dream_weasel

@dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put him on the cart.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ow, my brains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super accurate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a suit in the same way that the thing the actor who plays big bird wears is a suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1994 white Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, he was the president.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “show me your non-provisional rating and then we can talk”. Yeah I agree. But then this is the internet and everyone is an expert at being an expert lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ITT: I don’t play chess. I don’t like chess. Friend play chess, he dumb, I am smart. I agree. You hear of Rubik’s cube?

  Your skill at chess is indeed very good at predicting one thing: your chess rating. I have been playing every day for almost 2 years and I take lessons, but I started as an adult after finishing my PhD in actual rocket science and supervising a research lab in that area for 10 years. I have met exactly one good player through my connections to that lab I 17 years. So here are some perspectives on chess if you played in high school or you “learned how to play in 30 mins and think it’s boring”:

  1. It’s a game with layers. The first layer is knowing how the pieces move, the second layer is memorizing openings, and the third layer is some basic knowledge of tactics (I.e., forks, skewers, pins, removing the defense, etc etc) and THEN you learn the game. Most people never learn the game unless you went out of your way to do so.

  2. For reason 1, “good at chess” is a hugely subjective statement. You knew a few people who can beat all your friends? Cool. I was that guy and it took me MONTHS to get to what the chess world calls “intermediate”: 1200-1400 ELO. Your friend is probably rated 700 to 750. You have probably never met more than a handful of good chess players in your life unless you were in a university club.

  3. You do not have to be typically smart to be good at chess, but it doesn’t hurt. Top GMs are sometimes impressively smart or impressively… Uh… susceptible to misinformation cough Kramnik cough. But what they CAN do is master the shit out of board positions, visualization, and prediction.

  Case in point, Hikaru Nakamura, arguably world #2

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WsEQuoOz-c&t=490

  Or you can watch him play blindfolded chess against actual good players, or speedrun 1 minute games winning hundreds in a row while talking about his pineapple shirt. He’s alternatingly pretty entertaining and kind of annoying to listen to.

  If you are that kind of smart, the visualization and memory kind, yeah you’re probably going to also be a good chess player. Otherwise, there’s not a lot of traceability that I’ve seen research on.

  All that said, this thread is absolutely annoying to see the whole world show up and talk out of their asses about it.

  /end rant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Localization note: the Australian liberal party is right wing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Vocab word of the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and that’s how it should be. It shouldn’t even be conscious. I signal into and out of parking spaces, I signal every lane change, hell I signal for sharp corners sometimes.

  It seems to me if you are choosing to signal or not, then the use of turn signals isn’t that heavily ingrained. Before I turn the wheel I’m instinctively touching the signal lever.

  Keep up the good work!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a great day to be alive in my ass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hugging face open-r1 and up? It’s an open source deepseek I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a life at stake. Don’t tell this guy to be a pushover to spare a feeling. It’s way WAY worse to fuck a whole life thinking you’ve got a career that your parents know something about when you DONT.

  This is a shitty, entitled take. Some people are good at some things. Some are good at others. Don’t gaslight your kid to think he’s an astronaut and let the world teach a lesson. That makes you a SHIT parent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pineapple was never the problem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kiwizza is too far

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ten reasons to avoid Amazon | Ethical Consumer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty weak 10. Pick one or two and make a compelling article, I’m already trying to quit. We don’t have to make up stuff like “JFC nuclear power!?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ten reasons to avoid Amazon | Ethical Consumer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d give you $20 for it ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First sentence of each paragraph: correct.

  Basically all the rest is bunk besides the fact that you can’t count on always getting reliable information. Right answers (especially for something that is technical but non-verifiable), wrong reasons.

  There are “stochastic language models” I suppose (e.g., click the middle suggestion from your phone after typing the first word to create a message), but something like chatgpt or perplexity or deepseek are not that, beyond using tokenization / word2vect-like setups to make human readable text. These are a lot more like “don’t trust everything you read on Wikipedia” than a randomized acid drop response.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Flipping off*. You can flick off boogers, but you flip the bird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is me too. I have two of them bought and paid for and people just don’t get it: I went all in on this and you can just sell for 15% of purchase price, I still have mobility needs. More to the point my swasticar still has access to the best charging network on the market and even if I COULD just sell, it’s not cut and dry. It’s easy to shit on Tesla, but it’s still the best offering in the EV market. And even if it was not, like fuck me I can’t time travel. Most people who flame have no idea what the actual hell they are talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can fellate Winnie the Pooh on your own time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are modern Final Fantasy games bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I played FF7 only and loved it. I did not care for the first remake game, and have not finished it. Hanging at like 70% complete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is an extremely apt parallel!

  (I’m stealing it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As many as I have now? They aren’t coming out and I don’t plan to off myself because of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people who drink, how long do your hangovers last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends how you drank.

  In college when a heavy night could have meant sharing a 5th with one other person then switching to beer? A whole day or maybe 2. As an almost 40 something who had the third one and my lips tingled once? Gone by 9 am usually, unless I woke up to pee and drink 12 to 15 swallows of water then I wake up fine.

  That puke and rally 21 to 28 was a glorious time, but you will never get it back lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you eat soap for acid reflux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pepcid complete. It’s a life saver

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would let a chip be installed in my brain if it would allow me to erase memories of the games I have played to play them again as the first time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Don’t worry about the sun, it’s meant to be there.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are “female jocks” called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO no equivalent. The closest word people might use is really derogatory, and has a connotation of being overly masculine for a woman.

  In the spirit of describing women who are extremely proficient at a sport but not being indirectly called masculine… the word is probably just “athletic”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twinkle Tush⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like conn-ass-eur might be more accurate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holmes**

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I took the term "Tree Skirt" literally⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coooool…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing pink is chaotic evil?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna be the world’s loudest pisser!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a fat old piece of trash.