thechao

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by thechao 3y ago
I use "print mode" syntax highlighting which is just bold, italics, and (rarely) underline, or some combination of those. It's a habit I picked up when I had one PI who was severely red-green color blind, and another who had
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by thechao 3y ago
We visited Pisa, briefly. One thing to note is that everything in the plaza, including the surrounding walls, is leaning. Everything . The ground must be like mud.
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by thechao 3y ago
@dang — this is just a thin wrapper around a great engineering-related YouTube channel. The direct link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZhHoyqQEhA
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by thechao 3y ago
The lab my wife worked in, 20+ years ago, still had a mahogany chest of "bones" to calculate Fourier transforms, by hand. Once you had phases, you'd plot density on transparent cels, and put them in a stack.
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by thechao 3y ago
The top of an ORS isn't in orbit — it's stationary with respect to the ground. You still have to burn the Δv to get into orbit. The idea is that it's easier to go slowly up , where the natural speed you're at will (even
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by thechao 3y ago
A "stack" of orbital ring systems (this is a train-on-ring) lets you build the functional equivalent of a space elevator out of plausible materials like fiber glass & superconductors. Every rung in the ladder has value.
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by thechao 3y ago
3d-printed data-center; which is cool, but not as cool as 3d-printed-data center: they printed the center, not the data.
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by thechao 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America%2...
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by thechao 3y ago
Unless the GPl'd work provides a novel API that the GPL code implements; that has been tested in court. The API is protected, by copyright, and linking to that API requires the use of the API. That's why you can't just li
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by thechao 3y ago
Fusion will be necessary if we plan to colonize the solar system beyond Mars, and not at Jupiter. It's cold, dark, and scary, out there.
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by thechao 3y ago
And spears! Helmet + spear (with a shield of some sort: on the arm, in a trench, composite) is as near to the Universal Hominid Combat System as I think possible.
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by thechao 3y ago
Malcolm Gladwell has a podcast in Revisionist History where he likens museums to dragons (hoarding art); I think that's wonderfully apt. Whenever I see institutions, like Harvard, endlessly accumulating wealth above-and-beyond what the
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by thechao 3y ago
Yeah — that's what I was doing before AI: clearly spelling out each character, character-by-character. The AI does about 75% of that, so we can skip the 0.5-baud C-over-bongos thing .
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by thechao 3y ago
I've found the AI tooling very helpful for 1:1 pair programming with junior developers. The AI tends to provide bad code at "100%" but it prevents me from constantly having to take the keyboard away from the junior — I can ju
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by thechao 3y ago
Texas energy is cheap, and it just so happens that the political game aligns "make the grid ok" with their best interests; but, if the interests ever diverge we will be proper fucked.
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by thechao 3y ago
There's a sci-fi short story about the NASA (?) bureaucracy sending an "auxiliary maintenance system" (re: astronaut) to fix its Mars lander robots when they break, even though the same agency refused to send a person. I can&
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by thechao 3y ago
Retaliation for charge back probably elevates this from a civil matter to a criminal one; you should totally contact your local DA. They might think it's fun.
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by thechao 3y ago
Classically, you wait until your name is said three times, before appearing before the supplicant!
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by thechao 3y ago
My 12 year old has been lording it over the rest of the family, for the same reason.
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by thechao 3y ago
Hey, neat! However, this line of research (which I'm passingly familiar with) is about extending the grammar of the host language (for Xoc: C), along with the semantics (for Xoc: the Zeta interpreter). I think I'm interested in a
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by thechao 3y ago
You could use a divider and just encode it in log(9!)/log(2) ~ 19b? I think the point of the article is you can encode every game in something like a kilobyte of data, though, right?
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by thechao 3y ago
Aycock & Horspool came up with a 'practical' method for implementing Earley parsing (conversion to a state-machine) that has pretty humorously good performance delta over "naive" Earley, and is still reasonable to im
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by thechao 3y ago
I'd like C, but where I could use some syntax like: typedef _Load("libvector.so")(int) vector_int; to add arbitrary "builtin" types to the language. The idea being that "libvector.so" would use som
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by thechao 3y ago
This is why naively surfacing file systems to users is such a mistake. My gut feeling says that documents should always contain all of their revisions — with a time slider, and marginalia always enabled. However, organization of the docum
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by thechao 3y ago
I'm trying to install a webhook in TeamCity to send a notification to Slack whenever anyone across 16 time zones commits to specific paths in a Perforce depot. I'll happily trade for your rock.
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by thechao 3y ago
Tie it to the expected value of the IP? If you think your idea is worth $1 billion, pay $10 million (1%) every year.
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by thechao 3y ago
Hardware specs are written in docbook in a lot of places. On the flip side, new HW won't have good C compilers for a while.
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by thechao 3y ago
My day job combines assembly and XSL (GPU dev work can be weird). I have a soft spot for XSL; but, at this point, the combination of Python 3's performance story (concurrency, threading, multiprocessing), ElementTree, and itertools...
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by thechao 3y ago
That’s the dream of HW GPU designers everywhere. I’ve got a bunch of dead Cell and Larrabee chips laying around upstairs that’d like to disagree, though. Coverage rasterization is just one tiny piece of the GPU story; the really hard part
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by thechao 3y ago
I've been slowly weening myself off of ... internet (damn you, HN!); but I saw a phrase on my wife's FB feed: don't compare your 99% to everyone else's 1%. I think this summarizes my feeling towards social media, entirel

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