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by marcusbuffett 2y ago
This is the one I use, should have mentioned in the article
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by marcusbuffett 2y ago
Yeah there’s some nuance to the zero days thing. If it’s a day I’ve already set aside that’s fine, but I’ve found myself unable to decide in the moment “not feeling it today, this will be a zero day”, and be okay with that emotionally. Unle
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Managing my motivation as a solo dev(mbuffett.com)
336 points by marcusbuffett 2y ago|91 comments
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by marcusbuffett 2y ago
I tried React Native, but ended up re-writing and going with SolidJS + Capacitor, and I love the setup. I've barely thought about performance since switching, people think the iOS/Android apps feel native, there's almost neve
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Processing 6 Billion Chess Games in Less Than 2 Hours(mbuffett.com)
1 points by marcusbuffett 3y ago|0 comments
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by marcusbuffett 3y ago
The problem I’m facing with storing roughly 600 million shorter PGNs is that the database is 100GB or so, and I’m grabbing thousands of them sort of at random. This makes the query IO bound, even though the finding the pages they’re on is v
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by marcusbuffett 3y ago
I did end up doing something like this: https://mbuffett.com/posts/compressing-chess-moves-even-furt... You’re spot on about the performance reason I didn’t want to do this originally, but I did some testing and turns
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by marcusbuffett 3y ago
I have actually, alongside my work of compressing moves. My compression scheme averages about 150 bits per position, or about 35% of the standard text notation in EPD format. The thing I optimized for is that there’s very often repeated bla
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by marcusbuffett 3y ago
I mention Huffman in my follow-up post: https://mbuffett.com/posts/compressing-chess-moves-even-furt... , but chose arithmetic encoding instead.
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by marcusbuffett 3y ago
Your intuition here is right on the money. I wrote a subsequent post with pretty much that exact approach: https://mbuffett.com/posts/compressing-chess-moves-even-furt...
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by marcusbuffett 3y ago
I looked at some solutions that were more specifically meant for queues, for my site, but decided to keep the infra simple by using my Postgres DB for the worker queues. There’s 10,000 jobs a day, at that rate theres virtually zero addition
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by marcusbuffett 3y ago
I personally find Wtfhappenedin1971 to be super interesting, even if the conclusion about floating currencies could be wrong. The author here hand-picks like 4 things out of the 50 charts, and IMO the least interesting ones. There’s some ma
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Which chess openings lead to the shortest games? What about the longest games?(lichess.org)
2 points by marcusbuffett 3y ago|0 comments
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by marcusbuffett 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning this, has been fixed!
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by marcusbuffett 3y ago
As someone who loves to stay in the terminal when possible, this looks awesome. The lack of multi-line input is a bit of a bummer but I guess I can c+p from my editor or something
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by marcusbuffett 4y ago
Copilot is a million times better then Tabnine. Tabnine was promising, but totally stopped making any improvements to the model after it got bought out years ago.
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by marcusbuffett 4y ago
I blog at mbuffett.com , personally I just like seeing that people are engaging with or learning from my posts. Like whenever there’s a new release of Bevy, I get hundreds/thousands of people reading my snake game tutorial, and that’s
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by marcusbuffett 4y ago
This project looks awesome and as someone who’s used vim/neovim my whole career, I’m very excited for a modern modal editor. If it had an easy motion/sneak/leap/hop sort of thing (there’s an open PR), I’d switch right aw
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by marcusbuffett 4y ago
I run https://chessmadra.com React + Typescript frontend Rust backend Architecture stuff: kubernetes, Kong, postgres, all hosted on DO
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by marcusbuffett 4y ago
Are you talking about this most recent game? Because the move he played was 1… Nf6, after 1.d4, which is one of the top three responses to d4, called the King’s Indian. Whether Hans is cheating or not, there’s zero chance he doesn’t know wh
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by marcusbuffett 4y ago
Oh shoot didn't even realize I did that, will update EDIT: turns out I can't :/ oh well
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by marcusbuffett 4y ago
Think I have some interesting, dare I say good, approaches to managing complex state on my site, so just sharing some of that for discussion.
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My setup for ergonomic and performant Zustand in React(old.reddit.com)
1 points by marcusbuffett 4y ago|3 comments
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It’s probably not just chess and language. How much potential is thrown away?(mbuffett.com)
4 points by marcusbuffett 4y ago|0 comments
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by marcusbuffett 5y ago
Hey I really enjoyed this one, really tough. I think an easy mode where you were still allowed to use the numbers that have been grayed out would be nice
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by marcusbuffett 5y ago
I would have guessed around the same chance, this was surprising to me after playing around with copilot and not being impressed at all.
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by marcusbuffett 5y ago
I'm interested in collaborating with someone for my side project https://chessmadra.com . There's no money in it, as I haven't monetized it and don't plan to, but if you're interested in chess, have idea
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by marcusbuffett 5y ago
I have tinnitus and still really enjoyed the experience. No out of body stuff like TFA, but deeply relaxing.
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by marcusbuffett 5y ago
If you're comfortable w/ it, feel free to send me your resume, I've been on the hiring end of these 6 figure jobs quite a few times now, may be able to give you some tips. Email in about.
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Generating Chess Puzzles Fast with Rust and Stockfish(mbuffett.com)
2 points by marcusbuffett 5y ago|0 comments

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