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I thought I responded to this earlier, but it looks like I didn't, sorry! In short, it's solvable in theory. The game as it's currently played has a finite game tree (thanks in par…

Maybe to follow up on that even, Chess is absolutely solvable the same way tic-tac-toe is solvable, and computers have been better than people for years, but it's an incredible pla…

I'd like to playfully add on to this. Chess is a convoluted version of tic tac toe the same way that a barbell is a heavier version of a handle, and to say opening a swing door is …

Very cool! Did they do a write-up? I haven't been following lobste.rs closely and some quick google searching returned a lot of unrelated content.

I'll be interested to see how they leverage the user tree. I'm no expert in social media bots, but it seems like the user invitation tree could be important to identifying not just…

As I've been learning Rust, I've seen ripgrep held up as one of the shining examples of how to use Rust to create useful, effective tools that new rustaceans should look at.