Hacker News: Raphael

New comment by Raphael in "Financial market applications of LLMs"

Raphael — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 02:41:24 +0000

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.

New comment by Raphael in "Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly"

Raphael — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 01:41:20 +0000

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.

New comment by Raphael in "I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions"

Raphael — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:53:49 +0000

Good whittling project then.

New comment by Raphael in "I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions"

Raphael — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:52:28 +0000

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.

New comment by Raphael in "I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions"

Raphael — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:44:52 +0000

8 squares or 8 Ls to show all liberties. One L symbolically.

New comment by Raphael in "I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions"

Raphael — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:39:16 +0000

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/

New comment by Raphael in "I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions"

Raphael — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:23:02 +0000

I've gotten so used to 2D knights that it annoys me when people face them forward on a 3D board.

New comment by Raphael in "I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions"

Raphael — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:21:17 +0000

You could put each piece on a square base that must remain aligned with the board.

New comment by Raphael in "I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions"

Raphael — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:19:11 +0000

Yes, the knight is up to 8 squares in a 5x5 grid. https://github.com/vezquex/chess/blob/master/src/game/piece/...

New comment by Raphael in "Fish Folk – open-source Bevy game"

Raphael — Fri, 26 May 2023 07:01:36 +0000

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.

New comment by Raphael in "Show HN: Homemade rocketship treehouse – hardware to custom OS"

Raphael — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 01:08:28 +0000

7-segment is a popular display format on Earth, but for an alien spaceship, consider 5x5 pixel fonts.

New comment by Raphael in "I Am the Ghost Here"

Raphael — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 05:41:55 +0000

It appears you're all caught up and can look forward to "The Garbage Patch" in Ecotone this year. https://kimsamek.com/

New comment by Raphael in "System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns"

Raphael — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 22:15:58 +0000

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.

Audacious 4.2 Released

Raphael — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:17:23 +0000

Article URL: https://audacious-media-player.org/news/53-audacious-4-2-released

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32077894

Points: 1

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New comment by Raphael in "Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer"

Raphael — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 19:32:49 +0000

Sparkling water on its own is fine.

New comment by Raphael in "Ask HN: Does anyone care anymore what Google demos in IO?"

Raphael — Thu, 12 May 2022 09:47:50 +0000

BubbleUPnP for DLNA/Chromecast

New comment by Raphael in "Foobar2000"

Raphael — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 03:22:43 +0000

It can import a folder as a giant playlist, which effectively serves as the libary.

New comment by Raphael in "The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward"

Raphael — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 05:56:37 +0000

Yes, I distinctly remember a single click followed by scrollwheel. Now the wheel does nothing.

New comment by Raphael in "Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?"

Raphael — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 07:11:29 +0000

Would a Ruby IDE be able to figure it out?

New comment by Raphael in "Firefox 94"

Raphael — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:18:56 +0000

It's especially strange to be constantly avoiding auto-updates when I'm trying to update everything with winget.