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morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
Not even “competition”. BGA is more or less allowed because it’s assumed it drives sales. A Quoridor-only site would probably sell Quoridor fine, but BGA will also sell Cuarto, or a dozen other Gigamic games. Or vice versa - BGA probably does more to draw e.g. Catan players into checking out Quoridor than a dedicated Quoridor site would.
morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
Look, for all I know Gigamic is just waiting for someone to come along and make chess.com for Quoridor, and you're the guy to do it.

But I think your ignorance of the hobbyist game market is revealed a bit here already (not having full context for BGA, not knowing if Gigamic still owns it - they certainly do and had a booth at Essen this year like they do every year) - and you're vastly overestimating not just Quoridor's popularity but the size of the entire market for non-chess/go/tables/poker games. And I don't just mean financially - dozens of variants are no good if there are barely enough players to match dozens of games to begin with.

Did you try contacting BGA to see if you could get the Studio files for Quoridor?
morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
BGA is... not for kids games. I mean, there are kids games there, but there's also RftG, TtA, T&E...

Quoridor is nice but I would not even put it in the top 10 modern abstracts, let alone on par with chess.

Legality aside, it is a bit of a dick move to reimplement a modern abstract that people can play for free, or even make themselves for a low cost, just because you don't like the (free) site it's on.
morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
The absolute worst part is that some of these guys, especially the younger (e.g. fresh grad through ~30) ones, do this in person! I was out drinking with some colleagues a few months ago and I said something offhand in a normal human conversation about wanting to learn more about X, and one guy pulls out his phone and just starts reading me the Wikipedia article about X.
morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
We have wildly diverging views of the average HNer. I'm thinking the median is much closer to "Russian catgirl home-cook on X" than "studious reader of The Atlantic".
morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
He is likely an expert in many other materials too.
morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
No, mass and social media stopped paying attention days ago because Trump or Hawai'i or whatever. In a few years some might have a flashback, Google "what happened stupor conduct", and after a few sentences conclude science isn't really worth paying attention to after all.
morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
People are desperate to turn everything into content-identity fodder. Hundreds of IFLS channels making "fans of science." Piles of WSB bros wanting to play some markets like they have a fucking clue what's going on. Crypto-AI idiots hoping to jump and pump the next thing. Men on the street with little context hearing "cheaper phones." Culture warriors saying it means we don't have to worry about global warming anymore.

Nothing can just be itself anymore, it's all gotta be grist.
morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
I don't think you know what an insanity claim entails. You absolutely give up rights and privileges if you "win" by invoking it.
morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
These threads from mrkurt a few months ago seem relevant here -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32955520

If they are a multiplier for a whole portfolio, there's not much reason for any particular branch to purchase them.

(This post seems like some evidence they might actually be building the wrong thing, though.)
morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
> You ain’t (hopefully) loading your whole database into memory

I've basically built my career for the past decade by pointing out "yes, we can load our whole working set into memory" for the vast majority of problems. This is especially true if you have so little data you think you don't have CPU problems either.
morelisp
·3 lata temu·discuss
Accidentally super-linear algorithms happen a lot more when you hide stuff behind three layers of interfaces rather than seeing "oh, this uses a list instead of a set".
morelisp
·4 lata temu·discuss
Electricity is not 100% of the cost of "everything else". Nor are those part of my electricity bill.

If you want to make a point about where 1% efficiency matters, go ahead and make it! I might even agree! But it still won't have anything to do with systems programming languages.
morelisp
·4 lata temu·discuss
> Walter is the only compiler expert on HN

What the fuck?
morelisp
·4 lata temu·discuss
> the idea that performance in the platform does not matter is wrong.

But nobody said this. Maybe we're too deep in the thread for anyone to remember, so let's refresh our memories. The claim was not that performance doesn't matter, or that 1% never matters, but that any language 1% slower than D is currently could categorically not be considered a systems programming language.

That's even more absolutist and absurd than "performance does not matter".
morelisp
·4 lata temu·discuss
This kind of sycophancy is disgusting.
morelisp
·4 lata temu·discuss
> How much would Boeing pay to reduce the weight of an airplane by 1%?

I don't know but this seems like a trivial decision given how many metrics they must track about the relationship between weight and capacity/fuel cost - either you pay less than you save, or you don't pay it.

> How much would Ferrari pay to make their F1 cars 1% faster?

Probably a lot, but this is a (somewhat literal) Red Queen's race.

> How much would car companies pay to be able to make 1% more fuel efficient cars?

Probably nothing, their precision is already several times that. Empirically, they also don't care much.

> How much would your electric bill save if rates were reduced 1%?

Less than 5 euros a year - though this year maybe more, could be as high as 10. So, negligible - not even worth the time to write this comment, probably.

Overall it seems like "1%" is often a fairly meaningless measure and I'm not sure what any of these examples are supposed to illustrate to me about compiler design or language choice since the context for each seems to matter more than anything else.
morelisp
·5 lat temu·discuss
> So, let's make an odd_int_less_than_20587 type and a billion of other types?

Bounded integer types have been extremely useful for me on a few occassions, and I wish more languages had type systems powerful enough to support them. They also address your concerns about subtraction.
morelisp
·5 lat temu·discuss
Don’t, it’s not a good look.
morelisp
·5 lat temu·discuss
`new` is basically syntactic sugar (and I personally rarely use it), but `make` is the only way to dynamically allocate or to pre-allocate slices and maps.