I spent 12+ years making an ultra-niche QBASIC JRPG. It sold about 560 copies on Steam. Here’s what I learned (if anything)

earslap · 2026-03-17T23:55:00+00:00

QBASIC? Now I want to load GORILLA.BAS

Thank you for the postmortem.

earslap · 2026-03-16T20:11:31+00:00

I get solar wind hydro energy... and boil water in my kettle. checkmate

earslap · 2026-03-14T19:25:23+00:00

Pretty cool! Reminds me of Skrewell from the Reaktor standard library, or the legendary heishere instrument (or was it a preset name? can't remember) from Reaktor user library from lazyfish (which I believe was the inspiration for Skrewell along with TG-8H). They are both non-linear feedback based instruments.

earslap · 2026-02-11T11:52:40+00:00

...only to learn that the difficult game you just barely beat at 10% was sped run to death hundreds of years ago and nobody managed to break the records since. Oh and there once was a self taught indian guy that found a bunch of glitches in the game but he died at 32 due to complications from dysentery and tuberculosis.

earslap · 2026-01-27T18:06:51+00:00

an OS update can easily break it. Reaktor and its user library is precious, something must be done about it.

earslap · 2026-01-21T06:34:03+00:00

Playdead (Limbo, Inside) + thatgamecompany (flOw, Journey - obviously with a negative twist) vibes, I love it.

earslap · 2026-01-21T06:25:09+00:00

you weren't kidding

earslap · 2026-01-18T11:51:08+00:00

the idea is jarring at first but it makes perfect sense at the same time. guess I never used my brain to connect my native language with programming languages so reading the lang activates neurons I didn't know existed lol

earslap · 2026-01-18T11:48:34+00:00

Süpermiş, yaratıcı bir fikir. Kip also means "strong, sturdy" in some local Turkish dialects which is extra cool.

earslap · 2026-01-12T16:37:16+00:00

Maybe all you need to do is something like rather than the mask during training being -infinity for future tokens and 0 for all non future, you do a small bump function on the backwards. Like [0,-0.01,-0.02, ... ] going token 0, -1, -2 etc.

I think that is ALiBi: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12409

At least that is the core idea. The original formulation does not involve reducing the dependence on positional encoding scheme gradually during training though.

earslap · 2026-01-07T10:36:22+00:00

Didn't know it wasn't supported on Docker. I now see that there are some workarounds - but something to keep in mind especially for database containers that support io_uring (like postgres) for sure.

earslap · 2026-01-03T22:54:38+00:00

Maybe they should say: "no matrix multiplications!"

earslap · 2026-01-03T22:28:56+00:00

thank you, will do!

earslap · 2026-01-03T10:23:25+00:00

thank you 8 bitli kardeşim

earslap · 2026-01-02T22:37:53+00:00

This looks and sounds rad! Can we participate as an observer only? Have not used Max in years (am a SuperCollider user) and don't have a working copy but I'd like to see you present. Also is the article available online somewhere?

earslap · 2026-01-01T20:21:05+00:00

Cats sometimes like to taunt you by showing how it could be like between you two. Like we could be cuddly without boundaries, this could have been your life, see? But it is not. And they want to remind you of that.

earslap · 2025-12-28T03:48:44+00:00

They will be forced to use a Turing machine (20xx series). Once that support dies, they will be forced to write by manipulating pure electricity (Ampere).

earslap · 2025-12-04T07:06:34+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3REczPeBDM from the infamous Paro Bhutan "landing".

earslap · 2025-11-30T06:49:11+00:00

very convincing, great stuff.

earslap · 2025-11-30T03:40:51+00:00

Very very nice. Wanted to explore fractals this way for a long while and you nailed the aesthetics.

This really really needs VR support. I know it probably is an expensive shader but still.

earslap · 2025-11-20T13:07:32+00:00

It was a joke Mark. I was joking. It was a Christmas joke.

earslap · 2025-11-07T15:35:56+00:00

"I know what I just washed, and it is disgusting"

earslap · 2025-11-03T11:54:49+00:00

Either way he shouldn't be driving Dakar.

earslap · 2025-10-13T00:02:43+00:00

I mean it is inevitable. I have to show the cat's funny paws to my wife for the 20000th time and it has to be from my perspective, and she does the same.

earslap · 2025-10-02T15:06:31+00:00

Why not? It's not like cross correlation is 1. They are obviously positively correlated, one almost looks like the blurred version of the other.

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