It seems there are a lot of buggy positions which clear themselves given enough time. I managed to make it to 1,000,000 iterations without any permanent lockups (but some lasted a while)
Liftyee 128 days ago [-]
The neat thing about this is that it's self-balancing: if one side grows smaller, the ball bounces more often and increases how quickly it regains territory.
Contax 128 days ago [-]
Sorry for the tangential, but as a non-native English speaker, and still learning... this really caught my attention: "grows smaller". It looks like a kind of contradiction. Is it common to use that instead of, say, "shrink"?
bckr 128 days ago [-]
“Grows” is sometimes used as a synonym for “becomes” or “becomes more”.
“Becomes smaller”
Contax 127 days ago [-]
Thanks, TIL.
dash2 128 days ago [-]
Wasn't there a version of this with the yin and yang symbol posted recently? (Also there's a 2 year old hn post of this same thing)
https://yoavg.github.io/eternal/
“Becomes smaller”
Mine got stuck in a cycle for a bit, but broke the cycle just after I stopped screen recording: https://i.moveything.com/c1d941787599.mp4
(Likely vibe-codeable...)
Quick question, is the Day Pong a Master of Karate and friendship For Everyone?
But I just switched back to that tab and they've become unstuck.
nice to see variety :)