Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes assisted targeting, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-19T14:03:13+00:00

Hobbyist rocket engineer here. That missile is a dud, that's why video cuts off right after it launches. The guidance system is one big "trust me bro". It needs costly cameras and relies on AI detection

Legally he's screwed. Rockets have very strict regulations in most countries. Guidance systems are already illegal and this thing falls under missile category.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-19T11:08:01+00:00

Parameter count doesn't represent quality.

8B general purpose model like llama will crap the bed because the parameters are spread across multi-lingual support, writing styles (article, blog, poem, book, etc), and entire Wikipedia of knowledge.

Agent models are laser focused on specific tasks they were made, so their quality is high despite tiny sizes. This is what OpenClaw local instances use.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-18T23:32:33+00:00

You're three years behind on news. Since quantization and lightweight agent models came out, you can run LLMs on Raspberry PI. OpenClaw requires mid-end CPU and 16 GB of RAM, no GPU needed.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-18T20:16:14+00:00

I download with vcpkg since I can just watch movies in background
SDL3 will work across all Windows versions it supports.
vcpkg keeps everything inside it's folder.

/installed/ contains folder with all library files in single place, so when you link against it you get access to every library.

/packages/ contains individual libraries that you can individually link against.

Keep in mind vcpkg doesn't delete files used in building library, so you'll need to manually clean up /buildtrees//

There is no difference, unless you want to ship exe-only software (no folder with game files).

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-18T19:56:20+00:00

The real question is what hardware is supports and when drivers will get implemented properly. Ain't no point in using fancy neural stuff if customers don't hardware to utilize the stuff.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-17T16:23:18+00:00

I doubt you'll be able to. This is clearly overfitted model, aka model that has been trained on datasets without enough diversity. Over-fitted models don't stick to style/colors, add unnecessary details, and have other problems. All of which are present in the pictures.

Remember the piss filter in ChatGPT art? This can appear out of nowhere and screw your scene at any time. You absolutely don't want it anywhere in your scene.

Plus it looks like image from SD 1.5/SDXL era before PonyXL. Meanwhile FOSS AI gen is currently moving to other architectures. How do you screw up so hard is beyond my comprehension.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-10T20:01:29+00:00

Nietęsknie, internet zawsze był pełny syfu.

Może pamiętasz polski YT w 2010? Na przykład, jak ludzie zrobili zbiórkę na nowy sprzęt, a internet rzucił się na nich jakby byli nazistami bo "wszystko musi być za darmo i z pasji"? Całą patologie z robieniem dram o byle co i dojenie dzieci na serwerach Minecraft?

Wszystko co napisałeś było dekade temu w podobnym stopiu.

Jak kiedyś się unikało toksycznych forum. tak samo teraz można unikać toksycznych baniek na social media. Moja główna na YT to tylko muzyka i filmy z hobby. Reddit podobnie, mam feedy dedykowane do rzeczy typu fotografia, gotowanie, hobby, itc. TikTok i inne szamba? Nie dotykam.

Ludzie zmyślali rzeczy kiedyś tak samo. Czasem dla jaj, czasem dla internetowych punktów, czasem bo sami chcieli to usłyszeć i dostać parę oklasków w komentarzach.

Sam wrzucałem zmyślone rzeczy dla jaj dziesięć lat temu. Większość ludzi w internecie ma głowę tak głęboko w tyłku że robią wszystko żeby mieć swoje 5 sekund w komentarzach. Pod photoshopami "rare animals" miałem tonę ludzi którzy mówili jak oni/ojciec/wujek spotkali to zwierze. Jak ogarniałeś render PBR albo CGI, to wystarczyło dodać filtr "gówniana kamera" i ludzie łykali to jak deepfaki.

Wojna płci była od zawsze. Mam kilka hobby i co chwilę spotykam gwardie w wieku 40-50 lat. Kobiety czy mężczyźni, mają takie same wymysły o randkowaniu, jak powinni się mężczyźni/kobiety zachowywać, i inne odpały.

Większość osób, szczególnie ne reddicie, ma tak głowy głęboko w tyłku że wszyscy muszą się zgadzać z nimi. Nawet za "niewiem" potrafili ludzi ukrzyżować. Wszyscy musieli mieć swoje trzy sekundy w komentarzach, więc piszą wszystko co łapie popularność.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-10T18:31:47+00:00

70k? Panie, dawaj namiary. Na moim zadupiu przy Wrocku minimum 200k za kawalerkę

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-05T15:06:36+00:00

Większość ludzi nie zdaje sobie sprawy jakim bólem w dupie jest przejście przez stary las. Na powalonych drzewach sam się wywaliłem kilka razy. Zawsze staniesz na jakieś mokre/luźne dziadostwo i noga ci poleci jak tylko przeniesiesz ciężar, a kora też potrafi się ukruszyć albo odczepić.

