CalChris

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by CalChris 5y ago
The USS Connecticut weighs about 10k tons. A container weighs maybe 10 tons. That sort of collision might or might not even cause damage. But by the law of inertia, the sub would, in even the worst case scenario, barely slow down and you
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by CalChris 5y ago
Parts of the story probably are missing. His Iliad translation leaves out Book 10 with the Night Raid, entirely. A wonderful takedown of Mitchell is Homer, Inc. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n04/ed
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by CalChris 5y ago
You're right. When I compare SPARC with x86, they seem to have the same process node at roughly the same time. I probably meant manufacturing rather than process. Intel at the time was colossal. It was possible for an innovator like Tr
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by CalChris 5y ago
I don't know that SPARC was such a performance loser to x86 so much as Intel simply having a commanding lead in process technology at the time. Even Apple capitulated. That lead gave them a market domination that allowed them to reinve
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by CalChris 5y ago
TiVo Linksys Most of Oracle's business model.
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by CalChris 5y ago
No, the State of Florida isn't protecting voting rights , your words. It is attacking voting rights. For example, Florida passed Amendment 4 in 2018 which returned the voting rights of most felons after they'd served their senten
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by CalChris 5y ago
California, indeed no state, uses proportional representation. The last person to recommend looking at that was ... Lani Guinier. In fact, it's a good idea but it would mean that Wyoming wouldn't get two Senators for its populatio
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by CalChris 5y ago
Boston Marathon bombing. San Bernadino shootings.
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by CalChris 5y ago
I would like to think that the obvious comic bits like the Rick Rolling and the vodka shots makes it clear not to take the rest seriously. However we live in a world where disclosing a security hole gets a threatened prosecution from the
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by CalChris 5y ago
I submitted We're In as a trope to TVTropes with Theo clickity-clicking in Die Hard as the example. But it got dinged because of the hard rule against the trope namer quoting script. So I resubmitted it as I Wasn't Before But
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by CalChris 5y ago
The pandemic may be the proximate cause . But Petersen is saying the sufficient cause is Modern finance with its obsession with "Return on Equity." With a more robust economic system not so beholden to return on equity,
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What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?(twitter.com)
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by CalChris 5y ago
Because that two high rule doesn't apply to the port. Take a look at this photo. https://polb.com/ The port is already stacking five high. The two high rule is for outlying yards. Basically, it will help if it helps. W
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by CalChris 5y ago
I completely agree. It is just too soon to tell. Moreover, this stacking rule won't change the port; it will change things in the City of Long Beach. I don't think it will make matters worse but I won't be surprised if it doe
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by CalChris 5y ago
Ryan Petersen is a smart guy with a good perspective but he started Flexport in 2013. He didn't go to Cal Maritime; he went to Berkeley. He doesn't have a deck license or even a CDL; he was a member of Cal Sailing. He is however s
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by CalChris 5y ago
> A bureaucrat insisting that stacked containers are an eyesore No, that wasn't the case. It was a Fire Department ordinance for the city and not the port. It didn't apply to the Port of Long Beach itself. This is a photo from
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by CalChris 5y ago
1. No, chassis don't pollute. The CARB standards on trucks have nothing to do with the ports. Moreover, those CARB standards are adopted by 16 other states including Oregon and Washington. So your uncited 40% get nowhere near a West
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by CalChris 5y ago
The United States exports coal. The San Pedro Bay backup has nothing to do with California emission standards; it has to do with COVID causing labor shortages. Seattle is having the same problem with the same cause.
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by CalChris 5y ago
Having been dinged by dang I'd agree.
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by CalChris 5y ago
You can agree to an outcome (win, lose, draw) ahead of time. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/sports/chess-karjakin-mis...
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by CalChris 5y ago
We're going to disagree about the Iliad . It even has a good cop, bad cop scene in it in book 10, the Night Raid. Odysseus and Diomedes go on a night raid to get ... information. Was there ever a badder bad cop than Diomedes or a smoo
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by CalChris 5y ago
Start with the Iliad and I recommend the Lattimore translation although Fagles is good too. You may want to read the first book (chapter) a few times to get the flow. You may also want the backstory, the Judgment of Paris and the Golden A
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by CalChris 5y ago
Same Sequoia. The article doesn't really make it clear (well, the green color scheme does) but Sequoia Fund is a part of Sequoia. The author is a VC for Sequoia https://www.sequoiacap.com/people/roelof-botha/
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by CalChris 5y ago
I don't think what a16z is doing, a crypto hedge fund, is similar to what Sequoia is doing here with its Sequoia Fund, a mutual fund of post-IPO portfolio companies. Indeed, I don't see this as a hedge fund, a limited partnership
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by CalChris 5y ago
Pyrrhic victory? $12k is cheap . Generally, patent litigation is the sport of kings. That $12k means that Altair Logix gave up quickly, which in itself is useful information. $12k means that small cap companies should fight these trolls.
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by CalChris 5y ago
That is what the LLVM IR says happens: https://godbolt.org/z/4aexEK3aE
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by CalChris 5y ago
Feynman's contribution is also documented in The Connection Machine Message Router paper as the Cube address rotation. The CUBE-ADDRESS is thus 'rotated' as it travels through the heart. https://people.csa
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by CalChris 5y ago
There is no absolute value for -128 (or 0xff) in the range of int8_t because 128 is not in 0..127. The error is not the logic or the compiler but rather the return type which should be (at least) int16_t . Indeed simply changing the retu
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by CalChris 5y ago
Plenty. That isn't actually the important question or rather important problem. The storage yards are currently stacked X x Y x 2 and now they need to be re-stacked into something like X x (Y / 2) x 4 to free up space for more emp
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by CalChris 5y ago
> Allowing stacking over 2 high is only useful if you have the equipment to stack over 2 high. These are empty containers that are getting unloaded and stacked in order to free up the truck and its chassis for another load. The equipme

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