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901.
by thechao 5y ago
As a grad student, I was willing to take boutique courses from any of the PLT folk in the larger group (including Bjarne & Gaby). Most of the students were terrified of Bjarne, but I'd sit front-and-center and pepper him with quest
902.
by thechao 5y ago
Fabulous!
903.
by thechao 5y ago
> And yet, “Mycenaean” translates roughly to the mushroom people… This has got to be my top-contender for wackiest HN comment if the week. Please: could you show any sources for this assertion? Start with the sctual Greek; because, t
904.
by thechao 5y ago
My gut feeling is that the combination of typestates and stackless coroutines (really: CSP) would make for a kick-ass driver design. It's pretty solid for the toys I've designed for OpenGLES-2-class drivers. My gut feeling is that
905.
by thechao 5y ago
Bureaucomputation. (Byur-ah-computation?)
906.
by thechao 5y ago
While I'm certainly not proud of these places, what makes you think wealth & power -- or the loss of them -- correlates with being "nice"? Countries act like kids, and it's the kid with the worst home that is the wor
907.
by thechao 5y ago
This is a Trolley Car problem: you're going to kill someone : do you flip the switch to kill the baby, or let the Trolley plow through the crowd of people? Now you know why Philosophy professors teach this problem in Philosophy 101.
908.
by thechao 5y ago
Without naming a place, a friend of mine checked out a copy of the parliamentary proceedings (from the UK) of the House of Lords from the early 19th c. They were the only one to have ever checked any of these books out. Mostly boring, but
909.
by thechao 5y ago
All of the videos of these kinds I've seen were clearly fake.
910.
by thechao 5y ago
Hardware config file for a small SOC. It faithfully describes every addressable physical byte .
911.
by thechao 5y ago
Reduce, reuse, and put in a giant pit so we know where to find it later.
912.
by thechao 5y ago
But 100% more firing a flamethrower into your hydrogen filled envelope while looking your customers in the eye .
913.
by thechao 5y ago
I tried to convince a group that: 1. Hot air balloons get their lift from hot air; and, 2. Dirigibles can get their lift from hydrogen; thus, 3. Hot hydrogen dirigible? Blah blah blah ... exploding dirigibles ... blah blah blah. The lifting
914.
by thechao 5y ago
Right!? I just naturally assumed that everyone could picture & model 3d shapes in their visual space (like AR), until I was in college. I used to design machines & parts "in front of me" and then build them. I think it&#x2
915.
by thechao 5y ago
Off the top of my head "flying vehicles" and "body preservation" are well-attested in many other cultures (Ancient Egypt; Mayans) that I'm 100% certain had neither. You are for sure reading too much into this. &gt
916.
by thechao 5y ago
Smoking is attested both archeologically, and historiographically dating back something like 7000 years in the old world. People have been smoking opium & marijuana in the middle east for probably 2000 years. Smoking culture in India go
917.
by thechao 5y ago
> were mentioned in a matter-of-fact way as if it is not a novelty You've said this twice now. In persuasive writing, once you state a fact, you must draw a conclusion, clearly. Please, draw for me your conclusion. Since we're
918.
by thechao 5y ago
I'd argue that GPL-licensed works should remain "authorial", and that each commit generates a new derivative object and, thus, a new copyright. In that sense, the "old code" goes into the public domain in ~28 years,
919.
by thechao 5y ago
First, I'm restricting this to the US! I replied elsewhere, but will reply here, as well. I think there should be two "schedules": 1. A private schedule, which is tax-free which terminates at 28 years or upon any (or all?) of
920.
by thechao 5y ago
I haven't thought about patents. But, for copyrights, I think there should be two "schedules": 1. A fixed original-author schedule which is 28 years, tax free; and, 2. A "work for hire" schedule which is 70+ years,
921.
by thechao 5y ago
Geoist taxes are always problematic for this reason. I suspect that if the tax valuation is phased in slowly it'd have a good trade-off.
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by thechao 5y ago
I like this. We should do the same for copyright: the owner of the thing (patent; trademark; copyright) declares a value, then they pay a tax on the value; anyone else can “pay the balance” to buy off the monopoly.
923.
by thechao 5y ago
Fingers are very crossed for a touch-capable Blender.
924.
by thechao 5y ago
Freedom of speech is with respect to the state , not other people. If you can show that these platforms are acting on behalf of the state — sure. But, I suspect they’re not.
925.
by thechao 5y ago
Hm. Okay … I consider things like “dynamic programming, memoization, and [graph] traversal” to be basic skills of a systems programmer. I didn’t realize people didn’t look for those skills to weed out the flerbs.
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by thechao 5y ago
When we were taught to type, we used long-stroke hammer typewriters. The tab stop was a bit of metal with notches & clips. You set the tab stop with a ruler, and each time you pressed tab it went to next stop. If your tab stop was worn
927.
by thechao 5y ago
I work at a FAANG, but I don’t really understand what a “leet code” interview is? I’ve interviewed hundreds of people, and hired a number of them. What makes a great engineer is enthusiasm, curiosity, good communication skills, and a willin
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by thechao 5y ago
I had a little non-recursive JSON parser hanging around. When you have "nested" levels you've really only got two choices: object, or array. That implies that to track nesting, you just need an array of 1b values. In order to
929.
by thechao 5y ago
Isn't this the same situation that the USA eventually found itself in with respect to the USSR? I think the whole cold war can be re-envisioned as a socioeconomic conflict.
930.
by thechao 5y ago
I canceled by clicking a button. NYT very much knows I'm in Texas, not California. It was so easy I almost signed back up...

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