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by gmac 3y ago
Yes, 100%.
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by gmac 3y ago
That’s interesting, thanks. Can I read up somewhere about these positional principles? It’s not immediately obvious to me why positions adjacent to the corner are so poor. EDIT: ah, I guess it’s because it gives the corner to your opponent.
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by gmac 3y ago
Agreed. :) I made it mainly for pass-and-play, but perhaps one of these days I should try to implement an AI vaguely worthy of the name.
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by gmac 3y ago
You may be right, but your one is seriously impressive. Good work!
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by gmac 3y ago
Hmm, should be a simple CSS tweak, so I guess so.
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by gmac 3y ago
Indeed! I basically programmed it to do roughly what I (a total novice) do when I play. Mainly for when my kids want to play and I don’t (or am not around).
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Show HN: Play Othello in your web browser (made with Mithril)(jawj.github.io)
106 points by gmac 3y ago|52 comments
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by gmac 3y ago
The link is at the end of the post: https://github.com/jawj/perfcompare I should maybe refactor them out into their own repo, though.
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by gmac 3y ago
Blog and library author here. Library source is at https://github.com/jawj/json-custom-numbers . If you can make it faster (and still pass the tests), please submit a PR!
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Fast custom JSON.parse that preserves large/precise numbers in JavaScript(neon.tech)
3 points by gmac 3y ago|3 comments
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by gmac 3y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36184315
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by gmac 3y ago
Post author here. This piece discusses techniques for making npm packages work in serverless environments (Vercel Edge Functions, Cloudflare Workers) and browsers. It's based on experience developing Neon's 'serverless driver
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How to use NPM packages outside of Node(neon.tech)
1 points by gmac 3y ago|1 comments
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by gmac 3y ago
Likewise! My daughter played it at a friend’s house and enjoyed it, which is what reminded me and prompted me to make this.
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by gmac 3y ago
If anyone fancies playing the game, I made this for/with my kids: https://jawj.github.io/fliptiles (The ‘AI’ player is very weak)
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by gmac 3y ago
This wholly depends on your use case. Most of my miles are done on long journeys. I live in a terraced house and can’t charge at home. UK charging infrastructure seems pretty underdeveloped so far. My 2018 petrol car does 600 miles on a tan
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by gmac 3y ago
(1) I would find this very annoying. (2) I suspect for lots of files, lots of users wouldn't know which program to open.
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by gmac 3y ago
Yes, GDP is famously crap. It wasn't developed as a number to be maximised, and we've known it makes no sense to maximise it ever since it was developed. Samuelson remarked along the lines that (old-fashioned gender roles alert)
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by gmac 3y ago
Except with cars, that loss is against the sticker price. So if you get a good enough deal on your new car, it can in fact lose nothing when you drive it away (I got close to 1/3 off a new car in 2018, using a web-based buying agent, i
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by gmac 3y ago
Yes, there is something badly wrong with that format too. :)
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by gmac 3y ago
It relies on pg (node-postgres) to talk to Postgres, so it should work with anything pg can talk to.
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by gmac 3y ago
It does now support multiple schemas: https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/#60
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by gmac 3y ago
It should be, now that pg runs fine there. If it’s not, please file an issue! It also works with @neondatabase/serverless on platforms without TCP connections (though it’s on my TODO list to make this less fiddly): https://g
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MitM attacks are easier to avoid with psql/Postgres 16(neon.tech)
9 points by gmac 3y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 3y ago
Similarly, I got a ThinkCentre M73 (8GB/128GB, Win10) on eBay for £125 3 years ago. It's great.
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by gmac 3y ago
I believe the point is to avoid overheating (any of) the milk, because that changes its flavour. For example, tea made with UHT milk tastes very different (and, to me, much less nice) than tea made with pasteurised milk. When adding the tea
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by gmac 3y ago
100% this. Which is why, as a Brit, my heart still sinks when ordering tea in most European countries: nine times out of ten you get a glass of once-boiling water to add a teabag to.
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by gmac 3y ago
In a similar (but more binary) vein, there’s this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35884437
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by gmac 3y ago
As another example of an egregious difference that might bite you, compare this JS in recent Node vs web browsers: new URL('postgres://user:pass@host/db') Node parses this as if it were a web address, into
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by gmac 3y ago
Yes! I'm a bit surprised it's still iPhone-only. I was in fact listening to classical music in Music on my Apple TV only yesterday (and found a nasty bug where it wouldn't play the track I asked for, which I should probably r

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