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by drcode 4y ago
Agreed, you might be able to get better results brute forcing multiple colors at once at a lower color resolution, then gradient descent the optimal colors from there. One other obvious optimization is to use a more sophisticated metric for
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by drcode 4y ago
It's just the whole GameStop pump all over again: the people who lost money knew it was a scam, but were hoping they could sell when prices were still high Unfortunately for them, in this case it was so broken that not even the sales m
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by drcode 4y ago
It definitely has had very deep training on computer science topics- I can ask it detailed documentation questions on obscure programming apis and it can usually answer them.
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by drcode 4y ago
I wish AI was overhyped, sadly it is not. If it was overhyped, we would have more time to solve the alignment problem.
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by drcode 4y ago
Will do
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by drcode 4y ago
this is super helpful, thanks all stuff I don't know but I should
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by drcode 4y ago
The problem is I'm not big on devops, so I was just hoping "things will be fast enough" I just modified the server to serve all images from a cloudflare-based source, hope that will help Also, it's definitely not just st
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by drcode 4y ago
I actually know what you mean, I was wondering the same- These are always hard taste-based decisions
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by drcode 4y ago
seems back up again after some harrowing server changes, will need to put more work into scaling starting now
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by drcode 4y ago
The tricky part is, you never know how much load you can handle until it's too late- I figured I had more headroom LOL
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by drcode 4y ago
Creator here: I will do what I can to address the "hug of death" today. Meanwhile, here's a gif showing the look and feel: https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/1593296453534785537
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by drcode 4y ago
I have a heavily-tuned puzzle generator (written in zig) that generates candidate puzzles, which I then lay out with graphviz, then manually refine the layout and curate.
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by drcode 4y ago
I did some hail mary fixes to try to get it up again, but it's unfortunately still struggling
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by drcode 4y ago
Yes, this is tricky to fix because javascript doesn't check alpha channels on mouse events for images. I have a partial fix planned to improve this, should be improved in the next few weeks.
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by drcode 4y ago
sorry, I didn't expect it to reach the top of hacker news after 5 minutes of posting the link :(
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by drcode 4y ago
Yeah, mobile browsers are brutal if you want to use a "make this rectangle as big as possible" layout strategy, because they have multiple "view heights" depending on whether the address bar is visible (since they automa
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by drcode 4y ago
Yes, will fix
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by drcode 4y ago
Thanks, will fix
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by drcode 4y ago
I'm Conrad, the main creator of the site and creator of the puzzle. Happy to answer any questions. The site should run on most modern browsers and phones, let me know asap if you have any difficulty so I can fix!
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Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, as I promised on HN(dogbunnypuzzle.com)
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by drcode 4y ago
There should be a place for adults to purchase equipment for dangerous hobbies, as long as the risks aren't covered up.
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by drcode 4y ago
As a onewheel owner, one feature I think needs to be eliminated from the device are the "digital shaping modules" that allow you to modify the behavior of the board via software. It should has only one mode, which is "do ever
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by drcode 4y ago
The recent crypto downturn has been unrelenting and deep: It's totally plausible they just thought they were the kind of geniuses who could spot the bottom of the market and quickly bled through all the money but yeah, it's also p
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by drcode 4y ago
Pro tip: It's best not to lose your upgrades I just give up the game as soon as I die once
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by drcode 4y ago
This is my second favorite arcade game of all time (after Robotron 2084). FYI anyone in the Chicago area should stop by Galloping Ghost Arcade, they have a fully-functioning Darius cabinet (and cabinets of a couple sequels as well) So few p
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by drcode 4y ago
Yes I have a puzzle generator program, will post more soon
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by drcode 4y ago
Yes, I'm thinking of working this idea into the next iteration (though with a wolf instead of a dog)
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by drcode 4y ago
working on it
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by drcode 4y ago
Yeah that was by accident, I whipped this up kinda fast
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by drcode 4y ago
more levels will be coming

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