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That's a reach to me. The SS symbol with two S's is at an angle rather than two upright fours. But there's no harm in either modifying the typeface to make the 4 look different or not allowing the ordering of that number on a shirt. I think Nazi symbols are banned in Germany and so someone ordering a shirt with that particular number (which does not represent any player) might be outing themselves and get a visit from the authorities.

Some more good engineering progress out of the KSTAR experiment in Korea, providing good technical input to the ITER experiment in Cadarache France, which should be starting up in the next few years. KSTAR sustained a magnetically confined plasma at over 100 million Kelvin for 48 seconds and operated in H-mode (high confinement) for over 100 seconds. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/01/climate/nuclear-fusion-record-korea-climate-intl/index.html

I’m definitely cheering for a score of: Icebergs 2 Titanics 0

Reminds me of the scene from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs where they are standing on the hanging scaffold with the ropes around their neck. One guy is sobbing, and another turns to him and says “First time?”

Post-game analysis is when you would review your moves and ideas. And take the time to write your ideas down and to work things out for yourself before getting input from an engine.

ChaptGPT is like Mike Goldberg. It may sound authoritative but it's complete bull****.

This is an excellent demonstration of how bad ChatGPT can be. A lot of this is either just wrong or empty fluff, however convincing it may sound. And it doesn't matter what ChatGPT thinks. What do you think about the important moves in the game?

If you want to improve your understanding you should write down your thinking at relevant key decision points in the game. What moves you considered and your evaluation of the candidate moves leading to why you selected the one you did. Take a very simple case. 4 … exd4. What other moves did you consider and why did you evaluate that one as being best.

I read that she got drunk out of her mind at a party at her ranch and reversed her Tesla into a pond where she drowned. FSD (Full Self Drowning) was enabled.

And given their other software it’s quite likely that the neural net was implemented by human programmers using c++.

I guess this means that the counter of number of miles driven with zero accidents is reset to zero?

I'm still surprised that SPACs are legal. Investors have no real idea what they are investing in, just that the SPAC will buy something(s) in the future. It almost seems that they were created to get around the oversight that companies have to go through when going doing an IPO. Essentially the investors have no protections and little to no visibility of conflicts of interest.

They would have CNN on in their offices and every now and then there would be a shout of “oh ****” when something happened … a rocket carrying multi-billion dollar satellites exploding on takeoff, a major cathedral catching fire meaning a pope’s tour would be cancelled and loss of all the souvenirs, etc.

I consider myself quite the maritime authority as I can lead the singing of several sea shanties in the local tavern.

Yeah … probably years before the insurance companies pay up after all the investigations, but someone will be on the hook. A relative worked in the reinsurance business where huge risks are spread out across multiple companies. It was surprisingly interesting. 🤣

I have some former coworkers who continue to work even though they have made more money than they will spend in this lifetime (not a few hundred million but at least 50 times their annual expenses). They don’t really like the work anymore and regularly comment when the weather is nice that they don’t know why they are still working. But then they say that they wouldn’t want to leave their customers/coworkers in the lurch. I’m not shy at reminding them that if they were fired that their coworkers and customers would have forgotten their name in less than a week and they accept that, but they continue on autopilot rather than make the leap.

Oh … and went out to lunch yesterday with some former coworkers. Because there were six of us I guess that they added an automatic 20% tip, and because it was charged automatically the gratuity has sales tax applied on top as it is considered a service.

Amazing that one of the two people rescued is not even in hospital. Wondering where they were during the collapse. Impressed also with how calm the police are when relating that the entire middle span of the bridge has just collapsed knowing that there were workers on it. I don’t think I could talk

Yeah … let’s stop the checkout lines as old folks have to fish out their reading glasses to see what’s being presented to them on these ****ty scratched up LCD screens 🤣

Very quick action by the police but the workers in the middle were probably doomed. You can imagine some drivers who were stopped and told that they couldn’t cross were probably pissed about the delay for a few moments until they realized that they were seconds from death.

You changed man.

I have a black dog. I might have to get a white one now and they can line up against each other on the chess board. That level of positivity is very disappointing and beneath you. You wouldn’t talk like that to yourself so why do it to somoneelse?

I’m not sure where you are headed with this but I don’t understand how this is fruitful. Tactics come about because the interactions of pieces in combinations, and this is only looking at individual pieces. Might be a useful exercise for a complete beginner to see how the pieces move but seems unhelpful as a tool for analysis. My absolutely hilarious response was around ThinkingSkins writing Collie rather than the Colle System. And that the Colle System is considered a bit of a dog anyway to us superior smartasses.

I’m only guessing, but one factor could be the tipping fatigue and a backlash against tipping prompts being ubiquitous even on self service such as buying a bar of chocolate at a gas station. Usually you have to press three or more buttons, where a single button ‘Are you ****ing kidding me” would be more appropriate.

I’m hearing that the ship’s preferred pronouns were gender neutral, it and its.