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Thank-you. This is important point. It's not even an official proposal yet. And even if it becomes a proposal there's no reason to think it'll actually happen.

The speed at which this topic has escalated since the idea was raised last week is astonishing. The biggest mistake Cox has made is assuming people would at least read the three blog posts and debate the topic as presented.

I'm not thrilled at the idea of opt-out telemetry but some of the rhetoric is well and truly beyond the pale.

People who write the software that controls a nuclear reactor are definitely applying engineering principles (If they're not, then the world has a problem). Does that make them engineers? I would argue it does.

The problem with the programming profession is that it's possible to get away with not applying good engineering principles. It's only in domains like the nuclear industry, or the military (fighter planes etc.) where we can really imagine the consequences of buggy software.

Software Engineer is a title that reminds of how we should be approaching the programming problem.

Thank-you for the reply. I interpreted the original FAQ answer to mean that stack ranking by lines-of-code has been used by Twitter in the recent past, prior to Musk. But I can now see that this is a new criteria used to justify layoffs.

From the article:

"Q: What do you mean by stack-ranking engineers? What were the criteria? A: Raw number of lines of code over a certain period (a year I think)."

Is correlation of line count and employee performance still a thing? I thought that went out of fashion decades ago.

> You can’t explain why you know something you just know it.

The way Carlsen described his suspicions reminded me of "connoisseurship" in the art world. Now that's a "skill" that's not as important as it once was but once the science has given its results and there are still no firm conclusions, connoisseurship is all you have.

Yes. This can't be overstated enough. Cheating doesn't require concealed computers or any sort of electronic communication at all.

People might scoff but honestly, chess players have worried about this sort of stuff for decades. The '78 world championship between Karpov and Korchnoi for example, is a lesson in this kind of cheating - I'm thinking of the yogurt controversy in particular.

I don't believe for a moment that Karpov or his team were cheating in '78 (at least not in that way) but the fact that they weren't is really the salient point - it is very difficult to ignore the idea that your opponent might be cheating once the possibility has been suggested.

That is to say, trust in your opponent is a very important element of competitive play.

Thank-you for pointing this out. The defence that Niemann was "only a minor" when he engaged in his admitted cheating has always sat uncomfortably with me. As you say, Chess is game played at very high standards by children as well as adults. Cheating in that context is highly immoral in my view.

That's an accusation far more serious than accusing someone of cheating at online chess. But it's not impossible and I had considered the thought. Ultimately I have difficulty believing that the controlling powers of chess.com would go along with a scheme like that - they're not hard up for money.

Here's an article from earlier this year about General Atlantic buying into the company.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/chesscom-gets-major-investme...

He was a minor in the other cases he's admitted to. Chess.com has since asked him for comment on more recent accusations. There's no news on whether he's answered those accusations.

https://www.chessdom.com/chess-com-explains-its-decision-to-...

I have no strong opinion on either player for what it's worth. I just think the situation is bad for the game.

Neimann has admitted to cheating in online chess matches and was banned from chess.com tournaments for some time. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/sep/07/top-chess-play...

The current tournament is an online tournament.

The most sophisticated demonstration of the bi-directionality of these ports is the RetroVox. Quite a remarkable achievement really.

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/332849-retrovox-wip/

An excellent demonstration of this is The Whispering Arch in Liverpool Anglican Cathedral or The Whispering Gallery of St Paul's in London.

There are also three bits available in Port B of the RIOT, which controls the front panel. I don't know of any real world examples of ROMs that make use of it but if you ever desperately needed an additional boolean value then it would come in handy.

If you're using fzf.vim (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim) then you can use :Rg or :Ag. This will run ripgrep or silver-searcher and present the results in a fuzzy finder window.