kolbe

12 ms·

151.
by kolbe 3y ago
My issue so far with the various code assistants isn't the quality necessarily, but the ability of them to draw in context from the rest of the code base without breaking the bank or proving so much info that the middle gets ignored. A
152.
by kolbe 3y ago
FYI, in VS Code, you highlight the error in the terminal, right click and select "copilot explain this." One less layer of indirection. In C++, I ultimately only end up using it for 10% of the errors, but because it's the typ
153.
by kolbe 3y ago
"Copilot explain this error" has made this whole discussion irrelevant for me.
154.
by kolbe 3y ago
I don't even think it requires knowledge of HFT to see the flaw in the whole thing. For example, the whole premise of the book was that banks would see 10,000 shares offered on 5 different exchanges. They'd go to buy 10,000, but o
155.
by kolbe 3y ago
You're like reading my mind. Flash Boys made me question everything he ever wrote. I happen to know a great deal about HFT, and Lewis was like a proto-GPT, espousing with great confidence things that were easily verifiably false. It ma
156.
by kolbe 3y ago
And Lewis was into the original plot less than this one. Lewis is clearly on board with the progressive inclination to say that their cause is more important than operating within traditional bounds on behavior. Lewis was on board with SBF&
157.
by kolbe 3y ago
(1) Pension funds don't have LPs (2) Pension funds often are LPs, and they're widely refereed to as "dumb money" because they would be the last entity to do anything remotely intelligent. (3) Private companies often do n
158.
by kolbe 3y ago
You clearly understand how these things work. We should defer to your brilliance for all of this.
159.
by kolbe 3y ago
How many LPs have access to a financial statement for all of the portfolio companies of their VC fund?
160.
by kolbe 3y ago
Out of both humility and reality, I think even Kahneman would give the bulk of the credit to Amos Tversky.
161.
by kolbe 3y ago
I would be curious to see an actual full accounting of a transaction like this if you know of one.
162.
by kolbe 3y ago
LPs of VC funds whose managers use a misrepresentative investment price to mark up their portfolio.
163.
by kolbe 3y ago
One model, representing a nearly infinitesimally small percentage number of miles for Boeing. I'm not an expert, but my understanding is the 737MAX tried to do some relatively innovative things that backfired. And that product is now j
164.
by kolbe 3y ago
They presume something is wrong when I don't think that's at all been established fact. Airline travel has been steadily safer by the year[1]. Accidents and engineering snags have been a part of every single mode of transit since
165.
by kolbe 3y ago
Totally fair. I'm with you.
166.
by kolbe 3y ago
-ffast-math if you want to push the onus on the compiler. Problem is you need to enforce that requirement on all user compilations, and I don't know what for MSVC. In-language would be nice.
167.
by kolbe 3y ago
There are unfortunately a lot of serial guarantees that are unavoidable even if compilers could optimize perfectly. For example: 'for(double v: vec) sum+=v' Floating point addition is not associative, so summing each value in orde
168.
by kolbe 3y ago
There's a reasonable way to ask this question without being a child about it. If you want to talk, we can. But I'm not going to engage someone resorting to absurdities like equating "ads I don't approve of" with one
169.
by kolbe 3y ago
There is a middle ground that Google chooses not to take: reasonable amounts of ethical ads. I don't mind ads that inform people of products. I mind ones that actively seek to harm my life--whether it's by ripping me off or encour
170.
by kolbe 3y ago
I think that wording is wrong. "Household" is not an algebraic unit, and thus there is no mean. We're left to interpret what is meant, and responsible statisticians would say "the mean net worth of American families&quot
171.
by kolbe 3y ago
Despite to poor wording, this DOES NOT mean the median household is a millionaire
172.
by kolbe 3y ago
Vigilante justice might morally be justice, but it's still illegal
173.
by kolbe 3y ago
Sure. I wasn't really responding to this bill directly.
174.
by kolbe 3y ago
I think that's why Crony Capitalism has a very specific meaning different from Capitalism. Modifiers make a difference. For example, National Socialism and Socialism are very dissimilar.
175.
by kolbe 3y ago
Welcome to crony capitalism. It's America's specialty.
176.
by kolbe 3y ago
When the government also gives de jure monopolies on production and distribution, they can reasonably call for price caps as well. You're thinking of the way economics work in a free market.
177.
by kolbe 3y ago
I'm guessing the instruction pipeline gets packed, so 4-5x more than 3 cyles.
178.
by kolbe 3y ago
Is there a 4th bucket of people who are so eager to pigeonhole ideologies instead of reading that it makes them functionally illiterate? Or are we done at three buckets?
179.
by kolbe 3y ago
I see a large diversity of opinion about this guy's business. Who is this "HN" you're talking about?
180.
by kolbe 3y ago
I don't have the time and sales in front of me to see the exact fact pattern, but yes, that it's a possibility. It's also possible these options were a part of a spread. That is, this trader sold other calls that lost a lot o

More ›