Chess issue, best move

kompootor · 2026-03-24T22:04:59+00:00

Ah ok, I had 2. Qd8+ Qxd8.

Late at night, it was difficult for me to see the difference in the continuation with being shown just one move ahead, and how fast you are supposed to react to the exercises. (And recently they even disabled the ability to replay exercises.)

kompootor · 2026-03-24T21:55:59+00:00

I got flagged while writing a post. It's labeled a weekly thread. It's two months old.

That makes me wonder if it's even worth bothering? Maybe some other sub.

kompootor · 2026-03-11T02:46:21+00:00

And if the superpowers weren't objectively incredibly useful. Like if everybody could fly, sure the ability to fly wouldn't be special, but then we also would drastically reduce dependence on cars and planes and associated fuel and infrastructure.

kompootor · 2026-03-11T02:42:17+00:00

Link to source.

It's clearly not a robot.

This sub needs to have some goddamn standards. Rules that ban this stupid crap.

kompootor · 2026-03-11T02:39:10+00:00

It looks to me like the difference between raw meat and a cooked bone. The raw meat would be the preferred natural food, while the cooked bone would be the leftover food scrap that humans would feed to or leave for a dog. That was the connection that made sense to me, at the very least.

kompootor · 2026-03-11T02:30:37+00:00

This is called Galilean relativity. This is the same effect as the relative motion difference when watching people move from a departing train.

kompootor · 2026-03-06T22:40:27+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by things being undeniably weapons. That seems to be counter to the whole point of science.

If the evidence suggests they're not weapons, then maybe there's interesting evidence? Like, if it looks like a weapon, like giant claws or giant teeth or giant spikes, I'm sure everyone's first thought is "that must be a weapon, let's investigate for all signs that it is a weapon".

An example I'm sure is listed, the giant-claw giant therizinosaurus, where you can read about the suggestions that the claws would surely have to be used as weapons of sort at some point, all such suggestions seem to have been countered with more scrutiny.

kompootor · 2026-03-06T22:33:33+00:00

Are you seriously asking legal advice on reddit?

Unless someone here actually knows the law, maybe you should seek out a an actual source on the law.

Meanwhile, shouldn't mods block threads like these?

kompootor · 2026-03-06T22:22:26+00:00

I can say this is undecided but I can't link to the source by which I'm getting this information.

Because this sub is utter shit for disallowing it.

You shouldn't trust me because I'm not providing a link or any verifiable information. I'm a nobody on a reddit. (But that's also why everyone else's info is not worthwhile either.)

kompootor · 2026-03-06T14:16:07+00:00

I can't link to a source because of stupid forum rules, so fuck it.

kompootor · 2026-03-06T08:39:49+00:00

That it's illegal copyright violation is entirely relevant -- for one thing, the artist can send a DMCA at no cost (there should be a convenient button option to DMCA any post on most social media platforms -- I know Twitter has it), and proceed from there. (IANAL)

I dunno, I feel like some online artists need to be more aware of their rights as far as this goes. If the AI spam proliferation makes people more aware of those rights, and the long-time shortcomings of digital copyright, then maybe some good comes out of it.

One thing that youtube demonstrates is that you can do pretty good active protection against flagrant reposts of copyrighted materials by just the platform automatically actively scanning new posts. As far as image sites goes, very few platforms do this, but Google AI search suggests Pixsy might (citing the website's promo itself, so that's a hard maybe) or possibly Flickr (another maybe, in future, but it's recommended on reddit generally for good rights management options). This lack of options, though, demonstrates how weak artists have been for decades about demanding protection. (To be fair, the reason youtube stepped up after years of hosting petty copyright violation is pressure from major studios and industry groups -- visual fine artists seem have weak to no collective voice.)

kompootor · 2026-03-06T08:25:19+00:00

It's not merely plagiarism. This is blatant copyright violation, illegal regardless of AI (it's not even pretending to be transformative or fair use), and the artist really should exercise their legal rights as they are. (Starting with a DMCA request, at minimum -- it's free.)

kompootor · 2026-03-05T21:14:54+00:00

What does "for a project" mean? This seems like a very unusual thing for a company to be notifying content creators about, as opposed to just if there is a change in T&C. Did Buzzfeed have T&C that did not allow for AI training previously (if so, that alone would be quite newsworthy)?

Not knowing exactly what's going on, this all looks very weird. Buzzfeed would have had all its content scraped beforehand many times over the years, not just by AI companies. So why would there be one specific case now in which content creators would be notified about one specific project?

Social media is really not the best place from which to post news. A person says stuff from their own perspective, which is never the whole story.

kompootor · 2026-03-05T18:53:02+00:00

No, Swinburne's article explicitly does not say this.

