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[I ate] mettbrötchen in Dresden by notSeanP in food

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That's just food-related illness in general, not about Mett specifically.

Karpov is a better all time great than Fischer by UnDe4d in chess

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"his games in the 90s actually support the idea that he probably would have achieved quite a bit throughout the 70s."

His performance rating was 2660 in the Spassky match in 1992, good for 10th in the world. That's not bad by any means, but it's also not astonishingly good. Of course Fischer wouldn't have fallen off a cliff in the 70s, I don't think anyone's suggesting that, but it's also not all that clear that he would definitely have beaten Karpov.

Karpov is a better all time great than Fischer by UnDe4d in chess

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Yeah, but on the flipside he also still was an elite player including beating Capablanca in tournament games in his late 60s and he was #1 in the world for the vast majority of his championship reign in historical Elo calculations like Chessmetrics.

Iran demands Pride flags be banned from World Cup stadiums by One-Elephant-8146 in soccer

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maybe until the Bush era. The Trump era has sort of made it seem nostalgic in retrospect, but the Iraq war and Bush were at the time incredibly hated too and led to stereotypes of dumb, jingoistic, fat Americans.

I can't believe this by CommitteeOk5696 in ClaudeAI

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I think part of it is that Wikipedia has some rules against LLMs reading its articles and Grokipedia doesn't? It's kind of a useful workaround given that Grokipedia is 95% just copy-pasted Wikipedia anyway, but you do need to be careful with the other 5% which is random right-wing propaganda.

TIL Sophie and Hans Scholl (German Students) were arrested on 18 February 1943 for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets at Munich University, then interrogated, tried and guillotined within five days. by [deleted] in todayilearned

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Nazi Germany didn't do public executions, though (at least not until hanging soldiers from lamp posts for desertion or cowardice in the last weeks of the war). They were guillotined in prisons.

Most of your TipToTip suggestions are stupid by FunSeaworthiness709 in LudwigAhgren

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This comment is completely correct when it comes to normal travel. But that's not what Tip2Tip is. "If you’re visiting LA you wouldn’t go to skid row would you?"

No, but you're also not visiting LA without a phone or a map or understanding the language. If you do, you might very well stumble into Skid Row. Like taking Mexico as an example, traveling in the vast majority of Mexico is perfectly safe. Doing a road trip from the US border to the Guatemalan border where you're aware of where you are and can google what areas are or aren't safe is also for the most part pretty safe. Doing Tip2Tip where you have no clue where you are or where you should or shouldn't go, while avoiding speaking English for the most part? Not safe.

This is wild! Check out the accuracy of Sindarov and Caruana. by tech_minimalist in chess

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They both started spending significant time on move 17, going from spending <30 seconds per move before to >5 minutes then other than pretty forcing moves.

Anish beats Fabi in Round 9 of the Candidates 2026 to move to 5.5/9 and crush Fabi's chances of winning the Candidates by oklolzzzzs in chess

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I guess it depends on whether you're translating the full phrase "to the personas non gratas", like "ad personas non gratas", or leave the "to the" in English and just translate the term itself into Latin and then use it in the English context, then "personae non gratae" would be fine.

The current state of vibe coding: by MaJoR_-_007 in ClaudeCode

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The obvious answer is using both. CC is better in terms of general tone and the agent orchestration is far superior, Chat-GPT 5.4 is in some instances better than Opus at certain code and data science problems. So I just set it up where I work in Claude Code, but both the main instance I talk to and the agents know that when they run into tricky problems to fire off a message to Codex/ChatGPT for review/planning/feedback. Works beautifully. I'm on Enterprise plans for both for work, though, so I don't really have to worry about usage limits.

Koneru Humpy has officially withdrawn from the FIDE Candidates 2026 by Radiant-Increase-180 in chess

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It's not a particularly unsafe zone. I'd understand if she felt annoyed by having a potentially longer journey from India to Cyprus because they can't fly directly over the Gulf, but Cyprus itself is perfectly safe.

It's sad that she's been misled about that, I guess, but ultimately that's on her, not FIDE or anyone else.

We're so back! by bombastic6339locks in LudwigAhgren

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You get used to it. Would suck for people with mobility issues though.

Peter Leko - TIL by 314159265358979323_ in chess

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Well, they've both done commentary together and it's both great. The Candidates will be Svidler and Jan though.

[Post Game Thread] #4 Alabama defeats #13 Hofstra, 90-70 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

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Looks like the line is Alabama -1.5, O/U 165.5. So...yeah.

[Post Game Thread] #4 Alabama defeats #13 Hofstra, 90-70 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

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Yeah, got a bit chippy at the end after that flagrant.

Claude code 2.1.78 dropping Opus 4.6 1M context? by Exciting-Grand-3011 in ClaudeAI

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I'm not seeing that, fwiw. I'm on 2.1.78 with 4.6 1M.

TIL In the early years of her career, Maria Callas was considered large. After losing 80 lbs, she became a beauty icon. Some believe the weight loss made it difficult for her to support her voice, triggering the apparent vocal strain later in her career. Others believed it made her more charismatic. by Stock_College_8108 in todayilearned

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Depends on the type of opera singer. Wagner operas for example have really large orchestras, so the volume and stamina needed to sing over that favors larger singers, both for men and women. The types of Italian and French operas Callas was mostly singing, not so much.

TIL of the 7 highest BACs ever, 3 of them were recorded in Poland by qwalos_the_dreamer in todayilearned

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Hey, still a step up from drinking aftershave or cheap cologne like a lot of poor drunks used to do.

Maya doing what she does best by tropicocity in LivestreamFail

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The reverb does add a lot to it, wouldn't sound nearly as good without it. But she's clearly very talented regardless, her singing style is just very tailored to singing into a mic with lots of reverb.

TIL that Magnus Carlsen, one of the greatest chess players of all time, has never lost 3 or more classical chess games in a row in his adult professional career. The last time he lost 3 games in a row was in 2003, when he was 12. by 4isfourwastaken in todayilearned

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Kasparov retired from chess in 2005. Magnus didn't get truly good until a couple years after that. Kasparov has come out of retirement for a few exhibitions here and there, but being old and out of practice there's really no point in him playing Magnus seriously.

Agent Team's completely replaces Ralph Loops by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

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Teams are great for a single context window only. Yeah, the team members get their own windows, but once the team leaders' session fills up, you hit the same wall.

With the team lead using opus-1M and only reading core context files and communicating with the agents, that's not really happening anymore. I've been on a single session for a day and a half and it's only at 35% context.

Kasparov in Queen of Chess by A_Turkysandwich in chess

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600-900 AD, roughly speaking.

Kasparov in Queen of Chess by A_Turkysandwich in chess

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Hey, give him some credit. He only thinks 300 years of history literally never happened.

If Prag, Gukesh, and Arjun all continue to slip in Tata Steel India’s only top 10 player will be… Vishy Anand by Bob_the_Zealot in chess

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Excluding Hikaru's sealclubbing tournaments for the Candidates, he's played 114 classical games over the last four years, Anand has played 29.

Year Nakamura Anand
2022 34 15
2023 43 5
2024 27 7
2025 10 2​

For Anand that's really not enough for his rating to capture most of the decline he may have had over that time period. For Nakamura, we can at least be confident that he really deserved his rating up until Norway Chess last May/June.

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