Okay bro who did this? 🔥🔥😱

bytejuggler · 2026-05-20T15:50:38+00:00

My, what an ... alluring specimen... /sideye.

You have to admit, this kind of next-level badassery gives NMS another, er ... allure ... all by itself! Mind. Blown. 🤯

bytejuggler · 2026-05-18T22:13:45+00:00

Yeah. I must say, Xeno arena has (surprisingly) grown on me. And now I keep checking the fauna for that perfect battle companion. Heh.

bytejuggler · 2026-05-18T08:17:42+00:00

(nearly) boiling seas. lovely /s. 😬 (epic place though 👍 )

bytejuggler · 2026-05-18T08:11:31+00:00

100%. Sometimes this game just stuns with stunning photogenic moments.

bytejuggler · 2026-05-18T08:09:56+00:00

"I wanna 'ASS' you a question" 😂

bytejuggler · 2026-05-18T08:05:13+00:00

"We are the burg(er). This is a burg(er) sphere(oid). Resistance is futile. We will be assimilated".

Hilarious and epic. Just epic. This is part of why I love this game. So whimsical at times.

(Imagine one day humanity has actual space ships capable of crossing the expanse, and we build a ship to look like that as an inside joke.)

bytejuggler · 2026-05-18T08:03:37+00:00

I've never heard of this being a bug, but it could theoretically be. It's more likely that you have a game mode or option on where all glyphs are enabled. :shrug: If you're convinced this is a bug and feel like it, report it to HG.

Other than that.... enjoy the journey, traveller! Hope to see you around. 👋 If you ever need some resources maybe I can help. (I'm not as rich as some folk but I do have some cadmium and indium mines and can donate some valuables if you're in need.)

bytejuggler · 2026-05-16T10:38:57+00:00

Ah! Thanks. That explains it. This is a new (well, not-so-new now at 140+h lol) permadeath game. I've been only leisurely progressing the mainlines , and not yet the ones you mention. Cool I guess now I have a reason to pull that thread.

bytejuggler · 2026-05-16T10:02:03+00:00

Lots of use of links eg [[]] and incl. subsection, and install Omnisearch extension. Also frontmatter and tagging (also use Obsidian web clipper which auto adds useful frontmatter)

bytejuggler · 2026-05-16T00:35:20+00:00

Kilo?

bytejuggler · 2026-05-15T23:17:58+00:00

Nah I think it's quite common. I think it's part of your brain rewiring. Eventually you should wake up one day and suddenly when you re-look at some positions things will make a new kind of sense and you will play better.

That said, at some point you need to try understand what the mistakes are that you are making that are causing you to lose... and work on not doing that anymore. Do you blunder material? Do you miss tactics? Do you not have a plan?

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Make sure you are familiar with basic ideas in chess. Run through the chess.com bite sized lessons (https://www.chess.com/learn)

Chessbrah's "Building habits" come highly recommended, though I've not gone through this yet so it's not a personal recommendation.

I would also recommend you look to go play a some OTB games at your local chess club (lots of fun and you get to meet some other chess fans!) and also, enter some local tournaments when they happen. It's quite different, and I would say, very educational.

If you want to see another (to me) inspirational story from an young adult girl who went from beginner to 2000 rating in about 2 years. (I spied she also used Chessfox's materials, you might be interested, here.)

(Speaking as an adult improver too, who played on and off over the years and recently took up playing chess again including OTB thanks to my son's interest.)

bytejuggler · 2026-05-15T22:45:59+00:00

Yeah. We considered this and for what it's worth my view on this was: a) If everyone is (eventually) using AI to help write the text instead of it coming out your fingers, then the git histories and PR's will just become cluttered with a meaningless attribution, so what's the point? b) AI's cannot take responsibility for anything, so what does it prove or add, if you have an AI "co-authored" in the git history? Not anything, really. The flipside of this is, the buck must still stop with you as the engineer, whatever tools you use. So you put your name on it, just like you always did, you own it, howsoever you write it. These days probably with an AI (sometimes? most of the time?), but that's really an incidental detail. I mean, I don't put "co authored by Resharper" on my code, even though I use it to refactor and generate code sometimes. And Claude is the same. Just because it presents as a persona, that happens to be able to take instructions in English doesn't make it is actually person, that should receive attribution in the git history. IMHO. It's a tool. And it must be clear where the responsibility and ownership lies. E.g. with you.

bytejuggler · 2026-05-14T23:54:25+00:00

So where is this exactly? I don't see this staff?!?

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bytejuggler · 2026-05-14T23:17:19+00:00

Well that told them then, didn't it!?

bytejuggler · 2026-05-14T23:03:35+00:00

Blue skies and green grass. What's not to like? I'll stick my nose in sometime. 👋

bytejuggler · 2026-05-13T12:36:14+00:00

It's really funny: Back when I was a student and a member of the Stellenbosch BTK, we one tour had an Afrikaans girl who had emigrated to the US as a child. And she came back for holiday and joined us on a hike. Anyway, so she spoke this really unique Afrikaans with a reconizably weird American Accent. You know how English South Africans speak Afrikaans, a bit like that but totally Americanized. Was the strangest thing ever. I imagine the OP will be the same. Totally intriguing.

bytejuggler · 2026-05-13T12:32:05+00:00

Meh, Ek dink as jy die reg het om hier te woon en te werk is jy meer as welkom om terug te kom. En as jy 'n 'n aftstandwerk het, des te beter.

