🔗 Quick links thread
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@Yamikuronue Actually, 'alpha' and 'beta' are Greek, not Latin. Not sure about 'an', might be either. As you say, language is weird.
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@PleegWat accepted. I'm good with root meanings, poor with what language they're from.
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@PleegWat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@RaceProUK In Dutch there's even a name for people who can't use computers: 'digibeet' (derived from 'analfabeet', the Dutch word for someone who is illiterate). It's considered a real problem.
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@PleegWat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Yamikuronue Actually, 'alpha' and 'beta' are Greek, not Latin. Not sure about 'an', might be either. As you say, language is weird.
Also Greek, apparently.
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@ScholRLEA said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@OffByOne More like someone rediscovered Buddhism, again. Happens from time to time, under names such as Gnosticism, Sufiism, 'Satanism', or any of several other things. Philip K. Dick had basically the same the same experience, but had enough sense to stick to writing novels about Black Iron Prison rather than trying to find converts.
You apparently know nothing about Buddhism, sorry guy.
Perhaps. though it rather depends on your view of Buddhism, and which branch of it you are talking about. It is my understanding, however, that the original Buddhist teachings were based on the view that the world as we knew it - including the spiritual worlds and the Hindu gods - is illusory, and that by eliminating desire (which was the source of suffering) and self-interest (which caused the 'impression' of one's own existence to persist), one could after many (perceived) lifetimes eventually reach as state where the ego vanished, thus ending the illusion.
While several aspects of it had precedents in Hindu acetic and yogic praxis, the assertion that godhood was also illusory (rather than a goal to aspire towards over many lifetimes), the institution of sangha (with its emphasis on community and especially on monastic practices) and the rejection of caste separations, it became a more revolutionary ethics than most of its contemporaries (though Jainism was similar in its rejection of conventional mores, and like Buddhism has remained a minority religion in India, but never really spread outward as Buddhism did).
Mind you, the "modern" synthetic Buddhism popularized in the West focuses more on that aspect of it than the major Buddhist sects elsewhere, primarily because the main Buddhist sect to get Western attention, Chian (or more specifically, Rinzai Zen), holds a simplifying ethic that deals primarily with 'breaking the mind of egotistical associations" though meditation and 'object lessons' of the type somewhat incorrectly called 'koans' in English. Most Therevada and especially Mahayana sects have gone in a very different direction, and often heavily syncretic.
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Have you ever heard someone say "there are no stupid questions" or "the only stupid question is the one you don't ask"? Next time you hear that, send them to Quora.
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@antiquarian The correct answer is "yes, it's easy, you offer them $10 in exchange for letting you beat them at chess in 6 moves"
As long as it's not an actual chess tournament or anything, in which case you'll have to offer them a lot more.
Filed under: recreational pedantry
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Edit: I foolishly skipped to the end two pages (because mobile and whoops scrolling). Is it ruined for me now?
Depends on your perception of time.
No, I don't think it ruins it. I enjoyed it even after watching the movie.
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@clatter said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Cat Hulbert: How I got rich beating men
Quote Out of Context.
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Very much applicable to computing.
"The best time to migrate to a new standard was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb (slightly modified)
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@antiquarian said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Have you ever heard someone say "there are no stupid questions" or "the only stupid question is the one you don't ask"? Next time you hear that, send them to Quora.
The set of all valid arrangements less than 6 moves is small enough that any chess master (in fact any amateur!) would have memorized. If chess master is in proper state of mind (not intoxicated, not under threat of a gun from you, ...) the only way you can beat him/her in less than 6 moves is if he/she is tutoring you on how to beat your toddler brother in chess.
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I found this video cool:
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@dse said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
The set of all valid arrangements less than 6 moves is small enough that any chess master (in fact any amateur!) would have memorized
First move, there are 20 possible moves (2 different moves for the pawns and knights). The numbers scale up exponentially, and chess.com suggests there are 9,132,484 total positions after 6 moves. I don't know many amateurs who will have that many moves memorised
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@Jaloopa
I suspect if you filter the set to "all the potential ways to obtain a checkmate in 6 moves or less", it's substantially smaller than 9 million.
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@Jaloopa said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@dse said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
The set of all valid arrangements less than 6 moves is small enough that any chess master (in fact any amateur!) would have memorized
First move, there are 20 possible moves (2 different moves for the pawns and knights). The numbers scale up exponentially, and chess.com suggests there are 9,132,484 total positions after 6 moves. I don't know many amateurs who will have that many moves memorised
Of course, out of those most will never come up in any professional capacity, and many are variants with few meaningful differences.
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@izzion said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I suspect if you filter the set to "all the potential ways to obtain a checkmate in 6 moves or less", it's substantially smaller than 9 million.
Also, all of those ways involve at least one serious blunder by the other side, and most of them involve several bad moves.
