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by thechao 2y ago
The old family farm, in Indiana, had all these short "barns". Because they were from Germany, they couldn't figure out how to build properly footed foundations, in the Indiana wilderness. The result was the bottom logs of the
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by thechao 2y ago
I tried pitching "generalized overloads" to Bjarne on a few occasions: `operator .` is highly problematic (you can read about it); but a number of the other `operator`s seem to be ok: `;`, `?:`, `if`, `for`, `while`, `switch-case`
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My dad was privy to my grandfather complaining to my great-great grandfather about the bad quality of houses, tractors, and clothes in the 1950s — that the stuff built in the 1910s and 1920s was so much better. Carl (in his thick southern G
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by thechao 2y ago
Republicans can't vote against Trump, because the vast majority of Congressional districts are gerrymandered; this means the candidate can be easily outprimaried with just a little bit of cash. The original red map project (2010) cost
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by thechao 2y ago
Ohhhh... my HOA is west of Austin. We've been in stage 3 draught restrictions since 2016. That means one-day-a-week watering, and total water expenditure limits. I have the 3rd largest lot in the neighborhood. When the temperature goes
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by thechao 2y ago
I know a number of builders in my neighborhood. There's a number of compounding issues: labor costs are higher, which means the customer wants to maximize resale value by amortizing lot costs. This dovetails (in Texas) with carried pro
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I dunno man. I'm just typing what I hear & say. The first is "I do not think I would have done that", more or less. The second is "I could not have done that" but with an agreeing second negative? Like a hill pe
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2021. Just a typo... although, I love the weird downvotes.
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The biologist would be expected to describe the lichen in detail, including where it was found, its expected ecology, its place in the ecosystem, life-cycle, structure, etc. It is no longer 1696 where we can go spear some hapless fish, brin
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Having a nonstandard American dialect is even worse. Texas dialects have a much broader set of larger contractions than coastal and Midwest accents. Autocorrect becomes an active enemy when I'm trying to type "I'd'nt&#x2
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Words that are words, backwards, but are not palindromes. My boss is awesome and when I find a new one at 200am and excitedly text him, he congratulates me. Not, nut, tub, bard, trap, ...
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Tesla owner; same boat. I think Austin has voted with its doors enough for me to get the idea, at this point. I got the car in 2001, and it should be good for another 5–7 yrs as my daily commuter. I'm just resigned to my dingy fate, no
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by thechao 2y ago
Well, even more precisely: an executive order applies to federal workers in the executive branch . It doesn't apply to federal workers in the legislative , or judicial branches, and other sorts of workers. It certainly doesn't
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Which is weird, because I thought we'd all agreed that the random number was 4? https://xkcd.com/221/
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Translation of cuneiform is limited by the number of people who know the different Semitic and nonsemitic languages. Bulk transcription of the texts just makes the amount of material available to translate even more overwhelming. The real r
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My youngest is not gifted in math. She's still in the top 1/3 of her class, through diligent study, repetition, and review. Over the last year she's gone from dreading to loving math. Please keep an open mind about your kiddo
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The BBC claims that this account is the official handle for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for China. So... FAFO.
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Just to reiterate: in old-skool HS electricity terms, a transistor is going to need enough electrons. That number is pretty large, and is tied pretty strongly to materials and geometry. Those two things (materials & geometry) change f
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Vote in your State election, and make sure your State representative knows you're voting against gerrymandering and for some sort of citizens'-accountable districting policy. It'd be even better to run in any State-le
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The plans were laid down with "Red Map" in 2010, and reinforced in 2020: this is control of the GOP "at the base" via gerrymandering and primary control. It means that the individual representatives no longer control the
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I've had a lot of success using chordal graph allocators. They provide plenty of extra dimensions of 'relaxation' to tune them, they're incremental (so they allow pinning), and they decay nicely when their constraints ar
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You mean, like electrons? At the bottom of physics is a bunch of spherical cows.
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Since this is an article about a book about recipes, but with no recipes, here's a blog about the recipes in the book: http://www.sentsovi.cat If you've never cooked pre-French-culinary recipes (Medieval, rustic
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I had a buddy who said the way you knew it was a good fishing spot was because you got pistol whipped by an AK-47 the last time you were there.
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As per "Gung Ho", starring ~Batman~ Michael Keaton.
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This is slop.
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I think you're right; I can see it in the accelerating growth curve of my good Junior devs; I see grandOP's vision in my bad Junior devs. Optimistically, I think this gives more jr devs more runway to advance deeper into more
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There's a dystopian short story in your comment about AI that can't self-bootstrap without ground-truth from humans, so they keep us around just to mark images, music, etc. Lives wasted annotating things. I like to think they&#x27
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Hey, Chandler— this article says you're using "c++0x" concepts. Is that Indiana-style concepts?
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I'm in Texas, and my HVAC guys all switched to heat pumps on their own houses a few years ago. The main problem is that most of are on electric AC and gas/propane heat; so, the switch to heat pump usually means throwing out either

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