Well now. A few things, here:
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there are not 9 × 9 × 9 × 9 × … possible ways to play. After the first move, 8 squares remain, and so on, so there’s at most 9 × 8 × 7 × … = 9! = 362880 ways that the game can be played, ignoring the fact that most of those can be eliminated as reflections and rotations, or as win positions before you fill the whole board.
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we don’t care how we got there. Each square can either be blank, a cross, or a nought, so 3^9 combos = 19683, and most of those are illegal, as only the boards where there’s (one or zero) more crosses than noughts are good. And you don’t need to store ‘the computer’s move’, just jump directly to letting the player go again. Let’s guess we need at most a quarter of that.
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we could have created a single web page with 5k anchor elements on it back in the HTML 1.0 days, ignoring the fact that it would have taken a while to download on our 28.8K modems. That wouldn’t have been 170 Mb of unnecessary tagging, even with the ‘lay it out with tables’ style we had at the time.
Google do seem to have a predilection for reinventing the past, poorly. I hear that their bonuses are based on inventing ‘new’ things, though, so it’s in their interest to pass it off?
And that, kids, is why maths is absolutely necessary if you want to amount to anything more than a shitty webdev.
Which is also why I’m a shitty webdev
170 Mb of unnecessary tagging
The guy in the blog says mb (millibits) and you say Mb (megabits). I was confused so I checked, and the page is 170MB (megabytes). I agree though, that’s inefficient even for an intentionally inefficient idea.
The guy in the blog says mb (millibits)
a) does anybody actualy use that? How many people reading this thread can say they’ve actually seen that in real use or used it?
b) I’m fairly convinced you knew what was meant because it’s not like it’s uncommon to use a minuscule m for “mega” in colloquial usage
Weird performative pedantry or a joke that flew over my head? I give about a 0.5 probability for both
I was actually confused enough to have to check. I frequently work with memory, storage and bandwidth calculations so I’m always aware of the distinction between MB and Mb (and MiB, etc.), so I wondered whether “mb” was intentional, if weird.
Do you really work with memory, storage, and bandwidth? If so, have you EVER run across an instance where memory, storage, or bandwidth were referred to in millibits? Memory, storage, and bandwidth are extremely important in my job, though not my direct focus, and I can say over 50 years as a sysadmin and coder, I have never encountered “mb” and had it actually mean “millibits”. Literally not once. Now “Mb” definitely has some ambiguity (in bandwidth, it’s used for Megabits, and in memory/storage, it’s more often than not a typo of MB), but “mb” actually meaning “millibits”? No, friend. Just no.
No, that’s why it seemed weird.
Seriously? :D You seriously considered the idea o bits - the smallest possible unit - to be divided into a thousand subunits? :D Get lost
I didn’t think it through. I think I had “kilo-” in mind. Sorry for being dumb.
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Modern web development in a nutshell.
ahem excuse me?
modern implementation would have at least a 300mb
node_modules/and a bunch of memory leak sources
170 MEGABYTES. Excusez moi?
I mean, wouldn’t it essentially have to be storing every possible move (well, state) for as many rounds as you want for the player to be able to play at most? And I’m not sure he can take advantage of the fact that you can end up in the same state from multiple other states, which would remove a lot of the redundant ones
Look at the screenshot at the beginning of the article. Every possible state is stored in a div, with the state encoded in its Id. So it’s possible to reuse such “duplicate” states.
Strictly speaking, it would not be allowed for the same ID to occur multiple times.
Doesn’t seem to work in Firefox? It just displays every combination lol
It uses a newer HTML feature called popover which Firefox doesn’t support by default yet.
