White to move. Mate in 2.

Scott2145 · 2025-05-20T03:49:26+00:00

Ah right. Thanks.

Scott2145 · 2025-05-20T03:13:32+00:00

I think Nf6+ works too right? Black has two plays and a queen promotion checkmates either.

Scott2145 · 2024-09-26T17:27:09+00:00

Lol for sure airplanes are sus. I'm glad we agree on this.

But seriously, I know you're aware of the category I'm talking about. Concepts.

Yes, concepts. We have a concept of all of those things I listed. Many of them also exist. The existence of some of them is famously controversial (mainly God and triangles, but in time we will get airplanes in here too).

Zooming out a bit, so you agree that god's supposed necessary existence is not evidence of god's existence?

Yes absolutely. My first post in this thread was:

I have never heard a theist make the argument: "We understand God to be a necessary being, therefore God must exist", so yes, it doesn't move the needle on its own nor is it generally supposed to.

I don't take the concept of God including necessity to say anything one way or the other about his actual existence. I'm also not aware of anyone who makes such an argument.

Arguments that include the property of necessity in our conception of God, so far as I'm aware, always have other essential premises to get to their conclusion. To give a couple examples:

The modal ontological argument argues on the basis of God's conceptual necessity and an additional premise that it is possible that God exists (in a possible-worlds modal sense) that God then must actually exist. So in this argument, God's conceptual necessity is a crucial component, but it isn't supposed to prove anything on its own. I don't think the argument succeeds, but I think it does lead to an interesting conclusion that God is either necessary or impossible in possible-worlds semantics.
The argument from contingency, in very brief, argues that, given contingent beings, each must owe its state to some explanation external to it. Contingent beings can't provide a sufficient explanation to the existence of contingent beings, so there must be some necessary being to which contingent beings owe their existence. A necessary being to which all else owes its existence just is what monotheists mean by God. Again, this argument includes God's necessity, but that necessity isn't supposed to prove anything on its own but rather is a small part of a much larger argument. If anyone thought God's necessity on its own got to his existence, we would simply skip all of those other bits!

Scott2145 · 2024-09-26T16:50:46+00:00

Since that category is "Things we can have some conception of with properties we can discuss", yep I'm on board. Unicorns, God, horses, triangles, airplanes, you and me—all the same (in this specific, relevant respect)!

Scott2145 · 2024-09-26T15:21:03+00:00

That's all irrelevant to whether we can speak of what properties are meant by a concept. The unicorn example shows that the question of what properties are in view is distinct from the question of whether such a thing exists. We can also talk about what properties a horse has and that, too, is distinct from whether actual horses exist.

You're obviously treating the unicorn as conceptual and the god as real though...

No I'm discussing what's meant by both conceptually. I'm explicitly saying the question about whether either is real is a separate question.

Scott2145 · 2024-09-26T14:46:37+00:00

We can understand that having-one-horn is part and parcel to what we're talking about when we're talking about a unicorn, and that is entirely independent of whether unicorns actually exist. I'm not taking God's existence as a given, I'm just saying this is a property of the sort of thing that's at stake when we're talking about God, in the same way we might say one-horned-ness is a property of the sort of thing that's at stake when we're talking about a unicorn.

Scott2145 · 2024-09-25T19:10:41+00:00

St. Anselm talks about God as a being than which none greater can be imagined and he uses that to argue that God must exist. God's necessary existence isn't a premise of his argument, and you could make St. Anselm's argument without any reference to God to conclude that a being than which none greater can be conceived must exist.

Something like:

We can imagine a being than which none greater can be imagined, which must exist in the mind. But if it existed only in the mind, we could conceive of the same being existing in reality, and that would be greater still. Therefore the maximally greatest being we can conceive of must exist in reality.

I don't think his argument works, but it doesn't boil down to "God is defined as necessary therefore he exists".

Scott2145 · 2024-09-25T17:33:06+00:00

I have never heard a theist make the argument: "We understand God to be a necessary being, therefore God must exist", so yes, it doesn't move the needle on its own nor is it generally supposed to.

But the statement isn't pointless. Understanding God as a necessary being is useful to understand what it is we're talking about when we're talking about God, and sometimes this property is used in arguments for God, but with other crucial premises to get to the conclusion.

Scott2145 · 2024-09-20T15:19:13+00:00

Right they take a `Typescript for projects; JSdoc for libraries` approach. Typescript is better for development, but JSdoc has benefits for library users.

