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You must be new to the internet and online forums?
No I am not (thankfully!), it's the first time I had that sort of tirade from a member who I have interacted with in the past. Also CP is one of the few, I feel are beginner friendly web sites the danger is if the people in charge are not aware of this behavior, CP will start to circle the SO drain. I just found the behavoir odd almost like the poster wasn't the poster (a hacked account or worse?)
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This is a followup to a previous post made here in the Lounge, that post was titled “Simulation” I think.
The main problem with AI in RTS games is that while the building of the base resembles to what a human would do, the fighting itself follows no strategy. If we take Starcraft for example the AI player combat units always attack following the shortest path, regardless if it’s a case of a building or a unit in it’s own base suffering damage and needing protection or a case of attacking the enemy base. In the later situation the attack force enters the enemy base as stream of units arriving one by one which makes the attack useless.
Among the main challenges in Starcraft is defending the base and the expansions. At the beginning of the game you have a small number of combat units. If you build an expansion, splitting your combat units in two to defend your main base and the expansion is not a good idea, two small unit groups separated from each other are easy to defeat. The solution is to keep your units together and place them in a location that will cover both bases. That can be done by tracing paths from the enemy base to your bases and see where the paths overlap. The place where the common nodes end and the two paths go in different directions makes a good location where you can keep your units. This way you can use your units to protect both bases at the same time
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Tactics generally dictate concentrating all your forces on a given point when attacking. Ai can calculate attack and defend strength and arrive at probabilities. Strategy involves iterating over the enemy and finding his weak points, and your own. At its core, it's about maneuvering (march rates; terrain; inclines; fatigue); putting your strength against his weakest point. In real simulations, there are no "barracks" that spawn hundreds of troops at a time or infinite farms: you go for supply (communications) lines.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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>Tactics generally dictate concentrating...
I think that changes a bit depending on the game you’re playing. It is true if you’re playing a game like Warcraft 3. In Starcraft however the main rule is inflict damage without taking damage. That means your attacking units need to be placed not on the edge of the enemy base that is closest to your base ( which is the place where the typical AI sends his units) but somewhere else where they don’t take damage. This can be achieved by marking on the map the areas that fall in the enemy units fire range and keeping your units away from those areas.
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Quordle[^]
Four Wordle games simultaneously - 9 guesses to get all four ... It's not easy.
Don't know if I'll do it regularly, but it's a brain waker-upper all right.
My first try:
Daily Quordle 453
8️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Daily Octordle #453
4️⃣🕛
🔟🕐
🟥5️⃣
9️⃣🕚
Score: 78
I didn't make it.
Didn't even make it to the third left, but I've never heard of that word (other than a regular name), so I wasn't going to make it anyway.
First and last on the right and second left weren't exactly common words either.
So one unknown and three (very) rare words in a set of eight?
I was doomed from the start 
Still, seven out of eight isn't so bad I think.
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That's ... a strange combination of difficult and simple.
Daily Octordle #453
4️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣🕛
6️⃣7️⃣
🕚🔟
Score: 64
I think if you use two good starters that cover all vowels plus "Y" - I used "AROSE" and "UNITY" then pick the "best match" to work on then it's relatively simple. But I was still pretty close on the last word!
Thanks - I'll add to the the "daily puzzles" list. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Phew, barely made it!
Bottom left was a hard one.
Daily Quordle 453
5️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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…because the ridiculous daily “Wordle” and “Worldle” humble-brag posts weren’t enough? 
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I think you mean wordle
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 672 3/6*
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 672 X/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
Lost today
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Wordle 672 2/6
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 672 2/6
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 672 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 672 2/6
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Wordle 672 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Jeremy Falcon
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Wordle 672 6/6*
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Oh yeah! Takin' 'er down to the wire!
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Wordle 672 4/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 672 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
doh
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I'm on a hiatus from coding, saving myself for my ARM equipment that's coming.
I am taking the "smart" from smartphones and putting it in my devices. Not just stuffing Rpis in stuff either. More bespoke.
This is a whole new realm for me. A real GPU? Are you kidding? DDR3 RAM? HDMI? I can run a "real" OS if I want?
I don't need all this. I wouldn't mind something more in between what I have been using and this, but the chip is $12 and that's not even bulk reel prices. I've paid far more for a simple USB Host chip, and this chip does that *too*
These ARM Cortex A based SoCs are fabulous.
I've never been a fan of the RPi, in part because it was a bit too heavy for me. I don't need gigs of RAM. I don't want a $100 unit. $30 is more about the price point for a prototype board built with components of the cost we want to hit an 80% use case - in other words, a board that cheap won't make our clients balk when we go to buy the components to replicate it, almost no matter what we're building.
I also found secret sauce for going from HDMI to 40-pin RGB which was a huge win for me. Now we can use any LCD under the sun.
I need to brush up on STL (it has been awhile since I've used it heavily), heck maybe even learn QT.
I'm so happy to have gotten this far with it. I'll be spending some more time tinkering and coming up with a workflow and firmware package for this before I've got my feet under me, but now this feels major league.
Like I've broken through.
I like the ESP platform family but they are simplistic, and the biggest thing is they can't drive most LCDs you can buy of any reasonable capability.
I like coding in constrained memory. It keeps me creative.
That said, this Arm stuff is my brave new world, or without the negative literary connotations I guess, my final frontier.
This was so challenging for me to get to this point. I have a lot further to go, and then you can darn well bet I'll be producing code project articles to get everyone on board, without the Raspberry Pi training wheels.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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definitely count me in
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I have received NO spam calls today, none, not one, nada. I'm left wondering, should I play the lottery or prepare for the end? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Restart your phone. It crashed. 
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