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by thechao 4y ago
Here's how out-of-the-loop I am: I'd don't know the command line method for invoking the JS runtime on my computer! What it is? I regularly image my laptop, so I'd like to know what the system JS command line is. (I use
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by thechao 4y ago
Has anyone seen a good analysis on what went wrong? I found a USAToday article with a partial fragment saying that one of the wheels had a failed bearing, and this was the proximal cause of the derailment. It seems to me that (as pointed ou
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by thechao 4y ago
I feel a bit dumb: there's a waitlist to "talk" to chatgpt or bing ai? But, any search I do just takes me to articles about these chat bots, but never have links to the chat bot? Does someone have a direct link to the cha
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by thechao 4y ago
"The Onion wins Pulitzer; expresses confusion: editor says 'we were just drinking at the pub and started making shit up; we didn't know it was real!'"
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by thechao 4y ago
In homeopathy, it goes from bad->less bad->good on dilution!
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by thechao 4y ago
I took that course in '96, as a lost liberal arts major, with no background in CS. If you paid attention & didn't get behind in course work, it was an easy A. Most of the people failing that class never bothered to do the cour
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by thechao 4y ago
It’s a lot easier to do formal verification… which is a fancy BDD, in many ways.
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by thechao 4y ago
And a 64b sweep is ~21 days. As a HW guy who tests fp units... just saying. The real issue is that the verification code is much, much, slower.
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by thechao 4y ago
It's been a while since I wrote this, but I seem to remember that widows are NP-hard at least : fitting them to pages maps onto box-packing. I really implemented this algorithm so that I could nicely "flow" images in a GUI w
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by thechao 4y ago
There were Sumerians solving differential equations at least 3700 years ago. Irving Finkel has a wonderful book about this: "The Ark Before Noah".
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by thechao 4y ago
I'm home, alone, so I couldn't possibly tell you!
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by thechao 4y ago
If AbsInt is packing Cousot-adjacent work, does it stand for "ABStract INTerpretation"? Because that'd be cool.
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by thechao 4y ago
I have a tongue-in-cheek assertion that a single human can be smart — perhaps even intelligent. But, what we're experiencing in our society, right now, is an emergent superintelligence that is the culmination of the interaction of 8
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by thechao 4y ago
I used to be a grad student adjacent to Bjarne Stroustrup; he has a quip he's used a bunch: if no one's complaining, no one cares. I see all of these complaints — both the volume, and the count — as great indicators of Rust's
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by thechao 4y ago
Right!? I went out, by myself, walking through suburban and semiurban (Houston) as a young child in the 80s and 90s — easily far more dangerous in a practical sense: more crime, less ubiquitous cell phones, ... This helicoptering is nuts. I
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by thechao 4y ago
Given that you know to apply a specific tax rule, the logic is formalized for the US. The problem is knowing when a specific tax rule applies to a given tax situation. In general, the IRS has an opinion — and not matching their opinion ca
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by thechao 4y ago
I got a bunch of Edwardian—WW2 photos in one go, and netted 3190. I might be able to get higher than that, but only if the photos predate 2000. I think styles changed a lot from 1900—1970. After that, things are pretty hard to distinguish;
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by thechao 4y ago
As a stop gap, we could mechanically link all the "autonomous" cars, together and just out one human in charge until the AGI tech is ready!
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by thechao 4y ago
Losing fat requires calorie restriction; calorie restriction will lead to loss of both fat and lean-body-mass. When you stop your calorie restriction, you gain back fat much more easily than lean-body-mass (this is a result of the Milwaukee
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by thechao 4y ago
> Other writers have speculated that Gödel may have had other parts of the Constitution in mind as well, including the possibility that a partisan ratchet effect, via lifetime Supreme Court appointments and selective application of the l
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by thechao 4y ago
I still don't know why it doesn't come with an equalizer built into Home. Sometimes I want grumbly bass; sometimes I want to understand Bane without subtitles.
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by thechao 4y ago
I have an identical twin brother; I began IF (eating only 1/3 of target calories on Mon/Fri) in 2012. We do functional similar levels of cardio, weight-training; we're both programmers, with similar hours. Right now, I'm
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by thechao 4y ago
I am a "J Smith" and my employer has many of us. Every quarter "we" (the group of specifically-first-named J-Smith's) are sent an email kindly reminding us to change our middle name in the corporate directory to &
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by thechao 4y ago
I'm on macOS, and if I do this: > git clone ... > make -j > ./bin/wasm2wat ./test/core/address.wast I get: >>> ./bin/wat2wasm test/core/address.wast
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by thechao 4y ago
This serious analysis is stupider than the entire plot of Idiocracy.
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by thechao 4y ago
I friend of mine has "common short personal name" at icloud.com, me.com, mac.com, gmail.com, hotmail.com, proton, ... Importantly, one of those is bound to his iCloud account. During the holidays, he has an alternate "burner
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by thechao 4y ago
I've started reading a lot more, again. I just read 10-15 years "in arrears". There's so much highly-produced crap, out there, it boggles the mind. The immediate last two books I read that violated this rule (both fantas
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by thechao 4y ago
Reddit's business is to house all of the echo-chambers, though, isn't it? That seems like a great business to be in, during this Heyday of Echo Chamber Construction™.
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by thechao 4y ago
I worked on the LRB through LRB3. I wrote the non-polygon pipeline for omatic (lines, points, billboards); later I switched to the shader compiler (masher) under mattomatic. Larrabee 1 (all of omatic) had fixed function on the turns: textur
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by thechao 4y ago
No they didn’t. The Dogon BS was debunked years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogon_people#Astronomical_beliefs

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