thechao

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871.
by thechao 5y ago
Is Sixel highly inefficient? It's palettized, and encodes a 6b value in an 8b code. It'd be nice if terms supported "inline PPM"; those are (on average) only somewhat larger than their equivalent BMP. (Worst case is 2x,
872.
by thechao 5y ago
Yes.
873.
by thechao 5y ago
My boss thinks I'm the crazy one because I do this; now I lnow I'm not alone! I bet there's dozens of us!
874.
by thechao 5y ago
We must seize the initiative for elaborating on the insufficiency of the science of mnemonics! It is only in the vein of such species of silliness that we can discover how truly weird and foreign our feisty English orthography is for lingui
875.
by thechao 5y ago
Does it require steel rebar or could you use glass rebar? I think most homes (that are "boxes") have concrete in compression, and not tension. That means the structural considerations for rebar are a lot lower. I think, though
876.
by thechao 5y ago
There's a lot of awful charities out there. I've used " https://www.charitynavigator.org " in the past to determine which charities are worth giving to, or not. However, I've personally interacted with
877.
by thechao 5y ago
One way to think of this: have the computer learn how to translate between any two languages, i.e., learn how to "build translators", and then attempt to translate between the unknown language and every other language.
878.
by thechao 5y ago
I’ve read Protector many times over the years, and this summary misses only one thing: he’s a superstrong duck.
879.
by thechao 5y ago
And which dialect!?
880.
by thechao 5y ago
The C `switch` statement and `goto` were made for each other, too.
881.
by thechao 5y ago
I think you're equating "mathematician" with "Fields-medallist-adjacent"? As such, I think you'd need to equate such a mathematician to the list of "greatest of all time" in basketball, who are still
882.
by thechao 5y ago
This doesn't sound right? I thought the value of the collateral had no bearing on the loan, except as a condition for the lender to call the loan if the collateral loses too much value?
883.
by thechao 5y ago
Even better is when you have tiny (<64) arrays of small numbers (<256) is just to use an array and write down the answer ; integers that are small enough self-hash in a natural order, with very little stack pressure — certainly a lot
884.
by thechao 5y ago
Here's my thought: most employees are quite risk averse, and businesses have been able to take advantage of that in order to negotiate better for wages (better=lower wages). The pandemic essentially forced people into being more comfor
885.
by thechao 5y ago
In the context I'm thinking of, I have fairly sizable arrays -- up to 512 bytes; usually, only the first few bytes are used (for state tracking); an `int` tells me the high-water mark so the data is only read after being written. The a
886.
by thechao 5y ago
I hope it's not mandatory. I'd much prefer static analysis to tell me of use-before-acquire errors: I have a number of hot-inner-loops where initialization nukes performance.
887.
by thechao 5y ago
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888.
by thechao 5y ago
https://imgur.com/a/nbDGVkq
889.
by thechao 5y ago
My favorite tshirt is for a company picnic for Enron (scheduled for after it’s dissolution); the back is covered in MBAspeak: honesty, integrity, … It’s one of my favorites — up there with my Orwellian yellow plastic “Great Place To Work” I
890.
by thechao 5y ago
I know I'm five-gajillion comments in, so this is like spitting in the ocean: call a local repair place (unaffiliated) and ask them what to get. The local fridge/appliance repair (group) -- any of the five of them -- will happil
891.
by thechao 5y ago
Yes: touching any header file causes a full rebuild. Remember that ccache is "under the hood" doing memoization. So, a clean rebuild could still hit ccache, whereas a scratch build starts from an emoty ccache.
892.
by thechao 5y ago
I skimmed the paper. I use Make, extensively, but in a way I generally don’t see in the wild (for C/++): 1. I convert all paths to abspaths; 2. All intermediate products go into a temp dir; 3. All recipes are functions; 4. The set of o
893.
by thechao 5y ago
I watched a four-tone college Corolla rear-end a metallic fleck baby blue Bentley being driven from N to S Austin. Since I was stuck there (caught in the pileup, but undamaged), I chatted with the valet. He said that the Bentley would be to
894.
by thechao 5y ago
American: by Federalization, do you mean a single pan-EU govt? Is there a sunmary if the structure & power-sharing arrangement between the constituent states?
895.
by thechao 5y ago
I see this in Texas: most of the Texans I know (not recent imports) are "meh" about immigration; and, illegal immigration? Eyeroll! My relatives in the Midwest where there's hardly any immigrants? - they're the ones comp
896.
by thechao 5y ago
My great-great grandfather argued this exact point to my dad in the late '50s: the buildings in Switzerland (and, later, Indiana) that "stood the test of time" were built to a different (far more expensive) standard.
897.
by thechao 5y ago
Yes; this Lisp is entirely in machine code and smaller than SectorForth.
898.
by thechao 5y ago
Yeah... seems like a small family would be in the right vein. I'm immediately drawn to a block format, but that'd probably double the complexity.
899.
by thechao 5y ago
Support for 16/32b and fp-formats would've been nice -- the compressor is actually orthogonal to the bit width of the channels. Custom fp-compression usually just unvolves moving the sign bit into the LSB, and delta encoding the m
900.
by thechao 5y ago
Like Common Lisp?

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