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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by BrokrnAlgorithm »

Lapsa wrote: post #572
BrokrnAlgorithm wrote: post #564

I'm working on a real-time gpu accelerated 3d visualizer for high frequency market Exchange data. There's no practical use case for it except that it looks cool. I don't plan on making it useful either, instead I'm gonna implement all kinds of awesome looking but useless eye candy stuff. But it's a good excuse for a quant to get into graphics programming.

dude, I want that! is it open source? i can haz it?

I'll most likely open source it once it's refactored properly and I have a chance to show it off :)

Right now it's not looking as fancy as it could, i've been focusing more on optimizing the render engine for speed and not much yet on fancy shaders and such.

But I want to move away from OpenGL towards vulkan at which point I'll most likely publish the code.

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Post by bladegash »

byecancer21 wrote: post #578
bladegash wrote: post #547

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Is that really a decision for you to single handedly make? People make mistakes, but it doesn’t mean they are evil. Pushing them to admit their wrong doing, give up their livelihood/careers, etc. is just stupid. Especially if “doing it for fun”. That’s not admirable, it’s disturbing.

Different standards apply for judges within proceedings, especially those making decisions at the very top. I did offer each offender a second chance, as I thought they might have learned from this. They chose not to take it. The first instance judge had been given four chances even.

Why do you believe it is your position to give any official ultimatums just to meet your own perceived sense of Justice? The way your are speaking about this is to right your own feelings of injustice, not anyone else’s, yet you do it under the auspices of doing what’s best for everyone else. Do they get a say in this as well?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by byecancer21 »

bladegash wrote: post #582
byecancer21 wrote: post #578

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Different standards apply for judges within proceedings, especially those making decisions at the very top. I did offer each offender a second chance, as I thought they might have learned from this. They chose not to take it. The first instance judge had been given four chances even.

Why do you believe it is your position to give any official ultimatums just to meet your own perceived sense of Justice? The way your are speaking about this is to right your own feelings of injustice, not anyone else’s, yet you do it under the auspices of doing what’s best for everyone else. Do they get a say in this as well?

You interpret this as an ultimatum, I see offering them a way out as being nice. At the same time one has to assert seeing through obvious b-s.

What is appropriate gets decided by lawmakers not judges.

Once judges willfully violate the code they have stepped outside their assigned role. This quickly became more of a political problem than a legal one, and what is right is ultimately for voters to decide.

Whether I am able to interpret the code and precedent correctly we will see. I did score close to the very top when taking the LSAT however.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by Gwypaas »

iljya wrote: post #471

Creating paper nautical maps. NOAA has stopped updating 15% of all their nautical charts and will discontinue the rest by Jan. 2025. The proposed replacement for the beautiful maps they produce now is "print electronic maps yourself". Unfortunately the electronic charts are only usable with an interactive interface which paper is not, to say nothing about their aesthetic qualities. There are data errors too in the ne…

How are the British Admiralty charts for the US? Those have been the ones I've tended to use when going international in Europe at least.

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Post by Udo »

I'm working on a replacement for PHP, just for my own use. I don't really care if anyone else besides me will ever find it useful.

Right now it's just a Git repo: https://github.com/ThingamaNet/uce

My project goals:

  - minimal but stable FastCGI runtime that recompiles server pages as needed
  - minimal dependencies
  - web apps written for it should still run in 10+ years without change
  - combine the advantages of C++ with those of PHP
  - equal-or-better performance in most scenarios
  - implement an additional WebSockets broker so I can use the same runtime for live apps
Currently it's very early in development and very clunky still.

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ryangittins wrote: post #280

https://siftrss.com/ I've been running siftrss for about five years now. It lets you enter an RSS feed, add a filter, and get a new RSS feed excluding the stuff you specify. I made it to scratch my own itch. Originally it wasn't going to be public but I thought, "eh what the heck, it's only a bit more effort to put a simple interface on it." Since then more than 100k feeds have been created and donations have paid fo…

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Post by Eezee »

light_cone wrote: post #556
rafale wrote: post #381

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You have a serious case of delusions of grandeur. Get some help.

It is sad that you would rather believe the parent has mental health issues, rather than entertain the possibility that yes, someone is actually doing something effective against powerful corrupt people, and that requires creative thinking. To me, it echoes "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by La Boétie. Powerful people are just people. They are powerful because we are collectively granting them that power. This is…

One of the documents shared on the page is a letter to the constitutional court of Germany where the plaintiff explains how not taking his case constitutes a mortal sin for which the president of the court will go to hell and lectures him that he cannot visit church services anymore. It is very hard to take the rest seriously if the same person is claiming the corruption.

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Post by joegibbs »

mhaberl wrote: post #484
joegibbs wrote: post #143

I've been making a proper survival strategy game. I made a few games before but they were only about a week's worth of work each, so I don't count them as "proper". This time I wanted to make a full-on project with professionally-done models, art, music etc. It's a reverse of the 4X formula - rather than starting as a small country and becoming a vast empire over the course of the game you start off heading a vast em…

I really like the idea and the art looks good. You have set the release date to Nov, 2022 - when did you start working on it i.e. how much time is needed for a game like this? Also, how much expirience have you had with UE or any other game engine before starting this project? Do you do everything by yourself (art, music etc.) or do you buy / use free stuff from someone else?

Thank you! I started in July of 2020 with just the map and no mechanics, and worked on it intermittently until about 6 months ago when I decided to put some actual work into it.

November is the release date because if I don't set one I'll be more likely to get sidetracked, so I wanted to be concrete about it.

I didn't have that much experience with UE, I'd played around a bit in school and uni but I didn't make anything substantial with it, and I did the same in Unity. Everything is custom-made for the game except for a save game system, since UE's save game stuff works well for smaller-scale projects but kind of breaks down when you've got to save hundreds of cities, armies, etc.

I did the environment and static assets by myself, but I'm no good at illustration or music and I got some great artists to do that instead of me.

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Post by nairboon »

Yanu-3452 wrote: post #517
can16358p wrote: post #478

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What did I just read?

I'm not qualified to say this, so this isn't a diagnosis, but the post strikes me as similar in tone to the postings of a paranoid schizophrenic who regularly used to post on a forum I visited. Completely convinced they're on the verge of uncovering something that will "change history" yet very difficult to follow the detail of what they're saying.

Well, if you're not qualified for it, why do you still do it?

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Post by byecancer21 »

nairboon wrote: post #576
byecancer21 wrote: post #264

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It's in German language and legal stuff, although one may enjoy the renderings of numerous corruption-involved public officials. These were made using AnimeGANv2. https://de.wickepedia.org/Wickepedia:About The felonious judge is named Wicke so this was thought to be the most hilarious domain name. It has been kept low-profile on purpose because analytics enabled amazing observability about who talks to whom, and who…

Das liest sich wie ein Krimi! So do you want this to go public yet, or are waiting for further actions by some of the involved courts?

I expect all cases are going to be retried.

As a criminal defense strategy the judge made a claim she "felt threatened" for an extremely long duration including all of her decisions. I have thus filed for nullification, since her claim implies judicial bias.

This matter is currently pending.

I wanted to complete legal proceedings first. A late-night post in a half-day old thread on HN is getting orders of magnitudes more visits than I had thought.

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