Hacker News: giords

Lichess will no longer cooperate with the USCF and the Saint Louis Chess Club

giords — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:49:44 +0000

Article URL: https://lichess.org/blog/ZNTniBEAACEAJZTn/breaking-the-silence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37079378

Points: 95

# Comments: 151

New comment by giords in "How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits"

giords — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:16:53 +0000

I hate all of this

New comment by giords in "How long before an AI can generate a brand new 8th season of Game of Thrones?"

giords — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:08:34 +0000

Yeah it would be cool to have a proper 8th season on par with the 4th one in terms of quality

How long before an AI can generate a brand new 8th season of Game of Thrones?

giords — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:36:32 +0000

How far are we from having something like this possible?

And I mean a high quality product that would look and feel like the original GoT, just with a good plot.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36904685

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by giords in "Telegram raises $210M through bond sales"

giords — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 06:12:41 +0000

Dubai

New comment by giords in "Former Meta staffer reveals she had to ‘fight for work’"

giords — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:49:02 +0000

Big Head, from "Silicon Valley" the show, comes to mind

New comment by giords in "The Nothing Phone (1)"

giords — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 07:09:01 +0000

I'm curious, why? And which other brand do you buy then?

New comment by giords in "Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?"

giords — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 21:47:28 +0000

I think that you're not looking for love but for perfection.

That might be the problem, you can't find perfection.

New comment by giords in "I visited a friend who is watching Breaking Bad. Now clips appear on my YouTube?"

giords — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 18:42:09 +0000

Did your phone connected to his wifi?

If so, that's very likely the reason for this.

New comment by giords in "What I miss in Java, the perspective of a Kotlin developer"

giords — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:43:45 +0000

Too bad you need external tools anda lot of boilerplate that you must remember to enforce to achieve this, because it's an after thought and not a language feature.

And there's 7-8 different annotations to mark nullability, all slightly different in some detail.

It's a bloody and messy hell.

New comment by giords in "New Upcoming Telegram Premium Features"

giords — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:53:06 +0000

Sure, they're encrypted with a key that they have.

They have complete access to the data.

New comment by giords in "Ask HN: What are some mentally healthy apps to have?"

giords — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:50:58 +0000

- Inoreader, with few sources such as BBC that don't focus on sensationalism - Lichess

I dropped all the social media except for Twitter, just because I use it really rarely (less than once per day)

New comment by giords in "New Upcoming Telegram Premium Features"

giords — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:43:36 +0000

> Changes in WhatsApp’s privacy policy had directed users to use Telegram.

This is quite ironic. Telegram managed to sell itself as a more private Whatsapp while in reality it is WAY worse in this area.

Amazing and sad.

New comment by giords in "Italy Is Held Back by 2.6M People Who Have Given Up on Work"

giords — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 08:53:29 +0000

As an Italian, I say that the top reason is not schooling or scarce attitude, it's humiliating salaries.

You work hours and hours and get peanuts for your efforts. While your employer buys the 5th Porsche.

I come from one of the richest regions, yet as an IT professional I felt appreciated only when I started working abroad. No matter how much I tried, most job offers in Italy are ridiculous.

New comment by giords in "Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around"

giords — Tue, 31 May 2022 05:28:05 +0000

> I've put in countless hours of work every day (70-90 hrs), being on-call almost 24/7, sometimes for straight 7 days for months despite only getting paid on a salary basis on 40 hr work weeks; being a loner helps with working long hours.

Many of your feelings come from here. You need a healthier work -life balance, where you may allocate some time for other things other than the rat race.

You're a person, before than a coder. Your work shouldn't be your sole source of self-esteem and content, in your life.

New comment by giords in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

giords — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:50:58 +0000

My opinion is that the demand for small phones will be satisfied by foldable phones.

I see that option more viable and effective.

New comment by giords in "Does anyone here realize that only possible way to get big ROI is/was crypto?"

giords — Sun, 15 May 2022 16:16:48 +0000

Or to get big LOI

New comment by giords in "When I made another Monkey Island"

giords — Tue, 03 May 2022 13:18:43 +0000

Ah, that penalty is easily dismissible by pressing F13

New comment by giords in "Why People Should Never Ever Use DuckDuckGo (2020)"

giords — Mon, 02 May 2022 20:06:57 +0000

Are results good?

New comment by giords in "Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?"

giords — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:29:29 +0000

I was reading these tweets today confirming that this is already happening in Mastodon: https://twitter.com/Gravecat/status/1518598015396818944