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khamisiyah··on The Tetris Effect
Still very difficult to visualize the Z-layer (how far the blocks are into the screen). Maybe another way to make 3D tetris more viable would be to have a camera that automatically adjusts for the best viewing angle for the player?
khamisiyah··on Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI
Seriously impressive! This has some big potential for sure
khamisiyah··on Programming a chess engine in C++ (2022)
The source code is available here: https://github.com/igorp/chess. You can also try playing against the engine by downloading the zipped exe from the github page.
khamisiyah··on Releasing an indie game on 3 consoles at once and failing financially (2016)
Yes, but that was released in 1995, way before all the shovelware of the 2000's.
khamisiyah··on What is 5D chess?
Wouldn't the optimal strategy be to just pick the best move in your opinion and assign 100% probability to it? That way it would just turn back into regular chess.
khamisiyah··on German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition
To add to this comment, the majority of Finland's infantry fighting and transport vehicles that in use are still Soviet BMPs and MTLBs. Same applies to artillery and also all light machine guns are and probably will Russian PKMs for a while.

But yeah since the fall of USSR they've been slowing shifting towards buying from NATO countries/allies, with German Leopard tanks having replaced T-72s and recently buying artillery units from South Korea.

khamisiyah··on Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?
Not OP, but I highly recommend checking out ChessNetwork's recent videos on the games: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork/videos
khamisiyah··on Choosy Eggs May Pick Sperm for Their Genes, Defying Mendel’s Law
Good point, thanks for clarifying.
khamisiyah··on Choosy Eggs May Pick Sperm for Their Genes, Defying Mendel’s Law
That's quite the generalization you're making. It doesn't apply nearly to all people, especially for couples who miscarry at a very late stage in the pregnancy.

A friend of mine to who had the misfortune of this happening to him described it as the "worst thing he could ever image happening to a person" - they were mentally broken for months. So I wouldn't say this is a lighthearted comment to make, especially if you said it to them face-to-face.

khamisiyah··on New VS Code icon is ugly
I thought so too initially, but I've since grown to like the new simple flat S design. Humans in general are probably opposed to changes to things they've grown accustomed to, so naturally it takes a while to adjust to new stuff.
khamisiyah··on Sublime Text 3.0
A small correction: the first Android phone was released in 2008.
khamisiyah··on Restoring a Soviet-era analog synthesizer
To make a counterexample, my grandmother had a Zil refrigerator she bought in the 1950's (http://i.imgur.com/POw7U6R.jpg) that worked for over 50 years until the late 2000's. It would have probably worked another 50, if we hadn't changed it for a modern larger and more energy efficient one.