thechao

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by thechao 7mo ago
Damn! I just nuked a long conversation with ChatGPT outlining my pet theory that with changes in scale of energy regimes (labor->wind/water->coal->oil->solar) we get an excess energetic capacity that means our entertainment
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by thechao 7mo ago
I know "serde" is a take on "codec" but *rewrite* was right there! Also, as long as I'm whinging about naming? 'print' and 'parse' are five letter p words in a bidirectional relationship. Oh! Oh!
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by thechao 7mo ago
Restricted representative size, gerrymandering, FPTP voting, businesses with resident/citizen rights, the restriction of 42 U.S.C. 1983 to not cover Federal actors...
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by thechao 8mo ago
Hot take: Trump's denialism of 2020 and the use of '3rd term' is so that they can make a case that he can have a '4th term' -- that the will of the people to elect him overrides the constitutional limits of Presiden
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by thechao 8mo ago
It's ok, at best . I can tell you really like it, so for other people that should be a great indicator!
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by thechao 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure we've had a collapse in trade hours available per capita at a rate that's far exceeded productivity gains. If a GC has a fixed labor pool that can build at either 200$/ft or 600$/ft, then labor const
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by thechao 8mo ago
I had Windows^(TM) installed in my house when it was built. We're on the top of a 700' hill, so The Weather is pretty accurate.
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by thechao 8mo ago
> If your types are not structurally too complicated Load bearing hand waving.
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by thechao 8mo ago
I object to the "late" argument made by etho's parent. The difference in time to destination will inevitably be dominated by lights, in city travel, not by modest speed differences (say 45 vs 55) on a highway. Being safe &amp
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by thechao 8mo ago
I don't know code examples, but this tracks, for me. Anytime I have an agent write something "obvious" and crazy hard -- say a new compiler for a new language? Golden. I ask it to write a fairly simple stack invariant version
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by thechao 8mo ago
GPT likes to argue , and most of its arguments are straw man arguments, usually conflating priors. It's ... exhausting; akin to arguing on the internet. (What am I even saying, here!?) Claude's a lot less of that. I don't kn
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by thechao 8mo ago
It's a constant stream of makeup & dogs. I just stick to Michael Penn on YT.
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by thechao 9mo ago
Then ... you find out that smoking was introduced to the new world in the 16th c, and indigenous North Americans didn't start using the bow & arrow ubiquitously until after the year 1000. But! Native North Americans were using co
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by thechao 9mo ago
So... every company only hires the best!? I jest, I jest! In general, I've found that the younger engineers (20s, up to 30s) have a lot of vim & vigor; but, even the very best ones generally do a lot of spinning-in-place, when th
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by thechao 9mo ago
Our least tasty crop!
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by thechao 9mo ago
Overlapping. I have my needs.
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by thechao 9mo ago
I know this is a bit cursed; but, I always wanted a bitfield-on-steroids construct: struct Dang : bits 64 // 64 bits wide, int total { foo : bits 5 @ 0; // 5 bits wide at bit offset 0 bar
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by thechao 9mo ago
Waymo's been in Austin for a while! Seeing them on MOPAC, when I don't think they're supposed to be on the highway, is always charming.
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by thechao 9mo ago
Ballpark figures based on the ram earth construction for TGE vs AOT would have the AOT wall be 5-10x the volume & mass of the TGW. The issue is labor — the Great Wall probably represents 20–100 million ma years of labor. The AoT wall pr
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Summary paper on the STAR-Vote system [pdf](cs.rice.edu)
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by thechao 9mo ago
You can't say "no" to a restaurant without voting "yes" to an alternative. The first restaurant to a majority wins. Is it a perfect system? No. Do I get to eat in a reasonable amount of time: yes.
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by thechao 9mo ago
You sound bored. If we triple head count overnight, we'd only slow our backlog, temporarily. Every problem we solve only opens up a larger group of harder problems to solve.
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by thechao 9mo ago
Sun Diver by David Brin, or The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle are both adjacent to this.
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by thechao 9mo ago
You're absolutely right! The irony of a five sentence article making giant claims isn't lost on me. Don't get me wrong: I'm amenable to the idea ; but, y'know, my kids wrote longer essays in 4th grade.
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by thechao 9mo ago
"Freedom for me, rules for thee". Texas has always been a cesspit of political kickback. I mean ... not Illinois or New Jersey, but annoying enough.
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by thechao 9mo ago
> which would probably hae been another 3-5k if I could have found someone to do it. Yo. If you can find an electrician to stop by my house and turn a light switch off for less than 1000$, please inform me. I got a quote for 25k$ to inst
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by thechao 9mo ago
It's about 3%, and the study had major flaws in its context; large westernized countries are out of scope. I don't remember paper, but I just lost this argument to a lawyer.
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by thechao 9mo ago
Vibecoding is the feeling of coding. It's the same feeling people have when they say they can see the picture in their head, but can't quite draw it.
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by thechao 9mo ago
That's just a rescue op, bro.
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by thechao 9mo ago
Right? It was a weird test. It started with OCEAN — which got a completely different result than the real OCEAN tests I've done — and then moved to a weird interest/aptitude test. It's clearly some BS marketing thing.

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