CalChris

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by CalChris 3y ago
BCE is 3% cash for groceries, online retail + gas which is pretty good for $0 AF. Still, I use the Gold Card for groceries and restaurants, 4X points and 3x on flights. There are other eco systems, Chase + Capital One. There are hotel cards
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by CalChris 3y ago
I'm not seeing your future where cash is banned. I am seeing my present where I'm not using cash very much (but still a little).
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by CalChris 3y ago
Society? Yeah, that would be the unbanked. But cash still exists and I occasionally get it to pay people.
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by CalChris 3y ago
Platinum, Gold and BCE. I don't really like the Platinum but then I got a huge SUB and the benefits, credits and perks outweigh the $695 AF. It's just complex to use to get AF back. I really like the Gold. It's has a $250 AF
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by CalChris 3y ago
I hate ATMs. When I need cash (which is rarely) I get it at the grocery store. I have to use my debit card but it costs me nothing. Thank you, grocery store.
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by CalChris 3y ago
I keep my money at a bank. If I want to spend cash, I have to go to the bank, the ATM, and get it. The bank is indeed an unavoidable middle man. The card just simplifies the transaction.
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by CalChris 3y ago
IRL I mostly use credit cards. On a recent trip to the UK+Ireland, I exclusively used credit cards behind Apple Pay. Indeed I rarely use an actual credit card and I leave most of them in a sock drawer. It's usually behind Apple Pay. So
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by CalChris 3y ago
The article's definition of autocorrelation : Autocorrelation occurs when you correlate a variable with itself. Wikipedia's definition of autocorrelation : Autocorrelation, sometimes known as serial correlation in th
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by CalChris 3y ago
The bulbous bow can already get 15%. There are bow thrusters on cruise ships but they're used for maneuvering. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/bulbous-bow
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by CalChris 3y ago
Fast container ships, they still exist with speeds of even 29 knots. But they're for shippers who pay for that speed. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/maersk-container-ships-big...
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by CalChris 3y ago
The article mentions the Bulbous Bow but it doesn't really explain it. A ship going through water has hull drag which shows up as a bow wave. This drag is a (decreasing!) function of hull length (sqrt(LWL)). Longer boats have less dr
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by CalChris 3y ago
... while pulling down $500K/yr.
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by CalChris 3y ago
There is also the ANTLR parser generator which generates a top-down parser. It's nice to write in a grammar. Still, almost all production lexers and parsers are hand written. https://www.antlr.org
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by CalChris 3y ago
Now that would be unique.
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by CalChris 3y ago
Yeah, Intel got xScale (née StrongArm) from Digital Equipment Corp as part of a settlement after the Alpha lawsuit for infringing on Pentium patents. Intel bought StrongArm which maybe meant Intel didn't really want it and sold it to M
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by CalChris 3y ago
Yes, you are meant to import the Python package and just use that. Mojo is a Python superset. It speeds up math but then relies on CPython for grunt work.
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by CalChris 3y ago
That's pretty simple but it doesn't explain how or why low quality startups will get weeded out. It explains why there will be fewer startups but it says nothing about their quality.
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by CalChris 3y ago
Why is the era of low quality startups over? Have VC’s suddenly become better judges of talent, market and technology? Have founders suddenly become more serious? Last year A16Z funded Adam Neumann for $350M for a blockchain carbon credit
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by CalChris 3y ago
Hah! The kool kidz all used The Debugger.
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by CalChris 3y ago
But I don't want to know this feature in order to use this editor. Apparently Auto Closing Overtype deserves an enable/disable/auto flag but Embedded Reverse Shell doesn't. Yo Microsoft, add a preference for this thi
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by CalChris 3y ago
The vast vast majority of users will neither want nor use this embedded reverse shell functionality. I fall in that majority. Hats off to the users who do to get their work done with it but I/we don't. So for us, this function sho
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by CalChris 3y ago
Looking at the Wikipedia page, it’s being returned to the market albeit for a different disease/condition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rofecoxib
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by CalChris 3y ago
There's a half day tutorial at the LLVM Developers Meeting on this, ML-Guided Compiler Optimization in LLVM . However, the authors of this paper aren't giving that tutorial.
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by CalChris 3y ago
Typically, Berkeley was more brutal. The EECS Undergraduate Handbook (graduation contract) used to say that the prestige of the Berkeley degree increases with distance from the Campanile .
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by CalChris 3y ago
Yep, Apple Configurator 2 . Been there done that with an unfixable partitioning. Eventually I learned about AC2 and a clean install solved all of my partitioning problems.
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by CalChris 3y ago
We have the same thing in California. We have rice and pistachio farmers in the Central Valley. It makes no sense to grow rice and pistachios in a water challenged environment. Then you see Congress Created Dust Bowl signs on I5.
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by CalChris 3y ago
2001 , which I like, is not the 6th best film of all time. It’s 3/4ths of a really good movie. The rest is psychedelic nonsense.
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by CalChris 3y ago
You'd have to call+ask. It was a thing circa 2012. It's been awhile but the woman who ran Waypoint was a racer on the America3 team. It was more of a courtesy to other racers than an Uber Eats thing. Dunno if she's still the
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by CalChris 3y ago
Very nice. A 21st century take on pizzatool . https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-... FWIW, there's a pizza restaurant, Waypoint Pizza in Tiburon, which if you ask nicely will deliver on the
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by CalChris 3y ago
I use Zelle all the time but with people I know. In fact, I can't remember where my check book is. I use Apple Pay all the time and I use an actual credit card about once a month. I use cash at one place, my taco truck of choice. And f

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