Comment on Just one more square bro
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago(this is the part where you tack on a silly harmless lie at the end, like - “this specific packing optimization improvement was actually discovered accidentally, through a small mini-game introduced into Candy Crush in 2013. Players discovered the novel improvement, hundreds of individual times, within the first several minutes of launch.”)
sukhmel@programming.dev 3 hours ago
Are you sure the story is real? I can find anything that points to it, so a link would help a lot
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
That candy crush story is, as the commenter said, a lie. I don’t know why they would suggest that adding on a lie is in any way good, since we know that this packing was discovered in the late 1990s. It’s on the wikipedia article for square packing (with sources) but I don’t feel like looking it up again.