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by msbarnett 4y ago
> They didn’t find any instances of cheating after August 2020 They banned him after August 2020, and only reinstated him after a full confession the next year. The fact that, after having being caught red handed in online for-prize to
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by msbarnett 4y ago
You understand that this whole discussion is about how chess.com detected this at the time and booted him, right? They appear to be doing a better job of detecting cheating than OTB tournaments, which doesn’t say to me “anybody can cheat by
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Second, that it's common amongst the elite of the sport is huge. Either online chess is somewhat dead on arrival as a sport and was never taken seriously by many players (which makes sense to me given how integrated computer engin
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by msbarnett 4y ago
No, he said this: > “I cheated on random games on Chess.com. I was confronted. I confessed. And this is the single biggest mistake of my life. And I am completely ashamed. I am telling the world because I don’t want misrepresentations an
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> If he gets caught cheating on an online game, whether it is chess.com or counterstrike, who cares? Chess.com isn’t the yahoo chess web app or whatever, there’s more at stake there than “gamerscore”. Some of these 100 games were in onli
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by msbarnett 4y ago
The overall fungibility of tax revenue is irrelevant to the criticism of the perverse incentives at play here. Tying the payouts specifically to the police budget would mean that when the city's residents' policing service exp
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by msbarnett 4y ago
This might be true if the lawsuit damages were paid out of police budgets, but in many instances this isn't the case – the lawsuits are paid out of a combination of municipal liability insurance claims and the general city budget, eg)
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Completely wrong. The 6th circuit's affirmation of the lower court's summary judgement was entirely based on the officers' entitlement to qualified immunity. Read the opinion yourself: https://law.justia.com/c
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Using WiFi will probably add ~30-50ms of latency to your setup, which is bad, but also consider that both the PS5 and Xbox Series X have over 100ms of input lag alone. This is absolute nonsense. Average end-to-end input-to-rendered-fra
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> For a 200-metre section, Dr Lauer calculates, there is about one chance in a trillion that it is duplicated anywhere on the 2.3bn kilometres of track currently laid around the world. Uh, isn’t this the wrong calculation though? We don’
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Impressively wrong in every single aspect
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> I'm surprised they're both used, from that description it sounds like one would fall by the wayside, like cursive has in North America. In practice, there are no less than 4 separate scripts that are used in Japanese: hiragan
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Defector wrote a good story about trying to visit the deli last year https://defector.com/a-cnbc-reporter-ruined-my-lunch-plans-a... edit: Apparently I missed the follow-up, in which he did get to try the cheesesteak https
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by msbarnett 4y ago
It strikes me as even more tenuous than that because you could just as easily say “ah well there were no zodiac murders post-D&D, so obviously role playing slakes rather than inflames the psychopathic mind” or something.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Does this circumstantial suggestion that a man was involved in the 1960s zodiac killings partially vindicate the critics of Dungeons & Dragons (first published 1974)? I’m going to go with “no” and cite “the linear flow of time”.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
I take your point but lol at the idea of 300 applicants for a remote dev position. If we saw 30 applicants all year is would be a miracle.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Could be. But the pre-launch rumours also claimed the 4080 was a 450 W product, and the 4090 is so niche (basically it’s the old Titan line) that it’s not worth handwringing about because it’s not targeted at normal consumers (for “I’d buy
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> A 4080 series card will demand a whopping 450 W, No, that was just a rumour that was floating around. The 4080 16GB model is 340W TGP, the 12 GB is 285W TGP out of the box. The 3080 (10 GB) was 320W TGP, as a comparison point.
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> They are every bit the problem that ICE cars are, it's just that the full environmental costs of the switchover have not been widely-recognized. I think you’re confusing an environmental catastrophe with devastating consequences f
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> But at least they're honest about it. They're really not though, insofar as they're framing "not caring" as "not political". It's very political to not care that you're handing money to so
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Eg. A coffee company gets involved in the politics around recyclable cups, labor laws, import taxes on coffee, etc. But they don't get involved with abortion... The problem becomes that these things aren't cleanly separable a
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by msbarnett 4y ago
Nevertheless it's very very easy to argue that Jeter is overrated if you stop evaluating with your eyes and dive into the metrics. He's got the lowest defensive WAR (-9.4) of any shortstop in the modern era – the objective outcome
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by msbarnett 4y ago
One thing to keep in mind here is that there is a serious problem with the birthday paradox that impacts these DNA fishing expeditions and makes them both dangerous and very nearly useless. Throwing any old DNA that comes into your hands in
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Retraction: This post should be disregarded for now as in an attempt to reduce the problem I made a mistake and in fact, reduced it to something that is in fact (trivially) solvable. I will follow up with an replacement post that hopef
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by msbarnett 4y ago
I’ve got the extremely well regarded Sony WH-1000XM4s. Getting them to switch between devices is an absolute pain in the ass compared to Apple’s fairly seamless handoff. The custom Bluetooth processor seems to be letting Apple solve a lot o
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> What I find weird is claiming that Akka is unsustainable because it's open source Akka is Open Source. Akka's authors feel that continuing the status quo is unsustainable. Whether or not it's unsustainable because it&#
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> If they had to comply with local law in every area they operate ...then they would be on a level playing field with everybody else. The alternative ("we don't care for some of these laws in some places we operate, so we decli
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by msbarnett 4y ago
In addition to being too new, Scalable Matrix Extension is for Armv9 - the M1 and M2 are Armv8 architectures
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by msbarnett 4y ago
That’s only “not a USB-C issue” if you fail to understand the central complaint about USB-C - that ports that support, say, video output (or input) are visually identical to ports that do not, and cables that can carry video are indistingui
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by msbarnett 4y ago
> Ok then: they have decided, and they decided not to take KF down. Right, so what exactly is your point here? "Who gets to decide?" -- They do -- "Ok, that's what they decided". We're all aware of who decid

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