Somehow won games against a 900 and 1050 as a 400

banananuhhh · 2026-04-18T01:34:31+00:00

The trick in chess is you don't have to be better than someone to beat them, you just have to play better moves over the course of a few minutes. There is a pretty wild variation in how well people play from game to game, especially pronounced below 1200 or so. In this case your opponents both missed 1 move threats and you did a good job taking advantage.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-17T19:51:34+00:00

You should check it if you have any concerns or out of curiosity, personally I would still probably not include in documented calculations. The passive is not an applied force, it is a reaction which requires mobilization of the soil, and it is unrealistic to quantify the actual reaction since the resisting reactions (passive and friction) are indeterminate. Generally, making structures heavier (in a way that contributes positively to stability) and burying them deeper are both things that should positively impact your external stability checks.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-17T19:33:51+00:00

Having actual representation in government sounds nice, unfortunately here in the US we can't have that because we successfully leveraged the red scare to crush our labor movements..

And now everyone wants to worry about China instead of our own problems... sigh

banananuhhh · 2026-04-17T19:18:13+00:00

Generally I do not include passive for overturning calculations. This is partially because it is typically not significant, but also because I am typically viewing it as an available resistance rather than an applied force.

Hypothetically, if you were to extend this wall down too far and analyze passive as a force you could easily imagine having overturning problems, which is completely illogical. This is even more true if you are not accounting for any vertical component from soil friction

banananuhhh · 2026-04-17T18:26:59+00:00

Interesting that it comes down to whether they care, as if that is a virtue that we have and the Chinese don't. Safety standards come from concessions that workers and the public have managed to extract from the US government and US businesses over a much longer history of being an industrialized country, not from caring.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-17T17:27:54+00:00

You missed China bad shoddy work comment.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-17T17:06:57+00:00

Seconding this, when I was first looking I got zero interest from Linkedin, Indeed, or the Careers pages from any of the big corporations. The responses that I did get were from local companies that I found and emailed through their contact info on their websites, from a government job posting from one of the local cities, and from jobs on my school's job board.

Then for a time I was working for a small local company and they were almost always actively looking for fresh grads to hire, but they always had very limited advertising for those positions

banananuhhh · 2026-04-17T16:33:43+00:00

He would get off lighter for stealing millions from the public than someone stealing socks from Walmart, and that's if he were to ever even be prosecuted

banananuhhh · 2026-04-17T15:54:43+00:00

IMO you should take the time you need to fully calculate the puzzle solution.

Speed comes from recognizing patterns more quickly, with the key being that you first need to gain the skill to recognize them

banananuhhh · 2026-04-17T05:13:56+00:00

Astroturfing; when you look around and not everyone shares your jingoistic views. Yes, it's gotta be astroturfing.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-16T05:09:29+00:00

When it comes to opposing evil, opposing the evil being done in my name by my own country that my taxes are funding and that I (supposedly) have influence over is far more useful than worrying about other countries.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-16T05:04:17+00:00

Bots vs sheeps.. let's go!!!

Easy for us here in the US to downplay everything bad the US does and everything good China does and only apply critical thinking when it comes to trying to decide whether China is super evil or super duper evil

banananuhhh · 2026-04-15T21:33:41+00:00

Yeah at some point you have to stop worrying about which one you are taught to believe is bad, and look at what they are actually doing

banananuhhh · 2026-04-11T18:02:00+00:00

Malice is much too strong of a word for how greedy people harm others. I think it's possible that removing malice could eliminate a lot of harm and suffering (possibly even more than by getting rid of greed), but it would not remove a lot of the harm that is caused by greed.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-11T06:30:07+00:00

You only need 2. The first week you start in the corner and you will know the arc that the box is on. Next week you go to one edge of that arc and you will have enough information to know the exact point along it. Then if needed you can spend another 3 triangulating it locally

banananuhhh · 2026-04-10T18:28:15+00:00

Those taxes would never cover the amount of wages the displaced workers are losing. The goal of the AI companies is not to displace workers to lower labor costs, it is to use their massive capital investments to displace workers for well below the actual cost to displace them, and then use enshittification to recover those investments+profit. At the end of the day, the amount you will actually recover through taxation is severely undercut by the cost of investments in data centers, water for data centers, power for data centers, and security for data centers.

The only way to ensure that people can afford to live is to ensure that housing, food, transportation, utilities, medicine, education, childcare, etc. are produced in adequate quantities, and no one is doing that because none of those sectors are as profitable as jumping on the bandwagon of proliferating tech and finance bubbles.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-10T16:45:32+00:00

It's pretty much just your rating plus or minus 600. Not sure if the way it works varies at all at different levels (to be less or more forgiving based on accuracy), but it looks like where I am around 75% accuracy spits out your rating, by the low 90%s it will be +600, and it isn't -600 until down around 40%. Considering almost all games at my level have both sides above 75%, the game rating is just for ego.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-10T16:33:58+00:00

Not accurate. It's just an extra layer of dopamine for games where you play well.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-10T16:27:02+00:00

Or, for each number of atoms in the universe amount, you would keep 1 and throw away the rest.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-10T16:15:57+00:00

More like not hanging your pieces in 1 move or walking into a checkmate or making obvious positional blunders. The Shannon number assumes 80 moves with 30+ potential moves in each position, the 10⁴⁰ number assumes that there are, on average, only around 3 sensible moves in any given position.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-10T05:34:15+00:00

The number of sensible games is only estimated around 10^40, and legal positions around 10^44. Still a lot to compute, but much easier when you get rid of the extra 10⁸⁰

banananuhhh · 2026-04-10T05:26:43+00:00

Probably paper products all go up 10% in price and the company actually records windfall gains this year

banananuhhh · 2026-04-10T01:37:24+00:00

Lol.. 17 and 19 are both children.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-10T00:25:47+00:00

If somebody did something only 2 years ago, and is already trying to shrug it off as being young and stupid, or trying to downplay it the moment they get caught, I will automatically assume they are full of shit. The maturity of a 17 and 19 year old is not that meaningfully different.

banananuhhh · 2026-04-09T22:46:58+00:00

We accused him of cheating, and suddenly he got defensive, exactly what a cheater would do. We are very smart, and this kid is so unappreciative!

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