@danluu In your post at https://danluu.com/julialang, the link entitled "not a fan" has rotted and the new url for the content is https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050114-00/?p=36693

@zenhack @danluu The text is mostly about a specific way of playing that even top players don't usually engage in outside of tournaments.

@danluu I'm friends with this guy (and you can just ask him) and I expect he would say that these things are "not part of the game" and people don't do them them them because they are illegal or would cause the hotel not to host the tournament next year or would get the player DQed by the tournament organizer despite not being specifically mentioned in the rules. Here's a famous video of an afk player being killed at a big tournament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G8oHukH_pE

@danluu Thanks for the post.

"might exposure" -> "might expose"

"listen to the listen to" -> "listen to"

@chriswhocodes Not yet haha. Should be in a few hours.

My own code is mostly one disgusting function and the library functions I use mostly correspond to intrinsics, but I certainly feel like a lot of the remaining gains would come from understanding the codegen, so I'll do what I can of that in half a day.

@chriswhocodes Heyo, do you have any advice about JIT tuning for 1BRC? I noticed your discussion here https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/187 and I'm working on an openJDK solution that can plausibly take the top spot. I know a lot about processing strings with vectors but nothing about Java 😅

@tedu @danluu This is a funny example because it is the opposite of what happened in this case. The author of the regex rejected empty author names but needed to accept them.

@danluu I think it would be common for people to write parsers that accept "some lines that are not author lines, then an author line, then some lines that are not author lines" rather than figure out the exact rules governing the lines that the code doesn't (as obviously) need to validate.

@hrbrmstr @danluu @tweedge The first Kagi result for the youtube query is savefrom dot net which is described in the post. It does not let you download videos. It does variously attempt to install malware or get you to sign up for a paid subscription.

@danluu The hn comment section about this post makes me think I should ask someone for a lobsters invite and never return to the orange web site.

@danluu I revisited Arnak and decided your take about "always do X" is basically correct. I remembered dropping it for being a game where you do the same thing all the time, but the thing you do is actually pretty complicated.

@hyperpape @danluu The rules also tend to be a bit amorphous, like "opening passes cannot be forcing" plus "If an agreement is disallowed, then adding an unlikely hand type to it does not make it allowed" means obviously I cannot have an agreement that includes the possibility a forcing-unless-you-are-on-0-or-1-HCP opening pass. But what is the amount of probability of X at which forcing-unless-X opening pass becomes allowed? Who knows.

@hyperpape @danluu Here's something from the ACBL rules about agreements. To my uneducated eyes the first example situation in the third paragraph obviously meets the definition in the first paragraph (and the second example in the third paragraph obviously doesn't), so I have no clue how to apply the definition the way the ACBL intends.

@danluu I'm sort of surprised at the situation as well, now that I've had a look. Board gaming is a big hobby compared to WoW but there are tons and tons of resources for people who want to take WoW very seriously, including a separate subreddit r/competitivewow, class-specific discords where random people can talk to top players of a class according to publicly available stats, etc. Nothing like this seems to exist for board gaming.

@danluu Formerly David Sirlin ran a forum for discussion of his games at fantasystrike.com with a very active subforum for discussion of other games. Having looked around just now this seems like the last place where people could discuss competitive play of arbitrary board games without dealing with the current BGG situation. The Sirlin Games discord is still a hangout for old men who are sharks at arbitrary games, but there isn't a dedicated space for Ark Nova strategy :(

@danluu It's great to hear that the best cards in dominion turn out to be these ones which are pretty skill testing.

@danluu For sure, the race things are nits with games that still have a lot of decisions left in them. I try to play games like this, so I can't confidently say "X game you always do Y" even though I have a vague sense that this is true in a lot of games if people were to really push them to their limits. e.g. Base Wingspan has a corvid issue, but you can get lucky and have nobody draw any :)

Is there a "power user" client for mastodon? One person mentioned that they stopped using twitter because they could no longer use tweetdeck. The default mastodon UI seems pretty bad. Thanks.

@danluu @tikitu and
"in roll for the galaxy 2 player, you should acquire at most 10 dice total and then spam explore and dev in 80% or more of games"

@danluu @tikitu Can you spot check these for me?
"in base rftg, produce/consume is really overtuned"
"in rftg+tgs+rvi+bow 2-player, prestige is too strong"
"in base res arcana, you should usually discard all your cards and buy one of 3 specific pops to win, also you should probably ban witch to avoid non-games"
"in almost any combination of dominion expansions with chapel in the kingdom, chapel and slimdeck dominates other openings"