thechao

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by thechao 4mo ago
Its a set cover problem, and is NP-hard. 4100 of something probably runs nicely in your laptop in a reasonable amount of time.
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by thechao 4mo ago
I go down to Abby Jane in Dripping Springs to get my freshly made sourdough, thankyouverymuch.
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by thechao 4mo ago
A ten hour wait doesn't really strike me as a pancake? You should have a "it's 730am, there's four screaming girls, only two of which are related to me, the dogs are begging for scraps, and the demand for pancakes has cr
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by thechao 5mo ago
REI threw a dickover on top of my checkout page just before I could pay. Dismissing the dickover cleared the checkout page.
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by thechao 5mo ago
The leverage doesn't end unless the AI-owning capital class Terminates the rest of the population.
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by thechao 5mo ago
Maybe Morse is just "out", right now, in the geek population? I shall send out the signal for us to unite: ... ___ ... ___ ... Hm. Morse makes adding an ellipsis remarkably challenging!
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by thechao 5mo ago
_ .... . ... .... ___ ._. _ . ... _ .._. ___ _. _ .__ ___ .._ ._.. _.. _... . ._ __ ___ ._. ... . _._. ___ _.. . .._. ___ _. _ ._._._
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by thechao 5mo ago
I felt personally attacked when LLMs came out: I'm an avid user of "—", bullets, numbered lists, and the word "delve". It's been a miserable couple of years.
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by thechao 5mo ago
I still think biased sortition is the way: after voting, eliminate any candidate with less than (say) 1/11th the vote. Choose the winner proportional to the number of votes they received. It has the following nice properties: 1. Extrem
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by thechao 5mo ago
You can build a census of all gen-2, degree-2 formal products of polynomial like terms. If you insist on instituting your own rewrite rules and identity tables, it is straightforward — maybe an 15 minutes of compute time — to perform a co
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by thechao 5mo ago
The closest that I could find to a "what the fuck is this?" page is: https://www.mercurylang.org/about.html
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by thechao 5mo ago
I do as well with a NEMA?
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by thechao 5mo ago
90 would've been impressive. 9 out of 8 is rookie numbers.
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by thechao 5mo ago
I'm from Texas and we use bullshit & tall-telling as an entertainment art (this is my background; I do t think it's specific!). This definition of bullshit is spot on; I'm pretty proud of my ability to bullshit-for-entert
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by thechao 5mo ago
I think the question he's asking is this: is it an ad ouroboros, or is there some other (nefarious?) intentionality behind it? My hot take: porque no los dos?
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by thechao 5mo ago
I think the USB & speaker are the weak links for water ingress. Also, a removable battery would (probably?) significantly weaken the phone. So, if you dropped it, it'd be more likely to sustain real damage.
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by thechao 5mo ago
I discovered this "quirk" when the local ice rink started charging me for dozens of charges — I was watching them come in. There were two "child2 thechao"s (insert crazy common name); and ... they just picked one and sta
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by thechao 6mo ago
I got to spend a bit more than 2 years doing math homework 1:1 with my youngest. Now, she's moving up to honors & gets 100% without any help. I miss all that time we got to hang out, do homework, watch videos of cats, etc.
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by thechao 6mo ago
My honeymoon with duckdb wore off pretty quickly when I need to compile it, myself, into a single-file concordance. I understand it's open source, so I'm free to be ignored. But, it's positioning itself as a drop-in replaceme
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by thechao 6mo ago
About once a week I ask ChatGPT to give me a reasonable diet for recomp with weight loss. It consistently insisted I have at least 7 meals consisting of at least 30g of protein per meal, but the protein source can't be whey or casein.
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by thechao 6mo ago
Find a brand new hire who wants to get tenure. Getting a PhD through in 4 years is catnip for tenure at most universities (stateside). We then dropped off my dissertation in the middle of NSF funding week. I paid for it during orals (4 hour
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by thechao 6mo ago
My youngest is 14, and she still brings them home. After it rains I'm "banned" from the front door because I'm "too clumsy". Future entomologists unite!
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by thechao 6mo ago
I've been told my old stomping ground (Houston) is extremely competitive. I've not eaten Vietnamese outside of Texas, so I can't really compare. It was shocking to me, when I moved to Portland, OR, to not have easy access to
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by thechao 6mo ago
Same here, frankly. I just didn't want to make an aggressive generalization that I couldn't support. I've got video of the usage from 2001.
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by thechao 6mo ago
You, y'all (small close group), y'all all (larger, further group), and "all y'all" — Southeast Texas (coastal) dialect form that showed up about 25 yrs ago. I suspect it might've been there all along, but only
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by thechao 6mo ago
Why can't you vary the height of the posts on the top of the piece? Or, add some nubbins on the posts/surface: isn't that what braille is?
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by thechao 7mo ago
You assemble all your machine code using a magnetized needle?
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by thechao 7mo ago
You're off by an order of magnitude. It's a few hundred watts; an EV is consuming 10s of kilowatts. (Ignore the watt-watt/hour sloppiness, pls.) To charge my car 60% would take about 2 months. Ambient needs (battery cooling)
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by thechao 7mo ago
Once there's a pattern of abuse, you can go after the execs personally for purposes of the carrying out of justice. Courts don't like the idea of bad actors hiding themselves behind corporations. You don't even need to &quo
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by thechao 7mo ago
Or the bottom of a coffee mug. Takes a bit of eyeballing to get it right the fist time, but sharpens up, good!

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