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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Today I realized that I have a Kevin Bacon number and it's surprisingly low, only 3 — through Joseph Fiennes and Colin Firth. That's me in the background, as an extra in the historical movie Luther (2003). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_o…

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Možná si pamatujete na to, jak začátkem srpna Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí zakázalo vstup na tiskovku novinářce, ostentativně kvůli tomu, že pochází z "alternativního média" (byla to novinářka Deníku N, který nejen není "alternativní", ale za posledních pár […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Good news, everyone! New preview release: ### v0.2.121+148 *SHINOHARA* * Implement proper long range scanner (LRS), including terrain * Deployments (mines, turrets) now require the deployer to be in range, and the deployment is also rendered with a "beam" […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Working on "boring" stuff for the demo release. #indiedev

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Explain ludonarrative dissonance in under 15 seconds

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Countries where population has already peaked, from 1980 to 2100. Source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024) Visualization by World in Data: ourworldindata.org/which-countries-…

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Zajímalo mě, jak zhruba velká by byla Praha, kdyby místo bytů všichni bydleli ve volně stojících domech amerického stylu. Vycházel jsem ze nejposlednějšího odhadu obyvatelstva, který jsem našel (1.4M) a 618 lidí na km² (americký průměr mid-density suburban) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

New GIANT ROBOT GAME update: - Add intercept behavior to AI (enemies will try to anticipate your move instead of simply dragging behind you; this eliminates a degenerative strategy of "just keep running away") - Add ballistics to projectiles (shots now […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Very happy about this feedback for GIANT ROBOT GAME playtest. I mean, my game is mostly 2D, which helps, but in the age of "let's just build it in <insert huge all-purpose engine>", it's heartening to see. #indiedev #gamedev

USER FEEDBACK: Runs great on my shitty laptop! Most steam demos I
pick up can't even run the title screen smoothly, but this whole
game runs Like a dream.

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

As always, great information from Our World in Data: ourworldindata.org/how-much-energy-… My opinion: - using LLMs for simple queries that you could just find yourself in a few seconds is way too […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

How does the electricity consumption of individual AI queries
compare to other everyday activities?
Marginal increase in electricity consumption from different activities, measured in watt-hours (Wh).
Typical ChatGPT query | 0.3 Wh
LED bulb for 5 minutes | 0.8 Wh
Laptop for 5 minutes | 2 Wh
Long-input query
51560 words 2:5 Wh
Running an electric
shower for 1 second | 2.6 Wh
Watching TV for 10 minutes [ 10 Wh
Average EU consumption
per person per minute [| 12Wh
Microwaving for 1 minute [| 17 Wh
Charging a mobile phone [|] 20 Wh
Average US consumption [
per person per minute 24 Wh
Maximum-input query
(75000 words) NRE ©"
shower for 1 minute
Note: Estimates for Al cover inference only; however, model training adds little per query given how many queries each model serves over its lifetime.
Data source: Al text query estimates from EpochAl (2025). Other estimates explained at https:/hannahritchie.github.io/energy-use-comparisons.
OurWorldinData.org — Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems. Licensed under CC-BY by the author Hannah Ritchie.

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Ah, this is eye-opening: > John Cage never stopped foraging for rare mushrooms and truffles - what was once his primary skill for sustenance during the Great Depression had transformed into his main source of income well into the peak of his musical career […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

I use kagi.com for search these days but today, I got a report from Google Search Console about my filiph.net website, so I decided to search for filiph.net on Google, and it's just bizarre: searching for "filiph.net" returns _anything but_ filiph.net. These […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

screenshot of google search for "filiph.net" that returns a bunch of pages but none of them are https://filiph.net

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Operation Flashpoint (the precursor to ARMA games) is now open source on github, courtesy of Bohemia Interactive: github.com/BohemiaInteractive/CWR This is the earliest example of an "infantry sim" I can think of. It was one of those games where you […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

screenshot from Operation Flashpoint (aka Arma: Cold War)

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Good news, everyone! I have some time to sink into GIANT ROBOT GAME again. Behold the much-improved tech tree. #indiegame #gamedev

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Arch btw is the strongest version of linux

Question on the internet:

Where can I find the btw version of Arch Linux? I always see people in the Linux community saying they use Arch btw but I couldn't find the btw version in their website. [...] I'd like to give it a try.

