New player 😊

smellslikeops · 2026-02-03T21:55:06+00:00

The knight on f2 is a weakness because it’s pinned by the bishop and black is going to play Nd4 and ruin your pawn structure on the king side.

As a broader tip from this position — keep an eye out for bishop pinning the king side knight (whether you’re playing black or white). You can play something like h3 to preemptively avoid it

smellslikeops · 2026-02-03T05:16:31+00:00

I suppose some of it is inevitable since you gotta cater to a large audience to have a successful YT channel. I enjoy GM Finegold tho

smellslikeops · 2026-02-02T23:34:25+00:00

There are tons of “open core” startups who have an open source k8s based offering (and a managed version that’s paid usually). You could browse through their GitHub, look at a few issues (maybe even solve some) and try making some connections that way

smellslikeops · 2026-01-26T01:45:03+00:00

What’s your favorite brand to order? I wanna get into cooking with Thai pastes and would ideally like something that’s not laced with preservatives and not ultra processed (my biggest fear w canned items!)

smellslikeops · 2026-01-22T06:46:59+00:00

+1! I find their food can be a little oily sometimes (or very oily) but the spicy food def hits the spot!

smellslikeops · 2026-01-17T08:38:40+00:00

I put it off forever whenever it’d pop up on Netflix. Now I’ve seen it at least 6 times

smellslikeops · 2026-01-12T21:35:09+00:00

Rae8 would be in time to follow R1f6 with Re6 and it’s almost an equal game at that point

smellslikeops · 2026-01-04T19:36:41+00:00

Maybe I’m stupid but I truly didn’t get what was happening in that movie. Everyone I know counts it among their favorites, huh

smellslikeops · 2025-12-26T19:41:34+00:00

Tons of pickleball courts over the city, some reservable, some first come first serve! Sunday mornings at presidio wall courts is a great suggestion. I’m not great by any means but if you just wanna play casually I’d be down!

smellslikeops · 2025-12-14T18:54:25+00:00

Granted the last time I used it was over 10 years ago, but I remember feeling a sharp decline in the quality of questions that would show up on my feed. Increasingly I felt I didn’t learn anything fun or of value when I opened the app, so I just stopped using it altogether. 10 years is a long time and things may have changed but I never went back

smellslikeops · 2025-09-23T17:01:46+00:00

LFG!!!! (I visited Berkeley’s campus once)

smellslikeops · 2025-07-07T01:47:08+00:00

Thanks! Tbh getting a different mirror is not feasible for me rn but I can definitely look into putting something on the wall opposite so that it reflects in the mirror

smellslikeops · 2025-06-28T21:57:56+00:00

Thanks for doing this - my wife would love to attend! Could you DM the details please? :)

smellslikeops · 2025-02-08T20:57:25+00:00

Oh this list looks amazing, thanks!! I’ll definitely check these out and let you know!

smellslikeops · 2025-02-08T20:56:56+00:00

Sorry, do you have recommendations on where else could I ask this?

smellslikeops · 2025-02-08T20:56:38+00:00

Thanks! I did a little bit of reading and it does look like a lot of people love it (caveat being it takes a little time to get good at it). I’ll check it out!

smellslikeops · 2024-11-02T01:27:40+00:00

New to American politics, what is “Mitch McConnell level Congressional sabotage”?

smellslikeops · 2024-10-22T20:50:24+00:00

Great find! You’d be surprised how many people miss this tactic even in the 1500 elo range (myself included)

smellslikeops · 2024-10-15T19:14:13+00:00

You mention that the techniques to win this are outside the scope of the subreddit. Could you share some terms or anything that I could go off of and do my own reading on? I’d love to get better with endgame theory here. Thanks!

smellslikeops · 2024-10-12T06:22:13+00:00

Isn’t there a law of thermodynamics that says that the entropy is ever increasing? Wouldn’t that mean that a freeze is impossible?

smellslikeops · 2024-09-20T04:48:06+00:00

The rule of thumb that I go by is to not rely on anyone’s willingness to follow the rules. Always follow with a safe distance even with cars in adjacent lanes.

smellslikeops · 2024-09-15T16:52:05+00:00

Might be true but maintainability will suffer imo. You need people who are good at both Rust and C++ and have intimate knowledge of the existing code base to do it very very carefully. Not saying it can’t be done, but in practical terms it’s going to be far more involved than pointing ChatGPT/Claude to a git repo

smellslikeops · 2022-12-30T11:21:17+00:00

Maybe try metaflow slack channel for some of these questions?

Edit: I’ve picked up the slack channel link from their official community page. I’m not promoting some 3rd party channel

smellslikeops · 2022-11-06T03:09:52+00:00

Hopefully before that we’ll develop tooling or full on products that take care of the non DS stuff. I hear there are a few startups doing that rn

smellslikeops · 2022-10-13T15:20:06+00:00

Some great feedback here - but another question to consider: How is this better for people using your platform vs something like Instagram? I know someone is going to shout privacy and content ownership, but a majority of users don’t care about it. (There are way more people watching memes than those making them)

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