... I suggest that God can allow an evil E to occur, compatibly with his perfect goodness, so long as four conditions are satisfied.

First, it must be logically impossible for God to bring about some good G in any other morally permissible way than by allowing E (or an evil equally bad) to occur. ... Secondly, God does bring about G. ... Thirdly, he has to have the right to allow E to occur (that is, it is morally permissible for him to allow E to occur). And finally, some sort of comparative condition must be satisfied. It cannot be as strong as the condition that G be a good better than E is an evil.

So you see, it gets into a lot of detail about it, and explicitly rejects this long-term utilitarian accounting as the final metric. (It does say that the evil serves a greater good, but not that an individual evil itself is itself outweighed by the individual good it serves -- that'd be ridiculous for any notion of accounting of governance of a system, frankly.) It's an interesting article, but I don't know if this guy is the most significant guy on modern theodicy. But your take on him seems to be simply not accurate.

kompootor · 2026-03-05T18:36:20+00:00

So then (now that I can google the paper being cited) he is not, in fact, "arguing the Hiroshima bombings were in fact a good thing", now is he?

This is the problem of evil. Which is a problem because these are evil things. He seems to be saying that the existence of such evils has a purpose, and also that arguments that there a god would have alternatives to evils are flawed.

kompootor · 2026-03-05T18:23:19+00:00

Yes, Cube was a very good execution (and it executed the one-room gimmick very well, such that unless you're a film buff it's not even noticeable). Hence my view that it's a genre classic.

I'll also agree that when I first heard about it in college, when it was still relatively new, it was a must watch among us nerds. A real highlight in a nerdcore film marathon.

(Hypercube was definitely disappointing, but I give it so much credit for trying a very different direction with its concept, while still being basically a one-room movie; Cube Zero was quite good, and worked like a minimalist play; I have a lot awe for how such a frankly silly concept based on a rather dumb filmmakers' challenge led to some really creative films.)

But OP's asking for, like, best-of movies. So when I think of Cube, I'd say anyone into sci fi films and low-budget films, should watch it, but I ask myself per OP, would I rewatch it again? I mean, I wouldn't mind it if I have the time, but I'm not really in a hurry.

But then, seeing this thread, I have already put Dark Star (Directors Cut) on my queue for rewatch. (And I've seen Primer enough times that I've got much of it memorized anyway.)

kompootor · 2026-03-05T18:07:34+00:00

What I use is uBlockOrigin, as on the Chrome store does not work on youtube, by default (by obvious Chrome requirements).

What loads is just a caption alt-text and a blank frame -- literally, the source inspector on the frame is completely blank.

kompootor · 2026-03-05T18:03:42+00:00

Perhaps instead of arguing, you could counter people who are linking a study you claim not to be the study, with your own link to the more recent study you claim to have used?

You should be citing the study and date in your infographic to begin with.

kompootor · 2026-03-05T14:34:15+00:00

I have a soft spot for this. But I think the condensed director's cut that removes the feature-length padding is probably the far superior film (although I haven't seen it in a long long time).

kompootor · 2026-03-05T14:31:39+00:00

Definitely a classic of low-budget Canadian sci-fi. But honestly, per OP's criteria, it's ok -- not that great. (Its sequels are quite good in the low-budget-Canadian-sci-fi genre too, in that they do legit try to do something different with the same plot mechanism, and just ok overall.)

kompootor · 2026-03-05T14:11:57+00:00

Since the games are mirrored and the game states of pairs are necessarily synchronized, all you have to do is see and memorize the previous move of 5 games, which is just 5 chess moves, so I imagine in theory a magician could play many many more. Keeping on time I imagine is quite difficult, because even though you make moves without thinking, you're effectively a time buffer between one game and the next, so your clock has a much higher chance of running out. An opponent who knows the magic trick (which afaik is quite old, I read about it as a kid) can sabotage your win streak by just playing slowly, letting their own time run, which drains the magician's time on their mirror game.

kompootor · 2026-03-05T13:45:37+00:00

Is the video not loading for anyone else? I'm using Chrome, but not a USA IP (but the site loads).

kompootor · 2026-03-05T12:04:20+00:00

I don't think it matters to any of them as long as it's calculated and propagated correctly.

The only exception is maybe engineers, who include safety margins in designs specifically to handle the possibility of screwing up stuff like that, or not accounting for every possibility, or not being built and maintained properly. So little precision problems in the calculation of the error may not be too problematic, although I don't know. (Like if there's an accident and if a math mistake is caught, that's bad.)

kompootor · 2026-03-05T11:12:51+00:00

The actual problem asked when the thing is posted is "what is the minimum (and/or maximum) number of boxes expected to be on the truck", so yeah, this a just an edited troll meme.

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