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

A bit of a yak shaving exercise (no new features) but GIANT ROBOT GAME now has integration tests you can actually watch. Inspired by Factorio's visual testing suite, this should help develop some of the more advanced AI behaviors. #gamedev #indiegame

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

when in mathematics you are about to reduce an expression to its minimum form

A person in a protest with the word "anti-antifa" on his clothes, and l crossed out communist symbol

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

There's a real downside to having AI generated art in a game — it's not just ethics. Many game buyers stay away from games with AI art. I guess it's like a Lip-Synced concert. For some people, there's no issue. They go for the music and to see the music star […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A photo of Taylor Swift, a pop singer who almost certainly performs her concert miming. At least according to Dave Grohl.

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

Yesterday morning, I saw a bunch of 503 errors here on Mastodon. It was fixed quickly but I wondered what happened. Turns out it was a DDoS attack (primarily on BlueSky) by a regime-aligned Iranian group. They seem to attack Western websites at random […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

IT security experts attribute the cyber gang to Iran. It is apparently responsible for numerous DDoS attacks and is ideologically aligned with the Iranian regime. However, the selection of attack targets appears arbitrary. No specific demands are discernible.

The same group has also claimed responsibility for a denial-of-service attack on mastodon.social. This is the largest instance of the decentralized microblogging service Mastodon. On Monday, the attack had a much smaller impact there, as many accounts are hosted on other instances. Users on those instances were unaware of the incident. The attack was also quickly repelled on mastodon.social.

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

Jsem si skoro jistý, že už to někdo někde počítal, ale ještě k tomu slavnému výroku politika Filipa Turka: > "Mám fakt stovky, nebo spíš mnoho tisíc, spíš mnoho desítek tisíc knih." Řekněme, že si trochu zapřeháněl, a má jenom jednu desetitisícovku knih. To […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

$**Zdůvodnění průměrné tloušťky knihy:** Standardní kniha obsahuje 300 až 400 stran (150 až 200 listů). Průměrná tloušťka běžného knižního papíru je 0,1 mm na list. Tloušťka samotného knižního bloku činí 15 až 20 mm. Přidáním tloušťky desek a vazby (2 až 5 mm) je průměrná tloušťka knihy ($t$) stanovena na 25 mm (0,025 m). **Lineární délka polic:** Vzorec: $L = n \times t$ $n$ = počet knih, $t$ = průměrná tloušťka. Výpočet: $L = 10000 \times 0,025 = 250 \text{ m}$. **Počet knihoven:** Vzorec: $K = \lceil \frac{L}{w \times p} \rceil$ $w$ = šířka knihovny (1 m), $p$ = počet polic (6). Výpočet: $K = \lceil \frac{250}{1 \times 6} \rceil = 42$. **Podlahová plocha:** Vzorec: $A = K \times w \times d \times c$ $d$ = hloubka knihovny (0,3 m), $c$ = koeficient manipulačního prostoru pro uličky (3). Výpočet: $A = 42 \times 1 \times 0,3 \times 3 = 37,8 \text{ m}^2$. **Hmotnost:** Vzorec: $M = n \times m_k$ $m_k$ = průměrná hmotnost knihy (0,5 kg). Výpočet: $M = 10000 \times 0,5 = 5000 \text{ kg}$. **Lokální plošné zatížení:** Vzorec: $q = \frac{M}{K \times w \times d}$ Výpočet: $q = \frac{5000}{42 \times 1 \times 0,3} = 396,8 \text{ kg/m}^2$. Standardní nosnost obytných podlah je $150 \text{ kg/m}^2$ ($1,5 \text{ kN/m}^2$). Nutné statické zpevnění. **Absolutní objem:** Vzorec: $V = n \times (h \times w_k \times t)$ $h$ = výška knihy (0,23 m), $w_k$ = hloubka knihy (0,15 m). Výpočet: $V = 10000 \times (0,23 \times 0,15 \times 0,025) = 8,625 \text{ m}^3$ (těsně naskládané bez polic ).$

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

A dormitory roof caught fire in Prague and it looks like nobody is hurt but, damn, that's a lot of smoke.

Huge plume of smoke in the distance over the city of Prague.

