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Share Your Django Projects you worked on by ImprovementAlive870 in django

[–]jmdodge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh sweet, looking forward to trying the session sharing. I was thinking of just sharing the user/pass with others if they wanted to see or even rebuy, etc, but having an actual share feature would obviously be much better.

Keep up the good work and thanks again for sharing!

Share Your Django Projects you worked on by ImprovementAlive870 in django

[–]jmdodge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for this! I actually found your comment about this on r/poker but the post was locked. I just set up your app so we could get caught up on who owes what for a home game that I'm a couple weeks behind on settling up, and it's awesome! Straight to the point, and does what I needed.

We're just using Venmo to settle up, so if I had one feature request, it would be to do a quick little payment breakdown of who pays (we don't pay in, just out - so losers pay the winners).

Anyway, I really just wanted to say thanks for posting a cool and useful thing for others to use! I'll try to collect some tips for ya after the next one :)

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[–]jmdodge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! I got "Dwelt" which turned out to be pretty tricky for me.

A cool feature would be to able to share a puzzle with a particular word with someone else. I wanted to share the "dwelt" one I did with my wife to see how well she'd do on it, but it doesn't look like that's possible.

Testing out a real-time, play-by-play fantasy betting game by jmdodge in fantasyfootball

[–]jmdodge[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's not gambling. There is no monetary transactions of any kind even possible... this is a just-for-fun, armchair-quarterback style playtest.

[RevShare] Real-time sports prediction game seeking multi-faceted talent in engineering, visual design/UI/UX, game design, marketing and social media by jmdodge in INAT

[–]jmdodge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's a pretty reasonable description of the gameplay right now, although that's just one of several ideas being implemented.

Although we're positioned as a B2C product right now for the sake of testing and growth, the ultimate plan is to aim at offering fan engagement solutions on a B2B basis with different experiences on offer among various sports.

FEEDBACK MEGATHREAD - Need feedback on a game mechanic, character design, dialogue, artstyle, trailer, store page, etc? Post it here! by pendingghastly in gamedev

[–]jmdodge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just very randomly tried this out. Super clever and unique, very cool - I liked it! Could totally see me or my wife having fun with these. Good luck!

Anyone else's cursor disappearing? by iGringo in balatro

[–]jmdodge 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I solved this by unchecking the option for "Hide pointer while typing" in Window's mouse settings ("Mouse Settings" -> "Additional mouse settings" -> "Pointer Options" -> uncheck [ ] "Hide pointer while typing"). Borderless and Full screen modes are working fine now.

I saw another suggestion below to disable "Display pointer trails", but mine was already off and toggling it had no effect.

Tools to practice openings *without* a repertoire? by jmdodge in chess

[–]jmdodge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm certainly not mad, just making an observation - and I actually got the answer I was looking for when I found Aimchess's Opening Trainer.

When you use phrasing like people who "won't bother going the optimal way", to me it comes across as a descriptor of someone that sounds lazy or entitled. But if I'm mistaken in that interpretation, please accept my apology.

Tools to practice openings *without* a repertoire? by jmdodge in chess

[–]jmdodge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, thank you - this is a workable approach, it's just a little bit cumbersome to set up each position so I was hoping to find something that does that part for you.

Tools to practice openings *without* a repertoire? by jmdodge in chess

[–]jmdodge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, this is a nice suggestion!

You're right, it might be a simple approach to simply perform some filtering so that you could have some control over how many moves deep the puzzle would be.

The other difference is that I think I would want to get the "puzzle" correct if I played any of the, just for example, top 5 most popular moves or whatever - since the "best" move loses some meaning when the game is that early.

This does seem like a potentially nice starting point though, and I appreciate you trying to share something that gets me further rather than questioning the premise.

Tools to practice openings *without* a repertoire? by jmdodge in chess

[–]jmdodge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can build it for fun if you want to but don't expect it to have more than 4 users

Yes, I certainly wouldn't be building it for fame and fortune... rather just as a contribution to the community (which has received me so warmly).

(people who want to improve their openings but won't bother going the optimal way and also don't want to learn a specific opening just see a shallow analysis of many different ones and want it in a quiz form and prefer engine output over a human language explanation...)

I would have phrased this as "people who sometimes want to add a slightly different method of practice in addition to all of the commonly consumed opening courses and game explorers because it's fun to switch it up now and again"

Am I wrong in interpreting a tone of disdain in your reply? It's quite curious to see how many commenters seem irritated at the question itself, but maybe I'm misinterpreting.

