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by thechao 1y ago
I don't know about 43kWH/5400$. But, here's the system I've been looking at: https://www.expertpower.us/products/10800w-50kwh?_pos=2&_sid... That's 50KWH of battery, plus the 10.8KW of sola
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by thechao 1y ago
I recognize this in my self, so I usually preface the story saying something like "this may or may not have been me, but I'm telling it from the first person". First person stories are funnier. This is part of the "telli
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by thechao 1y ago
I was going to reply directly to you; but the re-reply is fine. I don't think your conclusion is wrong, but your analysis is bogus AF. Compiler transforms are usually strongly superpolynomial (quadratic or cubic or some NP-hard demon);
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by thechao 1y ago
> It's like comparing an F150 with a Ferrari, a decision that no buyer needs to make. ... maybe a Prius? Bruh.
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by thechao 1y ago
TaPL really falls down when trying to bootstrap your way to understanding the notation. A lot of the notation and theory revolves around, essentially, implementing a concurrent virtual machine. I like the original algorithm W paper because
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by thechao 1y ago
Texas used to have a great desalination plan, but it was left pretty idle. It's ... ok? https://www.twdb.texas.gov/innovativewater/desal/doc/2024_Th... The current projection is ~200k acre/ft by 207
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by thechao 1y ago
My great grandmother, who was born in 1891, asserted ca. 1990 that her favorite invention was large print novels. More importantly: the social right to read trashy novels. But, yeah, computers, planes, starships, nuclear power, etc etc.
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by thechao 1y ago
He's changed the focus of his stories, for sure; I get that it's not everyone's cup-of-tea. But, his prose & storytelling is still just as strong. (I agree, though.)
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by thechao 1y ago
I've had plans for a sci-fi book I plan to never write that takes place in the ultra far future. The chapters' numbers would be the time dilation scale in a base 10 logarithm. The book would be made up of a series of short stories
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by thechao 1y ago
> This is a Muslim conception of God. How can this be true when so many things that give us comfort in the natural world: fresh fruit, shade trees, sunshine and warm sand between our toes, etc., were not created by man? ... > The Jewi
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by thechao 1y ago
This is the great part about science: whether or not you agree with the authors' conclusions, they just asked the question "is our preconceived 'obviously correct' conclusion actually correct". Then, they dove in to
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by thechao 1y ago
I think good historians are on the same foot as philosophers in the arena of "thinking really fucking hard and making an airtight analysis".
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by thechao 1y ago
Fuck. I write shader compilers.
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by thechao 1y ago
Sheesh. I've got a multimillion line modern C++ protect that consists of a large number of dylibs and a few hundred delivered apps. A completely cache-free build is an only few minutes. Incremental and clean (cached) builds are seconds
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by thechao 1y ago
While I hate the current housing gridlock, these laws represent a classic Chesterton fence. They were enacted precisely because "upzoning" fell heaviest on the poor, minorities, the elderly, and other functionally disenfranchised
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by thechao 1y ago
My high school was right across from a branch of a university (UHD) where the PhD candidates developed IQ tests. We (the HS students) could take them for extra credit. My favorite example was a block-arranging test (there was a set of block
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by thechao 1y ago
Hand computed in the finest morning rays by monks in the Dolomites.
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by thechao 1y ago
RAM Air in San Marcos, south of Austin. Ask for Edgar. He's self trained and likes to rebuild boards from scratch. He'll service out to west Austin if the job is big enough. He mostly trains techs. So, if you ask, he'll happi
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by thechao 1y ago
I don't know what scale of "billions" you're talking about; but, Intel blew 1–2 billion on Larrabee. Even worse: Intel blew 5+ billion on mobile pre-iPhone. I remember when that team was shown the door — that's when
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by thechao 1y ago
A lot of people fear monger about AGI. But... I've met a lot of NGI, and they mostly watch TV, surf the intarwebz, drink beer, and watch the game.
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by thechao 1y ago
If you're ever in Austin, gimme a call. I'd love to be a dumb & doctored, together.
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by thechao 1y ago
Day 53: 2000m below sea level. 41g gold. Yelled at for breaking driver ABI. Feet hurt.
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by thechao 1y ago
Nothing that spends a lot of money on the scale of the Fed. Just low cost culture war stuff.
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by thechao 1y ago
> On the other hand, American food products make it unnecessarily hard to consistently meet your caloric deficit, which makes people wrongly conclude that diet and exercise just doesn't work. As an American who lost 100+ pounds &amp
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by thechao 1y ago
I have a question: do Epic's games have in-game stores. Do they have to open those stores to 3rd parties, now? I mean ... fair-is-fair, right?
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by thechao 1y ago
In my teens I worked with the statistics department at UTMB. That had a cast of characters there; many profs in the 70s and 80s, who'd gotten their degrees before WW2. A number of them had schooling of the form: Start school at 9-10, d
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by thechao 1y ago
The serpentinization process is an alternate history humanity saver. Here's a crazy long article that has an analysis smack dab in the middle of it: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/olivine-weathering/ . I s
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by thechao 1y ago
I've been having thoughts along these lines. Earley parsers match recursive descent really nicely. In my head there'd by an Earley parser "oracle": you'd tell the oracle about the operations you've performed (i
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by thechao 1y ago
The naturally clamp tightly to the spirits of the dead. Don't wanna be dragging your dead great aunt's ghost the night club.
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by thechao 1y ago
Dear map makers who show us by-state break-downs: normalize by the population. The first map tells me this: New York, Florida, and Texas have large populations.

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