Wow, an inkwell and nib pen.
We used fountain pens that reloaded from ink bottles in class in the 70s.
Fountain pens that used disposable ink cartridges were considered high tech stuff.
Inkwells and nibs were for really fancy calligraphers.
Wow, an inkwell and nib pen.
We used fountain pens that reloaded from ink bottles in class in the 70s.
Fountain pens that used disposable ink cartridges were considered high tech stuff.
Inkwells and nibs were for really fancy calligraphers.
Time to buy shares in VPN providers?
The groundhog’s name is Phil. No wonder they left in disgust.
HL3 hasn’t dropped yet at that point in time.
You’re right, “#” for checkmate is in more common use than the “++”
The writer played multiple games of chess against some conventional chess programs or AIs, and used a simple algorithm to determine their own moves:
For each move, the writer:
This algorithm for choosing chess moves did not result in optimal play, and lost badly against the standard chess programs/AIs.
The illustrated position shows the algorithm generating a blunder or useless move for White (Ne2) that allows a checkmate victory for Black with their next move (… b4#), i.e. “Black Bishop moves to b4, checkmate.”
Black’s winning move is not shown, likely as a brainteaser for the readers.
The writer named their algorithm “AlphaMove” as a take on Google’s famous chess playing AI from 2017 named “AlphaZero”.
Except in the writer’s case, the “Alpha” in their algorithm’s name is short for “alphabetic”, which makes the expanded name “Alphabetic(-sort)Move”.
“Sorry for the disappointment son. Next weekend I’ll make it up to you. We’ll go to the Zoo Of People Who Want To Fuck Their Couches”
Replies with “Grrr” Roan (a type of horse)
RPCS3’s website says GoW3 has problems with this emulator.
https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=God_of_War_III
This title is currently not considered “playable”, as the hardware requirement is too high. But it can be played from start to finish with decent performance on a good CPU, especially if you use the game’s patches.
100 years ago we just killed them and redistributed their wealth, which is part of what fixed the Great Depression.
Wha? I thought Congress passed estate taxes starting in 1916, the robber barons didn’t live as long as today, so they died of old age and disease more-or-less like regular people.
I never heard of many of them being killed.
I’d be interested to hear more about patterns of killing.
“‘Nothing can be done’ say officials in the only country where this happens regularly”
“‘Nothing can be done’ say officials in the only country where this happens regularly”
Hahaha, you think precedent actually means anything to SCROTUS.
Flud looks proprietary and has ads.
Libretorrent works just as well and is open source.
Waiting for the SCROTUS to declare that the Comstock Act trumps state constitutions because that’s what the founding fathers intended /s.
That’s currently true, but I was also referring to the universe of Starship Troopers (the movie, vs the Heinlein novel), where it appears that birthright citizenship is no more, and military service (to the crypto-fascist government) is the only realistic path to citizenship for most US residents in that universe.
Would you like to know more?
It’s complicated…
If you take the example of 1985’s Live Aid
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Aid
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Aid#Criticisms_and_Controversies
Questions about the fundraising organization’s lack of oversight into how the money was spent, vs. bringing the world’s attention to a desperate situation.
Maybe a better comparison is the Farm Aid concert series that has been regularly held since 1985.
Small family farms continue to struggle, and likewise, climate change ensures that wildfires will only get worse.
The Farm Aid org does some interesting work on changing farming for the better, encouraging young people to enter the farming business, and promoting sustainable farming practices. https://modernfarmer.com/2015/08/farm-aid-30-anniversary/
Maybe Fire Aid will improve attitudes and policies about housing in the age of climate change, maybe even around climate change itself.
I haven’t bought anything off Amazon for years.
If I can’t find it locally, then I will literally go to any website other than Amazon: The manufacturer’s website, department store websites, Target, eBay, trying to avoid Walmart.