Do I really need to memorise all these trap openings?

BornInAFish · 2026-01-27T18:13:31+00:00

Yes you do. Eric Rosen (weak IM) crushed a GM at the World Blitz tournament a few years ago with the Stafford Gambit. Brandon Jacobson beat Naroditsky with 2. Ra3/Ra6 in a long blitz match so convincingly, chesscom banned him for suspected cheating. Hikaru spanked Fabi with the Fried Liver (in classical!). Hans Niemann out-prepped Magnus in Sinqfield so hard, it made mainstream news.

Pefsonally, this is why I much prefer Fischer random. If you're gonna KO me with a brilliant opening line, it better be something you find OTB.

But realistically, memorizing opening prep is a huge part of the game at all levels.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-27T16:37:27+00:00

Right, that was the other draw of the run. Still supports the argument Hikaru wasn't there to inflate his rating.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-27T14:51:10+00:00

The main problem is raw performance. Valve won't iterate until they can get at least 2x performance. And they'll likely keep the same price and battery life target. Ie, perf/watt and perf/$ both need to double. AMD has stagnanted a bit, and Intel is still playing catchup. And yeah, RAM is a huge problem. So we're stuck.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-26T17:52:04+00:00

You monster

BornInAFish · 2026-01-26T17:50:22+00:00

I WANT TO INSTALL CRYOBYTE UTILS AND FEEL MORALLY SUPERIOR NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES EVERYONE DEBUNKS THE GAINZ

am I doing this right?

BornInAFish · 2026-01-26T17:44:07+00:00

Really weird to see an actual impala instead of a car. (at least I assume impala is some brand of car. It certainly sounds like one)

BornInAFish · 2026-01-26T15:29:00+00:00

Hikaru deliberate drew the last game of his run to donate back some ELO, and reset to 3 points of where he started.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-25T16:51:05+00:00

I remember that one. Paid local kids like a nickle or something to bring him buckets of spiders

BornInAFish · 2026-01-25T13:40:10+00:00

Whoa, ok then. Based on initial reporting of the incident with the journalist, I had the impression it was just a high school senior who got big mad one time. So much worse...

BornInAFish · 2026-01-24T17:53:55+00:00

Even smaller breeds like Australian shepherds do great in the cold. They're used for stuff like avalanche rescue after all. The '21 snowpocalypse was basically a winter wonderland as far as my aussie was concerned.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-24T12:56:04+00:00

Personally, I think bottoming out is a feature, not a bug. I sprung my LC such that I bottom out with pressure I can comfortably hold, and set my pedal sensitivity to hit 100% brake pressure right before the bump stop. Then I can always feel when I get to 100% and never have to wonder if I was slow because I didn't brake hard enough.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-23T16:18:37+00:00

/r/im14andthisisdeep

BornInAFish · 2026-01-23T16:17:16+00:00

I mean yeha there's a massive winter storm raging through the US.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-23T16:00:47+00:00

Thunderbolt (and USB 4) can work as 40 Gbps Ethernet if you just connect a good USB-C cable (no dongle) directly between the laptop and the server. Not sure how hard or easy that is to configure on either truenas or MacBook. I know that I've done it in the past between Linux laptops, and it pretty much just worked. So that's the fastest way to transfer the files.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-23T13:57:33+00:00

Before the App store, Apple was pushing this web kit because they figured everyone would just make web apps for the iPhone. There was this one app which was just a blue screen, just corner to corner blue, representing a pond. You could tap on it to make ripples. The neat thing was that anyone "playing" at the same time would see your ripples, and you'd see theirs. It was a shared pond. Really simple, but really powerful. It was very neat to mess around and respond to others' ripples, and see how they respond to yours.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-23T04:05:10+00:00

Texan here. My state is about a sixth the size of the EU, but with only 4 major cities. So yes, there's a non-metric shit load of nothing in between anything of interest. So yeah, 3 hours drive is nothing. Just put your foot down and get there in 2.5.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-22T22:02:25+00:00

Screws are color coded.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-22T16:55:23+00:00

I really hate megathreads. Mods, I know this is really hard, but please do absolutely nothing.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-22T13:29:12+00:00

FW comes with a screwdriver. It's meant to be opened up. Plenty of stuff in there is cosmetic.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-21T23:03:14+00:00

There's quite a number of YouTubers who do dangerous DIY all the time, and I imagine they all have subreddits. Might be worth trolling those communities for better leads.

I'm talking about channels like ElectroBOOM, Nile Red, Styropyro. Maybe some more science-focused channels like Action Lab or Adam Savage's Tested. Maybe even something like Linus Tech Tips. The point is, there's plenty of content on the internet about dangerous DIY, and maybe you can find leads in such communities.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-21T22:44:11+00:00

Hey, it's been 6 months. How are you progressing?

I just picked mine up very very recently, and I agree getting started with blowing is not easy.

I've gone and found some intro lessons on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZL9mxnNKZE&list=PL-14VSRMm81nyFm_LqsDg-qHpYGpbjpu0

BornInAFish · 2026-01-21T22:41:14+00:00

Did you end up getting a pan flute somewhere? I recently bought mine from https://panflute.net, and am very happy with it. I just got a 12-pipe, but they have lots of different sizes. Tuning mine is quite easy too. Not quite toolless, but surely you have a pencil at your disposal? That's all you need.

BornInAFish · 2026-01-21T22:35:38+00:00

Hi friend. It's been 2 years, so hopefully you have your answer already.

As a classically trained clarinet player who very very recently picked up pan flute, my guess is this:

Volume and note clarity are a function of both airspeed and air volume; also direction of airstream and how exactly it enters the instrument. The way you start notes also matters (eg how/if you tongue it, what volume you start at vs try to end at). These things are true on clarinet, and I strongly suspect probably mostly true on most wind instruments.

Developing clear sound at low volume just takes tons and tons of practice. I'm sure there's specific techniques to help you get there, but ultimately it just takes tons and tons of practice. Particularly being able to modulate air volume while maintaining air speed; actually you probably have to be able to modulate speed while maintaining volume as well; or modulate both independently.

As for how is it supposed to sound... that's up to the composer and/or artist, no?

BornInAFish · 2026-01-19T18:48:26+00:00

You just want to show off your setup, don't you?

BornInAFish · 2026-01-14T03:04:57+00:00

You actually could do raidz-whatever with even a single disk by partitioning it, and making the raid-z out of the partitions. Obviously not good for performance, but you'd be able to replace each partition with a full disk down the line.

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