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by splonk 5y ago
Shofixti (without suiciding) and Zoqfot were always the picks among my friends to flex in supermelee. No greater shame than dying to the tongue.
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by splonk 5y ago
Getting Fwiffo (the Spathi) early was basically a cheat code for the main plot. Kills Slylandros, Kohr-ah, and Ur-quan with a bit of effort at a point in the game before your precursor ship wipes the floor with everything. Funny how he&#x27
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by splonk 5y ago
That was the idea, but in practice the zoom level and auto-centering of the combat screen meant that a good Earthling player could probably eventually win at long range. At close range the Earthling could turn quickly but couldn't outp
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by splonk 5y ago
At my last job Staff was higher on the ladder than Principal. That's not super common, especially among startups that model after FAANG ladders, but it seems like it's somewhat more common among older companies (that is, I'v
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by splonk 5y ago
FanaHOVA mentioned the main thing you missed. One other thing I'd mention is that a lot of pros have staking arrangements (the article briefly mentions some versions of them). For example, I know one pro (who's won one of the mo
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by splonk 5y ago
Guessing you're talking about extempore on HN, but no.
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by splonk 5y ago
6 figures. Turns out there's a lot more (and less risky) money in software development than there is in poker. I gave up the professional poker life pretty early and actually made quite a lot more as a talented "amateur" wi
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by splonk 5y ago
One very simplified model is that on the river, all your hands fall into certain buckets, from strongest to weakest. (I'm ignoring a ton of nuance here and there are actually many more buckets in a real game) - Worth betting, because y
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by splonk 5y ago
Here's a recent paper from DeepMind about their recent efforts towards generalized game solving (caveat: I haven't actually read it yet). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.03178.pdf Abstract: "Games have a long
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by splonk 5y ago
The watch face is the classic one, the chip orientation is new to me. I like it, it's less obvious that you're randomizing something, and given how much poker players like to fidget with their chips the orientation is probably re
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by splonk 5y ago
(Former pro and high stakes player, occasional solver developer) This is actually one of the best poker articles I've ever seen in generalist media. Not too clickbaity, reasonable high level overview of game theory, a (very accurate I
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by splonk 5y ago
Normally I'd try Flyertalk for finding out what abbreviations mean, but this article probably explains well enough what OP is talking about. https://princeoftravel.com/blog/airline-secrets-what-is-fuel...
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by splonk 5y ago
The graph problem is huge (NP-complete in the full case). You can't reasonably cache things because segment availability changes a lot. Latencies on searches through the GDS may be much higher than you're used to in other domains.
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by splonk 5y ago
Not a particularly deep analysis. Note that while I'm not necessarily vouching for OAG's data, they are big players in the travel space and I trust them a lot more than this blog. Here's the OAG report that's sketchily
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by splonk 5y ago
>> You'd also be amazed at how long it takes to sign a contract > I would not ;) Ha, yeah, that was unclear. My comment was targeted more towards the general HN audience, because _I_ was pretty amazed when I got into that bus
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by splonk 5y ago
I've worked on ranking in travel before, and you'd be amazed at how terrible ranking is in pretty large companies with a huge incentive to improve things. You'd also be amazed at how long it takes to sign a contract with som
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by splonk 5y ago
I remember reading plain text books from PG at work ~20 years ago. The network was monitored so I had to bring them in on a 3.5" floppy. Having probably read thousands of pages that way, it's a bit odd to see plain text describe
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by splonk 5y ago
"better alternative in every way" is overstating things a bit, but my experience when I've sporadically done side-by-side comparisons is that Wikivoyage tends to be more up to date and complete. However, there have definitel
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by splonk 5y ago
Since Adam makes an offhand comment about he and Grant having very different styles in terms of precision and cleanliness, here's what his workshop looked like ~7 years ago (although as far as I can tell Google's killed the easter
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by splonk 5y ago
In 2006 Larry Page had a keynote at CES where he announced the launch of licensed video purchases (movies, NBA games, etc) on Google Video. I was working on payments infrastructure at the time and we had a mandate to support X amount of spi
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by splonk 5y ago
One of the problems with the Spanish course is that all the later content (past checkpoint 5 or so) just stops explaining things at all, so it's up to the user to figure out things like how the negative imperative uses the subjunctive
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by splonk 5y ago
They started adding B1 level content a couple years ago, although I agree with the overall point that it's probably not going to get you there on its own. https://blog.duolingo.com/how-are-duolingo-courses-evolving&#x2F
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by splonk 5y ago
> My city has a number of curb-side bird-house sized "libraries". Possibly these: https://littlefreelibrary.org/ourmap/ There's quite a few in San Francisco, I always enjoy running across a new one.
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by splonk 5y ago
There's also one in Atlanta, and I think maybe Orlando as well. Always fun to see the tourists getting surprised by the one bitter drink in the whole collection (Beverly, from Italy). Wikipedia claims it was discontinued 12 years ago
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by splonk 5y ago
After this reminder, I remembered his initial response. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23280137 He's since walked that back a bit (see other comments in his profile) , but personally I tend not to give someone t
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by splonk 5y ago
I don't recommend that people do this without a high risk tolerance, but I've talked to dozens of immigration officers without proof of onward travel (I managed to fill all the regular stamp pages on my last passport). Probably h
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by splonk 5y ago
People who don't work in travel would be horrified at both acceptable latencies in that space and just how old some of the formats involved are. One example I used to tell people in interviews: ever tried to book a flight more than a
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by splonk 5y ago
Yeah, the parent comment is unnecessarily cynical. I've worked at multiple travel companies that have independently either built an app or considered it based on user feedback. I'm not the biggest fan of the idea but I've c
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by splonk 5y ago
Airline loyalty value depends heavily on how frequently you can travel on one carrier and how much you value things like upgrades. Hotel loyalty is a whole different ballgame because the margins that hotels pay to the booking sites are much
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by splonk 5y ago
It's free with so many credit cards that the value has been somewhat reduced - partly because lounges have gotten more crowded, and some partner lounges will reject Priority Pass holders if they're at capacity (since they'd p

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