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by davidmr 4y ago
It certainly does—my apologies. This is where I saw it first. Unfortunately I can’t change it.
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Jump Trading sues 79-year-old Carl Sagan fan over wormhole.com domain(businessinsider.com)
229 points by davidmr 4y ago|328 comments
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by davidmr 5y ago
This is certainly not universally the case, even in very well-regarded departments. The University of Chicago, for example, does not require it: http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/mathematics/ .
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by davidmr 5y ago
I believe that the current state of affairs is that warrantless searches of US citizens’ devices at (or near) the borders are constitutional. https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/merchant-v-mayo... https:&#x2F
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Sunshield Successfully Deploys on NASA’s Next Flagship Telescope(nasa.gov)
17 points by davidmr 5y ago|1 comments
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by davidmr 5y ago
5 seconds of looking would have found you this: “The Ford Foundation is not connected to the Ford Motor Company. The Ford Foundation and Ford Motor Company are two separate and legally unrelated entities whose operations are completely inde
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Google Invests $1B in Exchange Giant CME(wsj.com)
11 points by davidmr 5y ago|2 comments
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by davidmr 5y ago
I also find that my desire for such a heavy drink decreases dramatically the warmer it is outside. My partner and I aged a batch of eggnog for a year, drinking 1/12th of it every month to see if there was a point at which the returns o
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by davidmr 5y ago
Many long years ago now in a past life, I was a network security guy for a big research university. Overall, that was a pretty fun job: universities make for a target rich environment. The downside was we that we were responsible for handli
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by davidmr 5y ago
One may want to be less, not more clear when one is breaking the law in writing. Apple and Google settled a class action lawsuit over this exact thing. It’s disappointing how few people stood up to this. I recall Jobs threatening Palm’s CEO
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by davidmr 5y ago
> Mr. Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and Twitter, retaliated by blocking Mr. Trump from all sites. I stopped reading there and I realized that the 20 seconds I spent reading up to that point were wasted.
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by davidmr 6y ago
And a photographer! MRO took what might be my very favorite picture of all time: https://www.space.com/16946-mars-rover-landing-seen-from-spa...
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by davidmr 6y ago
For the Top500 lists in particular, the list always comes out during the international supercomputing and supercomputing conferences in June and November respectively, so I’m sure there was no coordination. No idea about the TSMC thing, but
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by davidmr 7y ago
That’s an incredibly useful table! Do you know where the data in that table came from?
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Big Prometheus: Thanos, Cortex, M3DB and VictoriaMetrics at Scale(monitoring2.substack.com)
65 points by davidmr 7y ago|21 comments
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by davidmr 7y ago
I mean, they regularly build robots, strap them on huge rockets, shoot them 300,000,000 miles away to mars, land them without a scratch, and drive them around for years. That’s awesome.
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by davidmr 7y ago
> I was just about to write something similar - the reason nasa projects fail is because they refuse to allow for iteration. If that's why they fail, do they regularly succeed in spite of it or also because of it?
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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Exablaze(blogs.cisco.com)
2 points by davidmr 7y ago|0 comments
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by davidmr 7y ago
Just for my own curiosity, since I don’t recognize the city from the photo, where is it? I’m wondering how it compares in size (both area and population) to Manhattan.
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by davidmr 7y ago
You can do both. Job postings from at least a couple well-known HFT firms shows that they’re getting into sports betting.
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by davidmr 7y ago
It's genuinely shocking how far behind the USA is in terms of consumer banking. I moved from Chicago to London about six months ago, and I can't believe how much more convenient it is. You can wire money to anyone with a bank acco
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by davidmr 7y ago
The IBM licenses are so obtuse that it can only be intentional. This may be outdated, but they used to use these stupid “processor units” that had some loose correlation to CPU performance. If a perfectly well-intentioned systems person mov
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by davidmr 7y ago
That man has an absolutely unmatched gift for it. It’s genuinely impressive. https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-f...
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by davidmr 7y ago
What evidence to you have to suggest this extremely uncharitable interpretation of the Fedora project’s aims?
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by davidmr 7y ago
“On top of this the Intel modems consumed vastly more energy to do their slower work than Qualcomm, a trend that SemiAccurate has personally measured in the labs across multiple generations of Intel modems but is not at liberty to disclose
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by davidmr 7y ago
That seems like an uncharitable conclusion. I think most people worth hiring (in an interview where that question is asked) should be able to expound at some length on at least some part of the process. What part of the process they spend t
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by davidmr 7y ago
I also have a sneaking suspicion that the intersection of the set of people who are at risk of dying of malaria and the set of people who make that second argument is very small. It’s a pretty easy argument to make from your armchair in Lon
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by davidmr 7y ago
This genuinely surprised me, but I’m less sure than everyone else that this spells the end of Cray. They’re still cranking out monster systems: they have 3 in the top 10 now (and almost certainly more than that since the DoD stopped listing
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by davidmr 7y ago
There’s definitely audio from all those meetings. You can hear the mission manager plow right through the issues with bureaucratic ease. They’ve seen something similar before and even though it was unexplained, because they’ve seen it, they
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by davidmr 7y ago
As much as I appreciate the sentiment and I never like to miss a chance to pile on PowerPoint, this is really, really missing the point. As the CAIB report makes clear, the PowerPoint slide was a small symptom of the actual problem of a com

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