johnlawrenceaspden

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[–] johnlawrenceaspden 0 points 1 year ago

Imagine living in a place where you could see the stars at night.

[–] johnlawrenceaspden 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the spirit! What fun you must have imagining them all fighting about who's real...

[–] johnlawrenceaspden 1 points 1 year ago

I do hope that city isn't called R'lyeh.....

[–] johnlawrenceaspden 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They sound like great Gods, and I'll believe in them even though they don't exist. Where do we meet up to sing?

[–] johnlawrenceaspden 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, we think you're on your phone, asleep at the wheel, halfwitted, careless, angry and frustrated and in a hurry.

And you don't really remember the highway code, because that was some guff you had to study for an exam when you were eighteen. Nobody really drives like that, right?

And you've usually been driving for more than an hour so your minds aren't really on the job.

And you've got the music on really high and it keeps distracting you at important moments.

The few drivers who actually are soulless malevolent murderers who enjoy the thought of running over pedestrians and cyclists really make the other 90% look bad though.

[–] johnlawrenceaspden 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

A bit like the consensus that most gods don't exist.

[–] johnlawrenceaspden 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As long as he's on the road I got no problem with that! A brave man.

[–] johnlawrenceaspden 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't get me wrong, I've hated and feared cars since I was a boy. But some greenwashing fuckers and their shills in the 'bike lobby' legalising riding motorbikes in what used to be safe places has hardly improved matters.

Now there's nowhere safe to ride a bike or walk, or for children to play.

Fuck cars and fuck motorbikes.

Also, 60 pounds my arse. You might get the odd actual bicycle with a little electric motor attached, but most of them are the same weight and speed as mopeds. And they don't stay "restricted to 20mph" for long.

[–] johnlawrenceaspden 3 points 1 year ago

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Not that that particularly helps.....

[–] johnlawrenceaspden 6 points 1 year ago

This, and block the meme subs explicitly.

[–] johnlawrenceaspden 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the correction! Where can I find the list of philosophical axioms espoused by the Whigs?

 

For instance, I'd like to play black in this position:

8/p4p2/1p3pk1/8/P4PP1/1P1R1K2/7r/8 b - - 4 47

against the bot maia9

I don't care about the time so let's say 60mins a side which I know she accepts.

Is there a single URL for this?

 

In won endgame positions, computers are incredibly good and never miss a trick.

But in positions where they've lost, they tend to play really badly, often with the king running away from where the battle is, in order to delay the mate as long as possible, rather than duking it out and making it difficult to win.

Is there some way to get computers to try the sort of defensive strategies that a human would use against another human?

Where the game might finish more quickly, but the human will have had some thinking to do.

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