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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 355 OF 445 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-09-23    MissScarlett: <TO DO (Complete rewrites): - Player Page (stevemcd87 chessforum) - Game Page - Analysis feature (Engine Server) - Event Page - Opening Explorer> That's the whole site, isn't it? Feb-09-23    petemcd85: <MissScarlett: That's the whole site, isn't it?> There's a lot more to the site that can be updated. Guess the move, Puzzle of the Day, live games, etc. Feb-09-23    Messiah: <petemcd85: <MissScarlett: That's the whole site, isn't it?> There's a lot more to the site that can be updated. Guess the move, Puzzle of the Day, live games, etc.> ChessBookie, maybe? Also, is retirement of plaintext passwords on the list? Feb-09-23    MissScarlett: <TO DO Promote User: jnpope to Super-Editor status> How hard can it be? Feb-09-23    Susan Freeman: <Missy> See Steve's profile page, please. We had a long conference yesterday. I don't want to add extra work for Steve if there should be a mishap. I am pushing for it. My patience is , well, non existent. One of my toxic traits. It worked well in a trauma unit though. Feb-09-23    petemcd85: <Messiah: ChessBookie, maybe? Also, is retirement of plaintext passwords on the list?> Yes, Once we upgrade to AWS cognito. Feb-12-23    Susan Freeman: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Coh7... Feb-12-23    OhioChessFan: 6000 calories a day?! Feb-12-23    Susan Freeman: <OCF> They said. I know Booby F used to work out in his hotel rooms because he found chess physically challenging. From a nursing perspective, the brain uses up much sugar in whatever form it can find. Brains need glucose. Chess needs brains. ergo.... Feb-12-23    stone free or die: <Booby F>?!?! Boobies on <CG>?! The F you say! https://static01.nyt.com/images/201... Feb-12-23    Susan Freeman: <Stone> Don't overthink. LOL Feb-12-23    Susan Freeman: Ooops. I meant Bobby. I just saw that. Must have had boobies on my brain. Feb-12-23    Susan Freeman: an obvious typo. Don't tell the children Feb-13-23    MissScarlett: < Just as vigorous exercise tires our bodies, intellectual exertion should drain the brain. What the latest science reveals, however, is that the popular notion of mental exhaustion is too simplistic. The brain continuously slurps up huge amounts of energy for an organ of its size, regardless of whether we are tackling integral calculus or clicking through the week's top 10 LOLcats. Although firing neurons summon extra blood, oxygen and glucose, any local increases in energy consumption are tiny compared with the brain's gluttonous baseline intake.> https://www.scientificamerican.com/... This doesn't take into account, of course, the nervous tension that chess players endure which mainfests itself in elevated heart rates for prolonged periods. There may also be something to the idea that mental strain is an appetite supressant. Feb-16-23    Messiah: When will you finally ban <perfy>? Feb-16-23    petemcd85: petemcd85: <Messiah: When will you finally ban <perfy>?> Can't ban anyone, I've been deleting his post that violates the rules and the more problems the longer probation Please post complaints on my profile page below, thanks: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... Feb-16-23    Messiah: <put out that I will not allow them on my home page.> I don't want to post anything there. Feb-17-23    MissScarlett: <Düsseldorf GER> Why can't the home page support the umlaut? Feb-17-23    Susan Freeman: <Missy> good question. Feb-17-23    petemcd85: <MissScarlett: <Düsseldorf GER> Why can't the home page support the umlaut?> As of right <stece> said to stay away from special characters, we will have to look into why it's not accepting special characters Feb-17-23    MissScarlett: I thought this was <beatgiant>'s beat. Or was that a one-off assignment? Feb-17-23    saffuna: <Why can't the home page support the umlaut?>> I dön't see any pröblem. Feb-18-23    stone free or die: <<Missy> Why can't the home page support the umlaut?> There's an issue of compatibility raised here. The Site for tournaments from the front page should match the Site tag from the PGN. And it's long been agreed to have PGN use only basic <ASCII> characters, i.e. no <UTF-8> or other encodings (<UTF-8> was invented by Ken Thompson in 1992(1)). So, the general complaint can be avoided by avoiding things like umlauts (ignoring diacritics was invented by the British after all!). As I've said before, the "standard" PGN is lacking in many departments - character encoding is one of them. The original PGN standard was drafted way back in 1994, long before it was generally realized that <UTF-8> is the best all around encoding to use. So, way back then, the recommendation was to use basic ASCII, and the <Latin 1> (aka ISO-8859/1) encoding if necessary: https://ia802908.us.archive.org/26/... As I've said, the "modern" internet has generally accepted <UTF-8> as the "best" encoding. That is what <beatgiant>'s work concentrated on (I think!). If someone else decided to use <Latin-1> instead then problems can arise. To avoid such mismatches, and to support the general audience, stick to ASCII, then you're guaranteed maximal compatibility (and fewest problems). (1) UTF-8, as told by Rob Pike - http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-... Feb-18-23    petemcd85: <fredthebear: perfidious' forum should be SHUT DOWN for gross and repeated violations of the forum policy. He is deliberately, extremely and repeatedly abusive.> I see that there are constant violations on his forum. If it continues, I will talk to the higher ups to see what next steps I should take to address the problem. Thanks Feb-18-23    petemcd85: <stone free or die: Please, allow an option have an ignore-list for collections too.> I will add it to the enhancements list on my page. I'll try and get it done as soon as possible. Thanks Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 445) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 355 OF 445 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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