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jbaber · 2026-01-27T17:17:55 1769534275

Working as Fischer intended, right?

FergusArgyll · 2026-01-27T21:41:04 1769550064

For sure and I get how someone who's truly immersed in chess theory the entire day can get bored of standard chess but I disagree that its gotten more boring to watch. Here's a very recent Hans Neiman game at Tata steel that's just incredible

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2026-tata-steel-chess-round-...

jbaber · 2026-01-14T22:21:01 1768429261

https://jbaber.sdf.org/

What remains of my personal site that I've been messing with since about 1998.

jbaber · 2026-01-11T16:20:07 1768148407

I usually just write html tables, then convert to markdown via pandoc. It's a crazy world we live in.

jbaber · 2026-01-09T00:59:04 1767920344

I am unhappy about the criminal dimension of voice cloning, too, but there are plenty of use cases.

e.g. If I could have a (local!) clone of my own voice, I could get lots of wait-on-the-phone chores done by typing on my desktop to VOIP while accomplishing other things.

anigbrowl · 2026-01-09T04:15:39 1767932139

But why do you need it to be a clone of your voice? A generic TTS like Siri or a vocaloid would be sufficient.

jbaber · 2026-01-04T05:33:41 1767504821

Having gotten used to SO, I was shocked when I found I could mark multiple answers correct on AskMetafilter. It felt like an innovation.

jbaber · 2025-12-31T02:49:08 1767149348

I thought ddg supported !s at arbitrary locations, but came across enough exceptions that I now invariably put them at the beginning or end.

jbaber · 2025-12-26T05:05:17 1766725517

I subscribe, but stare right through ads, unnoticing. Do they really not have that margin ad for berets anymore?

jbaber · 2025-12-24T19:45:12 1766605512

Every time I want to do things like this, I run into limits on the length of the hash, and it differing for different browsers. Did you get around this?

medv · 2025-12-24T20:21:22 1766607682

Chrome limit is 2MB, Firefox is 1MB, WebKit is no limit.

Here is the Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky:

- https://medv.io/goto/crime-and-punishment-by-fyodor-dostoevs...

jbaber · 2025-12-19T01:05:59 1766106359

There are many meme images of a phrase like "I came to give presents to children and punch heretics. And I'm all out of presents." on top of an icon of St. Nicholas.

jbaber · 2025-12-16T02:00:12 1765850412

Wow. Thanks for this recommendation! I have multiple times half-baked something like this using ffmpeg to dump out thumbnails and make cuts.