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Jestli to dobře chápu, tak Škoda Elroq je nejprodávanější auto v Dánsku za březen (a druhé nejprodávanější za Q1). To se mi líbí! Zdroj: x.com/Arpe_DK/status/20392263430160… (náhodný fanoušek Tesly na Twitteru) via Michal Illich tamtéž #czech

Top models
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TESLA MODEL Y 818
VOLKSWAGEN 1D.4 729
SKODA ENYAQ 698
TOYOTA BZ4X 642
TESLA MODEL 3 626
AUDI Q4 E-TRON 572
CUPRA TAVASCAN 51.3
VOLKSWAGEN ID.BUZZ 468
MERCEDES- EQA 3772
BENZ
RENAULT SCENIC 337
VOLKSWAGEN 1ID.3 327
RENAULT 5 288
VOLKSWAGEN ID.7 285
TOYOTA URBAN 284

CRUISER

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SKODA ELROQ 2591
VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 1725
TESLA MODEL Y 1622
SKODA ENYAQ 1485
AUDI Q4 E-TRON 1415
VOLKSWAGEN ID.BUZZ 1192
CITROEN E-C3 978
TOYOTA URBAN 936

CRUISER

RENAULT 5 805
XPENG G6 785
MERCEDES- ~~ EQA 733
BENZ
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TESLA MODEL 3 697
RENAULT SCENIC 676
VOLKSWAGEN ID.7 666

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

A player named voxkiddo made this banger of a trailer for my game, and I couldn't be happier. It puts in-game hints next to their usage in practice.

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

Once again, a fantastic info-graphic from Our World in Data. ourworldindata.org/deadliest-animals

The biggest killers, by far, are mosquitoes. They have been one of our biggest threats for millennia, and still kill approximately 760,000 people every year.2 Over 80% of those deaths are the result of malaria, which is transmitted and spread by the Anopheles mosquito. Malaria still kills close to half a million children every year.

Another 100,000 people die every year from other mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue fever and yellow fever (spread by the mosquito species Aedes aegypti) and Japanese encephalitis.

Almost all deaths from other animals are caused by just two types: mosquitoes and snakes.

Snakes are one of the most common phobias, and you can see why. They are the second largest killers. The death toll from venomous snakes is surprisingly uncertain, as many of these deaths occur in rural areas where death records are often poor.3 But the figure is likely to be around 100,000 deaths per year. That means snakes kill more than all animals below them on the list combined.4

Most of those remaining deaths are caused by dogs, the animals that humans have grown to love as domesticated pets. The majority are due to rabies, rather than direct wounds.

Near the bottom of the list, we reach the animals that dominate our nightmares — sharks and wolves. They make for gripping headlines and blockbuster films. But in reality, shark and wolf attacks are very rare.

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

I'm looking for ways to quickly mess with number constants inside the IDE (like in Bret Victor's famous talk). Any ideas? Discussion: forum.itsallwidgets.com/t/interacti…

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Apparently, this is the first time in the last 100 years that there are more people leaving the US than moving to the US. I like that the Wall Street Journal chose Prague as the cover photo for this story […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Wall Street Journal:
Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers

More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. “I wasn’t expecting to be surrounded by this many Americans.”

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Don't worry, I'm not going to start posting AI slop. I was just experimenting to get up to speed with current Midjourney capabilities and putting the GIANT ROBOT GAME robot into Ghibli was, I guess, an obvious outcome. (I didn't even ask for Ghibli, mind you […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

@babaq Je tam zahrnuto vše, co je v rozpočtu pod kolonkou "DAŇOVÉ PŘÍJMY CELKEM (daně,poplatky,pojistné)". Tj. zdravotní pojištění ani třeba poplatky Českému rozhlasu nebo televizi tam nejsou.

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Filip Hracek @filiph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

@timbray I love your article about efficiency, and FWIW I think it's a lot deeper than just "writing code with LLMs is more draining than without" of the other authors. My current gamedev project's thematic question is: does efficiency remove what we tend to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

text = """
She says, well, you’re not a poor man.<> Why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?<>

And so I pretend not to hear her.<> And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.<>

I meet a lot of people.<> And, see some great looking babes.<> And a fire engine goes by.<> And I give them the thumbs up.<> And, and I ask a woman what kind of dog that is.<> And, and I don’t know.<>

The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around.<> And, of course, the computers will do us out of that.<> And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care,<> is we’re dancing animals.
"""
author = "Kurt Vonnegut"
source = "News interview with Kurt Vonnegut, early 21st century"

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