realmofthemad

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by realmofthemad 3mo ago
> But actually they did worse since they needed a hint or 4. Hmm, that is interesting, I had not thought about that. I will see if it makes more sense to reverse the axis. Might just make it more confusing though > How do you curate t
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by realmofthemad 3mo ago
That helps a lot, thank you! A district is a connected group of hexes. With the other districts you have drawn, there is no way to create a connected group of hexes containing all remaining colored ones
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by realmofthemad 3mo ago
Districts are connected regions that can contain at most 4 houses. If you click on a house that is too far away from your started district, it might not be possible to span the distance. In that case it creates a new region instead Sorry th
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by realmofthemad 3mo ago
If a tile can be added to your district, it is added. Otherwise it makes a new district. Since todays puzzle heavily relies on empty space, it can be a bit confusing. I'll try to make this a bit more clear for new players
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by realmofthemad 3mo ago
Personally I've been very surprised with the public support for the increase in political gerrymandering. I know that people think it is worth it for the short term gains, but it still seems like a bad idea to me.
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by realmofthemad 3mo ago
Yes indeed, not super realistic, since it would never happen. but it does make for a more fun puzzle :)
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by realmofthemad 3mo ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean, would you mind sending over a screenshot or video of where you are stuck?
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by realmofthemad 3mo ago
I'm sorry you've found it a bit difficult to pick up! There is an introduction below the game, but it can still be a bit hard to follow since it's all text. I'll see about adding an additional, optional, interactive tuto
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by realmofthemad 3mo ago
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts(gerrymandle.cc)
244 points by realmofthemad 3mo ago|77 comments
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by realmofthemad 3mo ago
Am I missing out? I feel like I can definitely tell the difference in quality between Claude Opus and other smaller models. The smaller models are much more likely to make mistakes or to get stuck on random stuff Maybe I just haven't b
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by realmofthemad 4mo ago
Another day, another round of meta layoffs...
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by realmofthemad 4mo ago
It's very hard to tell how much is actually fake though. Are there any good statistics on this?
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by realmofthemad 4mo ago
I feel like there is some incredible progress happening in robotics that mostly gets ignored! Especially compared to how much gets written about LLMs
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by realmofthemad 4mo ago
This just seems like a pretty normal way to use AI