josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
@alien If what you said (i.e., “sometimes women want to play chess” and nothing more) was true, then why would they do it professionally? Why do they participate in tournaments with prizes instead of playing for fun in parks or local clubs?
What women who refuse to play open tournaments want is not simply “to play chess,” but to have a greater chance of getting that prize money. Unfortunately, that attitude harms all women, because at some point, like I wrote before in this very thread, people will interpret that cowardice and convenience as a lack of skill associated with their sex.
If you don't want to see it, that's fine with me, but I've said all I wanted to say on this matter and I think I've made myself sufficiently clear.
@pkw I have my own slackbuild for sbcl. (I shouldn't really say “my own.” It is based on the one on SBo with maybe four or five lines added or changed.) Thanks a lot for your work!
@galdor@emacs.ch @screwtape @louis@emacs.ch @lispi314
@pkw Just curious: why the past tense? Both Slackware and SBo still exist and are very active.
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@lydiaconwell I think I will put that as a testimonial in my bio. (All the cool kids do that these days.)
“I occasionally pop up in Lydia Conwell's notifications. For a reasonable fee, I could _regularly_ pop up in yours.”
@mrbitterness@exile.social @trinsec @linuxgnome
@screwtape
> the burden of package distribution has to be placed somewhere else
That's what I said at the beginning. System distribution should be derived to repositories that all work according to a standard API. That way, we could have a decentralised way to download systems and get info on them.
> package distribution on an operating system is the concern of that operating system
I'm not sure I'm understanding this right. Are you suggesting that CL systems be packaged and distributed by OS maintainers?
@galdor@emacs.ch @louis@emacs.ch @lispi314
@screwtape To me, ASDF should be used similarly to composer.json and composer.lock files for PHP, as a way to define systems and its dependencies. Of course, ASDF already does that, but I miss certain functionality, like declaring which versions of which dependencies work best, or at all, with one's own system (I hope I'm using the right terminology this time) and more metadata in order to help with discoverability on the distribution platform. Also diferentiating between dependencies in development, like test suites, and dependencies in production.
Right now (please correct me if I'm wrong), ASDF uses these metadata mostly as an aid to load systems, but not in the way I'm proposing, as a way of identifying packages and differentiating between versions.
A different script could then download, install and maybe even load those systems.
@galdor@emacs.ch @louis@emacs.ch @lispi314
@bloodhail
> a position of significant power at the international governing body for chess
Ok, let me spell it out for you: _he only has the power you choose to give him_. His opinions only mean anything if you think they do. And if you think they really mean anything other than his public admission of him being a fucking idiot and sore ass loser, then you are the fucking idiot. Is that finally clear now?
Words mean fucking shit, as Judit Polgár clearly stated where it matters in chess—on the board.
Women can (and should) already play open tournaments exclusively, and you, treating them like damsels in distress, are not helping their cause. Nigel Short can't stop them, but your attitude can and does.
@bloodhail And the reason why I (or any woman, for that matter) should care about the opinions of this sore loser is...?
But anyway, are you really claiming that the responsibility for changing a certain _status quo_ lies not on the people who really need it changed, but on those who are not affected by it?
@louis@emacs.ch I believe we, as a community, could create an equivalent to PHP's composer for Common Lisp. We don't need foundations, organisations or committees.
ASDF is a very good starting point. It helps define and sort of standardise packages. We only need to improve on it a bit (add proper dependency management, for example) and then create a standard API for Common Lisp repositories where developers can download packages and get info on them (i.e., discoverability), and a script to access that API.
@galdor@emacs.ch @screwtape
@bloodhail I think exactly what I said. Your bad faith interpretation, both of what I said and of the facts (I was there thirty years ago watching Judit Polgár play against people like Topalov, Kramnik or Anand. I didn't see her feel unwelcome or diminished in any way. A couple of years earlier she had become the youngest GM ever, beating Bobby Fischer) is your own responsibility.
@mattskala Thanks for the explanation!
@Big_Richard They're sold like that everywhere, dude. The reason is that people can now buy their tickets online, so of course they want to be able to choose where they'll seat. Fortunately, some theaters reserve certain sessions for unassigned seating, which I personally prefer, but that's become a relic, sadly.
@mattskala Now I'm curious: what's the difference between a real particle and a ‘quasiparticle’?
@bloodhail If women don't refuse to participate in women-only competitions, things will never change, and, at some point, people in general will start wondering whether it is indeed a matter of skill.
@bonifartius I've never been to hacker spaces or things like that (I've been to manga conventions a couple of times), but I can't even imagine how people end up confessing their sex crimes to people they just met.
Also, did Drew at least go to the police with that information? A rapist magnet like him would be invaluable as an informer.
@noyoushutthefuckupdad There are records I would never want to listen to on vinyl (my go-to example is Radiohead's _OK Computer_), but vinyl is still a great format, if only for the cover art.
That said, many artists use those cracks and pops in their own records to get an absolutely mesmerising sound, like Portishead, Massive Attack or The Avalanches.
Finally, CD remasters suck. Even with cracks and pops, people knew how to produce records that sounded awesome back then. That seems to be a lost art now.
@fuchsiii What I don't understand is why you don't take the Judit Polgár's route and compete with men if you really think there is no such advantage. According to the document you linked, “[t]here are no restrictions to play in the open section for a person who has changed the (sic) gender.”
In more general terms, I don't understand why only one woman (that I know of) did that. Why do women-only chess competitions even exist?
@noyoushutthefuckupdad On the other hand, I did need a reminder that _Blood+_ existed.
@bonifartius Where can I read it?
@bonifartius What's this about?
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
