You have still failed to clarify whatever the hell you were attempting to communicate, all you’ve communicated is that you’re an asshole
Oh no. Anyway.
Readit Newslethologica commented on Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship fide.com/magnus-carlsen-w... · Posted by u/prophylaxis
That context doesn't help me at all. Is a "really strong" 12yo in contention to win this particular competition that a 35yo won?
Sorry, I thought you’d be able to make some logical inferences and I assumed you knew a little about chess.
In chess there’s a concept of strength, and ELO is used as a rough estimate of this. Further there are FIDE rankings like IM and GM that have certain requirements to achieve.
In most sports, there’s never such an age gap. Think of basketball or football. You don’t see 12 year olds hitting the equivalent of GM in those respective sports (going pro?) and being able to compete with the 35 year olds, do you? In most sports, they wouldn’t even be allowed to enter but in chess they could.
How long do chess players typically remain at their peak for? According to wikipedia, Magnus is currently 35. Is it impressive to be winning at 35? Would we expect to see his performance drop off in the next 5-10 years?
Even if he is still capable mentally and physically, I would think the stress of training and competing at that level must get old after a while.
Context helps. A lot of really strong players are 12 years old.
lethologica commented on Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World booksbypeople.org/... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
My last novel took over a year to write and edit, going through dozens of revisions. The novel before that took almost five years.
For a laugh I used grok to generate a 35,000-word slop novel, it took twenty prompts and a few hours, it even threw in a nice cover. From there it would have took me another 30 minutes to release it as an ebook on Amazon under a different pen-name. This is what I and the world of indie authors are up against. It is already hard for non-established authors, this may be the final nail in the coffin for most. My first book is now free, but good luck anyone ever finding it.
> but good luck anyone ever finding it.
Get what you’re saying but hasn’t that always been the case without extensive marketing and promotion?
My understanding that writing and finishing the book is just the start. Then you need to sell the thing.
lethologica commented on Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024) xda-developers.com/absolu... · Posted by u/m-hodges
This is a blast from the past! I remember being really young and buying a GPU based solely on what art was on the box (and yes, it was a scantily clad woman) and getting really, really luckily that it actually worked with my components but it was my intro to upgrading PCs!
lethologica commented on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 nngroup.com/articles/liqu... · Posted by u/uxjw
I suppose an upvote should be sufficient, but I am so unhappy with the new UI I am actually holding off switching to a new M4 MBP and sticking to my old M1 still on Sequoia 15.7.1. I also try to give these things time and I am usually ok with the changes eventually, but the new UI elements are so incredibly distracting it's actually affecting my ability to focus on what I'm actually doing.
I just bought a M4 MBA, my first since a 2014 MBP. I absolutely hated the 26 update on my phone and iPad but honestly don’t even notice it on my MacBook.
This. I had this long standing dispute that I just never had the energy to look up what needed to be done to resolve it. I just told it to ChatGPT and it generated everything -- including the emails I needed to send and who to send them to. Two weeks later and it was taken care of. I had sat on it for literally 3 months until then.
If I could have something that said, "Here are some things that it looks like you're procrastinating on -- do you want me to get started on them for you?" -- that would probably be crazy useful.
I have ADHD and it almost acts as a body double for me, which I find to be incredibly helpful to get things done.
lethologica commented on Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank theverge.com/tech/781387/... · Posted by u/arnon
On iOS:
Highlight text, select convert, see conversion:
But the real solution is for Americans to stop using dumb units.
Holy crap, I never knew that was a thing. Thank you!
lethologica commented on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into 'AI babysitters' techcrunch.com/2025/09/14... · Posted by u/CharlesW
As an experienced dev who’s gotten his feet wet a little with AI, I feel like , and does anyone else feel this way, that I spend more time telling AI what to do than it would spend actually writing this all out myself?
Not a dev but I’ve had similar experiences testing AI to help me craft various documents.
I spend ages crafting the perfect prompt only to cross my fingers and hope that the output is what I want it to be when I could have just spent all that time actually crafting the document exactly as I want it to be in the first place. Often I then need to spend more time editing and tweaking the output from the AI anyway.
I’m honestly starting to feel a little crazy because I’m the only one at my workplace that sees it this way.
lethologica commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
With continuous use or a one-time dose? What was the dosage?
A one time, 5g “heroic dose” did the trick for me. I’ve had a few more trips at that dose since that initial one but mostly because there’s a whole lot for me to explore in that space, rather than me trying to “cure” something.
It took me as a real surprise when, after that first trip, all my ADHD symptoms simply vanished, never to reappear.