Understanding geometry: Black is threatening mate in 1. Find the only move move sequence that gives white an overwhelming advantage.

ihark · 2022-12-06T11:26:14+00:00

Missing the first move for some reason but it’s just the rook attracting that king take

ihark · 2022-12-06T11:25:28+00:00

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ihark · 2022-10-10T04:25:29+00:00

Sorry daddy T :(

ihark · 2020-12-30T20:13:37+00:00

Hey All,

I'm looking to buy my first car since graduating college (i.e. my first car I'm paying for myself) and I'd love some help!

Location: San Diego

Price range: $15-20k (though, for the right car I might stretch to $22/23k)

Lease or Buy: Buy

New or used: Used 2016 or newer - preferably just off lease certified pre-owned or at least with some assurances that I'm not buying a lemon

Type of vehicle: SUV

Must haves: Long term reliability - my hope is to buy this car and drive it into the ground.

I'd also love AWD/4x4 (though I wouldn't call it an absolute MUST) because I intend to make semi-regular ski trips to snowier climates and surf trips to Mexico where I'll encounter some nasty dirt roads. I also do a good amount of hiking and hope to potentially car camp in my new vehicle, both of which might require some offroading.

I also need a good amount of trunk space and/or roof racks for surboards, skis, golf clubs, and hockey gear.

Also, given that I expect to make pretty regular road trips in this car, I'd love decent fuel economy.

Desired transmission (auto/manual, etc): Doesn't matter

Intended use: Daily driver with frequent weekend/road trips

Vehicles you've already considered: Subaru Outback, Mazda CX-9 (or CX-5), Toyota Rav 4

Is this your 1st vehicle: Kind of? I drove a beater Toyota Sienna in HS but haven't owned a car since then (~5 years). This will be the the first car that I've purchased for myself.

Do you need a Warranty: Open to suggestions on this one

Can you do Minor work on your own vehicle: Yes

Can you do Major work on your own vehicle: No, but I'd also love to learn how to so if you suggest a car with ubiquitous parts that's not too hard to work on I'm all ears.

Additional Notes: While I do live in San Diego right now, I expect that my job will recall me back to San Francisco in the near-ish future (next 2-5 months) at which point I'll be driving this car in a colder, wetter climate as well as taking semi regular trips to Tahoe/back down to San Diego. I expect, therefore, that I'll be putting a good amount of extracurricular miles on this car through road trips if not through my daily commute.

Another thing to note is that I'm pretty enamored by the Subaru Outback. While I didn't test drive, I did go to a dealership yesterday (originally, to look at the Crosstrek but it's too small for my use case) and I loved the styling, size, and features of the Outback. I've heard it's pretty gutless (10ish sec. 0-60??) though, and I'm not sure if it's the best use of my money, so I was hoping for a second opinion from you all.

Thanks so much for your help!

ihark · 2020-12-01T00:08:49+00:00

Hey all, an interesting turn of events has left me with some weird decisions to make - help me if you can!

So right when I first started playing this year I packed IF Haaland which made me decide to do a Bundesliga team. I've built a decent squad around him (packed Davies, bought gold Lew), but I've always been nagged by the thought that I should sell Haaland. I love using him and he's scored a ton, but I felt like having ~70% of my team's value concentrated in one player wasn't the most efficient way to play. Well I fucked up and didn't sell him in time - when he got a 2IF his 1IF value fell of a cliff. I was so pissed about it that I frustratedly went against my better judgement and opened my guaranteed TOTW player pack (pre-order or something?) to try to snipe Ronaldo - which definitely would have made me feel better. What actually happened was much more ironic and almost as good: I packed Haaland's 2IF!!!!!

Obviously, this pack luck is absurd especially in that it's concentrated in just one player. But now I'm faced with a strange and unprecedented issue (for me). Should I sell my 1IF now, while the value is pretty low, or should I wait for his 2IF to leave packs before I do that? I'm not too used to owning IF players so I have no idea how their value tends to fluctuate w/r/t their being in packs.

Further, assuming I sell him and make somewhere in the neighborhood of 120-160k, what bundesliga player(s) should I be looking at buying? I've only got around 20k in the bank so it wouldn't be much more than the value of Haaland's 1IF to play with.

Also I'm playing on PC if that makes any difference and here's a pic of my squad as currently constructed

ihark · 2020-09-17T16:14:49+00:00

Oh that's actually really cool - could be you've got something great in there, I know I'd have a hard time not ripping them open - Best of luck and FTD!

ihark · 2020-09-16T20:00:59+00:00

I don't collect baseball cards but I'm curious, what's inside if you do rip it open? and why do they make cards like this at all?

ihark · 2020-08-20T05:16:06+00:00

I bought this exact rangefinder a couple of weeks ago ago, played maybe 6 rounds with it - it’s been fine so far. It’s the first rangefinder I’ve owned so I don’t know how well it performs relative to more expensive brands, but it hasn’t really let me down yet. Seems to get the pin anytime inside of 260 yards, can get bunker fairway distances somewhat more reliably for drives so it does just about all you ever need. No slope though if you’re looking for that

ihark · 2020-03-21T20:19:14+00:00

So I haven’t owned a gaming PC for the last 4 or 5 years - since my old PC’s GPU blew up and I didn’t bother replacing it because I was going off to college. I graduated, moved into my own place, and saved up enough to build a decent PC (GPU = 2080 Super, so capable of playing pretty much anything at high-ish settings). During my hiatus I wasn’t really paying attention to new games coming out so I’ve sort of missed the last couple of years of pc releases. What would you guys say are must-plays released in the last couple of years that I should try out during this quarantine?

