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I know of no tournament that is run this way - can you name an example?
Re:DeepSeek: X2 Speed for WASM with SIMD on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @02:22AM (#42862477)
Thanks for taking the time here for such a detailed reply, I look forward to seeing what the brave new world looks like!
Re:DeepSeek: X2 Speed for WASM with SIMD on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:03PM (#42854744)
I feel uncomfortably called out by all three points. What tools should I be trying to see what you are?
> Oh no, political parties moving in response to the expressed will of the general public in a democracy.

Consider a very simple model of a two party system, expressing views on one left/right axis. Members of the population vote for the political party that is closest to their views on that axis. Political parties want to win as many votes as possible.

Under that model and those assumptions, if one party moves in a particular direction, the 'correct' behaviour for the other party is to move in that direction also to capture more votes, regardless of what the underlying 'will' of the general voting public is.

Re:Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux on Monday February 20, 2023 @10:04AM (#34868722)
It's a nice story, but you're right to say it's not true. If easy-piracy was the cause, you'd expect the attach rate (games-sold-per-console-sold) to be much lower than other contemporary consoles, because pirated games still needed legitimate Dreamcasts to be sold. But it just wasn't [1]. They simply didn't sell enough Dreamcasts for the reasons you say, and others.

[1] https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Software_tie_ratio

Re:Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast on Monday November 28, 2022 @06:20AM (#33772251)
'Piracy killed the Dreamcast' is very commonly put around, and it was incredibly easy for a contemporary console (literally just burn a CDR, no hardware modifications required), but if you look at the attach rates [1] for the console, they are comparable to successful consoles. Pirated games still needed consoles to be played, so we would expect a much lower attach rate than normal if this was a primary factor.

Ultimately, it was almost everything else going against the console. [2]

[1] https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Software_tie_ratio

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d2xuRwYUt4

Re:Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:25AM (#31504968)
It's not quite point 1, but Natural Selection 2[1] is close, and might even be better than what you're asking for if you're looking to play with (rather than against) your friends. Each team has one player who plays with an RTS view, with all the other players being the units, playing with an FPS view.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/4920/Natural_Selection_2/

Re:Strange domain names that developers bought on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:34AM (#28154951)
Ryan North, the author of Dinosaur Comics, does a similar thing. Normally found at qwantz.com he also has

chewbac.ca

dromiceiomim.us

Re:So you wanna buy a used IP address block? on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @05:17AM (#22473240)
Is it possible for an individual to purchase a IPv6 block?
Re:Color Emulation on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:30AM (#20960779)
The first time I found this page, I lost the rest of my afternoon reading it through. Highly recommend.
Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy? on Monday August 06, 2018 @08:12AM (#17696936)
This isn't really my scene, but the Link to the Past // Super Metroid randomiser[1], where you keep switching between the two games, potentially discovering items from one in the other, is something that is impressive that it's even technically possible.

[1] https://kotaku.com/inside-the-wild-new-mash-up-of-link-to-th...

Re:The mathematics of Magic: the Gathering (1999) on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @04:47AM (#17344806)
> The complete language is a superset of the strings on existing cards. To prove the game as Turing complete, one needs to prove this language is Turing complete- not a subset of its strings.

It is not clear to me how a subset of a language could be Turing complete but not the whole language. Can you elaborate?

Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:14AM (#16069451)
My attempt, assuming that the books only contain one character each:

The librarian has a list of books you're not allowed to take out. You request one of those books (book X), but it takes a while for search to run to see whether you're allowed to or not. While you're waiting, you say "actually, I'm not really interested in taking out book X, but if the content of that book is 'a', I'd like to take out book Y. If the content of that book is 'b', I'd like to take out book Y+1, and so on".

The librarian is still waiting for the search to complete to see if you can take out book X, but doesn't have anything better to do, so looks inside it, sees that the letter is 'b', and goes and gets book Y+1 so she can hand it over to you.

Now, the original check to see if you can take the first book out completes, and the librarian says "I'm sorry, I can't let you have book X, and I can't give you the book I fetched that you are allowed to take out, otherwise you'd know the content of the forbidden book."

Now, you request book 'Y', which you are allowed. The librarian goes away for a few minutes, and returns with book 'Y', and hands it over to you. You request book 'Y+1', and she hands it over immediately. You request book 'Y+2', and she goes away for a few minutes again, and hands it over.

You now know that Y+1 was (probably) the book she fetched when you made the forbidden request, and therefore that the letter inside the forbidden book was 'b'.

What you're after is what they call 'private listening' or 'private session': https://support.spotify.com/cz/using_spotify/the_basics/how-...
Re:Electron 1.0 is here on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:18AM (#11673750)
I live in zone 2 in London, and the fastest broadband I can get is ~2Mbit. Even in major cities, good - or I would argue, even acceptable - broadband is not ubiquitous.
Re:Docker for Mac Beta Review on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:22AM (#11570228)
Hey, my Docker ID is myrmi
Re:New Chromecast 2015 on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:23AM (#10304156)
So with this new form factor, I plug it into my TV, and then it just... hangs there?
Re:Sir Terry Pratchett has died on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:23AM (#9197221)
25th of May is also the Glorious Twenty-fifth on the Discworld, where those involved in the People's Revolution wear lilacs to memorialise those they've lost.

Seems obvious what should happen at this point.

Re:Show HN: App for Falling in Love on Sunday January 11, 2015 @03:27AM (#8869453)