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Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @03:08AM (#46972214)
Yes in 'Studio 5, The Stars' they use a "VT set" to generate poems I really enjoyed reading Vermilion Sands
No, pre-empt here means you don't have a word, the town (commune) has priority and you can't make an offer
yes, they use different rating systems (Glicko 1 and 2), see https://lichess.org/page/rating-systems
Re:'Dumbphones' make a comeback: 'No one calls me anymore' on Friday October 13, 2023 @04:57PM (#37875543)
I still use a sony ericsson elm daily, no problem so far. maybe you could still find one online
Re:Generating chess puzzles with generic algorithms (2022) on Friday September 29, 2023 @07:58AM (#37702511)
and here is the project used to generate Lichess puzzle database

https://github.com/ornicar/lichess-puzzler

Re:Cat S22 Flip Phone on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @04:36AM (#31501926)
I never switched to smartphones to not have internet in my pocket, and so I sticked to Sony Ericsson phones. Currently I use a 2010 Sony Ericsson Elm (J10i) which gives me SMS, phone, camera, and a few utilities : calendar, alarms, calculator, flashlight. Dimensions are 110.00 x 45.00 x 14.00 mm, I recharge once every ten days or so
Re:Chess.com vs. Lichess on Thursday December 16, 2021 @05:21AM (#29576838)
Lichess uses Glicko-2 rating method, see https://lichess.org/faq#ratings
Re:Chess.com vs. Lichess on Thursday December 16, 2021 @05:15AM (#29576804)
haha no he never worked for chess.com, wonder where you heard that one :D

lichess is not one guy either, there's a whole community of developers, moderators etc.

Re:Chess’s Cheating Crisis on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:19PM (#24829830)
this is how it works, there is a whole alternative lichess universe where shadow-banned users play each others.
Re:How to Be an Epicurean on Sunday November 17, 2019 @09:58AM (#21558141)
Absolutely. Also, a point I found interesting is that we can classify desires in three categories:

- natural and necessary, e.g drink, eat

- natural but not necessary, e.g sex

- not natural and not necessary, e.g smartphones

Epicure advised to fulfill only the first type of desires, that is, drink water and eat bread, period.

As a sidenote, the goal of his philosophy was not to experience pleasures, but instead to avoid pain, which is quite different.

Re:Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc' on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:26PM (#20855029)
I thought that too, for me it's due to Windows resource files having `.rc` extension. how mind works

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/menurc/about-...

Re:JavaScript Template Attacks on Monday June 10, 2019 @03:16PM (#20149826)
could be related to sidechannel template attack methodology:

https://wiki.newae.com/Template_Attacks

Re:How to do hard things on Monday May 20, 2019 @08:54AM (#19959842)
Have you seen the movie 'Inception' [0] ? This is the idea behind recursion: you are in some context, then dive into another (similar although not identical) context, then dive into another (similar although not identical) context, etc.

The 'reality' is the top level context.

You dive down to level 2 context by falling asleep; that would be the recursive function call.

In that dream, fall asleep and enter level 3 context. You are now recusrsively falling asleep.

In the movie, the characters wait for a signal to wake up and going one level up. This is the 'stopping condition' of a recursive call.

You can also see that as Matryoshka dolls.

Regarding the 'Inception' movie that's funny, because it popularized the '-ception' suffix to describe a recursive phenomenon [1]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception#In_popular_culture

this makes me think of Qt in a web browser using WebAssembly [0]

I find it really impressive that desktop applications can now run quite smoothly in a web browser. In like 15 years we've made it from phpbb forums through 56k modem, to this.

Congratulations

[0] http://example.qt.io/qt-webassembly/widgets/richtext/textedi...

Re:How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:50PM (#18877391)
It's worth noting that lichess rating system is glicko2[0], while FIDE rating system is Elo.

[0]https://lichess.org/qa/6/how-does-the-rating-system-work-on-...

Re:Keras Implementation of Alpha Zero for Chess on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:43AM (#16513977)
If anybody is interested, you will find ~300 millions PGN to train your NN models on chess games here : https://database.lichess.org/
Re:Pushing the Limits of Extreme Breath-Holding on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:37PM (#16277323)
Ok thank you, I also found a short answer[0]. It seems the carbon comes from the conversion of glucose; that is, from food.

[0] http://www.smh.com.au/news/big-questions/we-breath-in-oxygen...

Re:Pushing the Limits of Extreme Breath-Holding on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:16PM (#16277133)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but maybe the carbon dioxide you exhale comes from the air you inhale. No air in, no carbon dioxide out.
I would answer in my own language, and let my interlocutor's device translate for me instead.
what about "caguer" ? it sounds even closer
Re:Lichess Analysis Board with Stockfish 8 in Asm.js on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:28AM (#14536006)
Actually 'WebAssembly' appeared in the title for few minutes, but then it was edited to 'Asm.js'
Re:An Indian village addicted to chess on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:12PM (#14371136)
Definitely lichess
yes to me it's related to seasickness, just the opposite : there is a conflict between what you see and what your inner ear senses
Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @01:42AM (#14039960)
I thought LGPL meant if you link to (Qt) shared libraries, your project does not have to be LGPL ?
> Really? Is it lame to be using an email clients these days?

I think he means that wether nano is derived from an email client or not is not important

I wish I had time to set up a computer and compile and run this

https://github.com/manuelruder/artistic-videos

Re:Integrating with LLVM on Thursday November 06, 2014 @02:50PM (#8569329)
"You are tied to a particular version of the LLVM API at compile time."

In what pretty terms these thoughts are put!