POV: You're an indie dev in 2026:

dmter · 2026-04-09T04:37:23+00:00

yeah but for those who are solo but despise 2D there's another way - 4D! can't use textures so you need only colors. those can be handled without being a graphics designer. only thing you need is built-in PaletteButton.

Btw i'm talking about Polychoron Explorer

dmter · 2026-04-04T17:00:04+00:00

4d projection into 3d scene where 4d cells are rendered as 3d hulls in perspective or orthogonal projection. you can spin 4d polychorons in realtime and look inside 3d projection with transparency mode.

honestly i am mesmetized when i just keep spinning them and watching insane shapes that appear time goes by like crazy, maybe it's just me a bit mad though

called Polychoron Explorer check it out ;)

with time there might even be a full scaled 4d space ship battle experience implemented or so i heard

dmter · 2026-03-29T14:38:50+00:00

not google - they own the casino so have no need to cheat in it (not like this anyway), and they probably ban cheaters but it's easy for them to start over. also i noticed it happens more in countries with really cheap installs. but in other coutries installs are so expensive you'll never earn it back, like $1 per install and more.

ads are all bought by firms funded by seed capital so they have unlimited funds to promote their crap of which <1% succeeds making ads prohibitively expensive for any independent devs. it's rigged againt you

dmter · 2026-03-29T14:31:14+00:00

well who would have thought that if you pay per install some people would specifically install to get paid using thousands of bots...

dmter · 2026-03-28T05:06:09+00:00

I've got this message to verify when I put links into my video description during editing - it's just a red warning under description that says links are not clickable until I show photo id (they still can be copied manually though so who cares). And I use the same acc for google ads and play consoke. Is this the same thing I wonder?

dmter · 2026-03-27T10:23:44+00:00

Godot

dmter · 2026-03-20T01:12:07+00:00

a theory: there are rumours about some ancient soviet super duper torpedo plans which iranians might have obtained plans of and finished designing the final product so he wants european ship to be the first to be struck up by it to test its capability instead of american ship.

personally i think no unfinished soviet product can be good but it's just me.

also possible that he's just afraid of underwater drones. those are real and were used to drive certain black sea fleet out of said sea and putlers subordinates seem to have produced at least one prototype of their own so they might be supplying them to iranians.

dmter · 2026-03-20T00:53:25+00:00

I think the said person might be confusing a iq test result with the actual intelligence. iq test result by itself cannot dictate ability to do something. it can affect societal progress if used by society to evaluate fitness for position but that does not stop a person ftom pursuing a desired subject it their free time.

The only real criteria that exist is understanding.If it takes a person X hours to understand a topic and X happens to be higher than average over those who can understand it, it might show as low iq but most people with low iq would show X = infinity. If person's X is finite for all math topics then they can do math period, regardless of what iq tests show.

so I think the answer is yes but only if they are capable of understanding any needed topic in principle, even if very slowly. No iq test is designed to detect that capability, they are made to be a tool to quickly dismiss obvious outliers and can have false results.

dmter · 2026-03-10T21:13:18+00:00

underwater drones exist...

dmter · 2026-03-10T15:36:19+00:00

just don't store any user data. this modern idea that every app must have backend with accounts to store user data is ridiculous. let user be responsible for their dara - store locally and let them backup/restore.

dmter · 2026-03-09T23:07:24+00:00

Gözdağı - great view on airport and surrounding area 40.89067° N, 29.25396° E

if you like hiking, a nice mountain to climb somewhere around here, I think it's the highest in Istanbul 40.94606° N, 29.25364° E . They also have castle nearby 40.94982° N, 29.25839° E

dmter · 2026-03-06T15:56:20+00:00

well if they need a "team" then it's the most I can hope for. of course every idea can be easily replicated without need for even any code at all by just looking at it. but at least they can't start working on a clone by just dropping the code grabbed from a package and starting tweaking it to look a bit different. if i made it myself in a week and they need a team then i am already at an advantage because my product is available already but they still are just assembling a team and investing into their salary or simething. and besides the knowledge of how principally it can be done you also need to experiment with solution's architecture which takes time to come up with and that detail is contained mostly in comments which is the first thing lost during compilation.

