thechao

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811.
by thechao 4y ago
I always thought that all govt processes — high to low — should have an API for filing paperwork, with a publically available "wirk queue" that anyone could query. The govt would be mandated to use its own APIs, and motion in the
812.
by thechao 4y ago
I also found Win16/32 with "the giant switch statement" easy to program & reason about. Once you weapped your head around how to minimize the rdraw area, there wasn't much that could wrong. OTOH, it was a really tedi
813.
by thechao 4y ago
None of which work reliably across multiple modules all fighting for control of the logger. Reliable is the key term, here.
814.
by thechao 4y ago
I can easily fork output manually ; I can't do it reliably using Python's logger.
815.
by thechao 4y ago
I can't agree with you more. I switched to Python's logger off of my janky thing about 6 months ago, and I'm hating every second of it. I still have no clue how to turn it on, turn it off, get it to fork output (stdout, stder
816.
by thechao 4y ago
Why is the income limited to 500000$?
817.
by thechao 4y ago
What, exactly, is the ingredient "flavour"?
818.
by thechao 4y ago
I seitched to high volume, low weight, and it has been a game changer. Lifting heavy is just a way to destroy joints and get injuries. One sude effect is hypertrophy — I've added 2cm to my arms, tone is way better, and I don't hu
819.
by thechao 4y ago
Why not a much shorter list with adjectives? I think the last time I looked at this, a few disjoint lists of 256 words, plus a few 16 word adjective lists gets down to ~1m accuracy. Dropping adjectives just reduces accuracy. > big red pl
820.
by thechao 4y ago
I have a service tech for appliances. I just ask him what I should buy. He usually has suggestions from all the cost-ranges. Sometimes, I buy used through him (built-in fridge); sometimes I buy new. Since I had the opportunity to buy a bunc
821.
by thechao 4y ago
It'd be nice if I could align my identity to my service provider: gmail for Google, iCloud for Apple; and ... Amazon-mail for Amazon; hulu mail for Hulu? AT&T-mail, .. For the "big" players it seems it'd be eaay enou
822.
by thechao 4y ago
It's a great way to tell jokes, loosen up the interviewee, and get the jitters out.
823.
by thechao 4y ago
You must also sign a form saying you will not boycott Israel.
824.
by thechao 4y ago
We call it the lottery — the last ~5 years we "won"; this year? Maybe not so much.
825.
by thechao 4y ago
Right; so my plan of having 60% of my wealth tied up in unvested stocks in a single company is really coming to fruition!
826.
by thechao 4y ago
> I’m slightly underweight, and I can eat quite a bit without gaining much weight Interesting! Here's a challenge for you: could you buy — and eat — 5000 calories of chips/candy/soda per day for the next 90 days. You may n
827.
by thechao 4y ago
Don't worry, some of us are still fighting for the gloriously base-2 US customary system; base-10 is only for people who don't float. And the 30cm foot.
828.
by thechao 4y ago
This reminds me of phase-problem from protein crystallograpy (PX). I'm 15+ years away from that space, so I have no idea what the modern solution space looks like, but it seems like there's a corollary between reverse-AD-over-SDFs
829.
by thechao 4y ago
Say it together: "solar thermal powered superheated steam bottle rocket". We build a big, black bottle with a bunch of nozzles on the end, and focus these mirrors on the nozzly-end of the big, black bottle. You can use these &quot
830.
by thechao 5y ago
I spent a disenjoyable 45 minutes one afternoon trying to learn the basics of solving; somehow, I could never get the cube "solved". Eventually, I discivered my daughter had rearranged a few of the stickers, resulting in an unsolv
831.
by thechao 5y ago
The idiom "sour grapes" comes from that story!
832.
by thechao 5y ago
The HN-centric term for this is "middlebrow"; a good middlebrow filter is definitely required to navigate HN.
833.
by thechao 5y ago
Y'all have plenty of water in Wales: it feels like a simple water clock could do a trivial repositioning of the panels to do precomputed solar tracking.
834.
by thechao 5y ago
In the US, IP rights are not a natural right. Instead, they are a limited monopoly granted by the people through their agent (the US government) to inventors and authors. The problem is that there are bad actors "patent trolls"
835.
by thechao 5y ago
I fucking hate software patents. The best part about taxing them, like this, is that SW patents become a major financial liability.
836.
by thechao 5y ago
If IP is real property, it should be taxed. The tax system I like for IP works for hire is this: each year you owe 1/4% * N (where N is the age of the IP) in taxes on the IP. Whatever you pay, the "public" (anyone/ever
837.
by thechao 5y ago
There's some ... but I think it misses two really important ones (and this is just off the top of my head): 1. The Romans had an eight day "week"; and, 2. The mesoamericans had a 260 day "week" (or, at best, interlo
838.
by thechao 5y ago
Yes; Keenan Crane does amazing work; his book (and online video series) on Discrete Differential Geometry are really good.
839.
by thechao 5y ago
Some of the largest houses my cadre of friends & family own are in Florida — they are built with cinderblock. Timber & wood are just different , not necessarily cheaper.
840.
by thechao 5y ago
Sounds like I have reading to do! I guess I really just take exception with the claim that the currently living are any more (or less) literal than our (distant) ancestors. For instance: my wife wants to get two, adjacent, cemetary plots so

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