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571.
by thechao 3y ago
My rabbi used to say that "charity with strings is just a bad job"; it's not charity if it's not given unconditionally.
572.
by thechao 3y ago
I have, on multiple occasions (in Austin, >10 years ago), paid for parking to an "attendant" at a lot I know is free. Those guys will just have your car towed — the whole scam just hangs together: the towing company charges y
573.
by thechao 3y ago
Everything you need to know about Chrome can be summarized by the fact that ‘cmd-q’ doesn’t quit Chrome.
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by thechao 3y ago
Well below the G forces experienced by smart artillery. Solid state is pretty solid.
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by thechao 3y ago
Until people demand their RMB, and all the bank has is piles of building materials…
576.
by thechao 3y ago
TAPL is remarkably unclear on the basic meaning of the syntax it uses; which I find ironic. This answer is orders-of-magnitude clearer than TAPL.
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Does there exist a complete implementation of the Risch algorithm?(mathoverflow.net)
154 points by thechao 3y ago|22 comments
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by thechao 3y ago
Yeah, I don’t know about Canada; but, a cursory reading of the US code seems to say that mail delivered by a carrier has already had all HTS (tarrifs) applied to it, or else it couldn’t be in the country (modulo criminal enterprise). I mean
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by thechao 3y ago
In the US, non-misdelivered items are considered a gift; there are no actionable courses for recovery — other than being polite — to get the item back. Misdelivered items must be surrendered, on request, or you can fall awry if a laundry li
580.
by thechao 3y ago
Just to follow this slippery slope: are all increases in worker pay since, say, the pay freezes in the middle Roman Empire followed by just inflation, with no other socioeconomic benefits?
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by thechao 3y ago
The only facilities I really need, 80% if the time, are FILE* — but I much prefer ‘fopencookie’ as the API: I can have a uniform “FILE*” API, and provide a default string-wrapper–to-user-allocator API. (This is when I’m writing library code
582.
by thechao 3y ago
Embedding the “title” into the header is, in my opinion, a mistake. The header should just say what count of bytes of the prefix of the document are the title (with zero padding); that lets variable-width data be variable, and fixed-width d
583.
by thechao 3y ago
Sometimes I think a "better C" is just C, but with a rational standard library. Then I remember that we're not allowed to have nice things.
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by thechao 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36148475#36153561
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by thechao 3y ago
I heard a funny clip of the actors who played the Hobbits in LoTR where, precisely, the best place to drop their one-and-only f-bomb; they’d limited themselves to the whole franchise, maybe? Funny stuff.
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by thechao 3y ago
Which is weird, because the original Alamo, down by 6th street, was pretty notorious for the roughhousing of its patrons — although, this was in the late 90s. We still go to the Slaughter & Lamar locations, and it really is a different
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by thechao 3y ago
A 100Ghz CPU would be limited by other factors; mostly c .
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by thechao 3y ago
Small Gods and Good Omens are the best starts; then, I'd hit up the Granny Weatherwax books, eg, Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, etc.
589.
by thechao 3y ago
"Hymen oh Hymenee!" a painting of a Roman wedding.
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by thechao 3y ago
Words that are words, backwards, are a favorite "go to sleep" puzzle for me. My boss will also participate. deer; drab; tun; part; trap; gab; gut; etc. Obviously, you could just write a script, but it's more fun to dream them
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by thechao 3y ago
There's a trivial well-regulated market solution: medical company A registers treatment B with the FDA; patients can try experimental B from A on A's dime: let them out their money where their medicine is.
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by thechao 3y ago
The working stuff becomes part of a body of lore of "real science" that you soak up in the lab. Not a great method, for sure.
593.
by thechao 3y ago
This is just reporting bias. I've worked (on-and-off) in various scientific fields for ~30; it has always had its bad actors. (I even helped do the statistics for some!) I'd urge you to consider following the situations: 1. Presci
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by thechao 3y ago
If two crypto bros go to court, the one who refuses to follow the judges ruling gets to stay in jail. How does crypto help with that? Possession is 9/10ths, but the state is 100%.
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by thechao 3y ago
The posted paper is by John, as well as Souper!
596.
by thechao 3y ago
There's a limit to what can be crammed into a HN comment!
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by thechao 3y ago
If you want to "shim" the API, then it's easier to have the whole previous object, rather than just the cookie.
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by thechao 3y ago
Just a note about your 'exported memory allocation' API: struct hamt_allocator { void *(*malloc)(const size_t size); void *(*realloc)(void *chunk, const size_t size); void (*free)(void *chunk); };
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by thechao 3y ago
> General relativity says that you can't tell the difference between being unaccelerated, and being in free fall. Just to be clear, GR only says this for a very specific case, and a very specific observer. In fact, one of the easier
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by thechao 3y ago
The bottom of the average of SAT scores of college attendees is the top 30%+ of students; Master's and PhD's are even more elite. This is like saying "the defensive line in the Cleveland Browns are the worst NFL players in th

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