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A more suitable title is perhaps "Collision Detection In Videogames Is Hard: The Story of Alf" There are many more areas that the HN crowd would be interested
by wildmanx 5y ago
A more suitable title is perhaps "Collision Detection In Videogames Is Hard: The Story of Alf"
There are many more areas that the HN crowd would be interested in where "collisions" are a thing. Self-driving cars, hash functions, lock-free data structures, etc.
"The Story of Alf" does not make this more specific either. "Alf" could easily be the nickname of some self-driving project or the acronym for some lock-free data structure or so.
- tinus_hn 5y agoPerhaps, but according to the rules of this site you are supposed to use the title of the linked article.
- ganafagol 5y ago"unless it is misleading" which could be considered to be the case here.
- nkrisc 5y agoIt’s not misleading, it’s vague. It is in fact about collision detection, maybe just not the kind you assumed at first. It’s also not clickbait.
- testermelon 5y agoI’m not sure how many people here share my view, but when I see “collision detection” I think about video games first, not self driving cars.
- maweki 5y agoCollision detection in cars is very easy, I'd say. Collision prevention is the hard part.
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- bigbillheck 5y ago"Collision Detection" is a term of art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_detection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_detection
- croes 5y agoCollision shouldn't be a thing for self driving cars.
- eru 5y agoYet, you should still have code that handles them. Eg something that automatically calls the police and ambulance.