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thope

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    Comment #46972214

    Yes in 'Studio 5, The Stars' they use a "VT set" to generate poems I really enjoyed reading Vermilion Sands

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    Comment #39766454

    No, pre-empt here means you don't have a word, the town (commune) has priority and you can't make an offer

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    Comment #38693079

    yes, they use different rating systems (Glicko 1 and 2), see https://lichess.org/page/rating-systems

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    Comment #37875543

    I still use a sony ericsson elm daily, no problem so far. maybe you could still find one online

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    Comment #37702511

    and here is the project used to generate Lichess puzzle database https://github.com/ornicar/lichess-puzzler

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    Comment #31501926

    I never switched to smartphones to not have internet in my pocket, and so I sticked to Sony Ericsson phones. Currently I use a 2010 Sony Ericsson Elm (J10i) which gives me SMS, pho…

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    Comment #29576838

    Lichess uses Glicko-2 rating method, see https://lichess.org/faq#ratings

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    Comment #29576804

    haha no he never worked for chess.com, wonder where you heard that one :D lichess is not one guy either, there's a whole community of developers, moderators etc.

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    Comment #24829830

    this is how it works, there is a whole alternative lichess universe where shadow-banned users play each others.

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    Comment #21558141

    Absolutely. Also, a point I found interesting is that we can classify desires in three categories: - natural and necessary, e.g drink, eat - natural but not necessary, e.g sex - no…

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    Comment #20855029

    I thought that too, for me it's due to Windows resource files having `.rc` extension. how mind works https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/menurc/about-...

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    Comment #20149826

    could be related to sidechannel template attack methodology: https://wiki.newae.com/Template_Attacks

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    Comment #19959842

    Have you seen the movie 'Inception' [0] ? This is the idea behind recursion: you are in some context, then dive into another (similar although not identical) context, then dive int…

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    Comment #19585360

    this makes me think of Qt in a web browser using WebAssembly [0] I find it really impressive that desktop applications can now run quite smoothly in a web browser. In like 15 years…

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    Comment #18877391

    It's worth noting that lichess rating system is glicko2[0], while FIDE rating system is Elo. [0] https://lichess.org/qa/6/how-does-the-rating-system-work-on-...

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    Comment #16513977

    If anybody is interested, you will find ~300 millions PGN to train your NN models on chess games here : https://database.lichess.org/

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    Comment #16277323

    Ok thank you, I also found a short answer[0]. It seems the carbon comes from the conversion of glucose; that is, from food. [0] http://www.smh.com.au/news/big-questions/we-breath-i…

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    Comment #16277133

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but maybe the carbon dioxide you exhale comes from the air you inhale. No air in, no carbon dioxide out.

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    Comment #15403595

    I would answer in my own language, and let my interlocutor's device translate for me instead.

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    Comment #15396082

    what about "caguer" ? it sounds even closer

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    Comment #14536006

    Actually 'WebAssembly' appeared in the title for few minutes, but then it was edited to 'Asm.js'

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    Comment #14371136

    Definitely lichess

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    Comment #14362019

    yes to me it's related to seasickness, just the opposite : there is a conflict between what you see and what your inner ear senses