Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[silverspawn]

On topic: I found a pretty decent necro on BGG: over two years just to answer a rules question that was already correctly answered.

Nowhere near as good as the 11-year necro to let someone who had been inactive for years know that Kant never said the quote they had in their signature from the SQL server forums though, that one is the best I've ever seen by far.

Lovely demonstration that people's true motivations usually have little to do with helping others.

[silverspawn]

but why does the bonus damage not stack?

[Awaclus]

Lovely demonstration that people's true motivations usually have little to do with helping others.

The same effect happens on f.ds a lot too, someone asks a rules question, someone answers it, and then a bunch of other people chime in with some irrelevant tangents about other rules questions or edge cases the OP didn't actually ask about, presumably mostly to feel good about themselves. It's just not as blatant when this all happens within a few days, almost as if the conversation just naturally flowed that way.

[silverspawn]

I actually had a less cynical view on f.ds, where people are self-aware and just do it because talking about rules is fun rather than for signaling. Just because this particular forum has the "cares a lot about rules" meme.

[silverspawn]

If true, it would also be not-for-helping-the-person-who-asked, but without the pretense.

[silverspawn]

So I got up at 6:30 AM today to shovel snow, for the first time in my life because usually there is no snow (RIP planet). But no one else was doing it! I thought it was like super important to make the path to your house free and you risk a fine

[silverspawn]

[silverspawn]

I only now realized that the "champions are freed from end-of-year exams" thing makes absolutely no sense. They're all seventh-graders. That's the year where the exams are used to apply for work. I don't think "well I don't have a grade because I was champion that year" is an excuse employers will be happy with.

It only makes sense for Harry, who supposedly wasn't expected to participate. Weird how that works!

[silverspawn]

So I've been attending a chess club in the past few weeks. The level of play is all over the place, from far worse than me to far better than me.

A somewhat annoying thing is that many people who are better are too polite to criticize your moves openly. You can say something like "this wasn't a good move, was it?" and they'll give some vague answer.

This probably makes them a more pleasant person in many respects, but for this particular context, it's extremely unhelpful. By far the most useful game was the one on my first day, playing against a guy who's very strong and kinda arrogant; probably someone I wouldn't want to be friends with. Well, in this context, those qualities are great. Because he just told me what's wrong with my play instead of worrying about not being rude.

Of course, it is possible to separate the two; you can have social skills while still being direct in the context of chess. But so far, I haven't met anyone who actually is like that. Seems like that's a rather high standard.

[silverspawn]

This is further complicated by the factor that many people probably don't want to have their play criticized. But I really do. That's the main point of going there; I can get the "feel good about being skilled at the game" vibes much more efficiently online.

[silverspawn]

This is fascinating.

So there's this "steamed hams" thing from the simpsons that became a meme for some reason, and people made hundreds of variations of it.

but that's not the fascinating part, I'm rather intrigued by how dialogue sounds in C Major

[Awaclus]

I only now realized that the "champions are freed from end-of-year exams" thing makes absolutely no sense. They're all seventh-graders. That's the year where the exams are used to apply for work. I don't think "well I don't have a grade because I was champion that year" is an excuse employers will be happy with.

It only makes sense for Harry, who supposedly wasn't expected to participate. Weird how that works!

I doubt Rowling thought this far, but the tournament is a big event that gets a lot of publicity, presumably employers would have an idea how qualified the champions are from having seen how they perform in practical scenarios, which is probably far more useful than knowing their school grades.

[silverspawn]

Maybe, but this would require am amount of common sense that most employers in the real world don't have, I think.

[Awaclus]

Maybe, but this would require am amount of common sense that most employers in the real world don't have, I think.

I think most employers on the private sector do have that common sense.

[silverspawn]

Well. It seems like Musk's reign over twitter will be short-lived.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097

That is, if you think he'll stick to his word. Which I do.

[silverspawn]

Just talked to ChatGPT for the first time, and I'm... not very impressed. I know I'm biased to say this, but it really doesn't seem to understand what I'm saying.

[silverspawn]

Maybe it's because I made it ran into the the safety patch, but it seemed kinda less smart than regular GPT-3 was.

[silverspawn]

Sometimes, Grammerly has really funny ideas.

"The word flame appears repeatedly in this text. Consider replacing it. Suggestions: Love, Pet."

[silverspawn]

I accidentally misspelled Grammarly

[silverspawn]

IT'S BECAUSE GRAMMARLY USES A RULE-BASED APPROACH BASED ON NEURAL NETWORKS RATHER THAN AN ANALOG APPROACH BASED ON FORCES WHERE INTELLIGENT BEHAVIOR IS AN EMERGENT PROPERTY RATHER THAN DESIGNED EXPLICITLY

[silverspawn]

ENFJs are idealist organizers, driven to implement their vision of what is best for humanity. They often act as catalysts for human growth because of their ability to see potential in other people and their charisma in persuading others to their ideas. They are focused on values and vision, and are passionate about the possibilities for people.

ENFJs are typically energetic and driven, and often have a lot on their plates. They are tuned into the needs of others and acutely aware of human suffering; however, they also tend to be optimistic and forward-thinking, intuitively seeing opportunity for improvement. The ENFJ is ambitious, but their ambition is not self-serving: rather, they feel personally responsible for making the world a better place.

I think this would be the personality type of Primrose, and it's not a bad description.

Though, one problem with these summaries is that they all sound really positive because ofc you can't make a personality type sound bad. But it sorta leaves out part of the story. Like, you'd think that all people are wonderful with great potential

[silverspawn]

So here's what I'm gonna do. I'll take the test and answer like I think she would, and then let's see if we get ENFJ

[silverspawn]

Pretty much! I got it's E?FJ, with the second at exactly 50%.

[silverspawn]

That kind of makes me want to try for real people as well.

[silverspawn]

So to push back against my earlier self, chatgpt is hella impressive, just about philosophy. Which is not actually surprising because how could it be good by learning from human input?

But for technical stuff -- woah. E.g.,

me:

 > Can you write me a python program that replaces all curly quotes in a text with straight quotes?

Chat-GPT:

import re

def replace_curly_quotes(text):
  # Replace all instances of left curly quotes (‘ and ’) with straight quotes (')
  text = re.sub(r'[‘’]', "'", text)

  # Replace all instances of right curly quotes (“ and ”) with straight quotes (")
  text = re.sub(r'[“”]', '"', text)

  return text

# Test the function with a sample string
sample_string = "This is a test string with curly quotes: “Hello, world!”"
print(replace_curly_quotes(sample_string))

---

The comments are misleading because the two commands are about single vs. double quotes rather than left vs. right, but the code is correct (and I've tested it, too; it works).