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Exactly. Since 2001, the amount of money we’ve spent on foreign aid is a DROP in the bucket between 0.7% and 1.4% of the federal budget; not much for us - but had an outsized impac…

Thanks for the rec - I'll check it ou! What I really want (I know I'll never get it) - is a sequel with the charming pixel art graphics of HOMM2 and the game mechanics of HOMM3.

Story time! I was a kid when the original Quake came out in ’96. I don’t remember if I saw it in someone’s .diz file, a FAQ, or somewhere else, but I learned you could change the a…

Nice job. I personally wouldn't switch over from my current sprite editor. I'm sure for a lot of people it's more about the workflow they're comfortable with, and I've been a prett…

> My secret sauce is to use LLAMAcpp's reasoning-budget and reasoning-message that trigger cut off to overthinking with a message that says to either us subagents or compress the c…

Oh I do. Headless 128GB RAM machine serving llama.cpp with a number of local models that I use on a daily basis. • Qwen3-VL picks up new images in a NAS, auto captions and adds the…

What really enrages me is the amount of effort it puts into justifying weaseling out of work. (THAT'S MY JOB!) It will do everything it can to defer or push it off, to the point wh…

You're probably thinking of Zombies, Run!, which was an incredibly popular game that went viral over a decade ago. IIRC it did use GPS, but more for tracking your speed, distance, …

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This is true also. My husky pyrenees is an 80 pounds photogenic stack of floof and attracts a lot of attention when we're going for walks downtown.

I absolutely do use AI tools like Consensus.app, which aggregates and summarizes peer-reviewed publications so I can ask things like "Is berberine beneficial for lowering cholester…

If you’re responsible and you like animals, there’s no easier way to connect with people from all walks of life than by owning a dog. Assuming you live in a fairly dog‑friendly are…

Oh yeah, that’s a good point I’ll generate some images of a theoretical earth with a solar system bathed in the light of a K-type orange dwarf star instead. :) I have some other ex…

I agree but it feels like a bit of a losing battle at this point, and I can't help but be reminded of the history of the Sanskrit swastika.

Yeah, the images [1] used here are clearly the result of someone prompting a generative AI model to make "pixel art". You can tell because they suffer from the same issues all AI-g…

True but it’s at least addressable with some basic tone-mapping changes. It’s easier to correct an issue like this than to deal with an image that simply doesn’t follow your prompt…

As I’ve said before, I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in Arena’s scoring system. They have MAI Image 2.5 ranked above Gemini Nano Banana Pro, and maybe that’s true on paper but good l…

Given that Qwen Image 2 didn’t even get an open-weight release, I really doubt we’re going to see any kind of open release for it. They seem to have completely shifted over to prop…

Yeah, Ubisoft... one of the most depressing game-related events for me was when they took over one of my all-time favorite franchises, the Heroes of Might and Magic series, when 3D…

Well at least as far as gaming companies go, Blizzard always seems willing to throw its hat in the ring.

I’ve seen a few attempts at making procedural racing games based on street map data from Google Maps and other sources [1] [2], but because the maps are often imprecise from a coll…

Nice job. I remember playing a top-down 2d game in the early [00]s with a similar premise but it was real-time. You had a limited amount of gas so you still had to optimize your ro…

Oh yeah definitely agree. I think one of the older tests for LTX and WAN text-to-video models used to involve having a person do a cartwheel or really anything that required puttin…

The movement of the flowers as you pass by them is a nice touch!

Reminds me of Karpathy’s post yesterday where he used Opus 5 to recreate the first paragraph of The Lord of the Rings in Three.js. https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410…