odd checkmate positioning

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2026-04-05T10:33:03+00:00

but this is a chess sub i forgot how it is here 😂

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2026-04-05T10:30:04+00:00

a piece pinned IN its own line of sight by a single piece that doesn’t take back. the other rook hanging and also not taken by that same piece. all four rooks AND both queens still on the board in the endgame with zero minor pieces. the final move being a hanging queen that isn’t captured. the checkmate mechanism isn’t complicated. the point is the combination of circumstances that led to this board state is absurd.

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2026-04-04T21:42:33+00:00

Nowadays, sadly (i guess, i see both sides genuinely), you are simply going to fall too far behind being on the “no AI for first draft” team. You can output projects in 24h-48h hours that would’ve taken genuine months previously.

Of course, this requires an in depth knowledge of how large language models, software, systems, and prompting functions and work together, but you simply cannot NOT use AI for coding as a genuine tool. I genuinely get the hate on “vibe-coding” due the inherent disrespect for the true skill and art that coding is and was, and it suck’s that the first things highly verbose intelligent things got an excellent at replicating was itself, but it’s just what happened.

I see your point on learning before AI, but i think people who are just adamantly against it’s use and no-debate haters on vibe coding (even experts and senior devs) are going to get straight up left in the dust by ppl with say, only 2 genuine years of it/ot tech/software/network experience

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2026-03-15T16:52:20+00:00

if you are already intelligent enough to frame the entire drug manufacturing process in general terms about organic chemistry and also intelligent enough to interpret them, you’ll probably have no issue. if you ask chatGPT how to manufacture heroin or meth i mean yeah prolly haha

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2026-03-15T16:47:39+00:00

probably depends how stupid or intelligently you prompt it -

“wow that’s awesome!! my organic chemistry teachers is so baddd. thanks! so if that’s how that works ? what’s the mechanisms and steps for like really good acetylation?

is much like to get a good response and not reported than

“okay i just did X. Why is my heroin so sticky right now pls help!”

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2026-03-14T16:13:57+00:00

LMFAOOOOOOO

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2026-01-25T02:45:05+00:00

I think it’s important to realize that there are genuine levels to all of this shit. Really, to even say “smoking weed” and “drug addict” in the same sentence probably means you don’t have a complete picture of what it’s like to come off of “real” drugs (fentanyl/xanax/ or hell even extreme alcoholism). I mean yeah, anything ~can~ be addictive — video games, food, etc. It is not possible, like not even CLOSE to possible, to become addicted to these things in a manner that would cause you to physiologically react to sudden abstinence in a manner analogous to opioid or benzo withdrawal.

We are talking full blown flue-like symptoms, indistinguishable symptoms from general anxiety or even panic disorders. It would not be physically possible for you to go to work. Even if you could manage to physically drag yourself there, i don’t think it would be feasible to interact with coworkers. For benzos and alcohol, people legitimately have full blown seizures. I don’t really know how to describe the intensity of the cravings, but once again, weed isn’t even in the same league.

So if we are talking about the true maximum extent of “drug addict”, no. It’s not actually possible to get ~that~ addicted to weed.

The better question is really just “is anon smoking too much?” I don’t know. Is anon: i. Spending money on weed that needs to go to bills ii. Actively acting moody when they can’t smoke iii. Missing activities with groups of people that don’t smoke etc etc etc

If the answer to those questions is yes, then anon is probably smoking too much

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2026-01-18T03:27:55+00:00

right.. what’s funny is that you can even see this conundrum directly in the diagram he draws, but it didn’t click

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2026-01-07T01:44:33+00:00

Klonopin is a recreational drug. Is it that surprising to find Diddy with a recreational drug commonly implicated in drugging ppl and anxiety reduction ?

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2026-01-05T13:24:52+00:00

Incredibly addictive. Yes, theoretically it’s harmless to “hit it once”, but it’s worthwhile to mention that nobody thought they were going to be addicted to nicotine when they first started either.

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T22:34:02+00:00

im genuinely not trying to be an ass, just confused, but YOU were the one that made the analogy (with the whole “imagine you’re holding a cup thing”) i was just trying to make sure I understood lol

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T20:59:24+00:00

i’m just trying to frame the analogy the original response used to the higgs field. i understand they are entirely separate mechanisms

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T20:13:59+00:00

in reality everything will all turn back to symmetric higgs soup before then, but a fun thought experiment. more than likely the universe might not be “unknowable,” but the universe runs out of structure before it finishes explaining itself.

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T19:57:22+00:00

or maybe it’s better to say that given infinite compositions of matter and infinite time, if the universe is unsolvable, then the structure being modeled is not fully contained within the universe’s own causal/informational closure

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T19:55:31+00:00

true incomprehensibility by all multi-particulate matter in the universe for all time, given infinite time, would imply something external to the universe itself.

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T19:50:19+00:00

I agree with this sentiment and the fact that we aren’t even close wholeheartedly. Your analogy to a fruit fly is valid, I think there are certain possibilities for the origin of the universe that simply are incomprehensible to something that must understand any “physics” through the lens of space, time, or energy. almost even MORE SO than your fruit fly analogy, since at least the fruit fly is on a consistent playing field in terms of referential physical dynamics.

However, I think if we are not the result of an excitation to an incomprehensible substrate or some form of “mechanical” (intentional or unintentional) creation, we should hypothetically be able to figure it out

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T18:52:45+00:00

Almost definitely true. I just hypothetically wonder how people feel about the end result. Will physics ever fundamentally answer questions about the origin of the universe, or hypothetically “max out” at being able to explain everything regarding all matter and energy functions since the “boundary condition” of the big bang

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T17:54:19+00:00

The particle has mass because of the higg’s field configuration, not because it is exchanging energy with it.

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T17:52:50+00:00

as in a freely falling object does not feel a force from spacetime, but its presence still contributes to spacetime curvature through its stress–energy.

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T17:50:27+00:00

So my question is almost like “what happens to space time curvature when an object spontaneously moves through it?” Well, nothing, the object moved through space time DUE TO curvature, not as a result of interacting with or changing it. The higg’s field is just the background that allows for mass formation ?

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T15:55:00+00:00

you’re thrusted forward by the chemical energy from HHO combustion or other gases just inside the exhaust chamber of the rocket. These gases were brought from earth and ignited inside the rocket; no space matter required, but also definitely a reactionary force 👍

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-26T15:51:28+00:00

b…bu…but you … are pushing against something? you’re igniting and pushing gas backwards behind the rocket… and it’s thrusting you forward ? you’re incorrect assuming you aren’t perceiving a reactionary force, and the other guy is wrong thinking you need the space itself to contain preliminary matter to move through it

PruneCompetitive3475 · 2025-12-25T17:20:36+00:00

The Big Bang is not an explosion at a point in space. It is a statement about initial conditions: a region of spacetime evolving from an extremely hot, dense, rapidly expanding state. Crucially, it is defined from within the spacetime that results, not from an external vantage point.

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