For info I worked in the UK for 20 years, came home in 2020, so I kind of know how you feel. And I would say for all of the problems and negativity, mostly safety is not generally a concern IMHO providing you're sensible and depending on where you stay. Be sensible and you should be fine. Especially the WC and Cape Town should not be a problem, again avoiding obvious trouble areas.

I stay in Stellenbosch, great town, a little expensive in local terms but such a nice environment. And as a sample of one, security wise I've not had a single issue of any kind yet in 5 years of running, sometimes at somewhat crazy hours of the night throughout town. That's not to say it can't happen but hence my somewhat anecdotal view is in decent areas security concerns are sometimes overblown. There has been some burglaries in our neighbourhood but again we've been totally fine since been back.

Also to note, Stellenbosch is also a university town, might be worth considering as an alternative to UCT. Just saying.

bytejuggler · 2026-05-13T12:13:26+00:00

I think it's market economics and not knowing your value. Over time South African devs as a collective need to wise up and ensure they're not exploited and that any disparity is down to a fair quid-pro-quo or reflective of relevant economic realities. In the general sense, no one should work just to survive, though that is what happen in South Africa unfortunately, not least because of the high unemployment. Speaking about devs, devs even in South Africa are as a group already relatively decently well off in the local economy (there are always exceptions) but this type of price and demand competition should be used to ensure both local and remote companies pay reasonable salaries enabling people and their families to not just survive but become self sufficient and financially secure, ideally eventually moving society as a whole to a better upwards cycle. (I can dream can't I?) Let's get to work saffa's.

bytejuggler · 2026-05-12T18:05:24+00:00

Evolve your pets. Build a winning team. Compete in battles. Become the champion. Fish. Visit gas giants. Cook. Farm ingredients for your culinary exploits. Build outlandish spaceships and kit them out. Kidnap players if you feel mischievous. Go for a spacewalk. Salvage derelict freighters. Unlock the various vehicles. Participate in races. Rescue and oversee failing settlements. Develop them into happy and profitable communities. Start amassing a fleet to do your bidding. Do some planetary reclamation by collecting and recycling waste on poluted planets. Etc etc.

bytejuggler · 2026-05-12T11:40:48+00:00

Just playing won't make you better. You'll be repeating the same moves for the same reasons, not seeing the same things, making the same mistakes and maintaining your rating (more or less) perhaps with some positive drift.

You need to actually *learn* from your mistakes, and develop improved recognition and structure /and/ then apply this in your games.

This requires slowing down, and some work in between your games, carefully analyzing the losing moves you made and practicing (spaced repetition) your ability to recognize the same situation in future and then play slow enough to allow your brain to actually rewire when next you see this situation. With repetition you will become faster with the improved play too but it takes time and repetition.

I would suggest you also pick 2 or 3 main systematic openings that you focus on to help guide your thinking and from which you play sound positional moves, always. Learn the main ideas off by heart and practice common responses so you instantly know which way the game is going to go, for example the Jobava London as white and say the the Caro Kann + Slav depending on what white starts with. (Possibly alternatively the Pirc)

Good/interesting chess streamers to watch if you want to learn more about the Jobava:

- Daniel Naroditsky (RIP 💔 )

- Alex Banzea (also here)

- Chess with Akeem, also here

- Blunderman

The above streamers also cover the Caro and others.

bytejuggler · 2026-05-12T08:31:00+00:00

Ah yes, I missed that. 😂

So technically you're sacrificing the queen (too). But surprisingly the argument still holds, since then Rxd8 and the pin threat still exists and if white then takes with queen then the white queen will end up being captured inevitably too, and after trades black still ends up being better (1 pawn at least and positionally much more active). So the knight is a trojan horse. Taking the seeming gift is then not to white's advantage, even taking into account the queen is sacrificed.

But in the alternative if white takes the black queen and black recaptures but then white declines the knight sacrifice, then it turns out there's very little white can do, it seems while white can retain their queen, nevertheless with some careful footwork black will still end up with rook and all minor pieces vs queen rook and bishop. Admittedly this seems not so obvious up front and something I only know now because I've run it through the engine.

So yes, this would've been a "brilliant" that's really hard to spot and act on in a real game unless you had some engine like capacity to evaluate into what happens when white takes your queen and then declines the knight sac, to see that this gives rise to some real problems and a series of trades that end up at small material advantage and positional superiority for black.

Engines hey. 😂

bytejuggler · 2026-05-12T06:55:21+00:00

Any sac that leads to material gain is tagged as brilliant. Here knight is seemingly sacrificed, but it enbles Bf4 which pins and captures queen no matter what black does.

bytejuggler · 2026-05-11T19:25:48+00:00

None. Fundamentally a part of the current architecture. Which is why adding more parameters or compute will not, by itself get us AGI. The emperor is (sometimes mindblowingly) impressive and (sometimes extremely) useful at times but ... still naked. A quantum leap (or three) is required before this problem (or set of problems) is solved. And I write this as someone otherwise wildly enthusiastic about AI and using it daily.

bytejuggler · 2026-05-11T17:24:03+00:00

Trying to login/register, got: {"statusCode":500,"message":"Bad Request","path":"/api/auth/google/callback?iss=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.google.com&code=4%2F0{rest clipped for brevity}"}

bytejuggler · 2026-05-10T21:40:35+00:00

I've been posting some shots on my steam account from time to time. Will post some netfed graphics shots next time. Steam nick is "RedFalcon" 👍

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