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caspar
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About caspar
Solo game dev @ https://slowrush.dev
Building Signs of Danger, an online & local multiplayer Noita-like roguelite set in a falling sand world.
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Comment #49177251
You can "solve" this by throwing your PDF statements at llms and having them extract the transactions. Has privacy implications if you use hosted llms of course. As for self hosted…
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Comment #49000663
This is partially a "how much does the model follow instructions" thing. I use Pi with a vibed LSP extension and Claude (4.6 or thereabouts) almost never followed instructions to u…
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Comment #48891049
Try vidir from moreutils (or its improved version, https://github.com/bulletmark/edir ). It opens the list of filenames in a given directory (or set of files passed on cmdline) in …
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Comment #48624648
There was/is a patch available that lifted the unit limit significantly. I played with it constantly. Even played a match at a lan party with friends last year.
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Comment #48319469
Well language detection isn't all that hard in the scheme of things (especially now), but maybe having only training on English makes models less effective programmers. It would be…
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Comment #48160534
An internet comment communicating the death of communication on the internet - how wonderfully paradoxical! (or if you tasked an AI to write that: how appropriate!)
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Comment #47929650
This is also what I've done for my multiplayer falling sand game: it's very much not vibe coded (too performance-sensitive), but coding agents can launch the game on my steamdeck a…
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Comment #47889185
2x2 pixel font is probably impossible[1], but with a few more pixels of width someone made a surprisingly readable 2-pixel-high font: https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/comments/1my…
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Comment #47888992
Not the OP but here is a good example: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/ Initially I read it because just it was interesting but it has ended up being the h…
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Comment #47486565
Really? I've been a fulltime Linux user for years but there are tons of excellent Windows-only apps. Here are some that I miss: Directory Opus, ShareX, Wiztree, Everything, AltDrag…
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Comment #47483861
> I've been struggling to sell it ... they will value a one-shotted pretty UI over all these other aspects. I do not think that it's your competitors' pretty one-shotted UIs that a…
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Comment #47365178
Noita uses herringbone wang tiles where each wang tile pixel is 16x16 simulated in-game CA pixels, with tiles selected from a per-biome pool and the ability for biome-specific scri…
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Comment #47132042
for anyone reading this later, claude code's sandbox code is at https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime/
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Comment #47082479
I haven't used opencode but pi agent runs rings around claude code. Never eats tons of CPU on big outputs, no flickering, open source, tree-based context instead of claude's linear…
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Comment #46912444
Well, sometimes your compiler will work out how to more efficiently compile a thing (e.g. vectorize a loop), and other times you'll rework some code to an equivalent formulation an…
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Comment #46883218
Not strictly true afaik? If you own the copyright to the entire codebase you can relicense at will to a different license. (that's what CLAs enable among other things) Not sure whe…
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Comment #46826241
Presumably others will write the prompts (or equivalent directing mechanism) that will steer the generation, such that you can act out whatever fantasies interest you.
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Comment #46826196
Likely a separate issue, but I also have massive slowdowns whenever the agent manages to read a particularly long line from a grep or similar (as in, multiple seconds before charac…
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Comment #46826126
FYI the sandbox feature is not fully baked and does not seem to be high priority. For example, for the last 3 weeks using the sandbox on Linux will almost-always litter your repo r…
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Comment #46686714
I think state of the art LLMs would pass the Turing test for 95% people if those people could (text) chat to them in a time before LLM chatbots became widespread. That is, the main…
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Comment #46463848
+1 for Maestral, have been using it for about a year on my Linux install and it works seamlessly.
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Comment #46454792
Unity is Unreal Engine's biggest competitor by far. Godot competes with Unity (mostly for 2D games) but is at least a decade off being any threat to Unreal. So yes, funding Godot i…
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Comment #46432648
I can vouch for this "study plan". 4 years ago I tackled exactly those courses (raytracer[0] first, then CPU rasterizer[1]) to learn the basics. And then, yes, I picked up a lib th…
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Comment #46180953
Certainly if you take it in combination with his earlier "Intel is listening" blog post: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-11-22/intel-is-listen...
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Comment #45886464
A multiplayer falling sand game - kinda like Noita, but faster paced and online & couch co-op - which happens to run on both desktop and in the browser (including online multiplaye…