I was going to get back to watching Daredevil's first season last night, only to discover that my 3-year old was streaming nextflix from his tablet in bed.
Son, you have a wealth of children's programming to watch, it doesn't have to be Daniel Tiger all the time (even though it's a real good children's show!).
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There's nothing like watching a Chess novice's face when they first learn about castling and en passant. The desire to call you out on your bullshit.
I'm familiar with the former but not the latter. What's en passant?
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So apparently Thor, the God of Thunder, was just summoned in one of our server racks.
Like a random ass surge just took out power to a few VM hosts, fried the motherboard on one, fried two sticks of ram on another, and destroyed an old Dell Poweredge 2K3 box we were in the process of backing up to decommission.
I can recommend media on the interwebs that may provide a distraction
i'm watching the devil man as we speak
is good, Frank infinitely more interesting than Fisk
still super ultra grimly depressed tho
Watch Kimmie Schmidt?
that's actually kinda depressing too
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it's always a good feeling when your boss waffles about spending a certain amount of money on a server solution but does not bat an eye at spending slightly more on polo shirts for us all to wear
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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After one side moves a pawn two spaces, the other side can immediately capture the two-space pawn with their own pawn by moving past the two-space pawn.
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I received a professional compliment today about how my briefing was informative and displayed a mature understanding of the problem. Yay! I feel validated. These business development people are being really excellent about providing mentorship and feedback even though my manager for the science/programming stuff is a bit lacking on that front.
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Oh man, En Passant pisses off people so much. In casual pickup chess games I have done that and had people argue that I can't do it because it's not a "normal rule" or some nonsense. Yes it is! It totally is!
I received a professional compliment today about how my briefing was informative and displayed a mature understanding of the problem. Yay! I feel validated. These business development people are being really excellent about providing mentorship and feedback even though my manager for the science/programming stuff is a bit lacking on that front.
I love professional validation! All too often I feel imposter-syndrome-ey.
I can recommend media on the interwebs that may provide a distraction
i'm watching the devil man as we speak
is good, Frank infinitely more interesting than Fisk
still super ultra grimly depressed tho
Dunno if you're in the mood for it, but have you played any HotS? It's really engrossing yet chill, and full of PA bros to hang out on voice with. Very good anti-depression solution (well, for some depressions, for some people).
So apparently Thor, the God of Thunder, was just summoned in one of our server racks.
Like a random ass surge just took out power to a few VM hosts, fried the motherboard on one, fried two sticks of ram on another, and destroyed an old Dell Poweredge 2K3 box we were in the process of backing up to decommission.
Fuck you Avenger.
Lame.
Did they have UPSes or were they right on the wall?
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I've been thinking about starting a thread for it, as a fun little diversion during spring break.
This is a decent introduction to the rules, and the dude with that explanation video of the ladder game has a bunch of good, more basic explanations of concepts on his channel.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
After one side moves a pawn two spaces, the other side can immediately capture the two-space pawn with their own pawn by moving past the two-space pawn.
so it's the chess version of that thing where two people dash past each other with swords try to slash eachother and stop after passing eachother and then there's a beat and then one of them collapses
Oh man, En Passant pisses off people so much. In casual pickup chess games I have done that and had people argue that I can't do it because it's not a "normal rule" or some nonsense. Yes it is! It totally is!
People do not like losing or suffering a blow because of lack of rules knowledge. Because it sucks. It's almost worth mentioning at the start of a game so they know.
Oh man, En Passant pisses off people so much. In casual pickup chess games I have done that and had people argue that I can't do it because it's not a "normal rule" or some nonsense. Yes it is! It totally is!
People do not like losing or suffering a blow because of lack of rules knowledge. Because it sucks. It's almost worth mentioning at the start of a game so they know.
En Passant : chess :: "Damage on the stack" : Magic the Gathering
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Oh man, En Passant pisses off people so much. In casual pickup chess games I have done that and had people argue that I can't do it because it's not a "normal rule" or some nonsense. Yes it is! It totally is!
People do not like losing or suffering a blow because of lack of rules knowledge. Because it sucks. It's almost worth mentioning at the start of a game so they know.
Yeah, I always ask if my opponent is okay with me castling before I do so. I'm a novice player playing usually playing against other novice players, so half the time they haven't heard of it.
Instead of learning to play Go (I started learning in Boston but have only played 3-4 games ever, and now I can't remember the rules), my bro and I are maybe going to try to work towards an AI to play a different game of perfect strategy (the inimitable Warlocks/Waving Hands).
Of our three joint programming endeavors, we only ever finished one, but it was the most recent one, so...maybe it'll happen?
First step is that I just want to implement this game, whereas they want to work towards a predictive algorithm to correlate %winchance with game state, or something like that.
Hm I thought I was ambivalent on this project but actually I am super-psyched! Although. Let's see if I actually work on it instead of playing League.
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Son, you have a wealth of children's programming to watch, it doesn't have to be Daniel Tiger all the time (even though it's a real good children's show!).
oh yeah totally I'll just
uh
*heavy sigh*
actually I'm gonna lie down for a bit but hit me up later ok
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i'm watching the devil man as we speak
is good, Frank infinitely more interesting than Fisk
still super ultra grimly depressed tho
The most powerful kind of laughs in existence.
Watch Kimmie Schmidt?
Like a random ass surge just took out power to a few VM hosts, fried the motherboard on one, fried two sticks of ram on another, and destroyed an old Dell Poweredge 2K3 box we were in the process of backing up to decommission.
Fuck you Avenger.
Master of Malts is perfectly fine.
Get a job, Caroline. You shouldn't be eating candy and milk for breakfast anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant
After one side moves a pawn two spaces, the other side can immediately capture the two-space pawn with their own pawn by moving past the two-space pawn.
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He was in Brussels.
They've had to pour in the riot officers to stop public disorder.
...
Omg hahahah
HAHAHA
I love professional validation! All too often I feel imposter-syndrome-ey.
Deebs' inner-child choked on a Lucky Charms marshmallow and died.
Dunno if you're in the mood for it, but have you played any HotS? It's really engrossing yet chill, and full of PA bros to hang out on voice with. Very good anti-depression solution (well, for some depressions, for some people).
Lame.
Did they have UPSes or were they right on the wall?
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I dunno. Seven years (almost) is pretty much forever.
That's 1/4 of my life. Fuck. Shit just got dark.
Im at that point in the process where I probably can't be cheered up
I sat on my couch last night for two hours looking at the ceiling instead doing, well, literally anything else
Look at this proximity laughter. He's several states away!
I've been thinking about starting a thread for it, as a fun little diversion during spring break.
This is a decent introduction to the rules, and the dude with that explanation video of the ladder game has a bunch of good, more basic explanations of concepts on his channel.
People do not like losing or suffering a blow because of lack of rules knowledge. Because it sucks. It's almost worth mentioning at the start of a game so they know.
En Passant : chess :: "Damage on the stack" : Magic the Gathering
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Fuck Joe Manchin
If it helps I'm your age and instead of a PHD I once put seven years into what was ultimately an unsuccessful relationship!
Of our three joint programming endeavors, we only ever finished one, but it was the most recent one, so...maybe it'll happen?
First step is that I just want to implement this game, whereas they want to work towards a predictive algorithm to correlate %winchance with game state, or something like that.
Hm I thought I was ambivalent on this project but actually I am super-psyched! Although. Let's see if I actually work on it instead of playing League.