> "Chess players who don't use engines will be left behind"

Unfortunately this is absolutely true for classical chess at the professional level, w.r.t. preparation.

Not detracting from your point though, for the other 99.9% of chess players.

Being able to freely threaten reprisal against people exercising their rights circumvents those rights.

Freedom of association applies to individuals; it's a non-sequiter here.

I think there's a line between retaliating against someone, and refusing to help them in the future.

I do not believe that refusing to do business with an individual, where your business provides a non-life-critical service, is retaliation. A water company refusing to provide water to your home would be problematic. A luxury handbag store refusing to allow you to purchase more luxury handbags would not.

Image as a hypothetical that a customer goes into your store for the sole purpose of wasting your support staff's time. They are not going to make a purchase. They are also not directly committing a crime. They are just hurting your business for no particular reason.

Should you, as a business owner, be forced to allow them to continue to be on your property?

I think the ideal answer is yes for critical public spaces, and no for ordinary retail.

Steam clearly falls into the latter category and should be free to ban customers for any reason save discrimination against protected classes.

It's relevant in that businesses generally also enjoy freedom of (non)association but obviously that's not an absolute.

If that's good enough to be human readable than patch is even better.

People do write patch files be hand.

If the only thing we're concerned about is human readability, we can do better than patch files with their pesky @@ lines and plusses and minuses. But we're talking about a compromise between readability and parseability/schemas.

More commonly, edit them.

I suspect that the noteworthy composers wrote for the medium, and those "10 more" aren't the games we mention when we talk about SNES OSTs.

Fun fact: Modding an NA SNES to play Japanese games is one step: use some needle-nose pliers to break off a small plastic tab in the cartridge slot.

They usually tell people when they're going climbing.

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

That structure is common. "Not X, but Y" plus "Rule of three." It's not that humans don't ever use that structure, but it's rare outside of LLM output.

Any single data point doesn't mean it was LLM generated, but they add up.

I've experienced a similar adaptation when experimenting with cold showers. In that sense it was somewhat of a detriment; the cold became less invigorating but just as unpleasant.

It contributes to sodium intake, if you're watching out for that. Probably at about a third of table salt's sodium by mass, though.

Might cause overeating too, because it's tasty.

That's it.

Tasty food will be my downfall.

The Hollywood depiction doesn't matter if you're in a position to go to college and you're picking your major for what pays best. The only other safe bets are law and medicine, and even a freshman will realize those are much more work.