it’s not the experience or knowledge part that bothers me, as you said people focused on different things and everyone starts from 0. it’s the attitude of giving up when their ai slop doesn’t work or coming up with bandaid solutions to get the task done quickly rather than trying to actually learn or see the bigger picture. it’s an era of short attention span and fast dopamine due to tech, ofc everyone is affected but gen z and a more so because their parents put ipads in their faces since 0 years old.

I remember vividly watching someone type in the address bar of their browser “google”, and hit enter. It took them to the google results page from which they pressed on the first result, google.com, and only then did they proceed to type in their search term.

No need to cast as any types at all just work with bits directly /s

Most of the people I know now never really acquired this skill, can’t really lose what they didn’t have

He loves me, he loves me not

stremio + torrentio + real debris = W

I have one too but it has an emergency physical “master key”. Also there’s a port to provide power to it through a battery bank, in case you really run out of juice though it’s potentially another point of failure. No internet connection

I’m working on a gameboy emulator and the amount of edge cases you have to consider feels just like this lol.

Looks like Luigi got another flag to reach

I took a shit

Software which displays pixels and outputs sound when given data from a game cart, coincidentally.

Teams is terrible, but it feels like there’s no good alternative. I liked Slack but its expensive. It also blows my mind that there’s no markdown syntax highlighting for code in both, such a basic feature even discord has.

It’s hard to figure out what he’s talking about , when he says the “whole social security database”. Like in which tables are they duplicated? Does it mean the entire row is duplicated or just the SSN, it might make sense to be duplicated depending on the schema. Is it an append only db, so there might be updated columns on the same ssn and you need to filter by the latest update timestamp? Who knows.

But also, saying that there’s a “social security database” and then following that up by the govt “doesn’t use SQL” so… the db is actually just a spreadsheet? A .txt file? The SSNs are just written down in someone’s notebook? Lol

I’m not defending the design choice perse, just giving you the things needed to be considered that goes into making such designs.

Well many of China’s websites don’t even use HTTPS. Look at china.org.cn, or en.people.cn for example

Well as with everything, there is the surface level and the deep rabbit hole. We have only ventured a bit in the rabbit hole. I think enjoyment of chess at any level is possible, but it is definitely not for everyone.

Well that’s a fair argument. But I see it as a clever balancing rule.

Technically, if we get rid of the stalemate rule it makes the game harder for the defending (losing) side because it 1. removes an extra defensive resource and 2. forces the defending side to calculate an extra threat.

Now if we think about a theoretical perfect game, black always has a slight disadvantage due to going second. Therefore, in this theoretical game black would always be on the defending (losing) side. If we remove that extra defensive resource black has, which is a stalemate position then white gains an even bigger advantage against black before the game even starts. So in theory if one day chess is solved white might actually win every game.

Of course that’s more of a conjecture on the extreme end but the point is that the stalemate rule is an extra defensive resource that aims to further the hopes of equality for black in my opinion.

In theory black could play poorly and give the queen away by placing it next to the white king, then if the white king takes the black queen it would be a draw. Why would black do such a thing? Well playing poorly also means stalemating your opponent in an obviously winning position, which also happened here.

You can argue it’s an “obvious win”, just like I could argue if I’m a piece up it’s an “obvious win” for me. But just because it’s obvious doesn’t mean the result is guaranteed to happen.

Also I guarantee you not everyone can actually checkmate a king with just a queen and king. So in fact it’s not so obvious for a super beginner.

As for the benefits of the actual mechanism itself, in some positions you can actually force a draw or stalemate where you’d either otherwise be losing, or you are unclear of your advantage. For example in one of my games I was chasing the King around with my Rook where if the king took my rook, it would be stalemate, and if they didn’t take my rook I would keep checking the king (while making sure the distance between my rook and their king is 0).

Ya but wouldn’t I need to open up ports or host a VPN ? Otherwise my phone won’t backup unless I’m at home

I’ve been using one drive for my phone photos backup, joplin notes store and keepass. It seemed like the most economical solution cus other vendors don’t really offer 1TB, it’s usually something stupid like jumping from 200GB or 2TB. Don’t know if I should invest in a NAS or something, but I just don’t wanna deal with the hardware and networking if I have to open some ports at home , unless I can use cloudflare as well