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by laurentlb 1y ago
Interesting project! When I looked into CYOA, I opted for Ink. It's using a nice text-based language, a bit like markdown. It worked well for me, and I think it's a good option if you want to use a text editor. I wrote about my ex
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by laurentlb 1y ago
Nice project! As it was not clear from the description, there's a one-time payment (4.29€) to get more than 7 puzzles in a day. Lichess also offers a good alternative to this, although their offline support is limited.
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Couchers is officially out of beta(couchers.org)
249 points by laurentlb 1y ago|126 comments
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by laurentlb 1y ago
Thanks! To be fair, there have been a few years without a single commit: https://github.com/laurentlb/shader-minifier/graphs/contribu... (before 2013, the code was in a private svn repo). I also enjoy alterna
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by laurentlb 1y ago
Most transformations don't change the code that's executed. const float x = sin(2); const float y = 2; If you define these two consts, we can inline y everywhere it's used. But by default, we don't inline x as i
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by laurentlb 1y ago
I wrote this article mainly for the people in the demoscene. If anything is unclear or missing for the Hackernews audience, I'm happy to answer questions here. If anyone wants to try it, I've made a web build: https://c
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by laurentlb 1y ago
That's how I wrote my website a long time ago. #include "header.htm" <h1>Title</h1> ... #include "footer.htm" I'm still using it, and I wonder when I'll be able to get rid of
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15 Years of Shader Minification(ctrl-alt-test.fr)
147 points by laurentlb 1y ago|25 comments
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by laurentlb 1y ago
There are many ways to use LLMs. The issue, IMO, is that some people throw in a one-shot, short prompt, and get a generic, boring output. "Garbage in, generic out." Here's how I actually use LLMs: - To dump my thoughts and ge
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by laurentlb 1y ago
I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I agree: focusing on input, especially through comprehensible reading, seems like a solid approach. One resource I like for finding comprehensible input is: https://comprehensibleinputwiki.
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by laurentlb 1y ago
It would be fun to have a tool try guess your native language, based on your English writing.
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by laurentlb 1y ago
In ChatGPT settings, you can set your preferences, e.g. choose between tu/vous, and ask it to be more formal. This should fix your issue, right?
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by laurentlb 2y ago
If it's about readability, you could have a rule "either comma or line break".
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by laurentlb 2y ago
I agree it's confusing at the beginning, but I think it's much better to figure out the rules on your own. It requires a bit of testing, but it's completely doable. I'd add a line below the game, e.g. "Your first go
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by laurentlb 2y ago
There's some information on: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/01/illustrating-animal... "While sketching, I kept track of the number of circles I was using, counting one for every curve." After
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by laurentlb 2y ago
Once you've drawn the circles, I think you just need to specify which regions are filled. Arcs are just intersection of circles, so they are implicit, as far as I can tell.
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by laurentlb 2y ago
Regarding semantic versioning: what would constitute a breaking change? I think it makes sense to increase the major / minor numbers based on the importance of the release, but this is not semver.
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by laurentlb 2y ago
I like my numbering to start like my elevator panel: at zero.
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by laurentlb 2y ago
Putty and Winamp are two softwares that I've used for 20+ years on Windows and that still feel the same. They don't get old or outdated.
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by laurentlb 2y ago
The website doesn't mention any other country. It doesn't say if it was tested in other countries; it doesn't say if it's even legal in other countries. Does the pilot know the signs and driving laws outside the US? If t
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by laurentlb 2y ago
Interesting! Some feedback: - Try to make it clear in the description that it's software rendering (it's easy to miss this information). - The readme should include a clear list of features. - Be aware that the AGPL license might
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by laurentlb 2y ago
The entire website feels very US-centric. I've found a line in the FAQ that says: > Does openpilot work outside of the United States of America? > Yes, openpilot is not region locked and can be used in any country. You are respon
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by laurentlb 2y ago
I expected to see an "under construction" animated gif, but what I found was better. The garden theme made me smile. Now, I'm considering redesigning my website. I removed the links from my website a decade ago, but I enjoyed
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by laurentlb 2y ago
On a similar note, I enjoyed watching the video: https://youtu.be/mQ56uOkjccg?si=1hpwGqv2dQqLQ-ME (by Nutrition Made Simple!) It takes a specific topic (here, health effects of red meat) and explains how each type of study
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by laurentlb 2y ago
Interesting! This uses the Kokoro-82M model, which has a pretty good quality, but the set of languages is still quite limited.
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by laurentlb 2y ago
If anyone else wonders, naturalreaders provides no API.
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by laurentlb 2y ago
Interesting, I'm interested in something like this, but the page doesn't have much information. - What languages are supported? - How many voices are available? - Is it possible to use without a monthly subscription? I'd rath
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by laurentlb 2y ago
Interesting approach! Thanks for making it open-source, I think we need more open-language language learning tools. As I'm also building one ( https://github.com/laurentlb/lingostories/ ), I'm going to tak
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by laurentlb 2y ago
I've restarted a blog one year ago. I think it's worth having a platform, but it's not necessarily worth spending much time on it. In my case, I enjoy having a personal space. I had multiple posts I really wanted to write and
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by laurentlb 2y ago
For example, this commit seemed like a lot of work to save a single byte: https://github.com/donno2048/snake/commit/bd6bcb1a1477f28130...

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