thechao

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by thechao 4y ago
20% more wear. This is a pretty naked hit piece.
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by thechao 4y ago
I consider the USA to be the rightful successor to George III, and the UK to be the rogue break-away state. Therefore, you're in a pub older than the UK, wrongly kept after The Glorious Revolution!
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by thechao 4y ago
This company restores dash boards for cars (anything from ~1960–~2000): https://www.justdashes.com
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by thechao 4y ago
This is precisely what the Fulbright scholarship program is for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulbright_Program
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by thechao 4y ago
I feel like I didn't get the joke. Can someone explain WTF is going on? This feels like the subject was using precise mathematical terms by metaphor to do ... procedural generation?
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by thechao 4y ago
I'm an `n=30` man, myself!
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by thechao 4y ago
It's probably best to understand it the other way around: Alex had been designing generic programming libraries in assembly, and tried to move to Ada — but was stymied. Simplifying into a just-so story: he approached Bjarne about addin
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by thechao 4y ago
Considering that road damage is proportional to axle weight to the fourth power, I can see weight transport taxation in the near electric future...
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by thechao 4y ago
I aspire to treat my cast iron like garbage; my wife says what I do is a crime . One of my griddles I found buried in the yard. Cast iron is the bomb.
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by thechao 4y ago
When I'm feeling moody, I sometimes think that no human is sentient by themselves : we are only sentient (conscious?) as a group; and, specifically, as a group we're "supersentient" with a shared "IQ" in the h
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by thechao 4y ago
Stateful allocators require a word be dedicated to the allocator in the header. In my use cases, I always have access to the allocator, but I need to create a lot of containers — most staying empty, to boot! Paying the extra overhead is
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by thechao 4y ago
If `push_back()` & friends took an (optional) extra allocator parameter, it'd be pretty ideal. It'd be nicer if the implementations were forced to be single-word containers like Stepanov wanted...
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by thechao 4y ago
I took an OS course in 2005. The professor told us we wouldn't have to consider certain classes of scheduler because "none of the real computers the university bought had 'dynamic resource allocation'". I asked what
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by thechao 4y ago
In grad school I had to do a term paper; my three partners were Chinese. Two of them approached me and asked what we were going to do when the third one cheated/plagiarized his part of the paper. Apparently, cheating is a phenomenon sp
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by thechao 4y ago
This is directly addressed in the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03005
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by thechao 4y ago
> Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features". -- Doug McIlroy
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by thechao 4y ago
Here's some Portland OR, and Texas stores: - https://www.powells.com/ - https://www.bookpeople.com/ - hpb.com (half price books) At least in store, HPB sells at the half the cover price (modulo collect
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by thechao 4y ago
I own a computer; my company buys a computer for me to do work. If the economy consists of mothing but people, companies, and computers, it'll be twice as big as you'd think it'd be. Then, you need people to manage the comput
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by thechao 4y ago
I have this theory that B2B is actually most of the economy; and, that, somehow, real people are only ancillary to that. Like a patina if human customers over a huge mound of B2B ... motion.
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by thechao 4y ago
Fair voting systems need to be both fair theoretically , but also "obviously fair" to those voting. The vast majority of the electorate is poorly educated on how election system game theory works. (Which should not be surprising.
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by thechao 4y ago
The problem isn't global representation; it's local fairness. (The 538 analysis is correct in that sense.) The problem is that for any given district, the probability of overturning the gerrymander is, in practice, impossible. I
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by thechao 4y ago
The last one was for States' rights to indefinitely expand the right to keep slaves. The Southern states (slaveholders) feared violent slave rebellions.
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by thechao 4y ago
The voting system in the US (FPTP) is fundamentally unfair. Combine with post-red-map gerrymandering, it is becoming obvious even to the people "on the wings" that our election system fundamentally disenfranchises large swathes of
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by thechao 4y ago
I hired a guy because he loves to be (technically) correct about everything, and he does so by reading (and REREADING) specs. Gives my team a superpower.
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by thechao 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_indeterminacy This is similar to nondeterminacy, and is why we end up with all sorts of “interpretations” (Copenhagen, …). Indeterminacy makes the math really hard. I would like to
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by thechao 4y ago
I've read this, too; I could only imagine the price he'd command on a painting. The man is a national treasure.
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by thechao 4y ago
I would argue that removing the warning triggers the "you touched it last" clause of FOSS development. I've done this exact thing multiple times, and the complaints always go away.
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by thechao 4y ago
I know USGS does IR (and other spectra) analysis, and the data correlate at the state-level with expected production. That imagery has been around for decades.
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by thechao 4y ago
This is UCT, not UBI. We already have a lottery, and we already know the outcome — the population at large still has home/food security issues. No additional study was necessary. It almost feels like they used the term “UCT because
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by thechao 4y ago
Good refractory snow is very uncommon, now-a-days; regular snow won't allow proper circulation in the oven above 300°C.

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