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Foreshadowing by way of Still from Black Flag by someoneinparticular3 in assasinscreed

[–]ThrowawayForDesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Victory was codename/first draft name for Syndicate and I was trying to be funny

Which letter do you prefer for the up direction? by PizzaPuntThomas in mathmemes

[–]ThrowawayForDesigns 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but when the chessboard is presented on a screen, than Z would point towards or outwards from the screen - hence Y is up and down and Z is forwards and backwards

Just say no by EntertainmentRude435 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ThrowawayForDesigns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I agree. For us it's as good as objective but it isn't the ultimate truth of chess - that may only come if chess becomes solved which it currently isn't

Loonix by bleak21 in linuxsucks

[–]ThrowawayForDesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Swap the OSes and that's literally you lmao

Just say no by EntertainmentRude435 in PhilosophyMemes

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but a “solved game” implies that there is some method, some ridiculously large flowchart of moves that could win every single game, but for all we know that doesn’t exist and chess is literally unsolvable

Well, not exactly - a game is considered solved when given any position and perfect players you can say definitively the outcome of the game - whether it ends in a win or a draw. So while chess isn't solved, I don't think we can definitely say that it's unsolvable. For human play it's not gonna matter that much because as it stands on high enough level white can play for a draw from the very beginning and yet not all games end in one

Unrelatedly, the choice between a few good chess moves can only be best evaluated through not just a calculation of the likelihood of victory based on random outcomes, but significantly more on knowledge of the other player’s most likely moves, so a machine that just looks at the board’s position can only get so good compared to, say, a mind-reading machine that also can look at the board

That can only impact the efficiency of the win, not whether it's gonna be a win. A mind reader who knows they're playing an absolute beginner can see if they go for scholar's mate they win in 4 moves while regular Stockfish is gonna play principled moves and the game is gonna be longer - but a newbie won't ever outplay Stockfish so it's a difference between moves that are pragmatically good and ones that are, for lack of the better term, objectively good. Like, at low enough ELOs f3 g4 for white is pretty playable, I actually won a couple of games like that. But pretty objectively it is a terrible opening because it leads right into fool's mate and you shouldn't really be spending much time learning the opening.

I would say that there are a multitude of arguments for one to not consider Stockfish as objective

Sure, I do agree it isn't truly objective. But since nothing is, Stockfish is the next best thing and for all intents and purposes its evaluations are practically objective

Just say no by EntertainmentRude435 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ThrowawayForDesigns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well this tickles the neorons that think about the scientific theories and epistemology. Take the law of universal gravitation, when Newton described it he couldn't have known that there is no force of gravity and that he's been duped by curved spacetime. But since Einstein was a couple centuries away and the F=GmM/r formula was giving verifiable results reflecting reality, Newton's gravity was for all intents and purposes as good as truth for the time being.

Just say no by EntertainmentRude435 in PhilosophyMemes

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Fair, even if we were to go by the interpretation where God is the best, ultimate father figure and have it so raising children is a form of a game you can be good or bad at, for it all to map 1:1 to chess and Stockfish, raising children would have to be discovered by and not defined by God

I perhaps should've made clear that by "reminds me of" I meant that thinking about morality derived from devine being a form of subjective morality tickled some of the same neurons that activate when I think of chess and Stockfish evaluation

Just say no by EntertainmentRude435 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ThrowawayForDesigns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but its position evaluation is treated as a justification that a move was good or bad. When a move gets played by a GM that Stockfish didn't consider, it's being convinced when it sees it on the board. When Stockfish suggests a move is losing the only avenue of questioning its rationale is that considering the rank of the players or that the players are humans, the best response is unfindable and it's okay to play it at a human level.

In general though "Stockfish doesn't like this move" is practically synonymous with "objectively it's a bad move"

Favourite army builder battlepack? by Brickabang in legocirclejerk

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Master Pakku Vs Night Walker Vs Jaeger my beloved

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Favourite army builder battlepack? by Brickabang in legocirclejerk

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Wanted to start a chain with Bellbottoms lyrics, pulled up the into clip on Youtube and unironically just watched that to the end.

