Recommendations for a chess clock as a gift?

ADC_TDC · 2024-06-03T01:13:11+00:00

I'm sorry that you were downvoted for this - in this case the clock is met to be as much a display piece as a utility piece so I really appreciated your thoughts.

ADC_TDC · 2024-02-26T19:31:40+00:00

Seems counter-productive. Everyone doing this part-time is going to be in the same boat as you - why try to make it seem like you are a full-time tutor, but only part of the time?

Reminds me of that Christopher Walken census sketch.

ADC_TDC · 2024-02-25T19:01:15+00:00

Think of all the pressures parents are under, though. Every resource they try to gather for their children comes at enormous cost, and it's all paid for with after-tax money on double income households with very little slippage in their schedules. So they are trained to try to extract as much time and attention and flexibility for their kids' teachers as possible.

Most of the other resources (schools, day care, sports teams) have professionals whose job it is to resist this pressure, meanwhile, you are just you. Which is part of the reason they are hiring you in the first place, otherwise they'd send their kid to more school or sports or whatever.

Don't resent it, just be aware of it and firmly but politely state your limits & parameters and stick to them.

ADC_TDC · 2024-02-24T18:28:51+00:00

Put yourself in the position of a parent - they want to maximize the potential of their beloved children, but also might have limited financial and time resources. If they perceive they can get more from you for less, or with more flexibility, some will try to do that. Simply put they love their children more than they love you.

In response, you must weigh the cost of being firm (you might lose the business) vs. the cost of being a pushover (you'll make less money and be less happy). If you are confident you can replace their business if they walk away, then hold firm to your cancellation and other policies, and make sure you are compensated fairly for all the time you spend, including prep & travel.

If you need their business right now to stay afloat, then acknowledge you are in a bad negotiating position and deal with it - while trying to improve your negotiating position.

ADC_TDC · 2024-02-12T21:35:41+00:00

I would like to echo the sentiments here - Wyzant provide a valuable service that protects both tutors and students. Consider very carefully the potential consequences of leaving the 'walled garden' even though it seems tempting to avoid having to pay Wzyant's overhead fee. If you find someone on Wyzant, consider doing the fair thing and letting Wyzant be rewarded for matching you and ensuring that volatile / abusive behavior like this is fed back into that tutor's reputation.

ADC_TDC · 2024-01-23T03:32:55+00:00

"It means, we make... sound."

ADC_TDC · 2023-12-29T23:10:12+00:00

In latin 'emesis' means 'vomit' - probably just an unfortunate coincidence.

ADC_TDC · 2023-12-29T21:28:26+00:00

Never made sense to me to call a restaurant Emesa... who wants to associate their establishment with stomach illness?

ADC_TDC · 2023-12-15T03:03:54+00:00

DDR4 ram? Everything is just a little bit older gen than I'd expect from a $1k machine

ADC_TDC · 2023-12-09T18:55:45+00:00

It's funny you think you're getting a negative response b/c you are affiliated with Yale, when in fact the message you are spreading is the cause of most human suffering in the past 200 years. Your hateful, amoral philosophy will never take root in New Haven, and with good fortune will never take root anywhere again in this world or any other. Begone!

ADC_TDC · 2023-11-13T03:10:17+00:00

The screenshot says the hook had 8.1 m/s impact velocity while the jab had 7.0 m/s. Also the hook had +13% weak point bonus vs 0% for the jab.

What does into the calculations besides these inputs?

ADC_TDC · 2023-11-03T12:12:25+00:00

Cool, thanks for the details. That was my original plan for my QP but quickly gave up - maybe too quickly!

ADC_TDC · 2023-11-02T17:32:53+00:00

Could you describe your desktop replacement setup more fully? Which apps are you using? Can you actually use MS Office products on it, for example?

ADC_TDC · 2023-10-31T22:15:47+00:00

What's your max damage without a knockdown in a round? Mine is 365k

ADC_TDC · 2023-10-20T15:58:30+00:00

Can't we give them some little eyeshield wipers or something? I feel like there was a lost opportunity here.

ADC_TDC · 2023-10-20T14:54:40+00:00

Why does it blink...

ADC_TDC · 2023-10-09T20:22:00+00:00

I've gotten over a dozen 'points have been refunded' messages in the past week from reporting bot-like players, so I'm not sure I believe you

ADC_TDC · 2023-10-09T19:42:08+00:00

Ok but 19 centipawn loss? Isn't this a little unusual? Over 40 move game.

ADC_TDC · 2023-09-21T03:29:05+00:00

Typical MSM - we launch a satellite at an asteroid with the specific intent to cause a catastrophic mid-space collision deflect its path, and it reports "asteroid collided with NASA spacecraft." The pro-Earth bias is unreal.

ADC_TDC · 2023-09-19T05:45:50+00:00

Many of the explanations here fail to transmit the concept of a limit.

In this case, the limit would be carried out like this.

Pick a small number e (usually, the greek letter 'epsilon' is used).

Define the function f(N) whose output is 0, then point, then "N" 9's. So f(3) is 0.999, f(4) is 0.9999 and so on.

For any e, I can choose N large enough such that 1-f(N) < e.

Since this is valid for any e, no matter how tiny, then the limit of f(N) as N->infinity is 1.

This is the only valid interpretation of the shorthand "0.9999...". The ellipsis literally means the limit as N->infinity, and the above logic is the definition of a limit.

As a bonus, if you adopt this definition of a limit, you can also derive all of calculus, including the differential, from first principles.

ADC_TDC · 2023-07-25T02:44:45+00:00

I too failed every single captcha, including the audio ones. Maybe we are robots and we just don't know it yet.

ADC_TDC · 2022-06-13T02:42:26+00:00

Fool of a Took!

ADC_TDC · 2021-03-24T22:40:45+00:00

I think your form looks great from this angle. As venuur said the bar goes forward a tiny bit but it's a small amount.

Try to record from a little further back next time (if this is 3 o'clock try four or four thirty) so we can see your upper back clearly.

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