in Premiere at all.
riidom··on Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read
Can imagine!
riidom··on Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read
Also "unread comment highlighting" would be so good to have.
riidom··on Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor
Single-screen user here. I like virtual desktops in addition to alt-tabbing.
riidom··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Chrome have a "Close tabs to the left" option?
if you are willing to change, Vivaldi has that.
riidom··on Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
That mlx is for apple hardware only, though? Or did I misunderstand something.
riidom··on $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
Not a word about the tok/sec, unfortunately.
riidom··on GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?
on phone: 2FA Manager from OpenStore on UBports phone

on work laptop: 1PW

riidom··on LibreOffice and the art of overreacting
Came here for this. In one of Nathan's blog posts he describes the notification as noticably driving the donations. Personally I haven't seen it ever myself, and what I also haven't seen is any complaints about it.

Would have been a better comparison than Wikimedia I guess, but aside that, the LibreOffice team still has a valid point that the reactions are unjustified.

In a week nobody will talk about it anymore though, so LO team, just sit it through :)

riidom··on PSA: Top Google Result for Claude Code Is Malicious
Oh yes. Ok, that's probably on bash, but you look at the script and it's like 200 lines of code. Then you read the alternate install instructions and it goes like "download binary, make executable, add to $PATH, run" - ???
riidom··on BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs
Text is misleading too. 5-7 tok/sec is not reading speed, it's a tad slower. For me, at least, and I am an experienced reader, not especially schooled in quick-reading though.

I happened to "live" on 7.0-7.5 tok/sec output speed for a while, and it is an annoying experience. It is the equivalent of walking behind someone slightly slower on a footwalk. I dealt with this by deliberately looking away for a minute until output was "buffered" and only then started reading.

For any local setup I'd try to reach for 10 tok/sec. Sacrifice some kv cache and shove a few more layers on your GPU, it's worth it.

riidom··on Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes
An example for this is the Blender addon ecosystem. Blender moves very fast, breaking API changes every few versions. Now I am not an addon developer myself, but from github issues I follow, changes are fairly often trivial to do.

Yet, someone has to do them. Ideally it is the creator of the addon, sometimes it's the users who do it, when the addon is not maintained anymore (in case of trivial changes).

It kinda works that way, but it also is some kind of gamble for the user. When you see a new addon (and a new addon developer), you can't know if they gonna stick to it or not.

If you have to pay for the addon, it's more likely they maintain it, of course. But also not a guarantee.

riidom··on Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU
LM Studio has an option on model load that I believe does what you describing here: "K Cache Quantization Type" (and similar for "V"). It's marked as experimental and says the effect is basically hard to predict. Never tried myself, though.
riidom··on Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU
These 200 LOC install scripts turn me heavily off as well. But at least in this case, you can also just download the correct zip, extract the binary and do "./llmfit".
riidom··on Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
I just tried exactly the same (at https://loops.video ), but I was able to watch without account, and registering afterwards also worked. Guess it's something on your side.
riidom··on US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says
https://archive.ph/2J8P3
riidom··on Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs
The output looks pretty useful. It got a bit weird when I wanted to explore alternative branchens and nodes started to overlap each other (I tried free/unregistered, if that helps).
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