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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Is there any indication of the size of the lookup tables in question?
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
edit: whups, wrong Mark :) I was thinking of Mark Hammond, not Mark Shannon
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
At least in the case of the Digital Euro, one of the explicitly documented goals for the scheme is to alleviate dependence on US payment processors within Europe (that's buried somewhere in https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
I'm fairly noobish at understanding all this stuff, but as I understand it there are severe structural issues with the existing banking system that make a completely new mechanism desirable. For example by depositing cash into traditio
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
> The experience with pandemic emergency payments has brought forward an idea that was already gaining increased attention at central banks around the world, that is, central bank digital currency (CBDC). Legislation has proposed that ea
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Central Bank Digital Currencies are coming(twitter.com)
170 points by sippingjippers 6y ago|136 comments
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
The problem is Lenovo machines look and feel like PCs, and that's not a complement. I got the XPS specifically for the trackpad, its the only one around that I know of that handles any way remotely like a MacBook's.
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
I'm an idiot, this hadn't even occurred to me. Thanks
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
I moved to XPS 15 as my first non-Mac machine in over 10 years, and I must say I'm far from impressed by the build quality. These laptops are gorgeous new, but they are SO fragile. One of the screen hinges is broken, I've replaced
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
I think this has been the case for the 13" for some time, but at least the XPS 15 9550 I have does not suffer from it
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Noticed this a few times, where race is associated with some bad behaviour as if it made matters any worse. What does it matter if the developers were Turkish? edit: are the downvotes because you believe race matters in this case, or some o
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
For single node sure, but the moment you have some set of jobs requiring a multi node setup, the chance of wanting to find yourself in a situation where the cluster has essentially bricked itself due to a momentary power outage reduces to z
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Classic bait-and-switch. This essentially happens with every review site after they build up enough brand awareness to pull it off. I guess it happens because from the perspective of the company it makes total sense to try. Why earn pennies
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
It was intended more to invoke general ideas about management ease than being a specific remediation, however elsewhere in the thread there is an example of a diagramming tool split out across 37 individual AWS services/service instanc
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
AWS in particular seem to have a carefully refined technical sales/certification/advocacy channel whose main product is those fucking stupid architecture diagrams. Hello world service with $4000/mo. worth of geo-replicated ba
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
It's not clear to me how much experience with serverless architectures the author of the parent comment has, but speaking as someone with plenty, the operational costs of serverless are at least equal to managing stateful infrastruct
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
They've all had this almost since basically prehistory (e.g. mod_proxy_lb). The process management bit not so much, but having a web server manage app server processes, that's an abstraction I could live without
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The Evolution of the Crumbling Quote Signal [pdf](iextrading.com)
1 points by sippingjippers 6y ago|0 comments
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Hmm, this is true. Another way to think about it perhaps is that, I don't think any race can be avoided just by slowing things down somehow, the rules of the game are only slightly changed in that case, and perhaps not in a way that ha
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
I remember this :) scgi, FastCGI, uwsgi, probably gunicorn has its own too.. never quite understood the obsession with inventing mini protocols once you have a persistent server process running already and can just use HTTP proxying. They&#
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
> The Internet perceives censorship as damage and routes around it Gosh, it's genuinely shocking I haven't heard that phrase in a long time.
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Order-triggered auctions are slowly becoming a thing, but they have limits too. In this scheme, everyone submits an order and e.g. once every 100ms the exchange will cross them. Very little understanding of them, but they look cool
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
It's an ongoing debate, but there are some facts that don't change regardless of stance in the debate. If you limit HFT, then markets /do/ become less efficient. When two trading venues for the same instrument exists, sa
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Wholeheartedly agree, actions like this add significant oil to the idea of national and regional Internets. Long term its hard to imagine how this won't eventually become a thing out of necessity
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Interesting, I was already using DecentralEyes. Do you know why the fork happened? What policy does DecentralEyes keep that LocalCDN extends or violates? edit: will be sticking with the original, looks like the fork maintainer made no effor
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Now let's compare performance after implementing 2 decades worth of missing program optimization techniques (edit: downvotes? I'm sorry to ruin the romanticizing, but surely it should come as no surprise that these old compilers a
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Not shown: 12U quarter rack stuffed full of GPUs
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
It's supposedly possible to produce load-bearing bricks out of glass, no idea if it is easy to do at scale though
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
This is def worth paying attention to, psql is one of the few genuinely good examples of well balanced business-private participation. Most enterprise open source is a shit show in some way or other
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
This is a fairly drastic simplification. There are a bunch of different pieces of QUIC, (not least, sorry I'm not authoritative either) - SSL and "TCP" handshake are collapsed into a single transaction - That transaction is w

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