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Pretty sad
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@izzion said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Jaloopa
I suspect if you filter the set to "all the potential ways to obtain a checkmate in 6 moves or less", it's substantially smaller than 9 million.Yes, but do any of them convert
AtheistsAthiests?
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I found this video cool:
I can't get over the accent though...
This one entertained me more, just be careful not to get in trouble with the feds:
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Apple user decides to give Surface tablet a chance for a month.
https://medium.com/@searls/warm-takes-on-microsofts-surface-pro-4-580f77634d2c#.etwt5ja7h
It goes as well as can be expected.
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
It goes as well as can be expected.
Better then that onebox?
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There is no way to type emoji with the hardware keyboard, whereas Apple ships a fantastic emoji picker in macOS (it can be invoked by cmd-ctrl-space)
Oh yes, the ever-intuitive cmd-ctrl-space. Maybe there's an emoji shortcut you don't know about on the Surface, too, something like winkey-F12-left-shift? If not, you can make one with AutoHotKey ;)
if you’re coming from iOS or Android and expecting left-edge-swipes to serve as a “back” gesture for navigating the UI
Android does this since when? sounds like he's dinging Windows for not being Mac here.
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Voice-based personal assistants are still pretty awful, all-around, and Cortana is no exception.
Cortana's pretty shit, yeah, but my new Alexa device seems to be approaching decent. She keeps losing the wifi, but I think that's my crap wifi's fault. It also took the better part of a day to configure her, as she kept forgetting she was already configured, but after that first day she hasn't deconfigured yet, so I think it was just the OOBE being terrible.
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The worst part of this experiment is that I’ve noticed that I’ve been short-tempered with those around me—an angry hangover that lasts hours after I’ve stopped using Windows. It is as if the friction I encounter in the Windows UI accretes in me literal adrenaline, which in turn triggers me to lash out at my loved ones.
HAHA what.
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
cmd-ctrl-space
Doesn't work here. I'm getting the vibe that the reviewer is more ignorant than he thinks.
Not that I need an emoji picker all that often. For some reason, I prefer to keep them out of my source code. I wonder why that might be true?! </sarcasm>
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
which in turn triggers me to lash out at my loved ones.
WINDOWS 10 LINKED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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Hey guys does anyone see any real world uses for this http://mrcoles.com/demo/markdown-css/
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@bb36e No.
Next!
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@RaceProUK @bb36e It was interesting though.
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@bb36e Why would you do that?
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Hey guys does anyone see any real world uses for this http://mrcoles.com/demo/markdown-css/
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
sounds like he's dinging Windows for not being Mac here.
Yup
There’s simply no excuse for input lag on keystrokes or scrolling that feels so unnatural
Unnatural is that awful backwards scroll that has infested all Apple-designer-wannabes
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Hey guys does anyone see any real world uses for this http://mrcoles.com/demo/markdown-css/
Oh, BOO! since it's just CSS, you only see the markdown, it doesn't actually make it select-able.
Case in point:
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Firefox users largely identify as Gryffindors at 48%.
35.26% identify as Dog people vs 19.08% Cat. This puts Grumpy Cat in question.
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
The worst part of this experiment is that I’ve noticed that I’ve been short-tempered with those around me—an angry hangover that lasts hours after I’ve stopped using Windows. It is as if the friction I encounter in the Windows UI accretes in me literal adrenaline, which in turn triggers me to lash out at my loved ones.
HAHA what.
Not Guilty by reason of Microsoft.
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The step by step analysis is nice.
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@dse said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
The step by step analysis is nice.
Seems to just be a link to Trump's Twitter???
Filled under: fucking Twitter
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Filled under: fucking Twitter
Oneboxing seems retarded, should click on the white part!
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@bb36e That screenshot is of the right page. If you scroll down to replies, the new way people use Twitter is to serial tweet themselves in the reply so they have a little blog post (but on twitter so it's hip!), and Twitter obligingly puts their self-replies first so you can read the whole thing. If people are nice, they'll dump the tweets into Storify, which puts them on a single page in order to be preserved for easy reading.
They should just get fucking blogs IMO, but....
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
they'll dump the tweets into Storify, which puts them on a single page in order to be preserved for easy reading.
Yeah, I know...has anyone who does this thought for one fucking second and realized, "hey the fact that I have to use another website to make my stuff actually readable means that I'm "?!?!
How long do we have left until the NYT starts publishing their articles on twitter
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
has anyone who does this thought for one fucking second
I doubt it.
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
The worst part of this experiment is that I’ve noticed that I’ve been short-tempered with those around me—an angry hangover that lasts hours after I’ve stopped using Windows. It is as if the friction I encounter in the Windows UI accretes in me literal adrenaline, which in turn triggers me to lash out at my loved ones.
HAHA what.
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
How long do we have left until the NYT starts publishing their articles on twitter
Too long.
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@bb36e The zoom on that is pretty impressive.
Hmmm.....
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@boomzilla Melania's having a gooood time. Such a gooood time.