mgaunard

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by mgaunard 8mo ago
why not just use a spreadsheet?
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by mgaunard 8mo ago
Sizing only sucks because diet and exercise habits changed since the sizes were introduced.
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by mgaunard 8mo ago
No, I would call that being confused about the distinction between law making and law enforcement, which are traditionally very distinct things. It makes sense for there to be leeway due to the scale, automations and high rate of false posi
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by mgaunard 8mo ago
I don't understand how those statements are contradictory.
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by mgaunard 8mo ago
C programs with undefined behaviour were never conforming or well-working. I stopped reading at the abstract; garbage rant full of contradictions.
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by mgaunard 8mo ago
The area where I've seen the most homegrown implementations of things like these is HFT, with the caveat it's also designed to be distributed, integrated with isolation systems, start/stop dependency graphs... I once worked f
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by mgaunard 8mo ago
The code example doesn't render for me.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
In most discord groups I see voice is just this weird feature no one uses. Even when people insist on organizing a telecon they usually use zoom, teams, or google meet instead.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
why not just IRC?
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Spatial indices simply partition your data in N-dimensional space the same way a binary tree does it in 1-dimensional space. The whole advantage over a static partition is that it will allow you to properly deal with data that is irregularl
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Indices are meant to depend on the data yes, not exactly rocket science. Updating an R-tree is log(n) just like any other index.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Ha, more cult of personality, down to idolizing every word from a simple casual speech.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Why doesn't it use k-d trees or r-trees?
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
I live in London. Most residential streets are two-way but there is only space for one car, and driving on the curb is not really an option. The trick to UK streets is that parking actually happens on the street itself, and when driving you
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Still needs to be trained on the final boss: dense cities with narrow streets.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Most trading venues are in Equinix data centers.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Personally I haven't seen a scenario where it makes sense beyond a small experimental lab where you value the ability to tinker physically with the hardware regularly. Offices are usually very expensive real estate in city centers and
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Coolness factor of having a datacenter right in your office.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
you're missing 5, what they are doing. There is a world of difference between renting some cabinets in an Equinix datacenter and operating your own.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
I stopped reading at "soon to become the practice of writing software". That belief has no basis at this point and it's been demonstrated not only that AI doesn't improve coding but also that the costs associated are not
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
In my experience ray clusters don't scale well and end up costing you more money. You need to run permanent per-user instances etc. What you need is a multi-tenancy shared infrastructure that is elastic.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Tax works differently by country. In many cases there are no mechanism to pool your taxes with your significant other.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
In my experience the real issue with airports is the border control, not the security check.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
The British and the Russians also had a COVID vaccine (and much cheaper), and the French cancelled theirs because they realized it would come too late to be competitive. So if they were restricted to some reason to use their own only, they
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Static linking is also an optimization barrier. LTO is really a different thing, where you recompile when you link. You could technically do that as part of the dynamic linker too, but I don't think anyone is doing it. There is a surpr
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
It's funny how people insist on wanting to link everything statically when shared libraries were specifically designed to have a better alternative. Even worse is containers, which has the disadvantage of both.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Looking into it a bit more, it seems my information was a bit dated, and they did get strides in the last 15 years.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Investing in solar panels was one of the NEOM project goals.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
Saudi Arabia uses more than half of the petrol they extract on desalination. It's not sustainable and once it runs out, the country will go back to being a poor desert.
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by mgaunard 9mo ago
A lot of British houses have coaxial cable TV in all bedrooms. Ignoring the horrible taste of our forebears that were putting TVs where they don't belong, that does enable carrying gigabit ethernet using MoCA technology.

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