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Re: Eternal Struggle

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Post by patates » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 6:37 AM UTC

francisduvivier wrote: post #77

rnotaro wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This vibed coded implementation is buggy. If you go to 64.00×, it can't slow back anymore.

Well that's fixed in the V2 with even more vibe coding: https://francisduvivier.github.io/eternal-struggle-with-spee...

I think next level would be custom shapes, custom starting areas, more colors, ability to change physics (add gravity?), and user interacting (being able to help a fellow struggling entity -a ball in this case-, when it gets worse).

Someone put this into an AI super duper thinking max edition, sprinkle some MCP on top and see what happens lol

Re: Eternal Struggle

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Post by patates » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 6:41 AM UTC

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #101

francisduvivier wrote: post #60

Some people here were asking for it so I quickly vibe forked a speed control slider for farming some karma here on Hacker News: https://francisduvivier.github.io/eternal-struggle-with-spee... Code: https://github.com/francisduvivier/eternal-struggle-with-spe...

At fast speed I see a trail of the circles. What gives?

something about monitor refresh rate perhaps?

https://www.testufo.com

Re: Eternal Struggle

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Post by dmos62 » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 7:28 AM UTC

I'd phrase it "eternal adventure".

Re: Eternal Struggle

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Post by SarahC_ » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 7:49 AM UTC

alyxya wrote: post #37

I watched it for an hour, and at some point the black ball crossed the boundary onto the black side, so eventually the whole circle became black.

The coming of Satan is foretold!

Re: Eternal Struggle

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Post by temp0826 » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 7:55 AM UTC

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #107

temp0826 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A little matter-antimatter asymmetry never hurt anyone

Here we have it, an internet toy demonstrating how this asymmetry occurred. I expect physics papers soon.

Nobel prizes for everyone!

Re: Eternal Struggle

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Post by nialv7 » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 8:00 AM UTC

wvbdmp wrote: post #61

francisduvivier wrote: post #60

Some people here were asking for it so I quickly vibe forked a speed control slider for farming some karma here on Hacker News: https://francisduvivier.github.io/eternal-struggle-with-spee... Code: https://github.com/francisduvivier/eternal-struggle-with-spe...

Not to alarm anyone, but when I ran this, the black ball eventually joined the dark side and the whole thing ended up black. I’m sure this doesn’t mean anything for the greater universe.

black-white here doesn't mean bad-good. they just mean opposites, different aspects of things. I think wikipedia does a pretty good job explaining it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang

Re: Eternal Struggle

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Post by camillomiller » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 8:07 AM UTC

wvbdmp wrote: post #61

francisduvivier wrote: post #60

Some people here were asking for it so I quickly vibe forked a speed control slider for farming some karma here on Hacker News: https://francisduvivier.github.io/eternal-struggle-with-spee... Code: https://github.com/francisduvivier/eternal-struggle-with-spe...

Not to alarm anyone, but when I ran this, the black ball eventually joined the dark side and the whole thing ended up black. I’m sure this doesn’t mean anything for the greater universe.

Had the same experience and derived an absolutely unexpected bout of deep existential anxiety from it. Going to touch grass now.

Re: Eternal Struggle

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Post by 4ndr3vv » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 8:49 AM UTC

waltbosz wrote: post #88

I want to see a real world version that uses one of those magnetic sand sculpture tables. https://sisyphus-industries.com/

It'd be interesting to see how the visuals change when you're viewing the path, rather than a filled area.

Not seen one of these tables with two balls in... You'd probably need quite a lot of height to offset the linear sliders so didn't collide with each other.

Re: Eternal Struggle

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Post by amelius » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 8:51 AM UTC

MrJohz wrote: post #11

The cool thing about this is that it's self-balancing - if either side gets larger than the other due to random chance, the ball in that side will have more space to bounce in, and therefore bounce less often, slowing its growth. Meanwhile, the ball in the smaller side will bounce more often in its smaller space, making up the ground.

But you can say the same thing about a circle with a straight line as separator.

Re: Eternal Struggle

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Post by amelius » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 8:56 AM UTC

MrJohz wrote: post #11

The cool thing about this is that it's self-balancing - if either side gets larger than the other due to random chance, the ball in that side will have more space to bounce in, and therefore bounce less often, slowing its growth. Meanwhile, the ball in the smaller side will bounce more often in its smaller space, making up the ground.

It seems there is a parallel with physics: two pressurized chambers with equal pressure and a membrane separating them. The odd thing here is that there is only one molecule in each of them.