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Re:Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search on Thursday February 08, 2024 @07:47PM (#39309926)
This sounds a lot like Mikhail Tal!
Re:Polars on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:26PM (#38922312)
Nice, you have experience in data frames in R, Python and Julia! Which one of those do you like the most? I know that the ecosystem isn't really comparable, but from your experience, which one is the best to work with for core operations, etc.?
Re:Lichess on Scala3 – Help Needed on Monday December 05, 2022 @11:03PM (#33875772)
Problem with that is that you will probably have a downtime for several minutes (or at least many seconds) each day. That's not optimal for a site where at any time of the day thousands of people are playing chess...
Re:Leaving MySQL on Sunday December 05, 2021 @11:50PM (#29456281)
Somewhat offtopic, but sesse.net runs a Stockfish instance with the (probably) deepest analysis of live chess games: http://analysis.sesse.net/ I visit it daily for the Chess World Championship match.
Re:Software for Math Research on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:39PM (#28823711)
As well as Julia.
I like the sound of hair dryers to focus, something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFL1w-Ptrks
I have proposed this some years ago (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/14646), but it didn't get much attention from the maintainers. It has been previously rejected in 2013 already (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/1185).
The "mozilla-unified" repository seems to be at 646.5k commits and the "chromium" repository at 999.5k commits.
Re:Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:25PM (#26419827)
I have just listened to your album on YouTube and have to say: Excellent music, I love it!
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:21AM (#24658847)
These type of repositories have existed since the first Hacktoberfest. They might even be useful for beginners to learn how to prepare their first pull request. But the idea of Hacktoberfest is clearly not to submit all your pull requests to such a repository.

It even seems as though DigitalOcean is blocking these type of repositories. From the FAQ:

My pull request is marked as being on an excluded repository. What does this mean?

Unfortunately, your pull request was made on a repository that doesn’t align with the core values of Hacktoberfest. We’ve decided that pull requests made to this repository will not count toward completing the challenge.

Re:Coronavirus and Credibility on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @01:08AM (#22800479)
That's an interesting idea. I need to try this too!
Re:1% rule on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:15PM (#22624061)
I'm as well a long time lurker. Whenever I contribute something, I feel that it should be helpful for many other people out there. This comment probably isn't...
Re:Why I Keep a Research Blog on Monday January 13, 2020 @06:40PM (#22040045)
@cushychicken: Where can we find your blog?
Re:The Internet Relies on People Working for Free on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @09:55PM (#21001820)
Inkscape didn't exist in the 90s....
Re:Ruby One-Liners on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:22PM (#20968524)
Why is awk one of the "worst programming languages ever created"?
Re:Daytripper on Monday September 09, 2019 @06:34PM (#20923222)
Which is unfortunately not maintained anymore: https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv/issues/696