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by cpascal 6y ago
This reminds me of a metaphor made by Burton G. Malkiel in “A Random Walk Down Wall Street”. He attempts to give a possible explanation to why there are star traders or funds that greatly outperform the market. It’s something I like to remi
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by cpascal 6y ago
Can Citadel exercise any sort of discretion on what order-flow they'll fill? Can they legally tell Robinhood that they will no longer fill orders for GME?
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by cpascal 6y ago
You just run the previous version of the production stack in your "dogfood/operations" stack. Once you've fully rolled out production and have vetted it, you can upgrade the other one to match production.
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by cpascal 6y ago
At the risk of starting a language flame-war: if I were starting a new company or effort, my default choice would be .NET Core. Performance is generally great and if you need to, there are lots of features in the language to allow you to fu
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by cpascal 6y ago
I'm taking my second crack at learning Rust and I have to say I've made a lot more progress this second attempt. It could be just giving things time to stew in my head, but I really think it's because I'm using rust-anal
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by cpascal 6y ago
Interesting. This combined with the H2+ could make a nice wireguard VPN gateway for a home network. The H2+ is a quad-core 2.3 GHz intel board. Anyone know if that would be enough juice to handle a gigabit wireguard link?
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by cpascal 6y ago
The title of this submission is hyperbolic. Merkel did not "blast" Twitter's decision. According to the article, her spokesperson said Merkel "considers it problematic that the president’s accounts have been permanently
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by cpascal 6y ago
Seconding this. Barkeeper’s friend is like magic on aluminum. If you use it regularly you can keep your aluminum pots and pans looking like they’re factory new.
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by cpascal 6y ago
The author of the Twitter thread links to another thread towards the end that notes the risk of a classified information breach isn't too high. https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/1347226499930230785 Obviou
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by cpascal 6y ago
A online bank with IMO great savings and money management features. They also had a fairly competitive high-yield interest rate on their savings accounts.
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Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business(arstechnica.com)
633 points by cpascal 6y ago|318 comments
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by cpascal 6y ago
So something cool I noticed at the bottom of the page. There's a "Report Information" button that brings up a modal outlining several ways to report information to the CIA. The most interesting one to me being the option to r
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by cpascal 6y ago
It really depends on your scale and how many messages you are processing per second. For a lot of applications, you’re absolutely correct, but if you’re scale is sufficient, a “micro” optimization like this is actually a “macro” optimizatio
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by cpascal 6y ago
I’m with you there.
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by cpascal 6y ago
I'm dreading the day Reddit kills the API's Apollo is using.
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by cpascal 6y ago
> The last time this happened, everyone involved was dismissed or resigned. If you're referring to the 1976 scandal that's not completely true. Yes they were dismissed, but a large number of them were given a second chance. The
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by cpascal 6y ago
Liquidation preferences. Large investors can negotiate a liquidation preference with their investment. This means they will receive some multiple (1x, 2x, ...) of their investment from the liquidation proceeds. These investors can also be
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by cpascal 6y ago
You should be able to run Linux GUI apps via WSL2 on a preview build soon. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-in-the-...
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by cpascal 6y ago
I don't think so, but I would love to hear otherwise. My research indicates it can only support one external display up to 6K@60Hz.
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by cpascal 6y ago
> Just Buy M1 if you'd like to have a low-power, long-lasting, quiet, and performant dev machine. I would absolutely love to buy the M1 MacBook Air (and I almost did), the performance is just too good. It’s nearly impossible to just
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by cpascal 6y ago
It seems FAST isn't a complete substitute for Arecibo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...
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by cpascal 6y ago
Here's a video in his 6502 series where he hooks up the 6502 computer he's been building with this video card. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iURr3NBprc I highly recommend his videos and kits. He's a great
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by cpascal 6y ago
Just wanted to say that I've been watching your Pi videos on YouTube over the last few months and I really enjoy them. Your video about trying to get a GPU working with a Raspberry Pi was particularly fascinating. Keep up the great wor
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by cpascal 6y ago
I like the idea of a vacancy tax that is proportional to the value of the property so that any year-over-year gains in equity are eaten up by such tax. I think turning a vacant property into a liability instead of an asset would do a lot to
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Expensify emailed its 10M customers urging them to vote for Biden(twitter.com)
4 points by cpascal 6y ago|0 comments
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by cpascal 6y ago
You may not be aware, but PowerShell can now be run on Linux, macOS, and Windows. https://github.com/powershell/powershell
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by cpascal 6y ago
Link from the article showing what features they are adding. https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements#...
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by cpascal 6y ago
Perhaps this is because the url has a .info gTLD coupled with a political domain name and is getting tripped up by some sort of spam filter. It sort of sounds like a shadow ban.
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by cpascal 6y ago
> There are several points here that probably don't comply with code. The fact that an extension cord has been brought into a permanent circuit is probably one of them. If you wanted to do this up to code, how would you do it?
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by cpascal 6y ago
> In C# 9.0, you can omit the type in a new expression when the created object's type is already known. private List<WeatherObservation> _observations = new(); This is something I've long wondered why I couldn&#x27

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