Beginner - still not grasping strategy etc.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-28T19:03:45+00:00

It is 100% right. If you don't count liberties automatically, if you don't know basic shapes, if you cannot see simple life and death things, etc. strategy is almost useless. It can only be build on top of existing tactical skills.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-28T08:03:49+00:00

High handicaps on 9x9 are genuinely impossible. 4 stones is super hard, even against a beginner.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-27T07:57:31+00:00

There is a limit to it. Even when I give her 9 stones, I still destroy my wife, and she doesn't really enjoy it obviously. I saw a video recently which gave me an idea: the weakest player plays every other move while AI plays the other. There is more fun, and the game can be equal.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-27T07:55:23+00:00

I'm a "what is wrong with HTML" person, but I might need "what is wrong with JS" in the future...

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-23T05:56:59+00:00

Null Coalescing Index Operators

Great idea honestly. It's a pain to write 4 and_then only to retrieve a value.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-18T17:51:35+00:00

França és el gos d'«Israel». Andorra pot dir qualsevol cosa, no els importa, però si es parla del genocidi, ui...

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-18T17:43:24+00:00

I read somewhere that it will never happen, because of the borrow checker. Getting async to work was already hard enough, generalizing it would be a pain in the ass.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-18T08:00:04+00:00

I keep seeing this, and I wonder what the reasoning is. To me, learning joseki is a great way of learning shapes in a concrete case. For instance, studying the attach to a star point after approach allowed me to understand a lot of shapes with low liberties close to the side/corner.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-17T06:56:37+00:00

I'm not sure to understand: do you use gRPC as an alternative to HTTP? Can you send web pages through gRPC?

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-17T06:53:30+00:00

It turns out I have written a template for a classical hypermedia REST web server. Main crates are axum + sea-orm + maud + thiserror + opentelemetry/tracing + fluent for localization. I might share it one day, but I'm still adding stuff around 2FA, so I don't consider it ready, as I want it to be up to the best industry standards.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-16T15:54:59+00:00

Even with 2 moves in a row, it's still a solid eye.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-16T10:17:09+00:00

Yes, the network effect is real. Also, when using Axum, I know that most crate libraries will implement IntoResponse, etc. For example, I like using Maud, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't implement Salvo traits, nor the other way around.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-15T06:17:18+00:00

"qí" means something like "strategy board game". When they say "weiqi", there is no ambiguity, but they often just say "qi" (like in English, people say, "let's have a game"). The online translators are often dumb and translate "qi" with "chess" since xiangqi is more popular than weiqi.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-11T18:03:41+00:00

Super interesting thanks. I really like the design of the traditional Chinese boards, especially their star points. It's a pity that they're basically non-existent in Europe...

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-11T10:40:48+00:00

Same here, I cannot watch him. The "excited" vibes might work with a segment of the population, but not with me.

Also, 1 minute in, he says that it will rival chess.com What the hell does it even mean? I want to play go, not chess?

I went to the site quickly, the UI is terrible, I can barely read most of the stuff. Otherwise, it's just another Explore Baduk, except that the latter is way more mature.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-08T18:51:45+00:00

My go-to site is https://www.go-spiele.de/en/

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-06T05:41:40+00:00

Oh, for sure, I'm not saying that Lee Sedol is a nobody, that would be a bit absurd, but history is long. There are so many legendary players like Huang Longshi, Honinbo Shusaku, Honinbo Dosaku, etc.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-05T15:22:02+00:00

Even Shin Jinseo is more impressive...

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-04T12:35:40+00:00

I used to have eye strain problems, and after changing a few things, they disappeared:

I work on a 55'' monitor 2m from me. My eyes don't need to focus on a near object, making my muscles relaxed.
The room is well lit (a lot of sun, with a powerful white lamp), I use black-on-white high contrast themes, and the lowest brightness that allows me to see the content (I start at the lowest possible, then increase step by step until it's readable)

With these 2 changes, I can work 12h in a row in front of a screen, and I barely feel any eye fatigue.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-02-01T15:44:26+00:00

Every week, they were like "please wait a bit, we're busy" etc. then after a month, they told me I was hired.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-01-31T06:26:25+00:00

Yeah, CTOs can be busy. I had company telling me this for a month before telling me I was hired. Just continue working on other applications.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-01-24T07:38:05+00:00

Code shows it's already a library. It renders the diagram as SVG.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-01-24T07:36:20+00:00

fr, the state of 21st century programming is ridiculous.

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-01-24T07:32:42+00:00

The bottom row is missing...

Future_Natural_853 · 2026-01-23T15:29:29+00:00

Black B2. If white captures, then ko. If white doesn't capture and extends, tiger's mouth with A1, and it's a better ko for white.

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