nilslindemann

Just because you can not do it it does not mean that others can not do it. If you search for Lichess games where strong players play against (edit: strongest!) Stockfish (which, admittedly is not the full throttle Stockfish) you will find that Stockfish by far does not win all the time. Such is a claim which only inexperienced chess beginners and Stockfish fanboys make. Stronger players know that Stockfish is relatively better, and by a far margin, but – obviously – does not win all the time due to the huge drawing range in chess. Admittedly, winning a game gets more and more difficult with every year. And, to make you happy, I have never beaten Lc0.

I do not know the time controls anymore, but I always use the latest Stockfish with all available threads. No opening book, but I do not repeat lines to take advantage of that, because I play to train calculation. I guess hash was the (for my setup) normal 4096 MB.

Yeah. There is no need to obfuscate your code, just use Tailwind.

My favorite is @layer

Further, if the engine does not use an opening database and the thinking time per game is the same, then the engine will usually make the same moves, so you can learn from your errors. There are just a few chess engines which "learn" per default and therefore change their moves, like BrainLearn.

Like my answer below, that's wrong. Even I have achieved a few draws or even wins against Stockfish in training games, and I am FM strength. From time to time you are happy to reach a simple rook endgame which happens to be won and the engine doesn't anticipate that (horizon effect). You still draw or lose 90% of those but you win 10%.

This is most definitely wrong. There will be some draws and even a few wins, though that's very rare indeed.

> Magnus' time will come! But not today.

Hasn't Magnus' time already come, and isn't it still Magnus' time? He is #1 on all three lists[1] and so long that I have forgotten when he was not.

[1]: https://2700chess.com/

It is not freestyle, it is "play a random position chosen by an algorithm" style. This is boring. Let the players freely place their pieces in the start position, that would be of interest.

Like Lasker, Carlsen will still play with 60+.

There are so many different views of the same concept.

This is also interesting regarding to how we treat animals. If a man can live like a normal human using just 10% of his brain, then it may be possible that an animal with a small brain may be much smarter than we thought, because it uses its brain more efficient. It may actually speak and think and whatnot, but we are not recognizing it. In other words, it may not be dumber, but just different. And then the fact that we kill or enslave it it is of course an ethical issue (it is anyway).

The correct translation is that Google only wants the Google PKI and not the Everything PKI.

Or, we could organize a basic income.

> The current CA ecosystem is *heavily* driven by web browser vendors (i.e. Google, Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla), and they are increasingly hostile towards non-browser applications using certificates from CAs that they say only provide certificates for consumption by web browsers.

Let's translate and simplify:

> The current CA ecosystem is Google. They want that only Google-applications get certificates from CAs.

I suggest the other way around: Don't work at all. Zero hours, seven days a week. I call it the 0 Model. It's a huge blessing.

I support this for the same reason I want scripted reality TV shows to be labeled as such. Anything that claims to be reality but isn't should be clearly marked as such, unless it's obvious from the context.

If Uber knew but did not warn her, then it's certainly correct that they were convicted.

I actually don't even care too much if they try to detect, that I am the X from last time.

The issue is them selling the data, or using it in unrelated locations, or trying to detect me as a person. And their programmers are not enforced and rewarded when they report such behavior to law agencies / the public. And the law is not punishing it.

Yes, is it now?

    https://fingerprint.com/
    https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
    https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

I don't have Firefox or another browser installed right now, but the last time I checked, every browser was detected, especially on the first link.

Further, When I used Tor, a few sites, like Google, showed me Captchas for a while afterward, when using my _normal_ browser.

Further I heard that sites like PayPal are giving me black karma when I try to avoid Fingerprinting by using e.g. Tor.

Right you are. Making it "simpler" at the cost of removing possibilities is not usability. That is dictatorship disguising itself as a service to the alleged "uneducated user". The Gnome people do / have done that, the result is an operating system which is nearly unusable. Usability is not some developer deciding which tools to have and which tools not to have, usability is allowing the users to choose but give pleasant defaults, so that the user can also choose not to choose.

Your taste is not different regarding usability but regarding tools. Usability just means making that what you use as usable as possible:

    * Window managers are wisely preconfigured and the user can one-click-switch between them, like between Plugins.
    * Key bindings are configurable for everything (which probable is already the case)
    * There is a CLI <-> GUI standard. Same for config files <-> settings panels, etc. The UCI standard for chess engines comes to mind.
    * Installing from source is integrated. Every source code directory can be right-clicked: "compile". Every binary can be right-clicked: "modify". And that works out of the box, no programming skills required unless one wants to make changes. One can click on code locations: "Explain".

Some more things come to my mind:

    * A "freeze" button which freezes the current state of my system bit by bit. There is a possibility to backup that to the internet for a monthly fee. No credit card required.
    * Every button bar can be configured, every list of something can be filter-as-you-typed. Every right-click Menu can be configured.
    * Linux has a global namespace/function/type library, accessible via a browser and also directly from within Linux. You dont have to read any doc except that of the used namespace/function/type. it creates binaries which follow the above standard.
    * There is an AI window where I can ask questions about my system. It has a well-done local default AI but there is an option to buy tokens from popular "Language Models". No tech speak. No credit card required.

This is what I mean with "become so usable that you threaten windows".

Yes, especially as the company could just implement a button "Delete your data" on their website. An automated task initiated by the user. No work for them.

Companies could also make clear before any registration, on one page, which data they will ask for and later collect. If they were honest. Then the user had a chance to opt out _before_ they have given any data to them.

Well, they are not honest, because what do they do instead? Page 1: "Please, your E-Mail". Page 2: "We also need your phone number (we may call you)". Page 3: "Great, nearly done. Now please, your address, your credit card, a fingerprint copy and a picture of your penis".

I am in favor of appending a zero to those 5.000 Euros.

> Counter-example: many times, what I find more usable is what others find less usable. Unless I'm objectively stupid, usability is subjective.

Hard to argue with you about that, unless you get more concrete. Can you give an example for something you find more usable which others find less usable (than what?)?

Stop using languages where strings are callable :-p

You are making a philosophy out of it, but I claim that usability is not a philosophy but an objective value. The more usable a tool is, without losing anything else, the higher it's value.

Disagree. It is good for users of all operating systems, if Linux becomes so usable that it threatens Windows. Then Windows has to improve and we have a race to the top.

The distro for Linux Newbies is Mint.

Things would be profoundly simpler if Judge Dredd would take care of computer crackers.

Hi, Mr. wolf language.