cbeach

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by cbeach 6d ago
nope, not at present. The houses act as your "health" (once they're all gone, it's game over), so I'm minded to keep them as a finite resource. Always open to suggestions to improve the game dynamics though.
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Show HN: Raiders at the Gate – tower defense web game(games.chrisbeach.co.uk)
2 points by cbeach 6d ago|3 comments
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by cbeach 6d ago
> That the USA is turning into the number #1 rogue country is also problematic. Trump is damaging everything here Only in the minds of the far left is "Trump damaging everything", or is the US "the #1 rogue country" P
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by cbeach 6d ago
'decolonize the curriculum' says it all. This is the left doing what they always do: finding supposed victims and oppressors, and acting (loudly and publicly) as white knight saviours. Doesn't matter if the victims asked for
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by cbeach 7d ago
Caption.me owner here. Sincerely interested in any and all suggestions. I admit the landing page experience for non-signed-in users is pretty weak as it stands.
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by cbeach 7d ago
Yup, I was had by a malicious fake Homebrew site that had the #1 spot in Google thanks to it being an ad (a key fact that was very unclear at the time of browsing Google)
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by cbeach 7d ago
My Adsense account got automatically disabled years ago, allegedly for click fraud (no such behaviour on my part) and there was no effective way for me to appeal. I'm now a huge supporter of any initiative or law that attempts to break
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Caption.me now autonomously improves itself(forum.caption.me)
7 points by cbeach 7d ago|2 comments
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by cbeach 11d ago
> In 2010: Wikimedia Foundation annual expenses were about $20m The numbers are worse than that. FY2009-10 expenses were $10.3M. FY2024-25: $190.9M. 19x increase in fifteen years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik
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by cbeach 12d ago
I use MCP for Stackography, a tool I built that visualises my estate (hosts, apps, databases, tunnels, proxies etc), showing a force-directed graph, which includes live health, and a flexible search tool. It's very good for answering q
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by cbeach 18d ago
I totally agree. When we started splitting presentation from content (CSS) that was a wonderful step forwards. And splitting back-end and front-end concerns similarly makes for a cleaner and more elegant design in both codebases. IMO HTMX i
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by cbeach 19d ago
> Some people say it's a loss for EU sovereign AI but HF is technically an American corporation Three French founders set up the company in New York, raised their money from American investors (Salesforce, GV, IBM, Nvidia) and are n
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by cbeach 19d ago
Interesting that Hugging Face turned down a $500M investment from Nvidia less than a year ago (at a $7B valuation) because they "didn't want a dominant investor that could sway its decisions" https://techcrunch.com
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by cbeach 19d ago
I have aphantasia. When I learnt the “mind’s eye” was not a metaphor, it was a wild moment for me! I still find it hard to believe that others are able to visualise using their imagination. I’m curious about a potential link between aphanta
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by cbeach 22d ago
That Bluesky link is sign-in-walled. Ironic, given how many people criticise X.com for its sign-in requirements.
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by cbeach 22d ago
X.com makes it nearly impossible to run bot accounts, with its phone number per account requirement, and the astronomical fees for using its API. Twitter, by comparison, was trivially easy to run bots on. I ran many automated Twitter accoun
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by cbeach 22d ago
It's not insane if you're trying to build a social network without bots and foreign interference.
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by cbeach 23d ago
There's no "catastrophising" here. This is simply an article that rationally explains why the latest EU regulation is well meaning but poorly implemented. It just so happens that the same is true for a lot of EU technical reg
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by cbeach 24d ago
Please, not this juvenile “I disagree with the political leaning of a newspaper so I demand everyone else boycott it” student union behaviour. All sources have their biases. I could come up with several examples of the BBC and Guardian repo
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by cbeach 28d ago
Ruby (language) on Rails (highly opinionated framework) is both a language and an architecture.
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by cbeach 29d ago
After their infamous "Fail Whale" outages, Twitter replaced its Ruby on Rails / MySQL stack with modern (at the time) technologies: Scala (functional language running on the JVM) / Finagle (RPC) / Thrift (framework)
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by cbeach 1mo ago
Anyone thinking of buying 2x RTX Pro 6000 Blackwells - beware: unlike other cards e.g. RTX 5090, The RTX Pro 6000 cards cannot be NV-Linked, so you'll be going through the PCIe bus instead (7x higher sync cost)
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by cbeach 1mo ago
They deserve it. I'm in the UK. The smartest developers I worked with in my ~20 year career were all Polish. The hardest-working and most skilled tradespeople that worked on my houses were Polish.
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by cbeach 2mo ago
The EU is completely different to a parliamentary democracy. Only the unelected European Commission is able to originate and repeal law. The elected “Parliament” is only able to vote Directives through. And if Parliament vote against a Dire
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by cbeach 2mo ago
This website tracks AI model political leanings: https://trakkr.ai/bias Grok differs from some of the other models (it's more libertarian, and more right wing), but all models have their biases - particularly ChatGPT,
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by cbeach 3mo ago
In the EU that's the norm not the exception. A little taste of Europe for our American friends :-S
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by cbeach 3mo ago
Just my idea. I'm working on a side project https://newsavista.com/invite/ASAD68923E that aggregates news and tracks news trends and changing sentiment on the major stories. With cheap cloud LLMs (and "free&q
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by cbeach 3mo ago
This is excellent. A minor suggestion - I'd like to be able to render the current graph taller (full height of my browser window). Also some sentiment analysis on the "people" graphs would be very insightful (particularly for
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by cbeach 3mo ago
The Guardian either wilfully or ignorantly publishes stats from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry. Anyone who repeats these stats is an accessory to the terrorist regime in charge of Gaza.
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by cbeach 3mo ago
It was Hamas’s war - started by a terrorist organisation butchering, abducting and raping young unarmed citizens. The scale of the aftermath is what happens when an advanced democracy faces an existential threat from a terrorist-led neighbo

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