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As I got more into chess and with the advancement of chess computers and championships, I felt there was little creativity left to have fun with the game.

So for dancing, it's literally meant to be "danced".

Of course you can figure out all the combinations and so on, but being overly analytical about it removes -- for me -- the entire reason to do it : to escape the intellectual world and do something kinesthetic.

I understand I am probably an outlier here on HN. :)

lostemptations5on Glish: A version of English where every word is only one syllable

Disagree. I live in Vietnam and speak it daily. Not sure why you are throwing Wikipedia at me :)

But I'll throw it back at you:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_morphology#:~:tex....

"Vietnamese is often considered to be monosyllabic as its morphemes are considered to be monosyllabic e.g. "tim" meaning "heart". However, some Vietnamese words may consist of one or more syllables, composed of monosyllabic morphemes that form together to create another word. An instance of a compound word "mạnh mẽ" is derived from morphemes mạnh meaning "strong", mẽ meaning "dramatic", fused together to create the word mạnh mẽ to mean "powerful".

There is a general tendency for words to have one or two syllables. Words with two syllables are often of Sino-Vietnamese origin. A few words are three or four syllables. A few polysyllabic words are formed from reduplicative derivation."

Basically - monosyllabic.

Is it a beautiful day where you are? You should go outside and enjoy it:)

lostemptations5on Glish: A version of English where every word is only one syllable

This is like arguing phrasal verbs are actually one word.

lostemptations5on Glish: A version of English where every word is only one syllable

Vietnmese is almost all mono syllabic. However it encodes extra information in tones.

So you could have bây, bảy, etc all meaning totally different things.

lostemptations5on How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)

In...the countries where that was a problem.

lostemptations5on Records of Pompeii's survivors have been found

All true. But these backups must be available publicly-- especially after someone's death (an unfortunate event:/)

Without that -- they become lost.

lostemptations5on Records of Pompeii's survivors have been found

And those records are usually destroyed over time by wars, earthquakes, fires, dégradations, just misplacing stuff, etc, etc.

So yeah I'm amazed too -- this stuff survives.

lostemptations5on Intel pauses work on $25B Israel fab

Yeah, me as well, though I like Tawain and it is very scenic.

lostemptations5on OpenAI Employees Call for Protections to Speak Out on AI Risks

Thought I hear this "call" year after year -- when HAS a tech company's employees unionized?

It seems hard to recall. Though it would be a great way to alter the power dynamic with management.

lostemptations5on Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line

I've never easily been to read warc files.

lostemptations5on Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet

Intentionally or not this is -- exactly -- what 1984 is all about: changing our perception of history by rewriting or erasing previous writings.

Unfortunately alot of it from the article seems typical: blogs going off line as bloggers move to new technolgoies, social media companies going defunct or just not keeping old content.

Alot of these things can happen in the west. Remember these books you could read? "The Feynman Letters", etc. I'm paraphrasing-- but its impossible now.

Think of this: emails? A person dies and their laptop dies or is disposed of -- they're all gone. In the past the physicality of the letters would persist. Not so now. All this correspondence vanishes.

Facebook, are you kidding me? If someone famous thought to export their data -- and it can be found on a laptop still working (and you have the login password), then maybe. See above. This repeats and repeats for each system we interact with for communication.

Aside from the laptop scenario-- all this is lost. We live now in a blackhole of historical details of information, and soon to be replaced by a fabricated history hallucinated by LLMs perhaps.

Those that love historical understanding should be very worried.