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thope··on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
Yes in 'Studio 5, The Stars' they use a "VT set" to generate poems I really enjoyed reading Vermilion Sands
thope··on Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing
No, pre-empt here means you don't have a word, the town (commune) has priority and you can't make an offer
thope··on How to learn chess as an adult (2021)
yes, they use different rating systems (Glicko 1 and 2), see https://lichess.org/page/rating-systems
thope··on 'Dumbphones' make a comeback: 'No one calls me anymore'
I still use a sony ericsson elm daily, no problem so far. maybe you could still find one online
thope··on Generating chess puzzles with generic algorithms (2022)
and here is the project used to generate Lichess puzzle database

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

thope··on Cat S22 Flip Phone
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
thope··on Chess.com vs. Lichess
Lichess uses Glicko-2 rating method, see https://lichess.org/faq#ratings
thope··on Chess.com vs. Lichess
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.

thope··on Chess’s Cheating Crisis
this is how it works, there is a whole alternative lichess universe where shadow-banned users play each others.
thope··on How to Be an Epicurean
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.

thope··on Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc'
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-...

thope··on JavaScript Template Attacks
could be related to sidechannel template attack methodology:

https://wiki.newae.com/Template_Attacks

thope··on How to do hard things
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

thope··on Show HN: 300k lines of Java UI code running native in browser at desktop speed
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...

thope··on How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating
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-...

thope··on Keras Implementation of Alpha Zero for Chess
If anybody is interested, you will find ~300 millions PGN to train your NN models on chess games here : https://database.lichess.org/
thope··on Pushing the Limits of Extreme Breath-Holding
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...

thope··on Pushing the Limits of Extreme Breath-Holding
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.
thope··on Google Pixel Buds are wireless earbuds that translate conversations in real-time
I would answer in my own language, and let my interlocutor's device translate for me instead.
thope··on Cagot: a persecuted and despised minority found in the west of France
what about "caguer" ? it sounds even closer
thope··on Lichess Analysis Board with Stockfish 8 in Asm.js
Actually 'WebAssembly' appeared in the title for few minutes, but then it was edited to 'Asm.js'
thope··on An Indian village addicted to chess
Definitely lichess
thope··on Oculus Research to Present Focal Surface Display Discovery at SIGGRAPH
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
thope··on Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
I thought LGPL meant if you link to (Qt) shared libraries, your project does not have to be LGPL ?
thope··on Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
> 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

thope··on ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso
I wish I had time to set up a computer and compile and run this

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

thope··on Integrating with LLVM
"You are tied to a particular version of the LLVM API at compile time."

In what pretty terms these thoughts are put!