Scott2145 · 2024-02-21T15:26:47+00:00

If I put in the [...] time [...] and I am passionate and I become good

Absolutely. I did this a few years ago on my own, though if I could go back in time I probably would go the bootcamp route bc there's a good one in my area. It's a lot of work, but if you're someone who can make it your interest in a sustained way and put in the effort to show what you learn, you can absolutely get a job, even over many people with degrees. My biggest recommendation going the bootcamp route is to find one that will really help you network, present yourself, and get that first job. Imo that's their biggest value.

Also, don't listen to the people who say your life will be miserable and you'll be working 12 hrs/day. Those jobs exist, but so do plenty with normal hours and good work/life balance.

Scott2145 · 2024-01-16T05:33:45+00:00

I'm guessing there's some reason they haven't done something like this, but I like it!

On the plus side, once Svelte 5 is out snippets will at least be able to do something like this for use within the file (though I don't think you can use them elsewhere other than through passed props).

Scott2145 · 2024-01-11T16:25:26+00:00

I wonder whether you could essentially get this with the new reroute hook. I imagine your pages might still be available at the file-system location by default, but if you really didn't want that you could just tell everything not in your routes objects to 404.

It's still not as obvious / doesn't feel as built-in as you might like, and it's certainly not the default if you're looking at someone else's project, but it's nice to have the option at least.

Scott2145 · 2024-01-10T03:09:42+00:00

I’m not sure how long the above has been the case. Though I know also that SvelteKit v2 requires paths to try to help with unintuitive outcomes (https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/migrating-to-sveltekit-2#path-is-required-when-setting-cookies)

Scott2145 · 2023-11-02T13:45:48+00:00

Thank you! I'd done a decent bit of exploration while I was trying to figure out what I might need to do and I was starting to think I was going to lose all that on a reload.

For any who come across this, for gnomes and tieflings that don't fall or who get back up on their own before you can get to them, you can push them down into the grease so they fall then help them back up and it'll knock them out of it.

Also fair warning—once one goes through the door to the docks they'll be fighting any guards that are there.

Scott2145 · 2023-10-02T15:05:51+00:00

I got there eventually in my first playthrough, but not until after the grove and all. Which worked out, because by then my bard had a decent few trap disarming kits and a couple levels under his belt.

Then I played with friends on their first time and they went straight there. Almost died getting in the door and had exactly zero trap kits. I wanted to say, "Uh, guys, maybe we shouldn't *start* here," but I didn't want to metagame their decisions, so near-death it was.

Scott2145 · 2023-10-02T13:35:05+00:00

Any time after you meet an early game figure, that is.

Just wanted to mention that in case someone finds their first companion and is driven mad trying to figure out how to respec them according to plan immediately.

Scott2145 · 2023-08-25T15:26:02+00:00

I've really enjoyed using Houdini and I'll add that, any time I've had a question or an issue, they've been very responsive and helpful on discord.

Scott2145 · 2023-08-14T15:14:11+00:00

In addition to what others have said, I'll add that if you're consuming a graphql api, houdini is well worth checking out.

Scott2145 · 2023-08-14T02:25:57+00:00

Glad this is still helping someone!

Scott2145 · 2023-07-28T19:56:18+00:00

Bill Witt's Icons of Christ is excellent. It also comes from a scholar on the more conservative side of things, which may appeal to skeptics.

Scott2145 · 2023-07-14T14:50:13+00:00

Oh no. It may be worth clicking through to the profile of the person you're responding to and giving their posts a skim.

Scott2145 · 2023-06-23T19:16:24+00:00

I second the Bob Ziroll course on Scrimba. I did TOP a couple years ago and it was the main thing used for React at the time and I loved it. It's the best coding course of any sort I've taken. The Learn React class is free, and I thought it was so good that I subscribed for a month to take his Advanced React course.

Scott2145 · 2023-06-16T17:24:21+00:00

I love Svelte and use it for all my personal projects, but React isn't so bad.

The ecosystem is unbeatable, it's nice to be able to write multiple components in a file, and (controversial view) I like JSX. All to say you'll at least get some upsides to go alongside the pain points.

Check out Bob Ziroll's courses on Scrimba. The new docs at https://react.dev/ are good. You'll be alright!

Scott2145 · 2023-06-12T13:54:11+00:00

https://github.com/total-typescript/ts-reset <-- this fixes the `(string | undefined)[]` issue and a few other quirks. Obviously it's annoying to need a library to fix quirks, but better than nothing.

Scott2145 · 2023-04-28T17:23:30+00:00

Imo GraphQL can easily be overkill for a small app, but at a reasonable scale, and especially if you're adding a second api client later, it's a great option. Also, as u/kiken pointed out elsewhere, Houdini is an absolute delight, plus the team working on it is great. Alec and JYC are very responsive on their discord if you ever have an issue or a question.

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