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aexlon Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search

This sounds a lot like Mikhail Tal!

Nice, you have experience in data frames in R, Python and Julia! Which one of those do you like the most? I know that the ecosystem isn't really comparable, but from your experience, which one is the best to work with for core operations, etc.?

aexlon Lichess on Scala3 – Help needed

Problem with that is that you will probably have a downtime for several minutes (or at least many seconds) each day. That's not optimal for a site where at any time of the day thousands of people are playing chess...

aexlon Leaving MySQL

Somewhat offtopic, but sesse.net runs a Stockfish instance with the (probably) deepest analysis of live chess games: http://analysis.sesse.net/ I visit it daily for the Chess World Championship match.

aexlon Software for Math Research

As well as Julia.

aexlon Lofi beats with nice bass to listen while you code, study or work

I like the sound of hair dryers to focus, something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFL1w-Ptrks

aexlon Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

I have proposed this some years ago (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/14646), but it didn't get much attention from the maintainers. It has been previously rejected in 2013 already (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/1185).

aexlon The Linux kernel has surpassed one million git commits

The "mozilla-unified" repository seems to be at 646.5k commits and the "chromium" repository at 999.5k commits.

aexlon Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

I have just listened to your album on YouTube and have to say: Excellent music, I love it!

aexlon One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

These type of repositories have existed since the first Hacktoberfest. They might even be useful for beginners to learn how to prepare their first pull request. But the idea of Hacktoberfest is clearly not to submit all your pull requests to such a repository.

It even seems as though DigitalOcean is blocking these type of repositories. From the FAQ:

My pull request is marked as being on an excluded repository. What does this mean?

Unfortunately, your pull request was made on a repository that doesn’t align with the core values of Hacktoberfest. We’ve decided that pull requests made to this repository will not count toward completing the challenge.

aexlon Coronavirus and Credibility

That's an interesting idea. I need to try this too!

aexlon 1% rule

I'm as well a long time lurker. Whenever I contribute something, I feel that it should be helpful for many other people out there. This comment probably isn't...

aexlon Why I Keep a Research Blog

@cushychicken: Where can we find your blog?

aexlon The Internet Relies on People Working for Free

Inkscape didn't exist in the 90s....

aexlon Ruby One-Liners

Why is awk one of the "worst programming languages ever created"?

aexlon Daytripper

Which is unfortunately not maintained anymore: https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv/issues/696