I am now working on my own chess API and it’s actually pretty fun. I learned that using bitboards is apparently very efficient. So I now use 8 64bit bitboards, 2 for the color and 6 for the pieces (I thought about just using 7 because you COULD theoretically represent the colors in one bitboard, but using 2 makes it faster at the expense of an extra 64 bit, which is neglegible). Gonna continue on this in the upcoming days :3
;; Getting rid of explicit indexing was just step one.
-- After a few days/months/years, I now realize that it is more important and less buggy if I think only of the function to call (and whether I want to end up with a new (maybe pruned) collection, a single thing, or "both" (that's how I think of scans))
The feeling when 87.5% of the discussion under your contribution is about #bureaucracy : unreliable CI and insignificant #style#bikeshedding .
Congrats, the project has created a barrier to entry for anyone who hasn't been into it for years already.
Hint: give everyone a freaking #linter that satisfies your needs and let us move on to actual work, without having to redo the same stuff 8 times. Sheesh.
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Argh... reviewing a colleague's python code, and he's used ChatGPT or Copilot or some other AI "helper" to write a bunch of the code. And it's just got a load of "Why the hell have you done this?" bits. Especially in the unit tests - it really doesn't know how to write pytest tests.
If you don't know what you're doing it looks halfway reasonable, and it kind-of-sort-of works, but... you'd never write that code if you were doing it yourself.
Exciting news for R users! TidyDensity's latest update introduces util_chisquare_param_estimate(), leveraging MLE to estimate Chi-square distribution parameters like dof and ncp.
Generate a dataset with rchisq() and use util_chisquare_param_estimate() to analyze it, even without knowing the underlying distribution. Visualize results with tidy_combined_autoplot().
People often talk about Emacs vs Vim. Every developer I’ve met uses Vim. Occasionally, some of the vim users will say they have previously emacs, but switched to vim.
So where are all the people who are currently using Emacs?
I’m not trolling or looking for an argument. I legit want to know!
@awoodsnet #Emacs has been great for writing, listening to internet radio, connecting to #mastodon and #matrix, managing multi #email accounts and maybe some #coding if I get bored. It's more than just a text editor and can be a #frontend to many great applications.
The more modest a developer is, the smaller the application version increments. Some indie coders add brilliant new functionality, and change the version from 0.9 to 0.9.1, while corporations often add a few minor improvements once a year, and jump from 1.0 to 2.0.