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by dmurray 3y ago
Traditional optical fiber has glass in the middle. The speed of light in glass is only about 66% of the speed in air, so microwave is always faster if you can get a reasonably straight path for both. There now exists hollow-core fiber, wher
842.
by dmurray 3y ago
Without going into anything confidential - we had some of our own hardware, but generally rented capacity from firms like [0]. Some towers were custom built for HFT, some were shared with other types of users. A famous blog post investigati
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by dmurray 3y ago
Well, we can also say that we expect air traffic controllers generate at least their $132k/ year in value. Crossing guards seem to have a similar role and in theory could be generating the same value, but at the margin they're pro
844.
by dmurray 3y ago
I used to work in high-frequency trading. I had several tabs permanently open to the live weather radar feed for regions where we had microwave towers: the NE USA, the South of England, the Alps...
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by dmurray 3y ago
This sounds intuitively true. So...what if GC languages could introduce an optional annotation for an object to say that only one reference to it can exist, and use that as a hint to the GC? I don't see how this could be implemented in
846.
by dmurray 3y ago
Surely it's correct to call him QC when writing about an event in 1986, but if it were in the present "Geoffrey Robertson KC wrote a recent memoir about his defence of Boggs...". This isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia sty
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by dmurray 3y ago
Or, they intentionally ignored the intelligence hoping for a casus belli and an excuse to wipe their hated enemies off the map.
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by dmurray 3y ago
The ship can carry 10,000 TEU, which would fit at least 10,000 imported cars, which would cost around $500mm. In this case it seems the ship wasn't full, but it's not hyperbole to estimate it as being worth a billion dollars fully
849.
by dmurray 3y ago
"We picked this model for skill, which is used because it has some nice properties where you can treat a group of opponents as many games against a single opponent with their average rating, and then... [complicated simulation...]amazi
850.
by dmurray 3y ago
Then turn on all the lights and wake you up for the preflight briefing!
851.
by dmurray 3y ago
But supersonic engines already exist, and aircraft manufacturers almost universally buy instead of build when it comes to choosing an engine.
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by dmurray 3y ago
They might have anticipated receiving a more restrictive gag order when they originally put the canary in place. I wonder if the NSA should have a team that just goes around organisations that have warrant canaries and sends them baseless c
853.
by dmurray 3y ago
> But getting in to Stanford or MIT doesn’t magically make you into a member of that privileged class. The essay (intentionally, no doubt) doesn't pick a side in this fight. It's very clear on why you should go to the best univ
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by dmurray 3y ago
Perhaps you could scrape https://nytbee.com/ , mentioned in the thread, for the historical answers, or contact the owner. Also @banana_giraffe, a commenter on this thread, seems to have scraped 6 years of data. Then you coul
855.
by dmurray 3y ago
And naphthalene , which would have been a pangram that day.
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by dmurray 3y ago
I think your word list is still considerably too large. Zero chance in my mind that jouk or qajaq , for example, would make it to the NYT wordlist. (I don't think they'd even be accepted in the crossword, which has looser stand
857.
by dmurray 3y ago
With a different engine for weaker players, whose moves would generally need a longer representation to encode. For most use cases where you're encoding a ton of PGNs, you also encode some information about the playing strength of the
858.
by dmurray 3y ago
The second comment on the article - worth reading in itself - is signed by Švejk himself, with a detailed criticism of the Parrott translation, recommending instead a 2000 translation by Sadlon. Anyone else have insight on which translation
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by dmurray 3y ago
I remember this being the recommended way to get random numbers in some programming magazine or textbook, in a BASIC without built-in RAND(). Amazing work to discover this yourself at age 9! And if you squint, using mouse movements as a sou
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by dmurray 3y ago
Yeah, it's just about possible to imagine Kyiv or Tehran gets nuked in a "limited engagement" that never escalates further. But if, say, Lisbon gets nuked then the whole world is at war.
861.
by dmurray 3y ago
Seems like a really hard problem though. A dead-man switch is likely to get triggered unintentionally if you're literally in a firefight. You could improve a bit with some kind of consensus protocol - "we all agree these six radio
862.
by dmurray 3y ago
Twelve and twenty-seven respectively. Not clear what that proves.
863.
by dmurray 3y ago
Also, it would allow bad actors to just opt out of malware scans - the main vector whereby these insecure URLs were leaked.
864.
by dmurray 3y ago
Right, and if they call you in on a Sunday completely blindsided "just to sign some papers" you may regret waiving your right to buy the shares - a right that the acquirer, at least, seems to value. You shouldn't be signing i
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by dmurray 3y ago
> A few days before the Twitter deal was announced, the CEO of MoPub summoned a bunch of us to the office on a Sunday. Nothing like that had ever happened before. At the meeting, he told us about the acquisition (this was when I learned!
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by dmurray 3y ago
Can I say "I don't get any of my income from dealing drugs" when the $20s I get from my bank ATM are some mix I don't control?
867.
by dmurray 3y ago
"The police disproportionately focus on poor areas for drug possession / traffic offences / white collar crime" is an important criticism, and the kind of thing awareness of which leads to reform and fairness in policing
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by dmurray 3y ago
How's it going! We didn't work together very long but I remember Hunter as a very capable colleague and a good guy.
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by dmurray 3y ago
In the US, retail investors have been allowed trade after hours since (Googles...) mid-1999. [0] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4453440-after-hours-trading
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by dmurray 3y ago
If you need protection from the US security apparatus, you're not the target market.

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