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So if you're trying to write code and mistakenly ask it how to use a nonexistent API, you'd rather it give you garbage rather than explaining your mistake and helping you fix it? After all, you're clearly just roleplaying, right?

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Yes, the person would have to both call out and take in corrected squares, or else put the onus on Kasparov (which is what I was somehow imagining they did...).

Moves are played by square names, and with the board turned around, the king and queen are on the wrong squares (not to mention all other pieces, at least given their color). I imagine it would be an utter nightmare, but have no experience with it myself.

I suppose there's levels of mediocre. For the vast majority of us, the level of mediocre we could accomplish across many fields may not enable us to do much connecting at all. But I realize this is all very vague and depends on individual traits. I just don't think that what OP points out is "extremely depressing."

At first I was imagining this was a blindfolded game, in which case this would have been especially surprising and impressive!

Most of us cannot be those "greatest minds that have thus far graced this planet." For many of us, it's more fulfilling to be good at one thing than mediocre at dozens.

Indeed. I am reminded of the sad and horrible story of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn

And without that context, his sister may have been perplexed as to why he would dive into complicated math that he should have known she wouldn't understand. Consider that sometimes when you read ego or aggression into writing, it's not coming from the author's mind but is a projection of your own.

I mean you can personally refuse care, but the subtext I get is that others should martyr themselves similarly. That's not a choice you get to make for them.

FYI, "eke." "Eek" is an expression of alarm or surprise.

In your version, the color of a vertex is independent of other vertices. The real problem is about entirely about connections to other vertices. The latter cannot be reduced to the former.

One of the two best polygraph jokes in the Simpsons! The other, of course, being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or2iZ-mOvf8

Hey, I don't have any solutions for you, but wanted to share some camaraderie. I feel exactly this way. In fact, I could have written the post myself.

I know that jokes are ruined by explaining them, but... could you explain the joke here? I also read it as misdirection.

Not sure where you're from, but in most of the US "apartments" are not assets, but liabilities: tenants don't own them, but rent them. We generally call them "condos" when owned.

A lovely take. For years now, JHU has been emphasizing that the benefits of psilocybin are strongly correlated with whether one has a "mystical-type experience." My own explorations (long ago) strongly bore this out.

Your objection is addressed in the comment. See "If you're a materialist, you might object..."

"Without loss of much generality..." ;)

Another, more "visual" description:

Without loss of generality, let the number be xx...xx100...000, where x stands for any bit and there are n trailing zeros.

1. The largest power of 2 that divides it is 2^n.

2. The twos-complement representation is xx...xx011...111, where the x's are inverted from before, plus one.

3. After adding one, we get xx...xx100...000. Notice that the carryover stopped exactly where the zero was (which is where our first 1 from the right originally was).

4. All the "x" bits are now inverted from their original values, so their & is zero. All the original trailing zero bits are still zero, so their & is zero. The middle 1 has stayed 1, so its & is 1.

5. Thus, the overall & is 00...00100...000 = 2^n, as required.

(BTW, "bias" is a noun, and "biased" is the adjective. It's like the difference between "I am prejudice" and "I am prejudiced.")

Man, sounds like NDAs all the way down.

Why not nuking the whole planet, so that nobody is left? Or maybe you want some people remaining to enjoy it, in which case why not your progeny instead of others?

I find this whole line of thought fraught. Some assumption somewhere went wrong.

One who can observe Tau neutrinos, no less.

Please either cite something meaningful or else stop posting vapid, bitter, empty responses.

And yours are the words of a contemptous, snarky Internet troll. You might find Reddit a better place for your edginess. It's not welcome here.

You are confusing using emotion to reach God with emotion being God.

And of course there is "such a thing." You even described what it refers to, a definition which is sufficient for the purposes of this thread.

I was with you right up until the word "emotion." Although "Hinduism" is vast and covers quite a few disparate beliefs and philosophies, none of them (to my knowledge) even approximately equate God with an emotion. Even bliss (ananda) is only one aspect.

I don't claim to know the particular religion of his village and/or lineage, but I understand his God to be something closer to the Consciousness that (supposedly) gives rise to all of reality.

I suspect it will only be "solved" once the problems of existential angst and ennui are. It's remarkable how powerful our primal emotions can be at overriding even the strongest of drugs.

In case this helps anybody: I've been using those BreatheRight strips (extra strength) and they've been incredibly helpful. Not nearly as effective as CPAP, I'm sure, but a milder version of the same effect.