thechao

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   by thechao 3y ago

   When hail totaled my car, I kept it for another 4 years. Just "cosmetic" damage. It's still kicking around in New Mexico; I guess it's 17 years old, now.
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   by thechao 3y ago

   We just had a hail storm in central Texas; roof tiles? Gone. Solar panels? Fine. This was baseball-sized hail. Reinstalling solar is cheap compared to a new roof; a lot of people are switching to standing seam.
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   by thechao 3y ago

   Contracts are usually of fixed, short, duration — 6 or 12 months. You just stop renewing the contract. Employees are forever.
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   by thechao 3y ago

   Typo insertion where the autocorrect hallucinates a word? Happens to me sometimes...
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   by thechao 3y ago

   It's from a language called BOOT which is parenthesis-free Lisp!
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   by thechao 3y ago

   I feel like there's room for C++ without headers or includes — a completely clean break.
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   by thechao 3y ago

   I've been exposed to precisely this mechanism at "mom & pop" venues; it works great, and no one's upset (there's a loss of last-minute transfer between friends, but that's the cost). Ticketmaster self-scalp
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   by thechao 3y ago

   HAML reminds me of a "whitespace sensitive" ML we used that's 1:1 with XML: node @attr="bob saget" subnode @foo="john" subnode @ham="bar baz" html:h1 p $"this
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   Structured Programming with go to Statements (Knuth) (1974)(dl.acm.org)

   2 points by thechao 3y ago|0 comments
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    by thechao 3y ago

    Like Carly Fiorina? The pay for CEOs is set by the board, and the board of most large companies is made up of CEO's from other large companies. It's the private equivalent of plutocracy.
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    by thechao 3y ago

    They've become 14.6x more efficient at ... what? Increasing their pay? C'mon.
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    by thechao 3y ago

    I was idly wondering, today, if the capitalism was supercharged by the Protestant notion of idle-hands are sinful-hands? The refrain for most of history was that land owners couldn't get any (read: excess) work out of peasant labor: on
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    by thechao 3y ago

    You only need 5b to encode the piece to move: you know whose turn it is. Also, as the game progresses, you can reindex to reduce the number of bits to define which piece is moving.
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    by thechao 3y ago

    I don't know a lot of judges, but shenanigans like that (maybe the second or third time) are a great way to get a summary judgement, and find your way to county for a few days to think about the intent of a law.
15. 555.▲
    by thechao 3y ago

    Your latter example (but with green) is a testable hypothesis, with some weak support for being true! The rest of S-W is popsci garbage.
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    by thechao 3y ago

    Hah! What if Homer's "wine-dark seas" really were wine-dark!?
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    by thechao 3y ago

    I know a lot of professional mathematicians who can't make their way through the Wikipedia articles of adjacent fields. The English entries appear to be written by the ghost of Bourbaki!
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    by thechao 3y ago

    Watching the AI community rediscover automatic differentiation 20+ years after the field was considered "mature" was equal parts frustrating & fascinating. The frustration was them rewriting the history of discovery, but witho
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    by thechao 3y ago

    These are rotating tethers used to launch to other asteroids/planets. Not strings connecting rocks.
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    by thechao 3y ago

    In case anyone is interested in the power dynamic in Imperial Rome between the Emporers and the Legions, this is is an analogous situation.
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    by thechao 3y ago

    I had two of my kids in a mastery school. The school didn't "do" mastery very, well, but it's a lot better than public school. Students learn different parts of a subject at different rates. By tuning the time the kids h
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    by thechao 3y ago

    This is precisely why every ASIC (HW) company I'm familiar with uses P4. ASIC design flows rely critically on 3rd party tooling, that must be version/release specific. You can't rely on those objects being available whene
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    by thechao 3y ago

    Would you mind saying which app? I've always wanted to do this! EDIT: especially if it supports ligatures. I have some whacky ligatures that are distinctive to my handwriting.
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    by thechao 3y ago

    I had a history prof address these feats-of-observation of these primordial scientists: you've got a group of totally idle wealthy, with up to 16 hours of day time to fill, across millions of people and thousands of years. Eratosthen
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    by thechao 3y ago

    Sounds like gradual typing, maybe? That stuff was hot, years ago. Jeremy Siek is one the original inventors — his stuff is really approachable.
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    by thechao 3y ago

    Maybe we can ask the DoSers to stop, nicely? Everything else being equal, I bet the Tor/Onion-folk are pretty smart people, and this is what they felt was necessary to keep the service running.
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    by thechao 3y ago

    Relays were first built in 1835, and were patented & ready for mass production in 1840. You can build electromechanical computers out of them: https://m.youtube.com/@ClicketyClack
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    Clickety Clack Relay Computer(youtube.com)

    1 points by thechao 3y ago|0 comments
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    by thechao 3y ago

    "The theoretical minimum" series by Leonard Susskind et al. (along with the video series in YT) is a supergentle introduction & gloss of this whole table. If you stick to the books you'll never have to read popsci crap, a
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    by thechao 3y ago

    They’re a person, not a puppet. I think you might be surprised at how little a budget is required for someone to harm themselves; some say it’s free!