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ddls

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About ddls

Hello. I'm a quant (financial quantitative analyst and developer). I like working on distributed systems and building modular synthesizers. I do contract work and I have a website : https://ismailnegm.com

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    Comment #27903913

    This Martin Thompson talk is excellent. I've found time-stamping and handling GTD (good 'till date/time) orders consistently across nodes to be one of the most challenging bits of …

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    Comment #27274170

    Here's one : https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mp.2006.24.1.49?seq=1 And another (follow the links to the article, but I thought that particular graph was most informative) : ht…

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    Comment #26990230

    0.17 is a rule of thumb we use in diving. There are many like it which allow a little leeway in case there's a slip-up. pp02 can surely go higher than 1.2 (I know personally) befor…

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    Comment #26967361

    It should be pointed out that the record depth in the area is not Tarek Omar's 203 meters as the article mentions, it's Nuno Gomes' 318 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno_Gomes_(…

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    Comment #26967166

    I don't recommend anyone "inject" trimix ;) But jokes aside : Trimix is an (artificial) gas blend that includes helium, which is an inert gas that your body doesn't metabolize (tho…

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    Comment #26957600

    You should, according to PADI norms, be offered a refresher dive. It costs $10 more and you spend 15 minutes with a dive master reviewing basic skills before a normal dive. The div…

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    Comment #26957575

    What instructors and dive-masters actually do (or should / are trained to do) for those dives is hold onto the first stage regulator at the top of the tank for the entire duration …

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    Comment #26956348

    I'm an experienced diver (PADI dive-master, ACUC instructor, IANTD gas-blender and normoxic trimix diver, TDI hypoxic trimix diver and dive-master) with several thousands of dives …

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    Comment #25506059

    Because - management fees, margins, and available capital can easily be modelled properly - you can easily set up constraints (like no fractional trading for your S&P example) - yo…