kwerk's comments

On: Ribbonfarm Is Retiring

[kwerk]

He’s talking about blogs in general

On: Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome ex...

[kwerk]

I love Plasmo

On: Smart devices a privacy nightmare, Amazon Alexa, G...

[kwerk]

Weird how Apple is neither mentioned in the article or (the first dozen) comments here.

On: Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL pr...

[kwerk]

Will it work with GraphQL?

[aazo11 → kwerk]

Currently does not but looking to add support. Would love to connect and learn more about your use case.

[saigal → kwerk]

No

On: We are moving to General Availability

[kwerk]

Congrats! Happy supabase user here

On: DBRX: A new open LLM

[kwerk]

I have two 3090s and it runs fine with `ollama run mixtral`. Although OP definitely meant mistral with the 7B note

[jsight → kwerk]

ollama run mixtral will default to the quantized version (4bit IIRC). I'd guess this is why it can fit with two 3090s.

On: Pimp Your Board Games

[kwerk]

You’re popular on Reddit! I just wish you had Lord of the Rings LCG :)

[agscala → kwerk]

I do have tokens for that game!

https://burgertokens.com/products/lotr-lcg-tokens

On: Pimp Your Board Games

[kwerk]

I made custom glass tokens [0] for Lord of the Rings card game and I’ll never play a premium game with plain cardboard again.

I used a guide from Board Game Geek to make the glass token [1]

Using jewelers resin to upgrade cardboard tokens is another option: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/s/xwPU4jmUcS

[0]glass tokens: https://ibb.co/X5gJ604

[1] glass tokens guide: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2087285/diy-glass-tokens-qu...

[bombcar → kwerk]

When I was playing board games often we had a supply of “substitute pieces” that we could use in many games; tokens, coins, die, meeples, etc.

It’s often pretty easy to abstract out and use your own - the hardest is when there are cards and they’re not high-quality.

[kwerk → bombcar]

I like this idea. I ordered assorted mini dice as travel counters and 6mm cubes for action tracking

[navbaker → kwerk]

I do the same for the three FFG LCGs I play. Chessex makes every color combo imaginable, so I was able to match LOTR, Arkham, and Marvel colors perfectly!

[bombcar → kwerk]

Depending on the game, large clickable “goldish” coins are awesome.

Some games are better with ones that stack, others with ones that kind of heap.

“Pieces of eight” can be ordered from the usual places.

[hinkley → kwerk]

Do you know of a way to make them so they stack? I suppose you’d need cylindrical glass bits.

[kwerk → hinkley]

yes, the query is tricky but "glass round tiles" is pretty good" https://www.ebay.com/itm/255167139808

[cpach → kwerk]

Very nice!

[kwerk → cpach]

Thanks! It’s been a quality of life improvement

On: Weaveworks is shutting down

[kwerk]

I think they meant to say "double digit revenue growth"

[break_the_bank → kwerk]

That makes more sense! Thank you.

On: System76 Thelio Major Powered by AMD Ryzen Threadr...

[kwerk]

I use Pop OS on a custom build and have a similar “just works”. Looking at S76 hardware for my next upgrade now.