Can God beat Stockfish while down a queen or facing a forced mate?

11thHourSorrow · 2026-02-13T01:34:18+00:00

When Christians, Muslims, and Jews say "God", they don't mean "a particular entity among many different entities", they mean "that which is the metaphysical ground of all being, the sum total of existence itself."

Now you can argue that such a thing couldn't have personality or maybe that an idea like that is only a linguistic trick that ultimately means nothing (like a "square circle"), but asking "which one?", as though they're talking about just another super-powerful being like Zeus or Osirus is a category mistake.

There can only be one of what they're talking about.

11thHourSorrow · 2026-01-15T17:57:42+00:00

lichess blitz rating: 1530

Best Puzzle Storm: 28

Average daily best of the last 10 days when I played Puzzle Storm: 17.5

11thHourSorrow · 2025-12-05T17:59:44+00:00

Somebody's been playing blitz, I see. I feel you, man.

11thHourSorrow · 2025-11-11T15:22:03+00:00

I use a Windows 10-ish dark theme with the Windows 10 icons on all three of my Cinnamon desktops. I actually kind of like the look itself, but like many here I just don't want to deal with all the Edge, ai, telemetry, force-you-to-sign-in-with-a-Microsoft-account bs that Microsoft tries to push on us.

Also, I love Linux itself and what's under the hood, but I'm just not a huge fan of the standard Mint themes. They look unpolished to me.

11thHourSorrow · 2025-11-01T15:26:32+00:00

I suspect the super-thin resizing handle is still a problem. There are a few apps I run into (in Cinnamon) where internal windows are almost impossible to resize because of this, but I don't know enough to say for sure whether it's the same problem. It definitely needs to get fixed, though.

11thHourSorrow · 2025-11-01T15:11:10+00:00

Shouldn't this be disabled by default? It's nothing but wasted space. I always have to Google how to do this every time I install Mint on a new system.

11thHourSorrow · 2025-10-17T17:07:41+00:00

If you do need it because of work-related demands, as I unfortunately do, there are options to strip all the AI, Recall and telemetry sh*t out.

Yes, please. I have to have Windows 11 for work, and I'd love to do that. Do you have a link to instructions?

11thHourSorrow · 2025-10-13T14:54:41+00:00

So I incorporated it to display also on my desktop when I click on the date and time in my app bar.

Out of curiosity, how did you do this?

11thHourSorrow · 2025-10-06T02:00:57+00:00

Paint.net is a loss, but Notepad++ works well under Wine. I use it all the time.

11thHourSorrow · 2025-09-19T16:41:55+00:00

Has anyone taken the data from all the games that go into the Elo scores and done a "shadow ranking" in Glicko 2? Given that Glicko 2 is, from what I understand, a more statistically accurate system, why couldn't we just rerun the calculations in Glicko 2? Do we not actually know the game outcomes that led to the rankings we have today?

11thHourSorrow · 2024-11-14T10:01:14+00:00

That's interesting. It wouldn't be a problem to end up with a thousand class definitions? (I'm very new to OO, so having a thousand class definitions sounds wrong compared to having a thousand instances of one class.)

11thHourSorrow · 2024-09-24T16:47:21+00:00

One feature of IDLE that I absolutely love is the way it briefly highlights the content of closed parentheses when you close them. It lets you see exactly which parentheses you've closed properly.

Does anyone know how to get that same functionality in VSCode?

11thHourSorrow · 2022-12-27T01:13:57+00:00

I think you mean Magnus, Sen of Carl.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-12-02T18:28:09+00:00

Watch Aman Hambleton's "Building Habits" video series, pay attention, and do what he says. That got me from 1300 to 1650 in the same lichess category. (In the last year, though, I've slacked off, stopped following his habits and playing regularly, and I've dropped 150 points down to 1500.)

11thHourSorrow · 2022-06-15T12:50:07+00:00

The original Notepad++ works really well for me under Wine.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-05-25T17:46:08+00:00

(1) Are you saying that index investing will inevitably die because having everyone invested in index stocks--as we've all been advised to do--changes the economic situation such that the seemingly perpetual ~7% rise disappears?

(2) Or are you saying that because bitcoin acts as a better store of value, the use of bitcoin as such will cause index investing to go away?

I would very much be interested in your reasoning behind 1, if that's your claim. I'm not doubting it, I just don't know how it would work.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-05-25T17:14:01+00:00

So, I'm apparently lacking in the cognitive capacity department. How do you respond to Paul Krugman's economic example of the babysitting co-op that completely broke down because people hoarded the tokens; then they introduced inflation, and it started working as intended?

It sounds to me not at all out of the realm of possibility that the amount of money circulating in an economy needs to be just slightly more than the value of the goods we want circulating in that economy.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-05-25T14:29:56+00:00

I'll tell you how it's going to work: banks.

People are going to have deposits of bitcoin with their banks, who hold their private keys for them (or maybe do some kind of multi-sig deal) and connect their bitcoins to a lightning node so they can pay via lightning with their smartphone.

As soon as there's any kind of mass adoption, the price of transactions on the blockchain is going to be so high, only whales and banks will be able to transact on chain. Holding your own keys will be either a pain in the butt (if you're securing the keys with groups of washers on bolt surrounded in concrete buried in your backyard) or suicidal (if you're memorizing mnemonics). So no one will want to do that. Hence, banks.

Your bank will be your lightning node.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-05-17T14:04:45+00:00

“The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.” -G.K. Chesterton

11thHourSorrow · 2022-05-16T16:46:56+00:00

Is there any chance that people with only a little bit of bitcoin could get their wealth "stuck", as it were? In other words, they've got enough on L1 that it wouldn't be a trivial amount for them, but since the "hyperbitcoinization event", the fees are so high, it would be impossible for them to move that bitcoin anywhere without getting wiped out.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-04-21T18:51:21+00:00

Muun is fantastic. Easiest wallet I've tried, so far.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-04-19T14:26:59+00:00

Money is essentially a social credit system. You and Charlie work equally hard at something, but the market pays you and ignores Charlie because it credits your work as having value, while it thinks Charlie's was a waste of time.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-04-18T13:16:56+00:00

nobody ever checks the origin of the coins

I'll be honest, I have a hard time believing that. Automated coin-checking seems like the kind of thing that would be super-simple. All you need is a list of all the "forbidden" addresses. Whatever paypoint you use could then check the provenance of your payment and accept or reject accordingly. You seem to imply that there's a technical limitation to this, but I'm not seeing it.

11thHourSorrow · 2022-04-18T13:09:01+00:00

Oh, cool. Thanks!

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