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by akkartik 1y ago
Ha, these "toys" are quite ambitious. Here are my joyful toys: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog
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The symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil(crookedtimber.org)
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Requiem for a Solar Plant(7goldfish.com)
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by akkartik 1y ago
This is a Show HN! By hackers for hackers! Not everything has to be serious and ambitous and schleppy. I can totally relate with your frustration. Here, come criticize my half-stack instead: https://akkartik.name/freewheelin
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Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law: The Arts of Cultural and Communal Life (1985) [pdf](lwionline.org)
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I think the differing stances towards tech companies might be the crucial axiomatic difference between our positions. I've just lived through 30 years of reduced regulation of Tech, and it's hard to imagine a world that reliably p
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by akkartik 1y ago
It's not clear to me why you consider my approach a pipe dream. The only criticism I've heard is that people won't adopt it. Is that the only one? One critical question for you is: can someone rebuild a piece of software for
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by akkartik 1y ago
> I'm betting most people are like me (at least outside HN). Oh yes. If you want to be like most people, you should stay right where you are. The question I'm interested in is: where should most people be? Are they where they
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by akkartik 1y ago
> 1. Software is very expensive to write I disagree with this, right at the start. I think software is cheap to write but expensive to maintain when you try to sell to as many people as possible. It's the OpEx that kills you, not th
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by akkartik 1y ago
Don't bet too much, because I'm still undecided on LLMs. Interestingly, I have no memory of ever thinking about LLMs as I wrote this. Part of it is I slaved over this talk a lot more than my usual blog posts, for about six months,
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by akkartik 1y ago
What about turning devices off, does that protect against one or two of the three phases?
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Cat Hair Mustache Puzzle(en.wikipedia.org)
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by akkartik 1y ago
It used to, but it sucks lately.
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by akkartik 1y ago
This is pretty much the answer. - I made this little thing with 100 levels, each easy enough to do in 30 seconds to 2 minutes: https://akkartik.name/post/2024-10-26-devlog . My kid has zero patience for lecturing, and t
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Buy a Blog Post(scannedinavian.com)
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by akkartik 1y ago
"We did notice, and documented in our paper, instances when the DGM hacked its reward function.. To see if DGM could fix this issue.. We created a “tool use hallucination” reward function.. in some cases, it removed the markers we use
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by akkartik 1y ago
A programming environment where boxes and arrows and hyperlinks are pervasively available to source code. https://akkartik.name/post/2025-03-08-devlog https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/114547652849
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by akkartik 1y ago
I don't care about dates on titles in HN, but strongly care about dates _somewhere_ on any post online. Some indication of the time (range) when it was published. Even if the author doesn't consider it important it helps future re
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by akkartik 1y ago
Top posting vs replying inline feels like an incomplete dichotomy. I often encounter threads on mailing lists where people are replying inline but not trimming the part they're not replying to. That makes it hard to follow. Or they rep
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by akkartik 1y ago
Yeah, the original paper gets into some of that. It was about 3D flocking! And Reynolds was very much thinking about what each bird sees, the minimum angle to turn to avoid a collision, etc. All on a then-powerful graphical workstation.
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by akkartik 1y ago
I don't know if this will address your question, but I had a long-standing question about boids that might overlap, which I coincidentally only resolved to my satisfaction a month ago. Here's the Lua code I ended up with: fu
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Practicing graphical debugging using visualizations of the Hilbert curve(akkartik.name)
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by akkartik 1y ago
I guess I'll stop here then.
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by akkartik 1y ago
The disconnect might be that I'm counting the weight of the terminal program itself. I think this makes for a more fair comparison. The terminal program is built by others, it often uses many of the same libraries for pixel graphics an
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by akkartik 1y ago
"A simple flat array of pixels means you have to reimplement much of a terminal, such as attribute rendering, font rendering etc. It's not a huge amount of work, but not having to is nice." For me the debate isn't abou
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by akkartik 1y ago
The point is well taken. I don't know much about interacting with GPUs. I don't particularly care so far about getting more performance, given the wildly fast computers I have and my use cases (I don't make or play games). I
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by akkartik 1y ago
Availability over ssh is indeed a good point. I've reduced my reliance over the network at the same time I've grown disenchanted with terminals; thanks for pointing out that connection. The rest are mutually incommensurable worldv
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by akkartik 1y ago
Anything is possible to fix; the question is why bother. Every fix cuts into the benefit of compatibility. The fundamental model of a wrapping/scrolling teletype isn't a good fit for the way we use computers today. (It does make s
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by akkartik 1y ago
Immature, obviously. Far fewer person-hours of labor have been put in relative to what you use all the time. But I find it worthwhile to get off the constant treadmill of new versions with features I don't care about. Cutting down on c
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by akkartik 1y ago
Whatever works! I mostly use LÖVE, and it supports both. Some reasons to run it from the terminal rather than simply double-clicking or a keyboard shortcut in the OS: * While I'm building an app I want to run from a directory rather th

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