thechao

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by thechao 5y ago
Hey, so, TurboTax has a 0% chance of correctly importing my W2s & stock transactions; so, it's not like I even get that . This was my last year of using TTax — if I'd known about FreeTaxUSA, I would've hopped.
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by thechao 5y ago
I'm not sure I've ever seen "literal mindedness" argued like this in recent works? Do you have any papers or books you could point to where an archeologist or historian argues this? Most of the recent academic work I&#x2
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by thechao 5y ago
If you're any good at your chosen specialty you get a "feel" for the bullshit. I know this doesn't help the public. My experience is in medical research, crystallography, and computer science. Here's an example for
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by thechao 5y ago
A tag or a sticker with a piece of paper with an expert opinion attached to the item provides provenance. An NFT provides a way to harm the environment.
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by thechao 5y ago
Honing pigeons sound cute; honing missiles sounds awfully close to some sort of clockworkian attempt to sharpen millions of bayonets in one go.
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by thechao 5y ago
(Analrapist) "Oh! It's pronounced uh-nalll-rupist !" "I wasn't concerned with its pronunciation."
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by thechao 5y ago
The customer ends up holding the negative exernality with little ability to affect the upstream pipeline. By sending the waste "back up the pipe" it becomes each middle-company's problem. The point being that each company now
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by thechao 5y ago
Hoyle wrote an entire — very entertaining — book at as indictment of the Big Bang hypothesis, which he didn't like. It's called "The Black Cloud".
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by thechao 5y ago
Yeah — I think a “you sell it, you scrap it” law would de-externalize a lot of really harmful end-user sales: not just for source manufacturers, but every middle-man in between.
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by thechao 5y ago
Just anecdata: every theatre I've run for has been a running shitshow of OSHA violations and near-misses. You could pick any random word and make it into a "curse": something is bound to happen.
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by thechao 5y ago
I was confused by GP's post, as well! I have only seen quadratic voting used to decide amongst non-binary questions: positions with at least 3 (or more) possible outcomes. It seems weird to mix voting across a bunch of different issues
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by thechao 5y ago
Right; I think at worst we're managing to rewind ourselves to the `90s, at this point. I think a lot of people don't remember how much social change there was starting in the early `00s through the early `10s. I'm not pleas
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by thechao 5y ago
Here's what I've learned from reading your responses: if a person is a lawyer who specializes in interacting and/or commonly interacts with the FTB, then the "FTB are easy to work with"; but, if you're a "
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by thechao 5y ago
There's no "blocking light": anything that "blocks light" would get hot from absorbing that light and, then, reradiate. By this time (some point along the curve of "infinitely old universe") everything sho
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by thechao 5y ago
I always thought that "array of ints" was a greatly unappreciated concept for declarative ... anything. They can be easily hot reloaded, they compile fast, and they're not terrible . OTOH, you'd just be reinventing the
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by thechao 5y ago
This is why I think Moore (LLHD), Verilator, and Yosys are such awesome tools. They move a lot more slowly than (say) GCC, but I personally think they're all close to the tipping point.
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by thechao 5y ago
Synthesizable verilog is a very small language compared to system verilog — especially in the 90s. Off the top of my head I know of six "just real quick" verilog simulators that I've worked with (one of which I wrote). I&#x
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by thechao 5y ago
Segment registers are precisely how NT does context switching. I think it may be restricted to just switching from user- to kernel- threads. I can't remember if there's thread-to-thread switching using segment registers — I feel
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by thechao 5y ago
Rational arithmetic on a computer does not satisfy this property, either, for the exact same reason floating point does not: there is a finite amount of memory. Floating point embraces this edge-case in a rigorous way that none of the rat
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by thechao 5y ago
Dust doesn't crawl on to a desk from the floor; it settles in from the air. If you're placing a new computer on to a previously dusty surface then, yes, you might see an initial spike in dust coming in. After that, I'd bet
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by thechao 5y ago
Floating point numbers are a particular way to represent (and modestly compress) rational numbers. I'm against rational number libraries because they use non-power-of-2 denominators and are, thus, fundamentally less efficient with resp
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by thechao 5y ago
I've been thinking, recently, that the various state/local/fed govts should have to eat their own dog-food: there should be a govt API that is: (1) publicly available; and, (2) the only legal way to access data and make chang
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by thechao 5y ago
Yeah, except the last time I got in to this, it turned out that Texas was one of the very few states with a well-written sane driving rule. Executive summary of Texas driving law: you must stay as far to the right as you can, without cros
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by thechao 5y ago
He refused vaccination. Also, not the greatest human; but, he served his time, so I don't think that had an impact.
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by thechao 5y ago
I recently showed the WSJ numbers for domestic petrochem production and for spot prices of crude (from 1985 to present) to a guy who then claimed that WSJ is a "leftist rag, pushing a commie liberal agenda". It was an ... eye-open
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by thechao 5y ago
So, in 2011 Clinton wanted to discuss an OpEd piece in the NYT? Wasn't, like, her job to become informed of all possible strategic opprtunities available to the US on the geopolitical stage?
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by thechao 5y ago
Huh. Which operating pipelines did he shut down?
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by thechao 5y ago
I'm not sure what this means? I haven't tracked energy markets & transportation in a while. I'm not sure how even the US president could affect marginal energy production and transport in a year, outside of starting a war
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by thechao 5y ago
The cost of removing an impedance mismatch between other peoples's code and your code base is inversely proportional to the scale of your code-base. If you have a 10 line program, use the standard libraries. If you have 10 billion line
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by thechao 5y ago
Alternate take: all those participants played nice in the hopes that it'd lead to an autocratic take-over of the US, neatly getting rid of their major enemy. In that vein, Trump was just the "best moron" they'd seen in

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