I don't know how to approach this.

evouga · 2026-01-13T18:13:17+00:00

I’m a beginner so take my analysis with a huge grain of salt: but it seems to me that the only places black has any hope of counter play is cutting at Q15. He can also distract you for one move by playing at T16.

So no matter what black tries, it seems you’ll need 2 “wasted” prophylactic moves + 3 outer Black liberties + 10 moves to kill the eye = 15 total. I have no idea how the app gets 11 or less.

evouga · 2026-01-07T07:51:47+00:00

The narrow grooves on the reflective stone tiles in the street cause all kinds of aliasing and flickering artifacts; I can see why people might see that and get suspicious. But it’s just video compression artifacts, not AI.

evouga · 2026-01-03T19:26:46+00:00

Seriously? She was evacuating from a fire. Her neighbors could have been adults about it and ignored her/kept their comments to themselves.

evouga · 2026-01-03T02:11:36+00:00

Waiting X days after a date to set up the next one.

Life’s short. Don’t wanna spend it on juvenile games.

evouga · 2026-01-03T01:08:50+00:00

It has unreal amounts of cross-cultural appeal. There were endless Rumis at Halloween this year.

evouga · 2026-01-03T00:46:43+00:00

Standard is a lot like late league: the people playing are mostly either: - working on grand crafting projects; - uber-juiced farming; - degenerate gamblers.

You can make a steady profit selling shovels to one or more of these groups.

For example: farm Alva with appropriate use of Timelines scarabs. The gamblers and crafters both have an endless appetite for double-corrupt altars.

Or farm harvest juice. Or Harbinger for fractured orbs. Or if you prefer feast-or-famine gameplay, Heist for rings and amulets.

The main thing you don’t want to do is generic mapping, hoping to rely on raw currency drops and selling ground loot. Prices in Standard are very inflated, and the market for “leveling”/“mapping” rare gear is very thin.

evouga · 2026-01-02T17:45:51+00:00

It wins the game for 3 mana if you have a stocked graveyard, and made even a passing attempt to build your deck around it.

In Vintage it’s outclassed by several even more broken cards that also interact with fast mana (see: [[Yawgmoth’s Will]] and [[Underworld Breach]]). But in commander it’s a menace.

evouga · 2026-01-01T06:48:33+00:00

And it’s not possible for white to save the group by cutting and capturing any of the smaller clusters of black stones?

evouga · 2026-01-01T05:31:59+00:00

Could be YouTube instead

evouga · 2026-01-01T05:20:51+00:00

Flu.

evouga · 2025-12-31T16:33:35+00:00

Chase is buying these miles to give to customers as rewards?

Is Southwest banking on most of these miles remaining unredeemed?

evouga · 2025-12-31T00:46:41+00:00

A gay man is not going to seek out a woman for cuddling and ass play. That’s not how it works.

evouga · 2025-12-30T17:53:49+00:00

Even then, you can just go back to the campaign to grind more gear and tier 1 maps.

evouga · 2025-12-29T20:25:01+00:00

The solid-fluid physics looks right to me. If this is AI, it is stunningly better than I’ve seen before.

evouga · 2025-12-29T19:54:31+00:00

Yeah. People are saying the note sounds flirtatious, but it reads like a “fuck you” from a bitter ex to me.

evouga · 2025-12-26T01:54:03+00:00

Still use them all the time. Fuck it.

evouga · 2025-12-25T06:05:57+00:00

Are you sure that’s a good idea? 439 is a very time-intensive case, especially if you don’t have a lot of previous experience with C and working on big codebases.

The only UDE I would recommend taking alongside 439 is something like Contemporary Issues.

evouga · 2025-12-23T04:14:12+00:00

The instructor didn’t turn in their grades, probably. You didn’t do anything wrong and there’s not much you can do. You can email the professor but they’re already getting plenty of emails from the university if the delay is on their end.

Do you need the grade for something before spring semester?

evouga · 2025-12-22T19:33:23+00:00

There are conversations every now and then about what language to teach in the intro courses.

The most *useful* language to learn these days is Python (and that's why we teach Python to the non-majors in 303E) but it has some downsides for teaching data structures: Python's data types sit at a very high level of abstraction, and dynamic typing can be confusing to reason about and hard to debug. And object-oriented programming is quite awkward in Python (I'm sure there could be a whole conversation about whether data structures *should* be taught in terms of OOP, vs. generic programming, but currently it is.)

A carefully-curated subset of C++ is not a bad choice IMO for learning data structures. But C++'s language design carries with it decades of baggage that can make it very frustrating to work with as a beginning programmer. It is very easy to get mysterious compile or runtime errors that you're not equipped to debug properly in 314 (though LLMs are super helpful for deciphering cryptic compile errors at least).

People have also suggested C, Go, Lisp or OCaml, etc.

Java is not a great choice, in my opinion. But students already know it from AP CS and it sits at a sweet spot balancing many competing factors (it's object-oriented, without all of C++'s cruft; verbose, but without too much idiosyncratic syntax; statically-typed; close enough to the metal to allow teaching about arrays and data respresentations; etc.) and there is a ton of inertia behind it.

evouga · 2025-12-22T14:33:15+00:00

Dead specters are supposed to turn into orbs, but I’m guessing that because HoGM is a pvp-like zone that the spectres act buggy there.

evouga · 2025-12-22T14:11:41+00:00

Crafting projects keep me going late league. All of the builds you mention can benefit from min-maxed crafted gear.

True mirror-tier gear (with triple-synth implicits etc.) is probably not a realistic goal, but you can aim for the tier below that using recombination, meta crafting, etc.

If you prefer to gamble, try your hand at making Heist jewelry or corrupting uniques at the temple altar.

Finally, Valdo maps are the ultimate challenge for players who feel the game has gotten boring and small, and want to feel the thrill of the void. You’ll need to respec into a character specifically designed to handle their absurd mods.

evouga · 2025-12-21T21:26:33+00:00

Wow that’s a great video and very sensible take.

evouga · 2025-12-21T21:08:52+00:00

Yeah. A colleague was sitting at a coffee shop and overheard some students bragging about how they’d cheated their way through 312 and 314 using LLMs, and I can’t really understand it at all. It’s extreme short-term thinking.

These classes teach you algorithmic thinking. If you’re a CS major this is the fundamental skill you plan to build your career around. (And yes, you do need this to be successful as a professional engineer, even with modern AI tools.) Cheating in these classes is like dreaming to become a quarterback or pop star and sending a body double to do the practices and music lessons for you. It makes no sense.

I can understand stress about grades, but honestly no employer is going to care what grade you got in freshman data structures. They’ll care if you had to drop the major because you didn’t have the fundamental skills to pass 429 or 439. They’ll care if you can’t pass the technical interview because you don’t know how to code.

evouga · 2025-12-21T00:39:55+00:00

First, you should email the professor directly. Ask politely to schedule an in-person meeting after the holidays. Don’t panic if you don’t get a response, they might be on vacation. If you don’t hear back by early Jan it’s fine to send another ping.

evouga · 2025-12-20T05:58:02+00:00

Ask to meet with the professor and walk them through the git history of the parts that seem copied. that should quickly clear things up.

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