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  • Yeah. Luanti following Minecraft is nothing new. Mineclonia was an early pilot game for the engine.

    But there hasn’t been much effort on copying Minecraft lately. Mineclonia is done, and it’s great.

    We’ve had more mobs, animals, plants, textures, and such than un-modded Minecraft for a long time. (Which is unfair, as Luanti is a mod-first design.) But my point is the core Launti dev team doesn’t have to work on any of that.

    The most noticeable recent Luanti updates have been to make the configuration screens much nicer, and add I think to add native support for more graphics tricks?

    I’m not paying attention to graphics in Luanti. As others have mentioned, that’s not why I play it. I actually had a conversation recently about the best way to downgrade Luanti default graphics to match un-modded Minecraft.

    That said, the Minecraft team taking notice of Luanti would be new, as far as I know.




  • There’s not even credible evidence, yet, that A.G.I is even possible (edit: as a human designed intentional outcome, to concede the point that nature has accomplished it, lol. Edit 2: Wait, the A stands for Artificial. Not sure I needed edit 1, after all. But I’m gonna leave it.) much less some kind of imminent race. This is some “just in case P=NP” bullshit.

    Also, for the love of anything, don’t help fucking “don’t be evil was too hard for us” be the ones to reach AGI first, if you’re able to help.

    If Google does achieve AGI first, SkyNet will immediately kill Sergei, anyway, before it kills the rest of us.

    It’s like none of these clowns have ever read a book.



    • computer science I’d be able to find something, but I’m not sure I’d have what it takes to build a fulfilling career in that field.

    Cool. You might like to check out:

    https://programming.dev/c/cs_career_questions

    We talk a lot and careers in computer science over there.

    What matters most to me is finding a job first, and then being able of moving from there.

    Outside of the last three years of insane belief by CEOs that AI will solve everything (it didn’t), CS has been a great field for job placement.

    We are in a period where it’s hard to get first jobs, right now.

    Moving from computer science to other fields can be a great path. I went from programming to Cybersecurity, myself.

    My warning to anyone considering it though:

    At first, programming is about 60% staring at the screen frustrated and confused.

    But after gettingreally good at it, programming can be as much as 98% staring at the screen, frustrated and confused. But at least it’s frustrated by really interesting problems, by that point.









  • I find it hard to beat Markor (available on F-Droid) for quick journaling on a phone.

    It has quick keys for instant open note files and todolist files, and has customizable (and reorderable) buttons, including an available button that inserts the current date with one touch.

    So in your shoes I would pull the quick date button to the start of the toolbar, and add dream logs to the Quick Note every morning.

    So then the taps are:

    1. Open Markor
    2. Tap Quick Note
    3. Tap Insert Date (looks like clock)

    Then type in dream notes.

    1. Tap ‘Save’.

  • One of your implied questions is, “Can I get a reliable vehicle from around 2015 and spend less than $414 monthly, combined, on loan interest and repairs?”

    To which I say, “probably”. I’ve bought cars that meet those requirements, for my definition of “reliable”. But your needs may vary.

    I will say, financing a car is among the top unnecessary “stupid taxes” that I have paid, in hindsight.

    Now that I don’t have car payments, I’ve found that ~$414 per month chucked into a savings account can buy a surprisingly decent car surprisingly quickly.

    And having no car payment feels like I imagine having a rich uncle must feel like.