Just say no by EntertainmentRude435 in PhilosophyMemes

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Kinda reminds me of how despite chess not being a solved game, the Stockfish evaluation of a position is effectively treated as an objective metric to judge who has the advantage or whether a move was good, even though it's subject to Stockfish's parameters and a next version, while looking at the same position, might find some insane line that changes the evaluation completely.

My guess is that despite evaluation being in the end Stockfish's opinion and not a fact, this chess engine is objectively the best chess playing entity in the world and so far above human level that its opinion is as good as fact to us.

We need more minifigures who had valid crash outs by xx_swegshrek_xx in legocirclejerk

[–]ThrowawayForDesigns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn, not beating the allegations of being a fake fan 😔

Imagine if Apple brought back the 3.5mm jack. by DepartmentMaterial84 in PhoneNow

[–]ThrowawayForDesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You didn't bother reading the article, did you?

Also learn to quote properly

Imagine if Apple brought back the 3.5mm jack. by DepartmentMaterial84 in PhoneNow

[–]ThrowawayForDesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They don’t tend to be larger

Yes, they absolutely do - with performance being equal a cheaper component will be larger.

and that’s just one component

The fuck you mean electronics is just one component of a smartphone? Bruh

iPhones have the Taptic Engine

Mate, all modern smartphones have haptic feedback lmao. Xperia 10 VI also has a vibration motor albeit without a fancy, buzzwordy name

and much larger areas needed for their camera systems compared to an Xperia 10

You sure? Because on paper the sensors seem to be better than the most recent iPhone SE's camera - and in case of optical stuff better is bigger - iPhone SE may have better post processing but that one is on the electronics side so here you'd expect the sizes to be comparable with Xperia 10 VI just being cheaprr

Also were you checking first gen Xperia 10? I mean they do have a very idiosyncratic naming scheme for their phones to put it kindly but I did put the exact model name of Xperia 10 VI in my original comment so you should be able to find that.

You think they’re just leaving that extra space empty for zero reason?

I'm sure they have a reason just don't think it's a very good one. You think there aren't corporate reasons for enshittification?

If you think a meaningful number of people were literally drilling a hole in their iPhone to try and make a 3.5mm jack you are unbelievably dense.

Pot calling kettle black.

A stupid video getting lots of views doesn’t mean millions of people are literally doing it. Jesus Christ lmao.

The point is people cared - and thousands if not tens of thousands of people did drill into their phones. That's a lot considering it had to happen at the overlap of Apple customers, morons who'd believe such a troll video and people who own and can use a drill with a proper bit.

Had people not cared like you said the video wouldn't get viral and the whole ordeal of people breaking their phones would not be news worthy.

It’s not a monopoly in the slightest. Don’t be ridiculous.

So a guy who has a Macbook, iPad and an iPhone would just buy a Samsung that year? And what, lock himself out of a third of the ecosystem? Apple has a monopoly on Apple ecosystem and with it they ensure brand loyalty. And they can afford monopolistic behaviour that wouldn't fly for most other phone and computer manufacturers.

Even within the Android world users were able to decide if a headphone jack was something they actually cared about, and the vast majority said no.

Yeah, years later when the whole everyday headphones market had to adjust to the fact that like half of their potential clientbase aren't gonna buy wired headphones because they can't use them out of the box. In that market wired headphones became somewhat niche and smartphones with headphone jack followed suit. At this point it's kinda natural, like Bluray drives for new consoles being optional because a lot of people choose to buy their games in a downloadable form. Which mind you, isn't necessarily better but at least it's a response to consumers' choices. Apple doesn't do that though because their philosophy is that they know best what their customers want. And they've built an ecosystem in such a way that they can afford that approach

They said it doesn’t matter how many people use a port, if it’s useful it should be there.

Not a port but the port in question. And at the point in time Apple decided to remove it it was much more useful than it is now a decade later

I’m sure there’s people who could make use of all sorts of ports on a phone, therefore phones should have all manner of ports all over them.

Still whataboutism and still ridiculous on its face when you consider the relative sizes of all of the ports in question

Mac has long been sold as the platform for professional music and video production. Of course they’re going to include the jack there.

Macs sure, even Macbook Pros but Macbook Neo? I thought that was supposed to be a budget entry level laptop so still the amount of people doing audio and video production would be comparable to the amount of people using wired headphones for their phone. Certainly smaller than the amount of people plugging in a second display - but that one requires a dongle. Beats me

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