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Re:Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:23PM (#50237901)
That's the example app that Google suggests people make.
Re:Financial Market Applications of LLMs on Saturday April 20, 2024 @10:41PM (#40102787)
Hard to waste any time reading about AI because it's likely written by AI. But then I probably shouldn't read anything written past 2022.
Subscribe to a service for one month when you're ready to start watching a season of a show. Cancel that service when you finish watching the season.
Re:A smart redesign of chess pieces on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:53AM (#39140270)
Good whittling project then.
Re:A smart redesign of chess pieces on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:52AM (#39140261)
If each movement is broken into a piecemeal function, then a non-standard piece could be assembled, such as a piece that moves like a knight in 3 directions and a bishop northwest and southwest.
Re:A smart redesign of chess pieces on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:44AM (#39140218)
8 squares or 8 Ls to show all liberties. One L symbolically.
Re:A smart redesign of chess pieces on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:39AM (#39140181)
I have an overgrown dice pip renderer, so I made the rook "+", knight "L", bishop 4-gram, queen 8-gram, king octagon, and pawn a trapezoid (just to suggest movement direction). https://vezquex.github.io/clock/chess/
Re:A smart redesign of chess pieces on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:23AM (#39140082)
I've gotten so used to 2D knights that it annoys me when people face them forward on a 3D board.
Re:A smart redesign of chess pieces on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:21AM (#39140073)
You could put each piece on a square base that must remain aligned with the board.
Re:A smart redesign of chess pieces on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:19AM (#39140059)
Yes, the knight is up to 8 squares in a 5x5 grid. https://github.com/vezquex/chess/blob/master/src/game/piece/...
Re:Fish Folk – open-source Bevy game on Friday May 26, 2023 @03:01AM (#36080952)
After dying 20 times, I finally picked up the sword with C. But my hand cannot reliably press WASDC+Space.

I know that we think of Shift as a modifier key, but for games it's actually a more practical action key, along with E and Q.

7-segment is a popular display format on Earth, but for an alien spaceship, consider 5x5 pixel fonts.
Re:I Am the Ghost Here on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:41AM (#34437097)
It appears you're all caught up and can look forward to "The Garbage Patch" in Ecotone this year. https://kimsamek.com/
Re:System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns on Thursday January 12, 2023 @05:15PM (#34361020)
16:9 demands true full-screen for viewing 16:9 content. 16:10 leaves a little room for toolbars if you just want to maximize a window and look at something.
Sparkling water on its own is fine.
BubbleUPnP for DLNA/Chromecast
Re:Foobar2000 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:22PM (#30081281)
It can import a folder as a giant playlist, which effectively serves as the libary.
Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward on Monday January 24, 2022 @12:56AM (#30054157)
Yes, I distinctly remember a single click followed by scrollwheel. Now the wheel does nothing.
Re:Where is Ruby Headed in 2021? on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:11AM (#29274606)
Would a Ruby IDE be able to figure it out?
Re:Firefox 94 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:18AM (#29081630)
It's especially strange to be constantly avoiding auto-updates when I'm trying to update everything with winget.
Nova Launcher has always been good. However, that still leaves Android Settings.
Re:GhostWriter is a distraction free Markdown editor on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:25PM (#26256205)
The cursor is blinking.
Re:Sentimental Versioning on Monday October 12, 2020 @05:20PM (#24759564)
4240 - 4103 = 137 days between versions.
Re:Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @04:41AM (#22985611)
Yeah, I had to reinstall one from source. https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) on Friday April 24, 2020 @07:23AM (#22966821)
This is surprising to learn, since I am using nvidia-driver-435 and fractional scaling (150%) on one monitor.
This, but unironically.
Re:The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI on Saturday October 12, 2019 @03:40AM (#21231302)
And when the app is updated every week, it opens up with the same tutorial again.
Re:Super Mario 64 has been decompiled on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @06:07PM (#20824528)
Super Mario 64 is a 3D game. The emulator can render the polygons at any resolution. The 2D textures should be replaced or carefully scaled, though.

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