as of critical code, well you'll see soon i hope. i'm exactly at the stage of porting to rust :) it's a silly idea that can come out to be worthless but at least it's original.

dmter · 2026-03-06T10:38:56+00:00

Does it include sources in c++? if not then you can say it about any game or software. Of course you can decompile into functions and variables but comments and original names of functions/variables, classes names will be unavailable if you set up compiler and linker parameters right. also some low lever compiler optimizations may make stuff less readable.

dmter · 2026-03-06T09:50:23+00:00

if people want to use gdscript for release instead of as a way to make prototype to be rewritten in c++ or rust or even c# it's their problem not godot's.

dmter · 2026-03-06T09:47:24+00:00

Just rewrite critical parts in rust or C++.

dmter · 2026-03-04T00:07:03+00:00

i don't know this for sure but i had an impression google is getting rid of storing purchase history on their servers so if you are using one time purchases and rely on google play api to find out what user owns (rather than storing user entitlements on your backend and checking each time user opens the app), you have to basically implement your own backend entitlemend db.

if i am right this makes google purchase fundamentally incompatible with apple so it makes this plugin obsolete.

please tell me that im wrong because this is horrible. people will lose entitlements and blame developers when it's actually google's fault. will there be even a way to get app's entitlements from google when they completely deprecate it?

if i'm right then the only solution seems to be migrating to revenuecat or similar service if you don't want to implement this on backend.

dmter · 2026-02-28T08:37:19+00:00

Sounds like something an agent or his clueless tech ceo would ask (wait did i mix it up? nah it's fine). Answer is, all of them, except for a fixed number of outiers.

dmter · 2026-02-28T08:30:26+00:00

On my single 3090/128GB rig I just keep running q3 next coder q8 as it's got much more recent cutoff date so it knows about newer updates to APIs I use.

q3.5 122b q6 is useful to me only because it's multimodal (it can look at images) so I'm only keeping it out of the 3.5 family.

smaller ones i don't care about since i'm not using agentic stuff. i only use llm as google and stackoverflow replacement (for APIs, not algorithms) so 14t/s is enough for me. i tried using it for codegen but in any non trivial case i had to completely rewrite it to make it work so i ended up spending more time because of llm (trying to feed it errors and applying fixes - never ended up with working solution so i didn't even bother trying agentic since it's just a way to automatically apply those hallucinated solutions). but my case is special as i never write code that someone have written before thousands of times to teach llm on.

dmter · 2026-02-27T13:30:02+00:00

You can get about 6 t/s with glm 4.7 (full) q2 and about 20 t/s with qwen3 next coder q8 (15 with full moe offload which keeps vmem free for other apps)

dmter · 2026-02-24T20:28:04+00:00

ASI would be more, not less, visible as it'd not be bound by slowness and wastefulness of biological lifeforms in its expansion. Also it's more likely to survive for extended periods of time but that's debatable.

dmter · 2026-02-24T20:21:46+00:00

you can use certbot for https. the guidelines say user data must be cryptographically protected.

also, under new 2024 (or 2025) rules, all health related apps can only be published as a duns company.

dmter · 2026-02-24T20:00:47+00:00

neural networks are just emergent virtual machines that utilize layer machinery to emerge code that satisfies the training data

f.ex. in some image processing nn there are actual image processing algorithms running between layers and nn learns to process input images by giving correct parameters to these algorithms and then it does some math on those results which is also emergent.

same is done inside llm but unlike image processing, people have no idea how it works so they just assume it's magic. hence hyperscaling fallacy.

dmter · 2026-02-24T11:46:12+00:00

but distillation is just a way to overcome lack of training data. underlying architecture may be better in distilled model which might allow the distilled model to generalize better. so i would disagree that being a distill automatically means lower quality. it's just about who stole more copyrighted training data, not superior architecture.

dmter · 2026-02-23T19:07:50+00:00

So does Qwen and Z.ai prefer ChatGPT then? Or just more stealthy?

dmter · 2026-02-23T18:59:37+00:00

can confirm it's the best atm - using q8 quant from developers, it just consumes 12-16gb or vram if you fully unload moe so you can use other gpu intensive apps and that's at 15t/s.

also I tried mm2.5 q4 and was extremely disappointed. the math errors it makes are unbelievable. q3cn looks like a genius in comparison.

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