billsnow

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by billsnow 4y ago
It’s not symbolic, it’s literally an insurance company that the banks pay premiums to.
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by billsnow 4y ago
Why would it be beneficial for society to filter out people who make poor business decisions? Many of the greatest generals, politicians, scientists, and artists in history were terrible at business and fell for scams many times.
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by billsnow 4y ago
Ok fine that’s not what jane street does.
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by billsnow 4y ago
That’s not what traditional finance does…
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by billsnow 4y ago
He was there for only three years, and at least ignorant about the finer points.
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by billsnow 4y ago
Seems neat, but it looks like the major thing is the syntax. Of course c++ syntax is insane and should be updated, but i cant shake the feeling that c++ developers secretly love it. Scanning c++ code for a seasoned c++ developer is like the
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by billsnow 5y ago
What none of these three points are true.
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by billsnow 5y ago
According to who? I checked the edac module for a year on my work machine, and it never detected a single error. I know I'm just one anecdote, but I doubt I'm that lucky.
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by billsnow 5y ago
ECC support is an actual +10-20% cost in materials for the motherboard and DIMM manufacturers. Also, ECC errors are basically non-existent on desktop/laptop workloads. ECC is worth the extra cost in servers, but for desktops and laptop
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by billsnow 6y ago
Oh I have some bad news for you, buddy.
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by billsnow 6y ago
You can already do this. There's a kernel boot parameter called isocpu or something and the kernel will only run on the logical cpus listed. Furthermore, you can isolate your user programs. The general benefit is latency, but there&#x2
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by billsnow 6y ago
yeah that's not the lesson from this
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by billsnow 6y ago
Here, here. Curiously, the commodities markets have always adjusted tick sizes for different contracts so that the dollar value is reasonably consistent (~10 dollars). These are products for which the contract size (in dollars) varies wildl
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by billsnow 6y ago
Well that entirely depended on Intel's so-called process advantages, didn't it?
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by billsnow 6y ago
Laser? Do you have any links for them using lasers? I only see directional antennas (that you can buy on amazon) on their site.
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by billsnow 6y ago
In the post he refers to "wide tabs" which means hard tabs displayed 8 chars long. This has been the standard kernel style since the beginning.
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by billsnow 7y ago
I think he means that they funnel the income from fees into this "black box" fund and that's what creates the huge returns. My instinct would be that there's no way this would get past auditors, but then again, Madoff go
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by billsnow 7y ago
How long does it take you to code a program if you are being bogged down by such simple problems? Use ints and do bounds checking when it's necessary to do so. Is every single bucket of information a reinvention of types?
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by billsnow 8y ago
Yeah, if only there was a tool for managing 30,000 wallets in a centralized way, then it would be more obvious why decentralization makes the need for regulation moot.
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by billsnow 9y ago
No it's the BSD clone from the nineties. Ascii only.