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abstractbg

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About abstractbg

Creator of https://abstractboardgames.com

You can reach me on my Discord https://discord.gg/cSmaVrJMYy

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    Comment #48691708

    The main one was C++ intellisense on a large codebase. It felt unusable due to the single threaded bottleneck. Mind you, this was a decade ago or more by now.

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    Comment #48677582

    Interesting improvement. My biggest issue with Emacs and the reason that I left it was because it was not multi-threaded. I wonder if is/can be multi-threaded now.

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    Comment #46806586

    Okay, I'll bite. For the record, I own Tesla stock and I am generally bullish about AI. I'll try to provide some counter-points specifically regarding the rate of progress. 3. It's…

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    Comment #45767626

    Fixed! HexWiki has a full section on the controversy surrounding Nash's claim of rediscovering Hex independently https://www.hexwiki.net/index.php/History_of_Hex

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    Comment #45767606

    Apologizes! Are you able to load it now? The activity finally calmed down and I just pushed a new version a few hours ago. I'm not sure if that's related to what you experienced. I…

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    Comment #45684297

    Very cool website! Also, check out 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel XD

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    Comment #45684278

    The analysis happens on the AI server. Sans proper profiling, I would guess that the CPU going wild during analysis is due to a combination of 1. analysis is streamed live to the c…

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    Comment #45681871

    Wow, beating a 100 bot is still impressive in my book. Thanks for the feedback and suggestions! Yes, the networks are size dependent right now. It's a great idea to copy-paste and …

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    Comment #45681424

    Sorry, thanks for pointing that out! Yes Nash rediscovered it. Will update once things calm down

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    Comment #45678703

    Thanks, single device multiplayer is a great idea. Someone else recently mentioned to me that Virus Wars is their favorite game! I'm glad to see it getting some love.

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    Comment #45678392

    Here's the rules video used by the Tumbleweed community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjA_g3nwYW4 Also, in case you are curious, Tumbleweed has a discord https://discord.com/invi…

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    Comment #45677954

    Yeah, that's another nice one. I've got a Quoridor set myself.

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    Comment #45677675

    Perfect, thank you!

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    Comment #45677213

    Thanks! Will try to figure out a version that I can get permission to add to the website.

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    Comment #45677210

    Thanks for the suggestions! Guest accounts are definitely a necessity. I had been looking at some asymmetrical games like Adugo and Viking Chess, myself.

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    Comment #45677203

    Thanks! I haven't added a commercial game before, but I will reach out to the owners of the game and see what I can do.

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    Comment #45677077

    I'm very hopeful that the problem is simply lack of general awareness of these games, and that once there's enough content surrounding them, we'll have a healthy population of peop…

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    Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots

    Thought I would post in celebration of 1 year of my website being online. I've been working on it on and off and currently the website allows users to play Hex, Tumbleweed, Amazons…