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bovermyer

8,388 karmajoined 13 jaar geleden
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·vorige maand·0 comments

Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map

notesfromtheroad.com
76 points·by bovermyer·vorige maand·31 comments

Return on Intelligence, Part 1: Echoes

rebecca-powell.com
1 points·by bovermyer·vorige maand·0 comments

Recovering Windows Live Writer Files

benovermyer.com
20 points·by bovermyer·3 maanden geleden·9 comments

Subverting AI Agent Logging with a Git Post-Commit Hook

danq.me
2 points·by bovermyer·4 maanden geleden·0 comments

Introducing: Build Awesome

blogfontawesome.wpcomstaging.com
3 points·by bovermyer·4 maanden geleden·1 comments

Driftwood – friendly AppImage manager for Linux

apps.lashman.live
1 points·by bovermyer·4 maanden geleden·0 comments

OpenFactBook – The World Factbook

openfactbook.org
2 points·by bovermyer·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

Linklings – a web directory for personal sites based on interests

linklings.club
1 points·by bovermyer·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

A few design decisions for a new chat platform

sporks.space
1 points·by bovermyer·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

'Member Gmail Goggles?

riffraff.info
1 points·by bovermyer·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

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1 points·by bovermyer·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

Disenshittification Nation

pluralistic.net
14 points·by bovermyer·5 maanden geleden·1 comments

Open Gaming Collective – the future of Linux gaming

opengamingcollective.org
2 points·by bovermyer·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

Social Web Working Group Charter

w3.org
2 points·by bovermyer·6 maanden geleden·1 comments

Secondhand Truth

voidtalker.com
2 points·by bovermyer·6 maanden geleden·0 comments

We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech

disconnect.blog
5 points·by bovermyer·6 maanden geleden·0 comments

Oscars Bolts from ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029

hollywoodreporter.com
2 points·by bovermyer·7 maanden geleden·1 comments

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

psypost.org
2 points·by bovermyer·7 maanden geleden·0 comments

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

1 points·by bovermyer·8 maanden geleden·2 comments

comments

bovermyer
·5 dagen geleden·discuss
What kinds of project would Odin be best suited for, as compared to, say, Rust or Go?
bovermyer
·5 dagen geleden·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
·25 dagen geleden·discuss
The Briefings have been most useful for me. It feels more curated and less firehose-y.

https://bubbles.town/briefing
bovermyer
·26 dagen geleden·discuss
Aaaand now I'm using OpenCode instead, and trying out OpenCode Go.
bovermyer
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
This is fantastic. And I really appreciate that it doesn't pollute my history API with a bunch of exploration marks.
bovermyer
·2 maanden geleden·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
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I loved the impromptu dance party I had in this with a bunch of people just bouncing on the stage.
bovermyer
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I love how snappy Zed is. Well done, folks. You should be proud of your work.
bovermyer
·3 maanden geleden·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
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Did you read the article? The author goes into several applications beyond just that.
bovermyer
·3 maanden geleden·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
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Zettlr would like a word.
bovermyer
·3 maanden geleden·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
·3 maanden geleden·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
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
In theory, governments have the ability to curtail the activity of corporations.

Are you challenging that idea?
bovermyer
·3 maanden geleden·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
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Why do we allow megacorporations to exist at all?
bovermyer
·3 maanden geleden·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
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Bullet ants, on the other hand, are not fun. Not even a little bit.
bovermyer
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Iran made those AWS data centers... unhappy.

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