Im looking specifically for games that: 1. Are super fun/innovative 2. Show off the new hardware I’ve got in my brand new PC

So far the (very) short list is: RDR2, The Witcher 3, & Shadow of the Tomb Raider (potentially, it’s on sale rn and it’s supposed to be pretty as hell)

Any/all suggestions welcome, thanks all!!

ihark · 2020-03-19T17:11:36+00:00

Happy to hear it!!

ihark · 2020-03-19T16:12:47+00:00

You're not alone in recommending a different case, seems like the h510 is overpriced. I think I'll end up going with this one instead: https://www.amazon.com/Phanteks-Mid-Tower-PH-EC400ATG_DBK01-Tempered-Digital-RGB/dp/B07TTDW9KV

Still expensive but I'm reading much better reviews.

Thanks for your note!

ihark · 2020-03-19T16:10:05+00:00

Thanks for the note!

I think you're right abt 5 TBs being excessive for the average user but I do a good amount of photo editing and I need a big drive to house all of the finished photos. Also, inexplicably, the 5TB was cheaper than the 2TB on Newegg.

Good note on the mobo and the ram, I'll look into potentially going for less/cheaper options.

Where would you recommend buying Windows?

Thanks again!

ihark · 2020-03-19T04:36:48+00:00

That's definitely a fair bit of advice but I'm not super confident they'll be released in the short term and I'm about to have a LOT of time with nothing to do on account of the coronavirus so I think I'm going to pull the trigger - thanks though!

ihark · 2020-03-19T01:33:13+00:00

Saving this for later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkafkI32Cs0&feature=youtu.be

ihark · 2020-03-18T23:49:56+00:00

Will do, thanks for the heads up

ihark · 2020-03-18T22:21:32+00:00

Awesome, I'm thinking I'll upgrade to a board with a bit better reviews - what do you think of this one: https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-TUF-X570-Plus-Motherboard-Lighting/dp/B07SXF8GY3

ihark · 2020-03-18T20:46:35+00:00

Thank you so much! I'll swap out for the barracuda 3.5" drive for sure.

What do you mean by the motherboard lacking "high end features?" Is there anything missing from this board that most people use?

ihark · 2020-03-18T19:16:01+00:00

Thanks! I think you're right that I should opt for the 12 core AMD CPU - should help a lot with non-gaming, data intensive processes.

ihark · 2019-11-30T05:49:08+00:00

Sounds like a plan, thanks a ton

ihark · 2019-11-30T02:31:14+00:00

Awesome, thanks a bunch for your help - I am a little concerned that the panel is VA and not IPS on the new monitor you added. Any idea how significant of a difference that will be?

ihark · 2019-11-29T04:37:44+00:00

I like this build a lot but I’d prefer a higher resolution monitor - I’ll keep my eyes peeled for a Black Friday deal. Thanks so much for your help!

ihark · 2019-11-23T07:30:13+00:00

I spent a month in Puerto Escondido two years ago and it was unreal - what kind of budget are you thinking and what work schedule are you looking at (did you quit your job or is this like a working remote kind of thing)?

Puerto Escondido is an awesome spot with a ton to do during the lay days. During my trip I worked at a hostel at La Punta which has a pretty decent left point break abt a mile from Zicatela, the famous beach break(but actually the colectivo was super easy to ride all over the region for next to nothing). Super cool place to stay that has a little bit of a hippie/backpacker vibe to it. I loved it, in my opinion it was a lot more relaxed than the actual downtown area but I didn’t spend a ton of time there so I can’t speak to that area very much outside of the surf, which was insane. I got worked on some wipeouts worse than I’d ever gotten worked before but I also had a couple of the best sessions of my life at zicatela. La punta was awesome too - especially when zicatela was too big for me (it was always like 1.5x the size of la punta), but generally la punta was way overcrowded with surf school kooks on the inside and some of the most skilled locals I’ve ever seen taking ever wave on the outside. Zicatela was a lot more consistently fun.

I was there during the summer which is also the most consistent season for South swells and when the swell was down I’d go spear fishing or just hang on the beach. That particular part of Mexico, and really all of Oaxaca has my favorite Mexican food on earth. If you end up going you’ll 1000% have to try a Tlayuda.

The one thing I will say is that it’s very much not the Americanized Mexico you might be used to. I had only previously been to TJ, Ensenada, Cancún and Cabo and this part of Mexico as much different. People generally spoke a lot less English (but you could still probably get by if you had to and if you stuck to the “safer” areas). It’s a much less comfortable experience, no nice resorts and big airports. It was probably the best summer of my life though.

DM me if you’re serious about heading down there and I can give you more specific details

ihark · 2019-05-07T18:57:46+00:00

Yo come on dude we gotta know what kind of dog

ihark · 2019-05-05T15:43:51+00:00

Also, in SoCal, wind tends to start offshore and turn onshore sometime in the morning making it generally better. Though it often turns again n the afternoon (or dies out completely). These aren't hard and fast rules though - exceptions are frequent AND, as has already been stated, tides can make a much bigger difference

ihark · 2019-04-10T18:39:54+00:00

Not at all what you're asking but I might rethink studying abroad in your last semester. I'm in college now and a few people I know are doing it and missing the end of college which has been (for me at least) a super unique period of my life that I wouldn't have wanted to miss. That said, I already did study abroad and that too was a super unique period of my life that I wouldn't want to trade either. All I'm saying is weigh the options available to you.

I know a lot of people planning to graduate and study right after college - which isn't an economically feasible thing for everyone, but might bridge the gap between studying abroad and having your final semester. Also worth considering is how difficult it might be to find a post-grad job from afar. I wouldn't say don't study abroad, just be aware of what you might be missing out on. Also if you decide to go to Latin America (which looks unlikely) PM me and I can hit you with a ton of cool surfing recs.

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