OhNoMoreLemmy
@OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
What is a game that wouldn’t be solvable if you removed most of the pieces and positions?
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
I mean, yes. Any game with only a small number of possible moves can be solved with brute force trial and error.
All unsolved games must have a “sufficient amount of positions” that brute force isn’t an option, and enough complexity that there’s not a cute maths trick to solve it despite the number of moves.
Chess is one of these unsolved games.
- Comment on I love you 2 weeks ago:
Mostly.
- Comment on I love you 2 weeks ago:
That’s exactly how I handle my five month baby, just with more screaming and pooping.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 3 weeks ago:
A big shout out to Oxford spelling which mixes American and English spelling and is incredibly hard to find a spell check for. It gives you all the extra u’s and z’s you could ask for.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 3 weeks ago:
The supreme court has already ruled that the 14th amendment isn’t self executing and congress is required to disqualify someone from being president.
The legal argument holds for any decision about presidential eligibility. So Trump can just stand and see if congress are brave enough to disqualify him in an open vote.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 1 month ago:
You’re in a car. There’s probably a charging port there. Sucks if you don’t have a phone, but it sucked before when you didn’t have change.
Parking has always been a privilege not a right, and if you’re not prepared you’re going to get a ticket.
I get that it’s annoying but if my phone broke and I suddenly had to pay for parking with coins, I don’t know what I’d do either. Everything is cashless now, where would I get coins from?
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 1 month ago:
Yeah but parking has always been bad.
You had to carry change. Meters were always out of order or would just eat your change without issuing a ticket, and the people checking never gave a shit and would give you a fine anyway.
My only complaint is the app, everyone should offer a website or an app, but if you’re going to park there a few times an app does make sense.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
Because they’re fucking stupid.
I can pick up a phone in either hand and type on it, and I can play games using both hands at once. If I’m using a bracer, it means I can’t do anything else with either hand or use my off hand to interact with it.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 1 month ago:
This is the most famous example, but it’s for phones rather than desktops.
- Comment on I thought he died before they invented baseball 1 month ago:
It’s really progressive of them to show a Jesus with Down syndrome.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
Same with OneDrive.
It’s just a folder of markdown files, basically anything should work.
- Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain 2 months ago:
There’s been a lot of occupation as well. E.g. the hundred year war.
If we can say Russia invaded Ukraine, England invaded France
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 2 months ago:
Just asking questions makes it harder to sue under English libel law.
Look at the difference.
Elon musk is a Nazi.
A clear factual statement leaves room for disagreement. Maybe he’s just an edgelord fascist radicalized by 4chan but doesn’t have enough fashion sense to be a Nazi.
Elon musk is a Nazi?
Perfectly safe.
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 2 months ago:
Hash trees are super efficient when they’re not nearly full. So the standard trick is just to resize them when they’re too close to capacity.
The new approach is probably only going to be useful in highly memory constrained applications, where resizing isn’t an option.
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 2 months ago:
There’s no way a serial liar and Nazi could ever tell lies about how much money he’s making.
Twitter was a money pit before the take over and Elon has run it into the ground. It must be bleeding money.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 2 months ago:
It’s not road legal, but you can own one. If it came in on the back of a lorry, with the right paperwork, there would be no reason to stop it.
- Comment on Neurosurgery on Saturn 5 months ago:
- Comment on NHS-branded baby formula could prevent parents paying too much, watchdog says 5 months ago:
Just calm down and wait. You don’t actually need massive amounts of milk from start, and it takes time for everything to kick in.
- Comment on NHS-branded baby formula could prevent parents paying too much, watchdog says 5 months ago:
The important thing about NHS care is that half the midwives are completely insane, and they all contradict each other. They have basically no medical training and are just meant to get someone qualified if anything goes wrong. Instead they go mad with power and use it to bully first time parents into doing what they say.
Our midwife was insistent that if there wasn’t enough breast milk immediately after birth we had to switch to bottlefed. I don’t think you can figure out the official NHS approach based on anything a midwife says.
- Comment on A decline in arable land 5 months ago:
The infographic says crop farming. Ireland is green because of the grass which goes with animal farming.
The chart is lazy nonsense that ignores most of the farming in Ireland.
- Comment on Math Research 6 months ago:
Fucking nailed it. My favorite application of them is to brew espresso at exactly the right temperature.
- Comment on US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber Eats terms 6 months ago:
It’s not really legal in the UK. It’s unenforceable on claims under 5k and for claims over 5k the courts will make a case by case decision if arbitration is appropriate.
herbertsmithfreehills.com/…/click-to-agree-techno…
However, lots of companies still add these bullshit clauses as a way to bully people out of seeing a lawyer.