• Spzi
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    511 year ago

    As a child, I made a siren in QBASIC. Very proud, 2000 lines of code.

    My sister’s boyfriend then introduced me to the concept of FOR loops. 6 lines of code.

  • On the upside, if he’s finished with this he has literally solved chess.

    On the downside, the heat death of the universe will probably happen before he’s able to finish this.

    • Johanno
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      81 year ago

      Mhh since we want to map every single possible situation we could auto generate it on parallel threads.

      • Go for it, I’m pretty sure there’s a ton of people that would pay a shitload of money if you’re able to achieve this for every possible position

        • Johanno
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          31 year ago

          parallelization does not solve the problem of the missing Hardware in the costs of millions.

  • Anything that can be made playable in the terminal like so is gods’ own work … but someone needs to teach that poor coder about subroutines, and the various gameplay engines(AI/CPU opponents, and move validation) that exist already.

    Hell, the UI/UX work may be in place already, but some wheels can be rewarding to reinvent, even if only to learn them from the ground up.

  • @lugal
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    71 year ago

    When you realize your code has exponential length…