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dak1 commented on Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died   old.reddit.com/r/chess/co... · Posted by u/ntnbr
dak1 · 2 months ago
Danya was such an incredibly positive influence on the chess community, a tremendous teacher whose YouTube content I’m sure will remain popular for years to come, and my personal favorite chess commentator.

He was also only 29 years old.

I’m actually in tears right now struggling how to break this news to my son, who absolutely loved Danya and had a chance to play him OTB last year.

dak1 commented on iCloud Private Relay down for some users   apple.com/support/systems... · Posted by u/LeoPanthera
dak1 · a year ago
If you're using this on an iPhone, the failure is quite non-informative. Trying to browse to a URL looks like you failed to input anything and it just falls to a blank screen.

On the Mac, you'll see the message "Safari can’t open the page. The error is: “The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory” (NSPOSIXErrorDomain:2)".

dak1 commented on Dear Chess World   twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen... · Posted by u/shreyas-satish
mikenew · 3 years ago
You're conflating accuracy with engine correlation. Having a perfectly accurate game means you didn't make any moves that caused a centipawn loss. Having 100% engine correlation means you're making the exact moves the engine would make.
dak1 · 3 years ago
I think I have on 3-4 occasions played a game where, after evaluating on chess.com, got a 100% accuracy (which is engine correlation). A couple times were all theory and then blundering a mate in 1, but...

I did have one game where I didn't know the theory except a very vague recollection in the beginning. I actually thought I had blundered in that game and was trying to figure out what I'd do if my opponent made a certain move — they didn't find it, I ended up winning material in a tactic and they resigned — I was in complete shock when it came back 100% accuracy (and I definitely did not see the engine response to the move I was worried about, which was the best move).

I'm only around 1600-1700 on chess.com.

Not taking a position either way on Hans, but I have no doubt he knows far more theory than I do (and I do know some lines 20+ moves deep), and correlating with an engine is not impossible even outside of book.

dak1 commented on Imminent merger of a supermassive black hole binary   arxiv.org/abs/2201.11633... · Posted by u/perihelions
yucky · 4 years ago
...and what does that mean for earthlings?
dak1 · 4 years ago
science will happen
dak1 commented on 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults   1password.community/discu... · Posted by u/taxyovio
jl_agilebits · 4 years ago
Hi. I'm a feature developer for 1Password, and I want to clarify a few things. First of all, our decision to built the macOS app in Electron was absolutely not driven by VC money. For the past few years, we've been working on consolidating 1Password's business logic into a single Rust-powered core that could be shared across all our apps. This has many advantages: feature consistency across platforms, faster development cycles, and better security. When building the front-end for the desktop platforms that would take advantage of this new core, Electron suited us perfectly, since we could write our UI code once and make it consistent across Linux, Windows, and Mac. We actually did build a native Mac app initially alongside the cross-platform Electron app, but we eventually decided that having two separate versions of the macOS app (one in Electron, one in SwiftUI) would cause a lot of needless development churn and hassle for both customers and our support team.

I can understand your frustration about Electron, but I hope you find my explanation reasonable. Please stop spreading misinformation.

dak1 · 4 years ago
But how can you justify removing the ability to have a local vault?

Why would anyone think for a second that it would be a good idea to force people to store every password for everything in their life in your cloud without an opt out?

That, even more than Electron and the subscription model (both which do bother me), is an absolutely deal breaker. I've paid for every version of 1Password since v3 in 2009, but I'm done with it now.

dak1 commented on JSON with Commas and Comments   nigeltao.github.io/blog/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
hermitcrab · 5 years ago
I just happen to be working on JSON parsing today. What a mess. People don't even follow what is already there. I've seen several 'JSON' data files like this:

{<object>} {<object>}

That isn't valid JSON, is it? The Qt JSON parser doesn't handle it.

dak1 · 5 years ago
That looks a bit like NDJSON, assuming that the space between the objects is actually a newline.

There are libraries[1] that support parsing it and it's not too hard to do yourself, either. Some fairly popular projects use it to represent multiple responses in a single response body[2].

[1] http://ndjson.org/libraries.html [2] ElasticSearch uses it for msearch response bodys, for example.

dak1 commented on Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model   about.gitlab.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/alexrustic
dak1 · 5 years ago
We recently spent a couple weeks going over pricing with a GitLab regional Account Leader.

We already use GitLab for all our source repos, CI/CD pipelines, and had been using it for issue management as well — all fully self-hosted. The hope was to drop Jira, which was also being used for project planning, and fully adopt GitLab, but the costs were simply unjustifiable.

Basically GitLab ended up being a full order of magnitude more expensive. Even with discounts, which got things closer (but not all the way there), the fear was after a period of time, the discounts would be ended/phased out and we'd be stuck.

I'd love to see those features that compete directly with Jira (like roadmaps and multi-level epics) come down to the Premium level, which is more price/feature competitive.

We love GitLab, but find ourselves stuck using the free tier and paying for services we don't love, rather than supporting GitLab. I'd suspect we're not alone there, either.

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