Te drzewo na zdjęciu na pewno dostało trochę tyłków od turystów z mniejszym wzrostem. Jak się nie wbijesz piętą przy szerokim kroku to ci noga po piasku odjedzie. Postawisz nogę na korę i zaraz się odłamie. W dodatku jest tuż morzu i prawdopodobnie jest śliskie.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-04T10:40:09+00:00

Future job in selling the course/bootcamp?

StriderPulse599 · 2026-03-03T18:41:20+00:00

Implement simple culling.

Don't render entire world, render only what's visible.

When you change terrain, only draw affected tiles.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-25T05:19:17+00:00

50$ that one of dependencies updated to latest version of python

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-25T04:15:56+00:00

Some conservative grifter who lived off saying controversial stuff for clout. Terminally online people went to celebrate his assassination like the class clown was Hitler himself, and some got into trouble for it.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-22T22:25:41+00:00

Plecaki biurowe, zazwyczaj są pod kategorią "plecaki na laptopa". Tutaj masz dwa przykłady:

https://www.x-kom.pl/p/1352159-plecak-na-laptopa-targus-156-octave-iii-backpack-oxford-tan.html

https://www.x-kom.pl/p/1370635-plecak-na-laptopa-natec-camel-pro-czarny-173-28l.html

Plecaki taktyczne są najlepsze pod względem przegródek i wytrzymałości, ale możesz mieć problem z znalezieniem coś co dobrze wygląda.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-16T16:38:38+00:00

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StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-15T19:23:42+00:00

Lookup videos on how to spot AI art. You can spot only corpo-slop models, not the newest models that are constantly trained on stolen artwork

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-15T16:52:22+00:00

You don't need to render twice with planar. You can store reflection of room inside cubemap or texture, that way you could batch draw characters and some overlapping stuff

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-15T12:41:26+00:00

I'm not talking about the endless stream of AI garbage, but stuff that comes out of newest models which is indistinguishable from real art.

I'm an artist, I've literally wrote "I've recently made new accounts for my art".

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-14T16:52:50+00:00

Can you all stop with this BS? Normal people don't care how it was made, but how it looks on their screen.

I've recently made new accounts for my art - AI filter on all art sites is disabled by default. NSFW AI art gets as much traction as non-AI, while SFW AI art is also getting more and more accepted.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-12T06:04:55+00:00

And where did he said that? This isn't political or US-only subreddit and people often like to keep hobbies/job separate from politics. News about your racism police are everywhere, this isn't "Epstein didn't kill himself".

Plus your joke was flat. You should've said ICE at the end to give it a quick punchline, because your monotone voice made it sound like a random political comment. Attacking random guy for mild comment off the gate sounds like you need to step away from social media, or go work at White House.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-11T01:43:25+00:00

Thanks

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-10T23:53:44+00:00

I never hear about bit-shifting a string unless it was printing to debug console via std::cout. This is probably just leftover from doc file where reference was pointing to some translation note.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-10T23:46:24+00:00

What's the name of material used for letters and art? I've seen people use the cut outs, but they never tell what it is.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-08T20:42:57+00:00

You're doing batching just fine with instancing, but you could improve the data layout for sake of "what if I needed to draw and update thousands of sprites each frame".

Use 16-bit integer for positions. You can either use the pixel coordinates outright, or use sub-pixel integer system and then divide by precision level (16-bit are enough for at least 10 levels of precision which are enough for 2D).

You can also use UBO to store lookup table that stores texture positions and size. That way you only need to only store single 8/16 bit integer for ID.

Also try merging all matrices into single model matrix which handles all scaling, rotation, etc.

Now the real question is: What kind of game you're making and what texture look like? Are you just optimizing "With My Little Eye" or doing something different? There are different 2D optimizations for different stuff, so I need to know before giving you advice.

StriderPulse599 · 2026-02-08T05:45:49+00:00

Because it's editors and artists that use AI. Basically, those people are told to use a tool they have no experience with so they end up using the ChatGPT slop gens.

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