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by nly 8d ago
I used to work on market data feeds, which occasionally require a reference data file from an FTP to be delivered before market open before you can do anything useful with the feed. Nothing like being on-call when the file doesn't get
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by nly 8d ago
A read() on /dev/urandom on every packet isn't economical, so there's going to be some user space element to RNGion
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by nly 11d ago
So true..had my parents over for Christmas one year and they stayed for 4 days. 3 would have been perfect.
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by nly 27d ago
As long as the debt is in its own currency printing to repay is always an option.
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by nly 1mo ago
Fun fact: Worms Armageddon saw patches for ~18 years after official updates stopped. https://worms2d.info/Updates_(Worms_Armageddon)
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by nly 1mo ago
Internet Connection Records is the key phrase to search for
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by nly 1mo ago
These businesses chose lower staffing costs knowing full well the price would be higher theft.
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by nly 1mo ago
Don't 99% of people just use face or fingerprint unlocking?
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by nly 1mo ago
Crazy how different healthcare is in different countries. In the UK once you've had your childhood vaccinations it's entirely possible you'd simply never see a doctor again in your life until you're ready for your prosta
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by nly 1mo ago
Ah OK, this was in London
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by nly 1mo ago
That's odd. I just looked at what I thought was a pretty standard piss and blood STI test results of my own, and it covered: - Syphilis - Hep B - Hep C - HIV 1 and 2 and P24 - Chlamydia - Gonorrhoea
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by nly 1mo ago
2 out of my last 3 jobs were the result of LinkedIn recruiter spam
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by nly 1mo ago
Recursive descent isnt guaranteed linear time In the face of backtracking the time depends on the complexity of the grammar, since it's basically a brute force search through all the rules.
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by nly 1mo ago
It's "fine" is you ignore adversarial situations. If someone is taking malicious stabs at your API then you have a problem
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by nly 2mo ago
They can...swim away
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by nly 2mo ago
The problem is a lot of people book Ryanair thinking they're going to save money and end up sucked in to these dark patterns. I once flew from London Stansted (or maybe it was Luton?) to Dublin instead of from Heathrow with Aer Lingus
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by nly 2mo ago
Presumably that depends on the context in which your 'real life' friends see you
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by nly 2mo ago
Unfortunately this means crypto will just take over completely.
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by nly 2mo ago
0.03 seconds is an eternity in high frequency trading You need to be 4 orders of magnitude faster at least
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by nly 2mo ago
Opus says Ann is 18
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by nly 2mo ago
cmpxchg can fail spuriously on some platforms
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by nly 2mo ago
Once you get to using custom lock free queues you should be picking something that matches your workload/broader design anyway.
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by nly 2mo ago
Once you use atomic cmpxchg you've lost a great deal of scalability because it implies a retry loop (internal or by the user) The last thing you want is all of the threads failing to cmpxchg (spuriously or otherwise ) spinning on a sh
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by nly 2mo ago
WhatsApp is primarily 1 to 1 messaging. Why would this be hard to scale? Scaling horizontally, sharding, and message routing is all it takes, surely?
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by nly 2mo ago
In the UK deeds no longer really exist and do not take precedence over the land registry. Property that isn't registered can remain unregistered but must be registered before it is sold.
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by nly 2mo ago
Some cemeteries in London reuse graves after just 75 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Cemetery_and_Cr... I have very vivid memories as a child of walking through Brookwood Cemetary in south east Engla
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by nly 2mo ago
Primairly because old houses are on bigger plots and allow for extensions and conversions.
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by nly 2mo ago
For now. They'll reneg down the line
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by nly 2mo ago
And lost value semantics and any hope of type safety.
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by nly 2mo ago
That's the thing though isn't it. C++ didn't add type erasure to the language, it added compile time reflection and said have at it.

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