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>I just wish that more effort was put into "low margin" classical industrial design than artificial top of the pyramids' algorithms, like banks and ads. Much o
by logicchains 6y ago
>I just wish that more effort was put into "low margin" classical industrial design than artificial top of the pyramids' algorithms, like banks and ads.
Much of the development of high-performance network switches has been driven by HFT. I doubt Metamako would have been created if HFT wasn't around as a customer.
- rightbyte 6y agoSure. I mean HFT is not destructive or evil or anything (not sarcasm btw). It is more about what fields are lucrative for programmers versus the benefit for socaity. This is just whining of course I am not saving children at work either.
- Wingman4l7 6y agoI feel like that is saying that "high-speed cameras would never have been developed if we hadn't needed them in surveillance planes to plan for bombing runs". Seems like a lack of creativity in coming up with alternate, "better" use-cases that would still create a demand for the same technology. High speed cameras are useful for, say, factory automation and crash-testing. High-performance network switches could be used in robotic tele-surgery and protein-folding supercomputers.