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Early in my career, I had to babysit our FX quoting app through the July 2015 leap second. And some things do trade 24/7 (though I wish they wouldn't, one auction per minute during…

Until you work in financial markets and you want to measure latency vs a bunch of other servers you don't own, all of whom pick different smears (and some of whom aren't sure in ad…

Assuming your labour contribution to these agents is 'minimal': Why would you own them, instead of some well capitalized billionaire? To the extent that you do have capital, why do…

'can damage' means 'sometimes causal'. If there's no causal link, they should say 'associated with' or 'correlated with'.

Poetic that the most recent update is 6 months ago, a one line change adding a 'Lifecycle: Active' emoji to the Readme.

I'm pretty skeptical of the market argument - reading the linked article, it seems low granularity subsidizes market makers when there are many small orders (which often get worse …

'tech' in speed running is a reference to "technique" rather than "technology". https://glossary.infil.net/?t=Tech

Why would you design a hiring process that scores unprofessional people (by your own definition) higher than professional ones?

If you run an interview process where candidates who take 6-8 hours and claim to have taken 4 hours score highest, those are the candidates you will hire.

This is capitalism working as intended. Only the best run airlines can survive, and investors are collectively subsidizing air travel for non-investors.

I think AST aware code reading is criminally underused by agents - you don't need a header file if you can see a listing of all the functions in a library. Similarly, I don't read …

Except this isn't 'an app from a spec', it's the potemkin village of an app whose goal is to get ad impressions and a credit card number.

When your bridge falls down, you don't call an incident and ask your engineer to fix it, you sue them. In software there's a lot more emphasis on post-hoc fixes rather than up fron…

I think Adams was prescient, since in his story the all powerful computer reaches the answer '42' via incorrect arithmetic.

This is interesting, but doesn't have to be correct. If Blockbuster had kept pouring money into the new service, maybe it would have lost it all - I see no reason to think Blockbus…

If it's lasted 10 years and someone is still using it after all that time, that seems like a pretty good signal there's a lot of value in the 'garbage'? I've seen a lot of 'fixes' …

If markets were regulated to trade in coordinated 1s auctions, instead of nanosecond precision first-come-first-served matching of orders, markets would function just as well witho…

That seems like a legal question - if the model weights contain an encoded copy of the copyrighted material, is that a 'copy' for the purpose of copyright law?

Before photography, we knew something was truthful because someone trustworthy vouched for it. Now that photos and videos can be faked, we'll have to go back to the older system.

Depends. When millions are on the line between companies, people are surprisingly willing to take a hand-created excel file as 'proof'. For example: https://financialpost.com/pmn/b…

If there’s anything I would want to run to verify, I ask the author to add a unit test. Generally, the existing CI test + new tests in the PR having run successfully is enough. I m…

In fact ‘computer’ used to be a job description: a person who computes.

Aren’t “Big Life Insurance” and “Big Annuity” pretty much the same companies?

A quick search says Hinge charges a monthly subscription, is that not correct?

The NDP party does not want a Conservative landslide government either, regardless of Mr. Singh’s pension.