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Laxam
@laxam Jan 20, 2022, 1:44 PM UTC

Sudden counterattack

On my ELO (close to 1500) 50% of the win is not missing the opportunities that my opponents offer (other 50% being avoid my own obvious mistakes). This win illustrates it very well - catching white o…

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Laxam
@laxam Jan 17, 2022, 4:06 PM UTC

Can we talk about Netflix's The Witcher (Season 2)?

Spoilers incoming, you've been warned. To be honest I'm not exactly sure what to think about the Season 2. I enjoyed the opening episode a lot. Good old adventure, Geralt and Ciri encounter a mystery…

199 upvotes 3 replies $1.57
Laxam
@laxam Dec 19, 2021, 12:44 AM UTC

Pawn mate

That carnage in the center was definitely not handled properly by white...

3 upvotes 1 replies $0.19
Laxam
@laxam Dec 18, 2021, 12:42 AM UTC

Money Heist (La Casa de Papel) Season 5: Unpredictably great

First of all, whose bright idea was it to translate the name of the show as "Money Heist", Netflix? Original name, which directly translates to "The House of Paper" is vastly more fitting (well, at l…

14 upvotes 0 replies $0.36
Laxam
@laxam Nov 30, 2021, 11:53 PM UTC

Super aggressive game on both sides

I was playing black and was taken aback when white sacrificed his bishop for my pawn at turn 4. While not strictly speaking a bright move, it enabled white to pressure exposed king with relentless at…

13 upvotes 5 replies $0.51
Laxam
@laxam Nov 30, 2021, 12:26 AM UTC

Top 10 programming languages of 2021: which ones you need to know?

Each year GitHub releases an interactive report which, apart from other things, includes a list of most popular programming languages this year. Let's take a look at this year's top 10 and see how we…

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Laxam
@laxam Nov 29, 2021, 3:16 PM UTC

Going all in to try and make that king move (I was playing black)

Overall white had more than one chance to turn the game around, but one blunder is all it takes...

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Laxam
@laxam Nov 29, 2021, 2:10 PM UTC

Watching The Office for the first time

Let's be honest, you can't really experience The Office for the first time in 2021. Even if you, like me, have never seen the show back-to-back, you will still recognize the characters and jokes from…

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Laxam
@laxam Nov 28, 2021, 1:27 AM UTC

So I watched Red Notice...

What can I say? Look at this promo material, what do you see? Nothing special? Three famous faces? Both answers are correct, and both describe the movie perfectly. It's not so much a bad movie as it'…

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Laxam
@laxam Apr 20, 2018, 3:11 PM UTC

Programming in Clojure. Part 4: Reader

#### What Will I Learn? In this part of the tutorial you will learn: - What is Clojure reader and how does it preprocess Clojure code. - How Clojure primitive data types differ from those in other la…

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