Wait why are there separate mens and womens prizes?

To encourage female participation and representation. Most people think it would be good for chess long-term to have a larger female player base.

There are "Open" (anyone can enter) and "Women" (only women can enter) events.

If you did not have the "Women" category, then you would see only men play in these events as there are no active women in the top 100.

There are no men prizes/tournament. But there are women tournaments and prizes.

it's not "mens" prize btw, usually the tournaments are "women" and "open"

There are currently no active women players ranked within the top 100 overall.

Like a lot of men dominated spaces, even when we know ability is not a definying factor, culture is.

Many male domianted spaces are pretty antagonistic to women, making separate prize pools, tournaments and events allows for women to play in spaces where they are the mayority. Normalise their participation and open the door to better performance on the mixed queue.

> even when we know ability is not a definying factor

Spatial reasoning?

Modern women are the most privileged class in existence.

you know why.

Bit confused, what's this to do with the CIA World Factbook?

> this book has little difference between total words and distinct words because it has so many distinct numbers in it. It ended up being a regular stress test to make sure our approach to capping memory use was working

So the factbook is an actual book too? That's what I missed, I thought it was a webpage so this was referring to some other post.

The CIA Factbook being publicy available since 1971 has existed longer than the internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Factbook

That's a great logo. What a travesty.

I remember that one of Stockholm's train line is also endearingly tiny too?

Half the Berlin lines are weirdly narrow, but not short.

Looks like TFL issued a whopping three fines in total last year...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx4lje9jpjo

I know, it's pathetic. It's partly because they don't want to pay for the staff to do the enforcement and partly probably some other reasons.

In classic British style they just try to influence and nudge people with campaigns and posters. That way the organisation doesn't have to deal with awkward accusations of racism etc

Because silence is a common good, like clean air. It's everyone's. When people fill it with their noise they effectively privatize it for the duration. When they shout on speakerphone or play their music or blare sound from their apps it's especially selfish.

Imagine if they were dealing with the US police...

Same for bicycle lights too, and street lights.

Nearly all UK drivers say bike lights are too bright?

Do you have a citation or was that an edgy culture war comment?

I have a problem with many fellow cyclists here in Germany, because they seem to use something that shouldn't be street-legal as bicycle lighs (very annoying in the night on unlit road)

Not sure what UK drivers would say about that, though

I think it’s his personal opinion, so no need to provide a citation.

But don’t let that stop you from starting your diatribe

I don’t understand the seeming lack of regulation for flashing bike lights.

I don’t mean a simple “normal” flashing light, but the super bright ones that are like a camera flash strobe going off 2-3x per second which hurts your eyes and kills your night vision, making it hard to see anything including the actual cyclist.

It used to be law that a bicycle had to have a solid on light front and back at night, and any extra flashing lights were optional extras that didn't count, but they scrapped that law several years ago.

The sun as well, too bright.

The whole big blue room outside is much too bright, we need strict regulation so that nerds are finally comfortable leaving their caves.

Anyone working with a Smalltalk implementation?

I played around with Squeak this summer and made a few demos of showing how inserts and removals work in binary search trees and B-trees. I also wrote a tree-walking Smalltalk interpreter in F# and an implementation of the game of life for it. It was a blast.

I've switched to a CAT S22 Android builder's flip phone, and my usage has dropped significantly. The screen is so small and fiddly that it makes me feel sick using it for extended periods - exactly what you want from an adictive substance like a smart phone. Having to physically open it to use it, and then waiting 5 seconds before it lights up, creates a psychic barrier to just 'quickly checking for updates'. The camera is like an early 2000s cheap digicam - just about good enough for documenting things but it hardly beckons you to want to photograph your life constantly for social media. It's a PITA to use and that's why it's perfect for everyday use.

> I've been thinking about finally getting a smartwatch to keep tabs on my sleep and encourage me to do more exercise, like jogging for a certain amount of time or something.

Do people really need watches to able to sleep normally or get some exercise?

Techy people enjoy stats and metrics you can review. It's fun to pull up my sleep data and compare averages between last 7 days/31 days/12 months. It's interesting to see my heart rate at different points during exercise or other activities. Sometimes I can recall what I was doing on a particular day just looking at the amount of steps.

One thing to keep in mind is that studies that evaluate the sleep tracking of smartwatches and smartphones typically show them to be wildly inaccurate, to the point of being useless

This was a really helpful answer, thank you. I'm not sure why you've been downvoted.