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#teeline question:
The word "defund" is tricky, as the way I would expect to write it in teeline would be the same as "defend". I know you can sinetines use a vowel indicator to disambiguate in such circumstances, but the indicators for U and E are identical, aren't they?
I'm not sure this is a case where context would necessarily clear it up either.
Thoughts?
So, while I've always loved the idea of #chess, I've also always been spectacularly bad at it. Can anyone recommend any books or other resources that might help? I had an eBook (or was it a PDF?) on tactics once upon a time, but I don't know what happened to it.
I know that an important key is practice, but the problem is that when I lose, I don't know why I lost, so it's difficult to learn from the experience.
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@conniptions I believe it’s lichess.org.
Building on this: learn to analyse your games using an engine. Only play 5-10 games per day, but analyse each one. At first, look through the game without the engine, try to observe the flow of the game. Try to see if you got outplayed positionally, or you missed a tactic, hung a piece, etc.
Then analyse with the engine. Don’t focus too much on absolute swings of the evaluation, but more on trends.
@teotwaki Doh, of course yes, apologies, was v tired when I posted.
Agreed in re usefulness of using engine for analysis (and importance of analysing games) once there's a grasp of the basic value of material, basic tactics and so on.
Not yet mentioned - the usefulness of puzzles: simpler puzzles help you drill basic patterns and tactics - it's one thing to know what a fork is, but another thing to look at a position and quickly spot an available fork. Lichess puzzles v good for this.
I dunno, but... I'm supposed to be uncomfortable with racism. I don't ever want to be comfy with racism.
Being a decent person requires I'm not comfy with things like racism. If racism doesn't make me feel uncomfortable, something has gone wrong with my moral compass and serious self reflection and self improvement would be urgently necessary. 🤷♀️
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Tip for the non-ADHD folks who have friend-groups containing large numbers of ADHD folks:
If your feelings are hurt because you feel you've been talked over or ignored or something like that, you need to *tell us*.
There are often things we do unknowingly that can make a person feel unheard or disrespected. We wish it was different. We try to make it different (we're almost all trying to learn not to interrupt), but frequently we depend on being made aware that there is a problem.
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I think a general rule of thumb for maintaining positive relationships with ADHD people is that if you have a problem with something we do, you need to be direct because the chances that we are not aware that we're doing the thing or we are not aware that the thing is affecting you are pretty high.
We work really hard at being aware of ourselves and the people around us, but it is *work*. When we're just relaxing and having fun, we may especially be likely to not notice.
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Some people's capacity to just straight-up lie to your face without skipping a beat astonishes me.
Take this conversation between Katy and an unnamed family member:
F: I need you to drive me to the clinic (because I've caught the cough that's been making the rounds in my household for weeks now).
K: Okay, but we can't afford to get sick.
F: It's okay, I'll wear a mask the whole time.
K: Okay.
F: Afterwards, we can go out to eat.
K: How are we going to eat while wearing masks?
F: It's okay, I'm not contagious.
(╯° □°） ╯︵ ┻━┻
Edit: typo
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Ever had a restaurant deny you the discount they offer repeat customers because it's only available via their spyware app or via a dodgy QR code?
It's a good way to destroy your customer base.
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I found some of my old notes from church. God, I really drank the Kool-Aid, didn't I?
Here's a sample:
When I negotiate my standards, I cheat myself of the blessings the Lord wants to give me.
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"The blessings he wants to give me?" Isn't he supposed to be an omnipotent being? I had no idea I was so powerful that I could tie his hands like that.
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I also love how I was able to take down an idea, and then immediately contradict myself with the next one, e.g.:
- Heavenly Father did not put me here to fail.
- A failure is nothing more than an opportunity to learn.
This is the definition of doublethink.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
#retrocomputing #unix #vintage
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Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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Hm, that's a good idea!
I wonder if I could spot the unique color?
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This is a very "shoemakers child has no shoes" kind of problem.
GitHub - emacs-elsa/Elsa: Emacs Lisp Static Analyzer and gradual type system.
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