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by thechao 2y ago
Low-income neighborhoods are good signal indicator for flooding high risk zones. There's a demographic angle, too.
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by thechao 2y ago
The Tesla dealer told me to get a paint kit when I picked up my car, a few years ago; he called it the Tesla Texas Tax. People (used to) go out of their way to ding my car.
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by thechao 2y ago
Yes
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by thechao 2y ago
(10a + b)^2 = 100a^2 + b^2 + 2ab So... 73^2 is 4900 + 9 + 420 = 5329. The really nice part is getting estimates for square roots of numbers. So, sqrt(3895)? 60^2 + 120n = 3600 + 120n => n=2; that's 3844 (from above); the difference
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by thechao 2y ago
Any idiot knows not to use power-of-two! You gotta use "+13", which is prime and, therefore, *secure*.
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by thechao 2y ago
Why do they cost more? Is it the additional hardware needed for the charging? I have a hard time believing that hardware is $5k. I have an easier time believing that the car manufacturers are gouging people interested in this solution space
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by thechao 2y ago
My wife is a nationally recognized expert in elections in the US. The combination of FPTP and politically controlled district geometry (gerrymandering) explicitly creates a brittle system that engenders extremism. It's well understood
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by thechao 2y ago
I've been a fan of XML tech for ~years~ decades (dang). But, let's be honest, most of this stuff should've been thought-technology, not a fixed implementation. Like, I have a decorator based Python library that passes value
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by thechao 2y ago
It's the same ratio as 28 3/4 tsp to a cup.
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by thechao 2y ago
I used GA as a way to bootstrap into 'real' Clifford algebras, and a way to get over a "reader's block" when it came to Lie algebras, tensors, and (finally) algebraic geometry. I'm not sure GA is great math ,
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by thechao 2y ago
> I am working in tech to fund my creative pursuits, an industry on its way to being blue collar I can't tell if you think tech or art is going to be blue collar, but based on the AI revolution, you should stay in tech, or join UA.
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by thechao 2y ago
When your computer was anemic, and could barely do the tasks required for it, eking out a few percent — or a 2x! — from an optimizer was important. Now-a-days, the difference between "big compiler optimized" and "little compi
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by thechao 2y ago
You can use `funopencookie` to create a binding of a socket to a `FILE*`; in that case you could literally use fprintf and fscanf to send messages...
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by thechao 2y ago
> (individual numbers (0 dimensions), vectors (1 dimension), matrixes (2 dimensions), and so on) You're using the word "dimension" in two (distinct) ways. Instead, use the word "rank": > (individual numbers (0
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by thechao 2y ago
I learned GUI programming using win16, then win32 — this would've been during the transition to WinXP. I must have a city-wide blind spot, but every post message pump GUI framework has left me completely befuddled. One thing I never un
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by thechao 2y ago
Here's something I hadn't thought of: there's been 10–12 thousand generations of people, stretching back ~250000 years. And, yet, you could (in theory) meet ~7% of all humans who've ever been alive right now .
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by thechao 2y ago
It's a neat idea (I maintained an unofficial C port for a while); but, terrible in practice.
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by thechao 2y ago
Well, we've known about the dangers of lead for an awfully long time: > https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0960327117737146
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by thechao 2y ago
I did not know about Sphinx until your comment (I'll get to my 2-day delay in response, briefly). I've been doing technical writing "on the side" as my dev work allows, for 20+ years. I've been a TeX/custom-XSL
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by thechao 2y ago
The one — and only time — I heard TMR was probably in the late 90s (98 or 99). Just the name of the album is seared into my brain as some of the most unlistenable garbage that I've ever been assaulted with. To make this clear: I once l
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by thechao 2y ago
It'd just be a lot cheaper to pay these guys a basic income, and take the management savings from a UBI and buy absolutely a gajillion hardened drones.
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by thechao 2y ago
Errr.. > https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a37039437/1904-... And the IOC has been infamously corrupt since I was a kids in the 80s watching the US/SR win/lose in the most ridiculous ways..
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by thechao 2y ago
I really like this idea — I use it in a couple of you languages I maintain for work — but have never seen a good write up for the idea. Do you have any pointers to papers?
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by thechao 2y ago
The fact that misspelling doesn't have 3 s's is one of the great tragedies of English orthography. > missspelling
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by thechao 2y ago
Yeah — C would be ok as a build system language if it was easy to: invoke & manage subprocesses; build & manage dynamic dependency graphs; and, easily work with file metadata. Or... work with me: Make does that, well enough.
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by thechao 2y ago
I've implemented coroutines in C and C++; my preferred multitasking environment is message-passing between processes. I'm not quite sure what the async/await stuff is buying us (I'm thinking C++, here). Like, I get mul
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by thechao 2y ago
I use Sublime almost 100% now-a-days; and, it for sure isn't as nice as Emacs for editing MD tables, but multi-cursor editing does about 80% of the heavy-lifting for MD tables. I guess I could conjecture someone objecting about &quot
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by thechao 2y ago
My favorite eye-roll was a random YT short of a power washer dude driving down an interstate in his behemoth diesel (his equipment could've fit in a large sedan), complaining that he only pays taxes to the gov't but gets no benefi
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by thechao 2y ago
Specifically, the application of dataflow to GUIs, which was well-researched at Adobe by Sean Parent, Mat Marcus, et al in the early 2000s called the "Adam" and "Eve" languages. There's more work at TAMU & Unive
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by thechao 2y ago
> Oh, they won't fare well in a collision with F-150? Then maybe we can remove those from the streets outside specific delivery and maintenance hours, and impose a lower speed limit for heavier cars. A few things: 1. We should tax v

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