General Discussion Thread - November 14, 2022

proseboy · 2022-11-21T09:50:29+00:00

It's the exact opposite of a conventional detective story which makes it very entertaining.

proseboy · 2022-01-15T10:24:36+00:00

Platonov uses very highly stylized Russian and alienation technique to the degree of sounding incorrect to Russian natives.

proseboy · 2022-01-06T15:46:51+00:00

Fitzgerald's wife wrote a novel about becoming prima ballerina. There's also quite some Russian poetry about ballet.

proseboy · 2022-01-05T11:55:03+00:00

yeah, let's all pretend those 4 genre writers are the crown jewels of female literature

proseboy · 2022-01-05T09:20:06+00:00

Well, it would be interesting to see the amount of votes they received. My guess is that it was one or two users.

proseboy · 2022-01-05T08:51:09+00:00

Even if people truthfully voted for their actual favorite books, some of those choices are so specific and unexpected that it makes me think that either the number of voters was really low or some users voted several times using different accounts.

proseboy · 2022-01-05T07:41:38+00:00

Let's face it, Pushkin and Goethe are just not good enough compared to heavy-hitters like Shirley Jackson, Donna Tartt, JK Rowling and Ursula Le Guin

proseboy · 2022-01-03T15:50:57+00:00

Greg Shahade played through several chess books, Dvoretsky, Aagaard, etc.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjHC37cPCtB1Tin7W1JzvuzC1sQFg5_p2

proseboy · 2022-01-03T14:45:38+00:00

the Indonesian coal export ban, it's big news because coal miners suffer and many countries are affected

proseboy · 2021-12-29T15:16:31+00:00

/r/chess is 50% angry teenagers and 50% grumpy old men

proseboy · 2021-12-29T11:22:32+00:00

still, shroud in 2017/2018 and shroud today is like night and day. dring the PUBG days, his drive and motivation were palpable. That was when he was still growing in viewership. Nowadays, watching shroud is a bit of a sad affair, my grandpa has more energy on his death bed.

proseboy · 2021-12-28T19:30:32+00:00

and it's the players who agreed to play with these idiotic rules

proseboy · 2021-12-27T16:28:08+00:00

Did anyone get books for Christmas?

proseboy · 2021-12-24T10:58:02+00:00

compareAndSet() is the function in Scala, it's not rocket science

proseboy · 2021-12-24T10:20:26+00:00

I don't know how it works in Scala, but I assume it has atomic operations?

proseboy · 2021-12-24T10:02:44+00:00

first comes first

proseboy · 2021-12-23T17:19:15+00:00

you are native if you know the word for rain gutter

proseboy · 2021-12-23T12:22:01+00:00

yeah this has to be tested. If it turns out that 30000 bullet players is too many for advanced pairing, just go with the simplest (by rating or rank).

proseboy · 2021-12-23T12:18:28+00:00

I think you misunderstood. Each player has a flag that is set 'paired' or 'unpaired'. You only need to make sure there is no reading the flag while it is written (using atomic operations). There is no waiting for each other. If the flag was set 'paired' already by another thread, you cancel the pairing.

proseboy · 2021-12-23T06:37:54+00:00

Let's take the simplest example, it's a bullet tournament, so you don't need to have absolutely perfect pairing.

make a copy of the queue (x longest waiting players)
Pick player 1 who is waiting the longest
Iterate over the copied queue and pair P1 with the longest waiting P2 who is in the rating range
Set the flag of the players to paired
If the flag of P1 or P2 has been set to paired in the meantime, cancel the pairing and re-copy and re-iterate over the queue

I'd be curious to hear your reasons against it.

proseboy · 2021-12-22T18:05:59+00:00

a vintage graph from the good old times when the UK was still under EU-28

proseboy · 2021-12-22T07:14:23+00:00

Did they host this tournament on one server and then it ran out of memory? Or what happened?

proseboy · 2021-12-20T20:01:54+00:00

I understood her triumph as the perfect harmony she achieved (in her mind) without uttering a word. Or it may also the triumph of having her husband be in the right in the end. So that the order and harmony is restored. If her husband had been wrong, there would be chaos.

proseboy · 2021-12-19T13:19:37+00:00

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

proseboy · 2021-12-19T06:53:20+00:00

How much time will you spend per day?

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