DrBazza

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by DrBazza 2y ago
And it has the fewest residents of any London borough by a couple of orders of magnitude. So it probably makes sense that businesses have a bit more say. https://www.statista.com/statistics/381055/london-populatio
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This is the sort of thing we do in HFT to get single instruction calls and save nanos in places that get called many many thousands of times a second.
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Probably because the Netherlands doesn’t have as much rain, off road and mountains as Wales? From the article. > The problem appears to mainly affect those riding mountain bikes in all weathers, particularly in Wales and the UK’s other w
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> Solar is cheap. We are looking at an age of energy abundance. (*) for less than half a day, in areas that are sunny, "close" to the tropics. And arguably this is fine for the majority of the Earth's population because th
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Which reminds me of the lamp posts in Canary Wharf - the original ones are all uniquely enscribed: https://londonist.com/london/best-of-london/a-lamp-post-tour... And half the bollards are old cannons. https:&#
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by DrBazza 2y ago
The diamondgeezer site is one my favourites along with ianvisits.co.uk and londonreconnections.com - there's all sorts of content on there about the absolutely most 'niche' things you can think of in London. And then you find
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> This assumes that Microsofts future IS windows. > I don't believe that has been the case since Satya. Indeed. When MS has several multi-billion dollar streams of revenue - Office, Azure, XBox, game labels, and so on, and the &
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Software complexity is directly proportional to the number of developers that have, are, or will work on the code base.
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We’re at 170 or so universities up from 90 or so pre-2000. I’m struggling to see the value in those universities and why the tax payer should be funding almost twice as many. Any other failing business would be allowed to go bankrupt and
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I was replying regarding why London rent is high in general. SF/The Bay seems to be disproportionately tech-based jobs. London is a more generic mixture, including finance, arts, entertainment, services, insurance, tourism and so on.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> Tragic, horrid and going to make a lot of nervous flyers more nervous. Wear your seatbelt, wear your seatbelt, wear your seatbelt. They literally say that several times during pre-flight briefing video. That no-one pays attention to.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
We spent an extra 20 minutes on the tarmac at O'Hare last week whilst they replotted around a major thunderstorm over Canada. My recollection of bad turbulence is that same as yours - a flight to Seattle in '98 was the last time I
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Having just returned from the US, I was struck by this 'risk aversion' and the innate US 'competition'. To give an example: there was a Subway on one of the streets in the US. A few doors down there was an independent
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I have several friends that are 30+ years as lecturers, also at Russell Group universities, and their view is very different to yours. They're generally of the opinion that UK universities have now turned into visa-mills and poorly ru
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Not sure, as I don't live in SF, but I know that not all start-ups are in SF/The Valley even if the VC money is raised there. In the UK, they're disproportionately concentrated in London. In fact the UK government has encour
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by DrBazza 2y ago
In 2076 we might.
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Financially, the UK is heavily centred around London, one of the most expensive cities in the world, so it's not altogether surprising that university students feel like they need a paying job that keeps a roof over their heads. Worse
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by DrBazza 2y ago
The trouble with being at the beginning of space travel is that we will get better and faster at it. In fact there's a 'law' or 'paradox' that I can't remember the name of - but if we were to launch in 2076 at
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Yes!
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The "(BBC) Micro User" used to be published monthly, and had hardware project in each edition. Towards the end there were instructions on how to build your own acoustic-coupler modem where you pushed a regular telephone into two
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Back in the day, there were magazines that had a flexible plastic LP/single (aka 'vinyl'), that you'd play on your stereo, and record to cassette, and load into the computer. Coincidentally, it's this - https:&#x2F
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by DrBazza 2y ago
They probably saw the debacle that was Windows 8 and thought merging a desktop and touch OS is a decade-long gradual task, if that is even the final intention. Unlike MS that went with the Big Bang in your face approach that was oh-so succe
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I could envisage cmake evolving towards meson by cleaning up it's complete weird syntax, but it suffers a little bit from something like Conway's Law: it's as convoluted as C++ because it deals with C++, and Hyrum's Law:
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I think you know somewhat more about this than me ;-) I just remember the win2k source code, the Exchange team, the mass rollout of win2k boxes, and the .NET beta of course, as you mentioned.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Build artifact caching, and also build farm. In the non-Bazel world, that's ccache and distcc https://bazel.build/remote/caching https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-buildfarm
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> I've been always wondering why do we even need specialized build tools and why does the community around every new programming language or framework feel obliged to invent their own, implemented in their native language. Why can&#
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Sadly, another example of the C++ community zigging when it should have zagged. Cmake now has tooling in all the major IDEs, whereas the other build systems generally don't. Meson and Bazel are build models in CLion but they're r
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Having spent several years on Bazel and CMake, and only playing around with meson in the last week or so, meson is much more user friendly and easy to get started with. And by playing around, I mean that I now have a non-trivial project (c.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Betas were certainly around 2002-03. Though thanks for the reminder that .NET was in a beta around 2000, so 90s is wrong (that's when I started work so my memory is sketchy that far back). CSFB was always a big MS shop and often tria
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Back in the 90s/00s the CSFB quant team went with F#. Immutable and functional is reasonable choice. Just not popular. These days, starting or running a financial business with less popular languages is, well, less popular.

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