thaurelia

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by thaurelia 3y ago
> Yeah, but does that matter? It might, e.g. with embedded systems. I can neither confirm nor deny that we once BOFed our own devices because we assumed that 1200 bytes was a big enough buffer to hold a URL.
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by thaurelia 4y ago
They're following the balloons with U-2 (among other things, I assume) for some time before shooting down.
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by thaurelia 5y ago
I wonder what is the best strategy over a long distance? “ALONE” and “SHIRT” cover 1st to 9th and 11th most common letters in English dictionary but then, you'll be getting more yellow letters in first two words which might not be the
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by thaurelia 5y ago
You might be right in your assumption. I've watched Tata Steel 2021 live with Peter Leko (ex WC challenger btw) and Tanya Sachdev analysing the games live without computer assistance (except eval bar sometimes but no lines) and then wa
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by thaurelia 5y ago
This is why evaluation bars are misleading. Computer will say it's equal but for one side, every move is equal and for the other side, you have to make the only drawing move each time. I wouldn't say that Ian made a mistake. That
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by thaurelia 5y ago
Comparison sites will give you ±150 Elo relative error (with I assume P=0.95). 150 Elo on levels below 2700 FIDE is almost night and day difference. Chess.com ratings show nothing about theoretical FIDE ratings. Comparison tables have been
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by thaurelia 5y ago
You cannot compare ratings between these websites and FIDE for two reasons: - they use different rating systems (Elo for FIDE, Glicko-2 for LiChess and afair, Glicko/Glicko-2 for chess.com) - ELO / Glicko rating is calculated for