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bovermyer

8,388 karmajoined il y a 13 ans
Formerly a senior platform engineer, and now a student again at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Procedural generation hobbyist. My personal website is https://benovermyer.com.

Submissions

Converting ISO Country Codes to Flag Emojis

danq.me
5 points·by bovermyer·le mois dernier·0 comments

Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map

notesfromtheroad.com
76 points·by bovermyer·le mois dernier·31 comments

Return on Intelligence, Part 1: Echoes

rebecca-powell.com
1 points·by bovermyer·le mois dernier·0 comments

Recovering Windows Live Writer Files

benovermyer.com
20 points·by bovermyer·il y a 3 mois·9 comments

Subverting AI Agent Logging with a Git Post-Commit Hook

danq.me
2 points·by bovermyer·il y a 4 mois·0 comments

Introducing: Build Awesome

blogfontawesome.wpcomstaging.com
3 points·by bovermyer·il y a 4 mois·1 comments

Driftwood – friendly AppImage manager for Linux

apps.lashman.live
1 points·by bovermyer·il y a 4 mois·0 comments

OpenFactBook – The World Factbook

openfactbook.org
2 points·by bovermyer·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

Linklings – a web directory for personal sites based on interests

linklings.club
1 points·by bovermyer·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

A few design decisions for a new chat platform

sporks.space
1 points·by bovermyer·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

'Member Gmail Goggles?

riffraff.info
1 points·by bovermyer·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

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1 points·by bovermyer·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

Disenshittification Nation

pluralistic.net
14 points·by bovermyer·il y a 5 mois·1 comments

Open Gaming Collective – the future of Linux gaming

opengamingcollective.org
2 points·by bovermyer·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

Social Web Working Group Charter

w3.org
2 points·by bovermyer·il y a 6 mois·1 comments

Secondhand Truth

voidtalker.com
2 points·by bovermyer·il y a 6 mois·0 comments

We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech

disconnect.blog
5 points·by bovermyer·il y a 6 mois·0 comments

Oscars Bolts from ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029

hollywoodreporter.com
2 points·by bovermyer·il y a 7 mois·1 comments

New review challenges the idea that highly intelligent people are hyper-empathic

psypost.org
2 points·by bovermyer·il y a 7 mois·0 comments

Ask HN: How do you judge what is a valuable use of your time?

1 points·by bovermyer·il y a 8 mois·2 comments

comments

bovermyer
·il y a 5 jours·discuss
What kinds of project would Odin be best suited for, as compared to, say, Rust or Go?
bovermyer
·il y a 5 jours·discuss
This is both intimidating and fascinating.

I wonder what would happen if the first real android, in the Asimov sense, was birthed in a garage and not in some high-budget corporate lab somewhere.
bovermyer
·il y a 25 jours·discuss
The Briefings have been most useful for me. It feels more curated and less firehose-y.

https://bubbles.town/briefing
bovermyer
·il y a 26 jours·discuss
Aaaand now I'm using OpenCode instead, and trying out OpenCode Go.
bovermyer
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
This is fantastic. And I really appreciate that it doesn't pollute my history API with a bunch of exploration marks.
bovermyer
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
That's neat!

I've been looking at getting an e-reader in the last few days, and the Xteink X4 is one of the ones I considered. I think it's probably too small for my intended use, but it's cool that people are tinkering with it like this.
bovermyer
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
I loved the impromptu dance party I had in this with a bunch of people just bouncing on the stage.
bovermyer
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
I love how snappy Zed is. Well done, folks. You should be proud of your work.
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
The author mentions SubSpace (the computer game, from the 90s), and the limited pixel budget for player banners in it.

It would be interesting to see if you could run a pared-down version of that game on a display like this.
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Did you read the article? The author goes into several applications beyond just that.
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I'm glad you've built something that works for you! Keep at it. Experiment, don't just leave it the same way it is now.
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Zettlr would like a word.
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I would say yes, because the physics of rolling two objects is slightly different than one object. I don't have any idea, though, if that would affect the distribution of numbers rolled. It's not an experiment that can be done through simulation.
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
However it came to the "knowledge," I'm glad it had it!

Seeing as I know almost nothing about reverse engineering, in this case, an LLM was a great tool in solving the problem. Yes, I could have spent the time and energy to do it myself, but this seemed like a good use case for an LLM.

There are other problem sets where I'm not using LLMs at all - like porting a lot of my procedural generation code from Typescript to Godot's GDScript.
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
In theory, governments have the ability to curtail the activity of corporations.

Are you challenging that idea?
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
You're assuming that politicians are competent, thorough, and consider all the implications before writing a bill or voting on a bill.

That is a _very_ dangerous assumption.
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Why do we allow megacorporations to exist at all?
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
The way the article is worded, I would guess the material still exists somewhere, but has not been made available to the public.

Some enterprising individual should do some digging and see where that material is, and who has both access to it and the ability to release it.
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Bullet ants, on the other hand, are not fun. Not even a little bit.
bovermyer
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Iran made those AWS data centers... unhappy.

The comment is disingenuous, though, since Locker doesn't need AWS S3 to function.