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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523517

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523517

Options spread.

What’s heartbreaking is that he didn’t trade any leverage at all. He executed an options spread that was worth about $700k on each leg. Due to the nature of buying and selling opti…

The floating point results are suspiciously good compared to the rest of the results. I wonder if they have some good VLIW instructions for floating point or it’s just an error in …

This doesn’t have any info about the instruction set.

The google translation is not bad: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

If you already know what a vector space is and what a tensor product is and you recognise and understand bra-ket notation I would say there’s a very good chance you already know wh…

It may be true that bitcoin will be a good store of value but this article doesn’t make a good case for it. For example, bitcoin is quite volatile, which would tend to make it a po…

I once had my card skimmed while I was overseas. Westpac reversed all the transactions and sent me a new card.

You are correct! To answer your question, writing a NUL char to stdout is no problem. Some utilities can actually use it as a delimiter since it’s so uncommon. I think most shells …

Have fun in your HTTP 1.1 world.

You can multiply 1/3 by 3 and not get 1.

Did you even read the article? I’ve been wanting something like this for a while. It’s a solid engineering decision that needs good marketing to make sure people understand that it…

Is this cache friendly on a modern cpu? On the face of it, it seems to be quite cache unfriendly.

Hmmm... design fashions change over time and are also affected by technological limitations. I’m the beginning we had text only terminals. Font designs were about it. Business mach…

What proportion of machines running web assembly are stack-based, would you say? I would guess negligible.

Wow that paragraph is like the poster child for the logical fallacy called “appeal to tradition”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition

“difficulty, struggle and suffering are inherently worthwhile, more authentic and character-building” Is there any research on this topic or is this just your opinion?

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. It’s a fair question to ask. “Why can’t I buy” is essentially equivalent to “why doesn’t anyone sell”, which is basically “why isn’t ther…

And assaulting women at conventions is cool and normal because it’s what Asimov did, right?

This article apparently goes from “most reals are non-algebraic and therefore contain an infinite amount of information” to “so if I use reals to describe a physical system then my…

Just a tip: you’ve used the word “whom” incorrectly here. You can just use the word “who” and you’ll always be correct.

Well it might use category theory and be buzzword compliant but the code you’ve written wouldn’t pass code review at my work. This code converts numeric data to a string and back t…

"Everyone agrees that we should try to avoid extinction" Perhaps I'm an outlier here but I don't see why we should do anything in particular to ensure the survival of humanity.