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by thechao 4y ago
Have you checked out the PFR library (perfect flat reflection)? I've coupled this with the magic-enum library to good effect. PFR can be rewritten in very little code, assuming c++14(?); magic-enum is long enough to just use. I general
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by thechao 4y ago
I suspect most Americans don't drive as far as Americans do. I've got a hella commute & it's only 21 miles, each way. Getting to my parents is 55 miles. My in-laws are 205 — but stop for lunch anyways .
723.
by thechao 4y ago
This description of money doesn't sound right, to me? Personally, I subscribe to the Graeber-Innes hypothesis: the use of precious metal coinage was a credit risk mitigation strategy. Using gold (or whatever) was important not because
724.
by thechao 4y ago
Knight: pronounced similar to the Monty Python sketch. In fact a lot of "weird" English orthography is just dialectic drift after orthographic ossification.
725.
by thechao 4y ago
EDIT: I can’t modify this to narrow the assertion to “… the US had a city (Cahokia) larger than its European contemporaries…” Also, all of the Americas gets historical short shrift from the old world: my point still stands: there was a co
726.
by thechao 4y ago
The largest city in the "middle ages" was in the US. Europeans trot that "no history" story out because saying "... and then Europeans engaged in the largest genocide in human history" doesn't feel as good
727.
by thechao 4y ago
Then I make my kiddos prove that it's 3. That's the place where understanding comes in: understanding that algebra is operations on the equation as a whole, and not just divining the correct answer.
728.
by thechao 4y ago
I like the fact that it's 10^3.
729.
by thechao 4y ago
Weird: > https://usma.org/laws-and-bills/metric-conversion-act-of-197... > https://usma.org/laws-and-bills/executive-order-12770 The US government hasn't been great in converting US i
730.
by thechao 4y ago
adrian_b's explanation is pretty good explanation of what I'm saying. To expand on that: you cannot pack transistors side-by-side without moving to global custom poly. The result is that there's a large amount of "te
731.
by thechao 4y ago
2nm transistor is still on the order of 10s of millions of atoms.
732.
by thechao 4y ago
We say "c++" not scare off applicants; but, it's really c/asm/machine-code. Interview at c++ shops & ask how they manage lifetimes in their codebase.
733.
by thechao 4y ago
That's probably just a yellow bike shed, though?
734.
by thechao 4y ago
My personal conspiracy theory is a coordinated submarine RE investing strategy from ultralarge private accounts, designed to destabilize Western economies. The "obvious" answer of "housing bubble rollover" is so much m
735.
by thechao 4y ago
I can't decide if this is my favorite autocorrect, or least favorite. I'll let it stand — mostly because it's too late to edit!
736.
by thechao 4y ago
It's the moral equivalent of making major headway against P!=NP; or, proving that there are no global hidden variables in QM; or, that there's a clear path ("just engineering") to room-temperature semiconductors.
737.
by thechao 4y ago
Tax patents as "property" whose maximum damages are proportional to the taxes paid? Give the owner of the patent a "grace period" and have the taxation schedule ramp up over the life-time of the patent. So, for instance:
738.
by thechao 4y ago
OS/2 runs NYC's metrocard thingy. So, the "users" may (indirectly) include "New York City's entire metro traveling population".
739.
by thechao 4y ago
I use printer mode (gray scale). I mean; originally just to irritate my boss during code review, but then it grew on me. I wish there was a good black&white underline/italic/bold theme a la Algol 68.
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by thechao 4y ago
I … don’t know? Originally, it just felt like some janky subset of LLVM-IR: close enough to almost work with the standard tooling, right out of the box, but not quite . It’s been nearly 10 years since I’ve looked at it, though, so what d
741.
by thechao 4y ago
Why would using registers make it NP complete? Is there a reason concatenative languages aren't (naturally) primal chordal graphs? I mean other than the conservative approximation being to assume it is not?
742.
by thechao 4y ago
I have an irrational dislike of SPIR-V. On the flip side of the coin I think MLIR is a work of genius — especially as a springboard for ideas in developing custom IR.
743.
by thechao 4y ago
At this point, I think "Unix" maps cleanly onto a Chesterton's Gate.
744.
by thechao 4y ago
I'm trying to imagine how you refit plumbing and elevators on a commercial building. The office building we have at work has 6 toilets per floor , and each floor is probably 50,000 sqft. If you replaced that with residential, you&#x27
745.
by thechao 4y ago
Does anyone have an good intro tutorial for writing a language server in, say, C for some simple language? I find most of the docs a little too inscrutable to follow for just a bit of dabbling.
746.
by thechao 4y ago
Right; no; here's a fully interactive map of the roots of NIMBYism in segregation, from Berkeley: https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/06/21/how-american-racism-is-... My wife is actively involved in redistr
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by thechao 4y ago
I don't know about where you live; but, here in Texas, NIMBYism is an outgrowth of redlining, whose stated purpose was anti-Semitic & anti-nonwhite: it was literally rooted in antidemocratic ideals.
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by thechao 4y ago
What percentage of their profit is attributable to these specific placed-items? If placed-item profit is < 1 billion, then it is no longer profitable as a subunit of AMZN.
749.
by thechao 4y ago
Could I get some clarification? > Divide that back down below 800 to 600 Do you mean "keep dividing 1200 by 2 until it is less than 400 times 2"? So, if I have a starting frequency N and some multiple frequency KN then the
750.
by thechao 4y ago
By case: (1.A) Yes. As I said in another comment, though, it turns out that in the limited research that's been done, the average person is somewhat better at doing the job than the average career politician. The argument is that the s

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