EddTheSDET

Hackernews seems overly critical and anti-“hacker” nowadays (new acc but been around for years). Anyone have a guess why that’s the case? Influx of new users?

If they’re trained on a database of hundreds if thousands of top ranked games they’ll beat 90% by following those by rote

Which ones?

Could you write to a university near where you’d like to work and ask them for some advice too?

I tried Act at one point but couldn't get it to run the whole pipeline correctly, it might have improved since though so I'll try it out again soon

How DO you debug your actions? I spend so long in the commit-action-debug-change loop it’s absurd. I agree with your point re: 2 wholeheartedly though, it makes debugging scripts so much easier too. CI should be runnable locally and GitHub actions, while supported with some tooling, still isn’t very easy to work with like that.

Hey! From a technical point, how did you get all the card images? Is there a way to download them from somewhere?

I once had an issue where something failed in prod but not in test, it was because a MAC address was dynamic and in prod only consisted of numbers so whatever tool we used parsed the Yaml value as a sexagesimal number and threw a type error. Yaml can be interesting…

I believe OP is talking about the human emotion of flipping that coin the 19th time (or indeed the 18th, or 17th...). While the math might be as simple as doubling x times it's very different to actually do it!