Heliodex

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by Heliodex 7mo ago
The 2 videos linked here are nearing 5 years old now and have been refuted many times, including by some of the developers mentioned in the article. To condense it as much as possible: The 1st video hinges on a point where they find that de
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by Heliodex 10mo ago
The sample responses given are fascinating. It seems more difficult than normal to even tell that they were generated by an LLM, since most of us (terminally online) people have been training our brains' AI-generated text detection on
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by Heliodex 11mo ago
View without needing to sign in: https://web.archive.org/web/20251124111136/https://cloud.goo...
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by Heliodex 1y ago
Also got got. I assume the Bee Movie script is the first choice for a lot of people needing an ad-hoc big block of text. It also compresses pretty well. https://github.com/lynn/flateview/blob/2668beaa5cc8cae38
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by Heliodex 1y ago
I used to play this game a ton several years ago. IIRC the world record score is believed to be over 19 000, however I've played thousands of games (with heavy save scumming, as the game is almost entirely RNG-based) and have yet to br
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by Heliodex 1y ago
Accessible without clientside JS enabled: https://web.archive.org/web/20250722002855/https://maddie.wt...
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by Heliodex 1y ago
Awesome! I haven't had this much fun since r/Place. The ultimate territorial acquisition strategy seems to be as follows: - Pick a desired colour - Choose a place to found your empire, ideally somewhere with a lot of large rectang
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by Heliodex 1y ago
Interesting to find one of my closely-held philosophical beliefs on HN. I'd recommend looking at Aponism < https://aponism.org/manifesto > for a set of beliefs that include this + others relating to reduction of su
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by Heliodex 1y ago
I can assume that Lune (and many of the Rust-based Luau runtimes that followed it) were written in Rust mainly because of the existence of mlua < https://github.com/mlua-rs/mlua > and the bindings it provides for L
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by Heliodex 1y ago
The wide (and growing, which is great) variety of fonts designed to be easily readable are so interesting to me because they all start with similar aims, use different metrics, and come up with wildly varying font designs. Take Kermit, Inte
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by Heliodex 2y ago
Been using a thumb trackball for a few months, it's definitely better than a trackpad for long periods of use. I've tried rebinding the mouse buttons so I could play most light games without touching the keyboard, fun but impracti
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by Heliodex 2y ago
Loving this! Like other commenters here the syntax reminds me of KDL, except a lot simpler. I checked it out and was fully nerdsniped, so wrote an implementation < https://github.com/Heliodex/confetti-go > that pas
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by Heliodex 2y ago
An interesting occurrence I've seen is with flag emojis, for example translating some English text with an England/UK/US flag after it will sometimes turn the flag into that of a different country where the language of the tr
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by Heliodex 2y ago
That's some awesome work! I always used to stumble upon videos of yours/similar, partly as it was kind of a way to discover 'niche' but active repos, though mainly because Gource visualisations are just plain fun to watc
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by Heliodex 2y ago
Fair enough, the only way I see feasible would be to use the Nostr protocol in a "walled garden"-type app/ecosystem, to the point where few users would know they're using Nostr (which would sacrifice most of the benefits
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by Heliodex 2y ago
I love Nostr and run my own personal relay, as it's much simpler to set up than a Bluesky or Mastodon instance. The idea of nonexistent moderation is untrue. The big relays get big because they only commit to the minimum necessary mode
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by Heliodex 2y ago
This is why I mainly use some other custom <div> with a popover="" attribute. They're easily targeted with a button and no clientside JS required, and can be closed by clicking outside them, which <dialog>s don&#x
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by Heliodex 2y ago
We had NIP-26 Delegated Event Signing, so you could set up multiple private keys with short expiration times delegated from a root key, then if one of the delegated keys was leaked you could just wait for it to expire. This ended up being c
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by Heliodex 2y ago
Note that this still renders to HTML with JS using V8; it's not entirely in R and components have to be exposed out of JS to R. I thought it would be more similar to the likes of React-Lua where the entire library (+ packages like Reac
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by Heliodex 2y ago
Pretty awesome font, I've found it pairs really well with other readable fonts like Lexend too.
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by Heliodex 2y ago
It's been over a year and a half since I was last able to access their site at all without seeing just a "403 Forbidden" page.
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by Heliodex 2y ago
Due to the WTFPL having no restrictions it seems like it would be functionally identical to MIT-0 or BSD-0, as it wouldn't require attribution or a copy of the copyright/permission notice. It's about as close as one can get t
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by Heliodex 2y ago
Wow yes, I had looked into Freicoin several times but the reasoning behind the demurrage fee hadn't stuck with me until now.
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by Heliodex 2y ago
I'm unsure as well but either way this is fascinating; I've only ever heard the term 'scrip' used with negative connotations so this seems like a very refreshing change. The way the currency value was kept stable also lo
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by Heliodex 2y ago
Wails < https://wails.io >. I wanted to use Go but wasn't as familiar with native UI as with HTML/CSS/JS, I tried out most of the other popular Go UI frameworks too though they didn't feel as comfortable
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by Heliodex 2y ago
If only I had known about this (or judging by commit history, if it existed) ~3 weeks ago. I've been saying for ages that either React ported to Go or a React-like framework for Go would be an incredible development experience, so this
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by Heliodex 2y ago
If you believe the purpose of an economy is to meet peoples' needs, then it helps connect users that are openly looking for a tool to help them with projects that will help them with their need/problem/request, which is a win
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by Heliodex 2y ago
Pricing is interesting: They have a free tier that provides 2 replies/month, next tier is $10/month for 20 replies/month. This is probably still more cost effective than replies done by humans though I understand that LLM API
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by Heliodex 2y ago
Wow. The proverb of "Languages that don't change your way of thinking about programming are not worth learning" in full swing here, I feel like I've been enlightened.
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by Heliodex 2y ago
I don't think so, partly because the total reward + fees was only 5-6x that of a typical block and partly because almost all blocks are now mined by pools that share block rewards among their members usually based on hash rate, so one

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