Hacker News: myrmi

New comment by myrmi in "1996 "Authentic" Beta Pokemon Cards Exposed as 2024 Prints via Printer Dots"

myrmi — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:08:43 +0000

I know of no tournament that is run this way - can you name an example?

New comment by myrmi in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

myrmi — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:22:29 +0000

Thanks for taking the time here for such a detailed reply, I look forward to seeing what the brave new world looks like!

New comment by myrmi in "DeepSeek: X2 Speed for WASM with SIMD"

myrmi — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:03:59 +0000

I feel uncomfortably called out by all three points. What tools should I be trying to see what you are?

New comment by myrmi in "WhatsApp could disappear from UK over privacy concerns, ministers told"

myrmi — Fri, 19 May 2023 15:09:04 +0000

> 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.

New comment by myrmi in "Dusting off Dreamcast Linux"

myrmi — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:04:07 +0000

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

New comment by myrmi in "Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast"

myrmi — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 11:20:26 +0000

'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

New comment by myrmi in "Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?"

myrmi — Wed, 25 May 2022 14:25:07 +0000

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/

New comment by myrmi in "Strange domain names that developers bought"

myrmi — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 11:34:34 +0000

Ryan North, the author of Dinosaur Comics, does a similar thing. Normally found at qwantz.com he also has

chewbac.ca

dromiceiomim.us

New comment by myrmi in "So you wanna buy a used IP address block?"

myrmi — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 10:17:14 +0000

Is it possible for an individual to purchase a IPv6 block?

New comment by myrmi in "Color Emulation"

myrmi — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:30:20 +0000

The first time I found this page, I lost the rest of my afternoon reading it through. Highly recommend.

New comment by myrmi in "Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?"

myrmi — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 12:12:27 +0000

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...

New comment by myrmi in "The mathematics of Magic: the Gathering (1999)"

myrmi — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 08:47:18 +0000

> 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?

New comment by myrmi in "Reading privileged memory with a side-channel"

myrmi — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:14:05 +0000

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'.

New comment by myrmi in "Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music"

myrmi — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:38:07 +0000

What you're after is what they call 'private listening' or 'private session': https://support.spotify.com/cz/using_spotify/the_basics/how-...

New comment by myrmi in "Electron 1.0 is here"

myrmi — Wed, 11 May 2016 09:18:25 +0000

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.

New comment by myrmi in "Docker for Mac Beta Review"

myrmi — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 08:22:11 +0000

Hey, my Docker ID is myrmi

New comment by myrmi in "New Chromecast 2015"

myrmi — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:23:06 +0000

So with this new form factor, I plug it into my TV, and then it just... hangs there?

New comment by myrmi in "Sir Terry Pratchett has died"

myrmi — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:23:15 +0000

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.

Show HN: WiiU GameCube Controller Adapter for OS X

myrmi — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:52:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/area/osx-wiiu-gcc-adapter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9156958

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by myrmi in "Show HN: App for Falling in Love"

myrmi — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 08:27:25 +0000

This reminds me of Friendstrap: http://gameovenstudios.com/category/friendstrap/#description