CaptainJack

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by CaptainJack 5mo ago
Said farmers were family of the founder of a large HFT firm.
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by CaptainJack 7mo ago
Author is on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eigenvalue
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by CaptainJack 7mo ago
Curious about the specs of servers that you are buying. We are looking for some non-GPU HPC servers, but there's always the question of whether second-hand servers will be good-enough/power-efficient for our use case.
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by CaptainJack 8mo ago
Amazing thing, bookmarked! Will save me lots of time, thanks.
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by CaptainJack 8mo ago
Nice site, could see myself using it. But please, allow also changing to usec and nsec. Plenty of software uses uint64 for nanoseconds since epoch, it'd be nice to be able to convert these as well.
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by CaptainJack 9mo ago
Having first hand experience of all of the named public services, I beg to differ heavily. These corporations tend to be heavily left-leaning, with no real guardrails preventing this. The consequence is pretty biased coverage, under the gui
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by CaptainJack 1y ago
All experts in restoration/conservation have argued that the tapestry is too old and fragile to be moved. Macron has pushed for it (to announce as part of his state visit to the UK), the director of the Bayeux Museum has accepted (he i
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by CaptainJack 1y ago
That's great, I really like it. My main thought is that most of non-american engineers favor SI units, so getting values in cups, ounces and pounds is not too great. A possible improvement would be to replace freedom units with their i
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by CaptainJack 2y ago
I've used beancount extensively, spent many hours a few years ago. Built importers parsing bank PDFs (in UK, plaid doesn't work. Plus I'd rather also keep all the original statement PDFs). Probably built 10+ importers, plus s
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by CaptainJack 2y ago
Being in the uk, we were fortunate enough to choose rust as a main language with my co-founder about two years ago. We chose it after trying it out for some toy projects, and with no real experience with it (but both of us having heavy expe
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by CaptainJack 2y ago
Yes. Close to us, there was a landslide-caused tsunami in Nice, France back in 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Nice_tsunami
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by CaptainJack 2y ago
Numatic Henry's are a classic of design [1], are built to last with the same design for 50 years. All parts can be changed, spares are plenty, and they were built with janitors in mind, so meant to handle daily use. [1] As-in, they des
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by CaptainJack 4y ago
The UK has had a government call for evidence on the subject of non-compete, with the aim of limiting them as well, but nothing has been done so far. I'm myself in the long, lengthy and costly process of trying to fight a two years non
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Show HN: Salary and bonus benchmarking for people working in finance(bonusbenchmark.com)
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