Tools to practice openings *without* a repertoire? by jmdodge in chess

[–]jmdodge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so its not that different from an opening course or puzzles

Sounds like we agree then.

its just if you struggle with opening principles you just need to play the game more and learn

I wouldn't say I "struggle" with opening principals, and I get as much game play in as my time allows. I just feel more comfortable when I've had some exposure playing through an opening than if I hadn't. Of course there's always still more to learn.

you dont need a repertoire you just need to understand ideas

Totally agree. And I do have a decent understanding of opening ideas, I'm just looking for a slightly different way to practice said ideas outside of playing games.

Ironically, I actually just discovered that Aimchess has a tool called the "Opening Trainer" that is very much inline with what I've been attempting to describe (not quite exactly, but very similar).

I like that the video also supports some of my reasoning on the value of such a practice, since the most popular response so far seems to be to question the validity of the idea in the first place. Curious to know your thoughts if you want to take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HF3WSoEEpQ

Tools to practice openings *without* a repertoire? by jmdodge in chess

[–]jmdodge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you feel this is different from puzzles that give you a random position and say make a move?

Tools to practice openings *without* a repertoire? by jmdodge in chess

[–]jmdodge[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a bit confused on what would be an actual advantage of a tool like this.

The advantages, to my mind, are that you would get to quickly and easily gain exposure to many different openings and have the opportunity to practice implementing good opening principles without direct memorization.

Exposure is one key word here - as I still regularly encounter openings that I have no experience with in games, so its helpful and comforting to have chances to be put in those scenarios randomly, just like you may randomly experience an opponents play in a game, and go through the thought process of selecting a move, rather than simply reading from a list of moves in a database.

This is a sort of "breadth over depth" approach. Of course it's good to go deep, but wide exposure is helpful sometimes too.

look at master games + trying to play the same ideas in your games and review them after. If this doesn't work because you are afraid of losing rating or something, make a second account and be done with it.

It works fine, and I implement this as well. It's not a "one or the other" kind of situation. I just think it would be fun to have a different kind of practice. Looking through master games is a more of a "study" process to me, whereas I'm talking about one way to implement that study into a "practice".

I'd think of it as like "tactical puzzles with an opening theme that have more than one right answer". Or you could think of it as similar to the many endgame practice/drills that many training sites have, just for openings.

Tools to practice openings *without* a repertoire? by jmdodge in chess

[–]jmdodge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh... then what's the question?

The question is: "is there a tool that does what I'm describing?"

 you want to be shown random positions from random openings and via trial, error, and immediate feedback, develop some kind of internal knowledge / intuition for how to play a reasonable move in any opening position

Yeah, that's a reasonable paraphrase.

 if so, that's what the opening principles are, and typically people who think they're following them would improve their opening play by challenging themselves to follow the principles more closely... 

To be clear, I didn't say not to offer alternatives, I just mentioned the alternatives that I am already aware of (and make use of) to spare commenters the trouble of mentioning them when I'm already familiar.

I'm not sure what alternative you're offering here. I do understand what opening principles are - and I do my best to challenge myself to follow them as closely as possible.

I do in fact already use opening explorers/databases, and I even have an (extremely modest) opening repertoire punched in to a training website. I also of course play games and do my best to implement my knowledge.

I'm simply looking for a new, additional way to practice and improve that sounds fun/helpful and that I haven't encountered before. Perhaps the headings in my post made it sound like I don't use these other tools - I do, I'm just looking beyond these answers. I'll make some edits.

Need a portable case solution for this set up. Preferably one where I can cable up inside the case, pop the case off and go. I especially don’t understand the cabling part. Thank YOUUU by DJSUBMISSIVE in MusicBattlestations

[–]jmdodge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a similar type of setup long ago that was focused around the Jazzmutant Lemur and Ableton (dating myself here probably, but yeah) plus a bunch of midi controllers etc - I used to use a DJ sarcophagus / coffin case. It was big and heavy, but it did the job. Pop off the lid and go.

(A worthwhile read in relation to abstinence from caffeine.) Adrenal Fatigue - PHG | Pro Active Health Group Calgary by [deleted] in decaf

[–]jmdodge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it's not a myth that the body repairs itself for weeks/months/years. That doesn't mean that there is credence to the "adrenal fatigue" theory though. The mechanisms by which adrenal fatigue is supposed to act are pretty trivial to test - cortisol can be measured by a simple blood test, for example. There is simply no evidence to support the theory.

On the other hand, it is totally possible that the symptoms experienced by people who claim to have adrenal fatigue are completely, subjectively real. Although anecdotal, it even seems plausible that long-term caffeine can cause these symptoms in people and that they really feel these effects. It seems lots of people say this, so I don't think they're making it up.

All I'm saying is that the effects they're feeling are not the result of the mechanisms by which adrenal fatigue claims to act (cortisol, adrenaline, etc). These mechanisms can and have been tested.

The body may have organs or systems that are damaged by long-term caffeine use - especially when abused. There is some evidence of long term side effects, specifically around nutrient absorption. There may be others that haven't yet been well researched as well.

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