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It’s not symbolic, it’s literally an insurance company that the banks pay premiums to.

Why would it be beneficial for society to filter out people who make poor business decisions? Many of the greatest generals, politicians, scientists, and artists in history were te…

Ok fine that’s not what jane street does.

That’s not what traditional finance does…

He was there for only three years, and at least ignorant about the finer points.

Seems neat, but it looks like the major thing is the syntax. Of course c++ syntax is insane and should be updated, but i cant shake the feeling that c++ developers secretly love it…

What none of these three points are true.

According to who? I checked the edac module for a year on my work machine, and it never detected a single error. I know I'm just one anecdote, but I doubt I'm that lucky.

ECC support is an actual +10-20% cost in materials for the motherboard and DIMM manufacturers. Also, ECC errors are basically non-existent on desktop/laptop workloads. ECC is worth…

Oh I have some bad news for you, buddy.

You can already do this. There's a kernel boot parameter called isocpu or something and the kernel will only run on the logical cpus listed. Furthermore, you can isolate your user …

yeah that's not the lesson from this

Here, here. Curiously, the commodities markets have always adjusted tick sizes for different contracts so that the dollar value is reasonably consistent (~10 dollars). These are pr…

Well that entirely depended on Intel's so-called process advantages, didn't it?

Laser? Do you have any links for them using lasers? I only see directional antennas (that you can buy on amazon) on their site.

In the post he refers to "wide tabs" which means hard tabs displayed 8 chars long. This has been the standard kernel style since the beginning.

I think he means that they funnel the income from fees into this "black box" fund and that's what creates the huge returns. My instinct would be that there's no way this would get …

How long does it take you to code a program if you are being bogged down by such simple problems? Use ints and do bounds checking when it's necessary to do so. Is every single buck…

Yeah, if only there was a tool for managing 30,000 wallets in a centralized way, then it would be more obvious why decentralization makes the need for regulation moot.

No it's the BSD clone from the nineties. Ascii only.