Evan Johnston

Evan Johnston
@etj

dammit

from right to left, my laptop's cmos battery, the battery golfer, and the place on the motherboard the holder is supposed to be soldered 2023-09-04T04:25:51.876Z (has reply)

Evan Johnston
@etj

https://www.chess.com/news/view/torch-chess-engine

concerning developement in the world of chess engines:

chess.com has announced that it has developed a chess engine currently ranked
at #2 in the world, with plans to attempt to overtake stockfish as #1.
with the resources at their disposal that sounds concerningly possible.

> Torch is not yet publicly available but will be made available to certain relevant third parties for ratings. It will also be available through Chess.com’s analysis in the future.

from this it sounds like they have no plans to release the engine as foss,
and it would really suck if this was a turning point where improvements
and new state-of-the-art techniques were no longer publicly available,
but instead hoarded for profit.

2023-07-29T21:51:03.549Z

Evan Johnston
@etj

top 10 worst tomato trees

2023-07-22T04:30:43.814Z (has reply)

Evan Johnston
@etj

rpn lisp
(((x 1 +) (x f) lambda) define)
psil, if you will

2023-07-14T06:48:21.538Z

Evan Johnston
@etj

they should make skirts, but they're really long and sewn shut at the bottom, so you have to kinda shuffle around like a potato bag race

2023-05-20T23:40:42.568Z

Evan Johnston
@etj

there are two cardinals and their baby in the bush outside my living room window

a baby cardinal in a bush, only barely visible due to a combination of the (presumably intentional) camouflage with the bush and phones camera quality a bright red cardinal the other parent 2023-05-04T22:43:42.574Z (has reply)

Evan Johnston
@etj

running while ! make; do :; done because this makefile is full of race conditions but consistantly gets farther every time i run it

2023-04-26T02:28:54.487Z

Evan Johnston
@etj

why the fuck does mumble only run under strace

2023-04-18T00:58:06.486Z

Evan Johnston
@etj

pigeons are so underrated

2023-03-28T21:49:09.455Z (has reply)

Evan Johnston
@etj

i wonder whether, on average, link shorteners increase or decrease a urls entropy

2023-03-05T02:39:16.025Z