thechao

36 ms·

601.
by thechao 3y ago
I'm can't watch these videos, but there's thousands of 1–2.5mm$ homes being built west of Austin, Tx (who's buying them!? I DON'T KNOW!) I like ti watch these houses go up: the walls & roof trusses are all lam
602.
by thechao 3y ago
And we use rebar because we like long, flat bridging spans that can hold hundreds of tons at a time — something Roman concrete has no hope of ever doing, unreinforced .
603.
by thechao 3y ago
I'm a big C proponent, via C++, I've thought about this article on-and-off since it first came out. My team uses C++ to define new container types & some type-safe translation stuff. If I think about it, our containers are — a
604.
by thechao 3y ago
I knew a guy who came back — in his late 70s — to do "flange design" for old oil pipelines whose lifespan was being extended beyond the original expected span. He said — inflation adjusted — he made more money each month consultin
605.
by thechao 3y ago
Yeah — my favorite instructions he added were `fmad233` and `faddsets`; the former instruction essentially bootstraps the line-equation for the mask-generation for rasterization, and the latter lets you 'step' the intersection. Yo
606.
by thechao 3y ago
Had a 90mph hailnado ~8 years ago. It came straight across the yard & drove water through the front door, spalled a 1/4" of limestone off the front of the house & stripped the blades off of the grass: we had a field of t
607.
by thechao 3y ago
There's a group who're trying to get Mayan orthography into Unicode. Mayan has some challenges; the two I like best are: 1. Rendering is in pairs-of-columns, with a "Z" layout; and, 2. Glyphs have a concept of depth ,
608.
by thechao 3y ago
That "single, clear process" should be the website & app of the card issuer the subscription is through. The user should also be able to see clear limits & term durations via the card, before commute to the service, provid
609.
by thechao 3y ago
The Phi’s inherited that from Larrabee: the processor simply didn’t have any 128/256 or even “real” x87 (fpu). It did have a lot more FMA variants, including an instruction that did “single cycle next step rasterization” (faddsets)
610.
by thechao 3y ago
There's an enormous stack of SW in the HW that's enabling "cheap" ASIC development at the cost of chip performance. There's probably as much room to optimize on any given node as there are optimization opportunities
611.
by thechao 3y ago
I thought most languages have a collating order — I think even a slightly generous reading is what they mean by 'alphabetical'? Even Chinese (an important edge-case) has the traditional radical-and-stroke ordering mechanism.
612.
by thechao 3y ago
I don't know — I'd just assume that if we began dumping, say, 35 billion tons of serpentine into the Gulf per year, it might changes things?
613.
by thechao 3y ago
My argument is that we're probably going to kill the Gulf of Mexico, anyways, with global warming; so, let's go ahead and dump 34 gigatons/year of serpentine in it. That'll 0-out the CO2 we're releasing, at the co
614.
by thechao 3y ago
Anyone with little kids who like to play outside who also happened to own an Oculus already "knew" this (maybe it's just my family): my kids' favorite game on the Oculus is to spray paint the "play area" in t
615.
by thechao 3y ago
And China had ... no? large-scale battery factories 10-15 years ago? What's the point? people forget that China was not a manufacturing powerhouse 25 years ago. Building factories at ridiculous speed & scales is something that hu
616.
by thechao 3y ago
This is how TeX handles math — the "$" operator is an "inline" version of the same.
617.
by thechao 3y ago
My codebase is significantly larger than yours (mine's a mix of mostly-C++ & some C) — perhaps 10–12 million lines. Clean builds are ~10m; clean-with-ccache are ~2m; incremental are millisecond. I know this probably won't he
618.
by thechao 3y ago
Maybe an operator-overloading region ? #{ m3 = m1 * m2 + m3; m3 += m4; } Basically, pure syntactic sugar to help the author express intent without having to add a bunch of line-chatter. Speaking of operator-ove
619.
by thechao 3y ago
When my Kia went tits up I called every dealer I could (except Tesla) to try to get a car immediately . They all had months-long lead times. Tesla? I downloaded the app and bought the car as an in app purchase ; 7 days later I picked up t
620.
by thechao 3y ago
If there are 1 billion iPhones running Safari for 2h/day, and the power efficiency saves 200mwh (just a random number), then Safari saves 400MWh/day, or ~150GWh/yr. This saves ~.1% of all the power used by the world.
621.
by thechao 3y ago
My desire for "real breakthroughs ... in chaos theory" to be exactly every 50 years (to the day! the minute!) is extremely high.
622.
by thechao 3y ago
Right? > 51. ki-ma a-tar-tim-ma ul-tu lib3-bi_a-sza3-mesz_ ab-tuq-ma Is translated as: > 51. Like the Apsû, it rose up from the heart of the earth. But 'Apsu' isn't a reading in any of those words?
623.
by thechao 3y ago
Does this work for you? TurboTax has a 100% chance of either: (1) not working; or, (2) completely hosing my filing.
624.
by thechao 3y ago
It's not exponential; it's not even quadratic (it is superlinear), if you put any thought into the design. I worked on an x86 part with 15 decoders/fetch unit. The area was annoying, but unimportant. (We didn't commit 15
625.
by thechao 3y ago
AD has been a round since at least 1957 (the oldest reference to the class of technique I could find). When I studied it (from a CAS/PLT angle), it was considered a good middle-ground technique between symbolic methods & giving u
626.
by thechao 3y ago
It's done by the first major municipality in my county (a million+ city); there's just the one , and it's an hour+ drive to get there. The neighboring counties decided it was politically expedient to not have a hazardous was
627.
by thechao 3y ago
I like this, too, but I think it's hard to find out what the clearing-cost for the market is top-down. Especially for things "like recycling". Instead, I'd just make it a market problem. The point is to find a good balan
628.
by thechao 3y ago
I feel like a general-purpose law of the form: "if you sell it, you must recycle it" would nip a lot of this crap in the bud. For instance: my local paint store will happily sell you barrel's-full of paint that is then well-n
629.
by thechao 4y ago
Which set of studies did you use for this summary of the condition of 8 billion people? I know a broad swathe of people across the whole wealth spectrum, and none of them fit your thesis. I guess some say "anecdata" others say &qu
630.
by thechao 4y ago
XSLT the syntax leaves a bit to be desired. There's also a number of highly questionable default behaviors that are really unfortunate. OTOH, the concept of a term-rewriting tree-matching language is pretty great.

More ›