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by Galanwe 4y ago
> Interesting. This is an appeal to authority - because as a 'practitioner of finance' we should just trust you. It is, indeed, an appeal to authority, I have no issue admitting that. > 1) 'practitioner of finance'
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by Galanwe 4y ago
Because if everything that transits on wires is blackbox encrypted anycast content, then you can either 1) block it, and cut the whole internet for that individual, or 2) let it go.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
I agree with you, and that's what makes me sad. The current internet, with all its shortcomings, has created an impossible standard for alternative solutions that would be more secure / free to reach.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> The infrastructure you use has a contractual relationship with you, which implicitly relies on contract law. You have something better than distributed systems here, you have economic incentives and courts. My point actually is that th
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by Galanwe 4y ago
It's not really what I meant by distributed. I meant more in terms of governance, though the underlying implementation should mirror than distributed governance. Living close to Russia, then close to China for many years, I realised ho
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> It is parroted practically every time people get offended that others aren't convinced by their arguments. Which side is not listening to other's arguments? I don't see any argument against crypto in general, except &quo
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by Galanwe 4y ago
I tend to think the web as we see it today is made on a lot of shortcuts made for the sake of simplicity and performance. There will be no free lunch, if we want something more distributed, reliable, secure, we will need to make compromises
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by Galanwe 4y ago
Good points, unfortunately HN will blindly downvote anything crypto optimistic.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> If you self-reference using pointers and guarantee the struct will never move, you don't even need unsafe I have a hard time seeing how you could use self references without a combination of raw pointers, pins/projects, and u
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> it has a compiler that can help ensure you are managing memory correctly, and force you to type "unsafe" when you are doing things it doesn't understand. Well it's a bit more subtle than that if we're honest.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
There is litteraly 0 chance for you to be profitable in the medium to long term if you don't have years of experience in the industry. Anyone claiming that is not the case is just misinterpreting his PnL. The internet is full of people
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by Galanwe 4y ago
To add on your comment: I don't even think the philosophical discussion makes sense. At the end of the day, what counts as the truth is how much fees you pay when sending a limit order that immediately crosses. And the answer, for ever
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by Galanwe 4y ago
The term "quant" has many meanings. Originally it used to mean "quantitative", as opposed to "qualitative". It is a type of investment strategies where you target to be right "on average". Once you ar
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by Galanwe 4y ago
The conditional in the code _is_ a protection. It is not fair of you to consider it non-existent just because _you_ can easily bypass it. Using your argument, it would be fair to circumvent any protection as long as a specialist can trivial
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by Galanwe 4y ago
Well first because autoconf/automake were built in the early 90s. It's not like there were a ton of choices back then. Basically if you wanted something that 1) is available on all Unix-like flavors and 2) is strictly well defined
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by Galanwe 4y ago
Or maybe allow free usage with an added watermark. So that people can try it out on their own screenshot, eventually distribute them internally, and pay when they need to remove the watermark for public distribution.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
A bit unfair of you to just plainly state how to circumvent their protection in the comments.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
I don't think you understand the role of autoconf... The whole point is that you _don't know_ yet what compiler is available, which version/flavor of C is supported, which API or syscall are available, etc. Autoconf was litte
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> Bash is not an acceptable compilation target The whole point of autotools is to make sure that your project can run on the largest possible set of unix-like operating systems. `sh` is actually the very best compilation target for that,
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by Galanwe 4y ago
I don't think the author realized that the `configure` script at the center of his rant is auto-generated by `autoconf`, and not written by a human... The source is a straightfoward `configure.ac` of 75 commented lines of code (13 with
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by Galanwe 4y ago
Cool, a new subscription plan for US only, while the free version is still not available anywhere is Asia.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
Would be nice to add "Emacs" in the title. I thought this was some external, LSP-like, movement protocol for any editor based on the title.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
Reading PDFs is no problem, I use `evince` since ~15 years and it does the job. I _very_ regularly have to sign documents though, and as OP said, nothing beats Adobe for that. I even pay the subscription so that I can have it on my phone, s
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> "my fingers into less efficient movements" - don't lie to yourself. I used to type at 120+ wpm using my self taught typing experience. I purchased a new keyboard recently with ortholinear layout and figured it would be a
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> A branch is nothing more than a pointer (or mark) to a commit. A tag is. A branch has the additional feature that it's a moving target with new commits, which is maybe not what you want in OP's case.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
Two things to note here. First, it does not "overstate" the annualized returns. It just brings a particular view of them, which is the "expected annual return" vs the "compoundable annual return". Both are perf
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by Galanwe 4y ago
Dividend adjustment wouldn't really matter in this study. The price discount at dividend ex date should match the price increase post earnings announcements, so it's netted and disappears once you compute >=quarterly returns.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
I don't see how that relates to the article?
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by Galanwe 4y ago
I don't understand why you mention CMake. CMake is not a build system, it does not replace make, or vsproj, or even pkgconfig. It's a _meta_ build system - that is it generates makefiles/vsproj/etc. CMake does not _find_
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by Galanwe 4y ago
Agree. Programming video games in the early 2000s, TGA was my goto format. Dead simple to parse and upload to OpenGL, support for transparency, true colors, all boxes ticked.

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