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They’re a market maker

I can’t believe the Chinese did this https://www.404media.co/henrico-virginia-datacenter-energy-c...

Big shoutout to this study! Highly recommend donating if you get any value from these lists > The latest helmets have a releasable layer that absorbs (converts rotational energy?) …

> what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street? I mean https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/jane-stre...

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Nah I think most people could make something like this in a weekend

Note that diffsitter isn’t abandoned or anything. I took a year off working and just started a new job so I’ve been busy. I’ve got a laundry list of stuff I want to do with this pr…

I don’t think that’s true. C++ just has a lot of baggage to deal with and people are doing the best they can with some ridiculous constraints. The sanitizers and things like clang-…

I might have misinterpreted what you mean as “standard” (I was originally thinking like you meant that the standard dictates all operations must be safe and doing things like the u…

> Works for whom? FAANG, hedge funds/HFT, game studios

> but why not just enforce that as standard I don’t think people want that as standard. The whole point of using C++ tends to be because you can do whatever you need to for the sak…

Gambling is much less regulated than the markets.

I don’t think the last two decades of computer graphics research are an Nvidia psyop. Ray tracing is relatively simple and also reflects reality (you’re literally doing a light sim…

Was the US still your favorite during the Bush administration?

I don’t think it has to be that crazy. I only have a Bachelors in CS.

Generally speaking more volume is good. I’m happy I can buy/sell most of my stocks instantly and that I don’t pay execution fees. I don’t think most average traders operate on a ho…

> Math class does not teach practical knowledge such as personal finance or health. It teaches you how to work in a quant shop

You can just compute Sharpe

There’s no markup, regulations dictate that you must get NBBO or better

Maybe we should preemptively put them in internment camps until the war is over, just in case

I got a 718 Cayman which I particularly enjoy because of how barren the interior is. It has a screen with CarPlay which can be helpful for pulling up maps, a rear view camera, and …

It’s all gameable, they could make your compensation mostly bonus based so they didn’t have to pay out your full comp.

The exchanges already charge fees per order https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/markets/nyse-arca/NYSE_...

How would that work? Would you randomly select a single order posted, go by market participant (like randomly select some entities that posted a trade in this window), and would yo…

Brokers are required to give you NBBO or better. You could set up a direct connection to an exchange if you were willing to pay and were sufficiently motivated to deal with all of …