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by thechao 2y ago
Oh man. I knew guys working at Enron (I lived in Houston at the time) when it all unwound. Here's three things: 1. One of the IT guys – in his early 20s — showed up in a brand new 350Z (stickers on). This was his "severance"
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by thechao 2y ago
Now you’re asking me technical details from more than a decade ago. My recollection is that you could map one of the caches between cores — there were uncached-write-through instructions. By reverse engineering the cache’s hash, you could w
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by thechao 2y ago
Larabee was fun to program, but I think it'd have an even worse time hardening memory sideband effects: the barrel processor (which was necessary to have anything like reasonable performance) was humorously easy to use for cross-proces
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by thechao 2y ago
Hey! Thanks! Y'all do great work! Your tool is critical to my ability to keep sane.
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by thechao 2y ago
I've always thought there was a clever hack to get out of deed restrictions through the use of adverse possession.
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by thechao 2y ago
I used to require a "+..." on all emails. Any email that didn't have the "+..." was sent to Spam automagically. My family were whitelisted. I gave up, because too many websites (early on) refused to take the "+
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by thechao 2y ago
English orthography isn't really hacked together. Most of the "examples" I see people bandy about are because you're reading the wrong English: try Old English, instead. For example, knight: it was pronounced "k-ng-
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by thechao 2y ago
Why is AMD shit at low-level processing? What does it mean "their algos are stuck"? Having watched "the industry" for a few decades now, the appeal for NV smells heavily like the old appeal for Xeons, and Big Blue before
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by thechao 2y ago
The great AI garbage gyre?
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by thechao 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem
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by thechao 2y ago
Maybe they're only blind briefly?
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by thechao 2y ago
He has good days and bad days. My dad's 82, and he's doing a lot better than DJT.
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by thechao 2y ago
The economic term-of-art is the GINI coefficient. And, yeah, the US's GINI is crazy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
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by thechao 2y ago
As a part time compiler author I'm extremely skeptical we're getting a global 1–2%/yr. I'd've thought more like a tenth to half that? I've not seen any numbers, so I'm just making shit up. However, for sur
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by thechao 2y ago
We use barycentric (both in high performance software rasterizers and in hardware) because attribute interpolation is significantly more costly than in-bounds checking (both due to the total number of interpolates, and the precision). The i
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by thechao 2y ago
We had something like this in Spad — the extension language for the computer algebra system Axiom. They're not terrible to implement; but, utilization was always low. There's amusingly high effort optimizations with range-dependen
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by thechao 2y ago
Implementing the real Sieve is quite a challenge in any language: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf
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by thechao 2y ago
If an app pops up a "rate us" modal, it gets a 1-star in the app store, with a note to the developer why . I don't care how great your app is.
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by thechao 2y ago
I had a great-grandfather that was sent along the Southern border to try to map it — he was a surveyor. A lot of times he'd be at the top of a canyon, and the next place to drop the pin would be at the bottom. He'd just chuck the
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by thechao 2y ago
Conformance.
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by thechao 2y ago
If I'm paying 30k$/yr the professor is damn well reading my essay. If they don't want to teach & grade, they can get a pure research position. Fun fact: pure research positions don't pay as well.
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by thechao 2y ago
Having just found out about topic X, and thought about it for 30 seconds, I have strong advice for the world's expert about an edge case they forgot for solutions to topic X.
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by thechao 2y ago
This is due to the Olmec heads.
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by thechao 2y ago
People, in general, are most likely the descendants of people who have lots of kids.
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by thechao 2y ago
Jaakko (Järvi), Gaby (dos Reis), and especially Bjarne would foist syntax on us graduate students just to see how we'd "naturally" respond to language feature proposals quite early on in the feature development cycle. That&
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by thechao 2y ago
Is it me, or is the C++ reflection syntax goofily obtuse on purpose? Years ago, in grad school, I modified GCC to add operator overloading "for the rest of C++".: operator if (C, T, E); operator ; (A, B); operator {}
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by thechao 2y ago
Nothing. Just extra work. She'd say "you know it was done, that's enough".
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by thechao 2y ago
My grandmother (she'd've been ~118, now) taught me to sew. There's specific techniques for turning down interior hems. That is, imagine a jacket: it has a shell, and a lining; I'm talking about a specific kind of hem for
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by thechao 2y ago
A grid is a set of points, described by a basis. A tiling is like puzzle pieces, but with a fixed number of piece "shapes". A packing is a way to stuff a set of things into a space. Tilings and packings are related, but the subfie
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by thechao 2y ago
That went off the rails quickly. Calm down dude: my mother-in-law isn't going to forget words because of AI; she's gonna forget words because she's 3 glasses of crappy Texas wine into the evening.

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