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Haha, I had a good chuckle at the rendering with all the ads. The brew pub especially.

I love curated checkmate training, and I would disagree with the other posters. I would in fact recommend you don't make the training "random", but keep them in line with the book. Presumably, like Polgar Mates, there's a sequence to it.

The main thing I'd recommend is having illegal moves do nothing, and make drag and drop more clear. The "floating ghost piece" is actually not the cursor, and that's kinda not very nice UX. You might try a "click to place" technique instead of drag & drop.

Is this book out of copyright now?

We had an intern (who was great) who has struggled to find work for almost a year now, going by LinkedIn. Awful. And if he can't get a job, I can't imagine how most young devs feel these days.

I love it. The ultimate in trickle-down economics. Sell renewable products at insane markups to rich idiots.

I definitely exist in a bubble, but it's especially useful while driving. Or for searches "Hey Siri, what is the capital of Zambia?" is faster than typing it, and you don't even need to reach for your phone. (Of course Siri is awful and can barely do basic things.)

We use it quite a lot.

I didn't realize how stupid of an argument this was until my girlfriend pointed out how every single highway/landscape/street is absolutely covered in powerlines. The very few wind turbines are beautiful in comparison to what you see all over the continent, every day.

It's really funny when people don't believe it though. At first glance it looks like such an obvious "you're a gullible idiot" hoax, haha.

The Children's Hospital, by Chris Adrian. So great!

https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-childrens-hospital

I've also read A Prayer For Owen Meany (John Irving) more than once.

I think it's hilarious that anyone smart & hardworking enough to build a tool this neat would bother cheating on an exam in the first place, haha.

I'm paying something like $100 CAD per month, I think? Dog is 33 kg.

My understanding of Librela is that it specifically targets arthritis pain. I don't think it has anything to do with the breed, but more about what kind of pain they are in. My bigger, older dog did much better on it, but not as well as my dog with elbow dysplasia, who basically was made brand new again.

The other comments imply the same; it will depend a bit on the dog's condition. That being said, I still stand by my miracle drug assertion. And seemingly side-effect free.

In addition, if anyone has an older dog, they should also immediately look into Librela: https://www.zoetisus.com/products/dogs/librela/

This is a miracle drug that pretty much instantly changed both my (older) dogs' lives. Every vet tech I've spoken to (it's a monthly injection) agrees it is amazing.

There is no hope, to be honest. I think we should start taking bets on total taxonomic loss for this extinction event. I think we can beat the Triassic at 83 %. Go humans!

Imagine being a scientist on the wrong side of the orca wars. Spend your time figuring out how save nature, instead.

Typically I'm only worried about police during highway driving, so I don't actually mind the phone usage that much. You make a point: it's not the greatest & safest, but Waze has a much better UI than Google Maps for this, so it's very quick.

Waze is really good. No comment on the accuracy of the directions, but I loved the crowdsourcing, and the warnings were the best of any of Apple, Google, & Waze. Loved the very accurate "police ahead" warnings.

Like most of you I'm sure (beating a dead horse here) I really wish they hadn't been bought out by Google.

Exactly. HR employees are the most untrustworthy folks in any organization, short of the executives that direct them.

When I asked my vet about the efficacy of Lyme disease vaccine (which I'd read was mostly pointless, more risky, and not-long-lasting) I felt like a total anti-vaxxer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/

He wasn't the greatest vet, but I don't think he'd ever even considered the possibility that a vaccine wasn't simply the best (only) option.

Not an anti-vaxxer, but with the world of knowledge at our fingertips, we shouldn't necessarily hate people for wanting to "do their own research", despite how poorly they do it.

I actually felt that way as well (and I have dogs, not kids). I felt like 2 days a week in the office was like a mini-vacation from home. Other than the commute (which negated most of the benefit) getting out of the house felt like socializing.

I found https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/2023/webb-discovers-methane-car...

which says that K2-18b is 120 light years away, in the Leo constellation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_(constellation)

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2-18b

I was really disappointed with the Rapid API buyout, but anyway, the client for Mac seems essentially unchanged, is the good news.

The weird thing is that I can find NO mention of the client on their site: https://rapidapi.com/products/build-apis/

Which, to me, is a bad sign. I suspect someday I'll be forced to give it up.

Man, 36 is young. I'm a self-taught programmer who started as an engineer, and although that obviously gave me a huge leg up, I started at the bottom as a Junior dev. I was about your age when I took my first coding interview.

The harsh truth is actually that you could do a computer science undergrad, complete a master's degree, and start a PhD, and still be younger than I am now!

Lichess is truly amazing.

I am a monthly Lichess donator, and you too can donate via https://lichess.org/patron

I would tend to agree with you. Of all the horrible aspects of airplane travel, boarding is definitely not the worst. Just sit patiently until last call then saunter on. Staying calm and patient is the hard part, of course.

Great article, thanks for sharing.

I love Vim, and although my usage is totally vanilla these days, I use Vim plugin for VSCode which is awesome (lack of :norm is the only downside I've found).

Vimium for Firefox is also a must-have https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/

I don't know about Manhattan, but I can tell you in my small hometown, you can walk down to the pub any night and you'll meet up with some friends randomly, no planning required. It's actually amazing.

Of course this is much more difficult in large cities, but it's something to work towards, and is clearly possible.

For some reason this makes me feel depressed. I guess it is the lack of functional time machine combined with the on-going Holocene extinction.

Not in the PNW!

> A tourist arrives in Vancouver on a rainy day. He gets up the next morning and it's still raining. In fact, it's still raining three days later. He goes out to supper and spies a young kid. Out of despair, he asks, "Hey kid, does it ever stop raining around here?!" The kid says, "How should I know, mister? I'm only six."

My friend had coffee delivered via drone (Canberra, Australia) and it was pretty fun. Certainly feels less wasteful (energetically) than a car & driver. The massive drone was pretty cool, too. That being said, Canberra is probably the perfect city for a drone delivery service, with so much open space.

It's shocking how angry this article makes me. In an era of scummy ad-tech, decreasing search result quality, and explosion of crappy web content, I'd be embarrassed to publish this.