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Stockfish vs. ChessBase, Round 1(lichess.org)
93 points by rococode 4y ago|7 comments
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by rococode 4y ago
There's a difference, though. Meta is a renaming. There is no "Facebook" company anymore. It's all Meta. Meta has a product named "Facebook", not a company named "Facebook". Alphabet is a holding
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by rococode 4y ago
Even their expenses are open source! https://lichess.org/costs
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by rococode 4y ago
Anyone interested in this topic should check out Stephen Webb's book, "If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where Is Everybody?". It's not perfect, but it goes over a lot of possible explanations (75 different ex
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by rococode 4y ago
Convergent evolution has been observed many times on Earth. I think it's plausible that a similar process of evolution may be possible for DNA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
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by rococode 4y ago
It's about 0.01% the speed of light, which is definitely fast enough to have a measurable impact. Even ISS astronauts experience a tiny amount of time dilation (on a millisecond level) and they move at much slower speeds.
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by rococode 4y ago
The cruelest part of this: https://twitter.com/TeamBlind/status/1532769735393169410 2 weeks ago they sent out emails saying "we will not be rescinding the offers of any employees who have already signed or ha
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Coinbase told new hires that signed or pending offers would not be rescinded(twitter.com)
31 points by rococode 4y ago|2 comments
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La Paz Traffic Zebras(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rococode 4y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 4y ago
I have high hopes for the upcoming MMORPG from Riot Games (maker of League of Legends/Valorant/Legends of Runeterra/Wild Rift). So far all of their new games have been very solid entrants in their respective genres. They have
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by rococode 4y ago
Maplestory was a huge part of my childhood, I've always wondered why no other company has made something aesthetically similar. I didn't care for the endless RPG grind so much - it was really the graphics and soundtrack that made
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by rococode 4y ago
g2 is defended by black's knight, so after Kxg2, black captures the king and wins with Nxg2.
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by rococode 4y ago
Here's a reference point on their salaries for anyone curious: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Coinbase/salaries/Software-En...
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Ask HN: What do you like to learn about in your spare time?
6 points by rococode 4y ago|6 comments
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Meta freezes hiring for the rest of 2022(protocol.com)
9 points by rococode 4y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 4y ago
Here are some links listing recent domain sales: https://enaming.com/recent-sales https://www.dnjournal.com/ytd-sales-charts.htm https://www.namecheap.com/blog/top-domain-sales-of-2021-
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by rococode 4y ago
I'm no expert but I think these shots often use slower shutter speeds, for example 0.5s instead of 0.01s. This increases the amount of light, but any movement that happens while the shutter is open will cause blur. Movement causes blur
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Ask HN: What topics do you enjoy learning about in your free time?
3 points by rococode 4y ago|2 comments
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Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Advances to Top 39 in Norwegian Poker Championship(en.pokerpro.cc)
2 points by rococode 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What topics do you enjoy learning about for fun?
3 points by rococode 5y ago|3 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
It really does seem like a lot of the magic here is simply the format. The video lengths are a perfect balance between short enough to be addictive, and long enough to enable content more varied and interesting than just short gags. Instagr
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Hypercane(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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The Cube Rule (2017)(cuberule.com)
380 points by rococode 5y ago|136 comments
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City Chicken(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
Wikpedia's current events page is quite nice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
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by rococode 5y ago
> I can spend a fair amount of money on this. A charter flight would be your best bet. NYC to Paris will run you about $60-70k, that can accomodate about a dozen passengers so the cost goes down dramatically if you can find some people t
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by rococode 5y ago
From my experience, people in Seattle tend not to report minor crimes because the police have no ability to do anything about it. If a homeless person pushes you or spits at you, what are you realistically going to do? Call the police, wait
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by rococode 5y ago
The videos require a login, but if you go to the modules page there are slides available for nearly everything (all the pdf/html links) https://stanford-cs221.github.io/autumn2021/modules/
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by rococode 5y ago
If you don't mind missing the "M" part of MOOCs, you can learn a lot from university courses. Most of the top CS schools have slides and homeworks on their course websites. For example, if you want to learn... Artificial Inte
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by rococode 5y ago
From what I can tell as a non-medical professional, some of the most concerning warning signs are: - Sudden weight loss (>10-15 pounds without a change in exercise or diet) - Any kind of recurring pain, especially headaches - Your poop i

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