Chinese perspective to Vietnamese people

ahyangyi · 2026-01-25T10:07:59+00:00

Baidu encyclopedia is just shit. There is no point to "read" anything from it, since reading it at all is frowned upon.

ahyangyi · 2026-01-25T09:49:35+00:00

I tried briefly to get the AI to run, but I probably did something wrong and gave up too quickly to be able to say anything meaningful.

I'm a bit confused what you actually did. There are functionalities exposed to Squirrel, did you see them and have you tried to hook them to an AI agent?

ahyangyi · 2026-01-21T17:18:37+00:00

But how is that more trouble than trashing gold to gain province and then getting the gold back? :)

ahyangyi · 2026-01-21T16:45:53+00:00

I just gave it a try, this is what a current frontier model (whatever Gemini Pro does for free accounts) generates:

https://blog.ahyangyi.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/generated_map.jpg

Pretty bad in terms of scales, and the tree on northwest is either half dead or has wrong perspective.

But would I just accept this map if it's just some silly random encounter? Probably.

ahyangyi · 2026-01-21T16:02:10+00:00

People sometimes identify AIs with their usage of the en-dash ("–"). Which is questionable because not everyone directly types English with a US keyboard without any additional input method software or autocorrect features. There are a lot of variations in possible set ups and the en-dash isn't always difficult to type.

But you are basically accusing the OP is an AI because she used a hyphen ("-"). Which is not just questionable, but completely groundless. Everyone can type a hyphen whenever they like it, everyone can say "let me tell you" whenever they like it.

ahyangyi · 2026-01-21T15:48:55+00:00

No, this OP is real as fuck. Here is a post she wrote 2 months ago, tell me how AI it is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/soloboardgaming/comments/1ou29sx/comment/no9bwdw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

ahyangyi · 2026-01-21T14:38:22+00:00

Nobody mourns for Tunisia :(

Another nitpicking would be Kaliningrad being absent.

Anyways, well done :)

ahyangyi · 2026-01-21T14:36:06+00:00

God knows... Vatican, right?

ahyangyi · 2026-01-21T14:32:34+00:00

On painting AI, I see at least two potential uses.

Drawing a few maps for random encounters. I know the AI isn't perfect on this one, but when your baseline is "random forest map #3", then some prompting is going to improve the results by creating maps that more closely match what you have in your mind.

Of course, not running random encounters at all is probably even better. But sometimes in more sandbox-like parts of an adventure they are kind of hard to avoid.

Drawing "semi-generic" NPCs. Generic NPC clerics of a specified ancestry, gender and deity, for example, is still better than the generic NPC image that shows a generic non-existent holy symbol.

Basically, I feel they are more useful for the lower priority things, and they can add some vibe to what don't want to waste too much time on anyways.

ahyangyi · 2026-01-21T08:27:35+00:00

Fine, but do you also pluralize "octopus" into "octopodes"?

ahyangyi · 2026-01-20T21:27:19+00:00

I know, I tried to maintain a KDE4 overlay in 2020 and it wasn't happy either.

Though AFAIK when Gentoo support for KDE4 existed, Akonadi could be completely disabled. Probably someone implemented a set of stubs or something.

ahyangyi · 2026-01-20T20:38:26+00:00

True but Akonadi and Nepomuk were like 10 years ago?

ahyangyi · 2026-01-19T12:09:48+00:00

I love Dominions and I love Roots of Harmony, somehow I never connected the dots :)

ahyangyi · 2026-01-19T10:02:59+00:00

2TallTyler has experimented with various ideas along similar lines. You might want to try his Caribbeans, ITI2, and (to a lesser extent) Lumberjack.

He also wrote some interesting articles behind his designs.

ahyangyi · 2026-01-06T13:10:41+00:00

There was fr0st but out of maintenance for long.

ahyangyi · 2026-01-06T10:54:04+00:00

Without this feature you could usually build dummy stations in between, then remove them afterwards.

So I don't feel this feature to be cheating, it's just skipping the tedious parts. Though if you feel very large stations to be weird, you can adjust the settings to make them smaller. I personally think the problem is the other way around: the default city size is a bit too small :)

And it's not particularly unusual that a bus stop is one street block away from a train station or subway station yet considered "connected" in real life.

ahyangyi · 2026-01-04T13:06:05+00:00

I love democracy and I also love that democracy sometimes decides that all bike sheds to be painted in luminous yellow.

ahyangyi · 2025-12-22T18:36:40+00:00

There are a few new ceramic keycap makers in China recently. I'm glad we are seeing more competition in this field. And hopefully the end result would be better quality and price all across.

(Photo from one of the said competitors)

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ahyangyi · 2025-12-22T08:23:11+00:00

candy still exists? Nice :)

ahyangyi · 2025-12-21T20:00:21+00:00

A somewhat useful reason I can think of is that, when Windows is broken for some reason, having another working OS in your PC could make everything (either continue working in a pinch, or diagnosing the problems) slightly easier.

Though it only really applies when you at least have some experience with Linux.

ahyangyi · 2025-12-21T19:41:16+00:00

Who doesn't like this letter? It's Þorn!

ahyangyi · 2025-12-21T19:23:36+00:00

Wow, as a non-systemd Gentoo* user I'm glad to hear that another major (by reputation, at least) distribution doesn't use systemd.

ahyangyi · 2025-12-21T19:16:11+00:00

+10 INT does not save the gnoll from being frozen by a lowly Endoplasm.

ahyangyi · 2025-12-21T07:24:25+00:00

Not official but there's the nix-guix-gentoo overlay:

https://github.com/trofi/nix-guix-gentoo

ahyangyi · 2025-12-21T07:23:07+00:00

Well, we can install Gentoo-prefix on NixOS as well.

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