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by nly 1y ago
Yeah, I got gubbed everywhere in the UK as well. When Betfair first came on to the scenes the traditional online (and offline) bookmakers were like fish in a barrel for arb bets. I still remember when the first major bookmaker (pretty sure
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by nly 1y ago
Except xAI which will no doubt get permission at some point.
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by nly 1y ago
So many people's future retirement prosperity is now so tied to the performance of stocks that we better hope it continues.
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by nly 1y ago
It also enables common culture. If someone says they got up at 5am for a flight then it is widely understood that that is pretty early for a typical person, without having to explain as much in words. If someone says they didn't get h
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by nly 1y ago
Mozilla's one died a death
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by nly 1y ago
Same reason they're still occasionally sending money to one another by cheque.
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by nly 1y ago
strncpy is more or less perfect in my line of work where a lot of binary protocols have fixed size string fields (char x[32]) etc. The padding is needed to make packets hashable and not leak uninitialized bytes. You just never assume a stri
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by nly 1y ago
OPRA is a half dozen terabytes of data per day compressed. CSV wouldn't even be considered.
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by nly 1y ago
We use parquet extensively at work, and it's really slow to ingest. Slower than a hand rolled binary column oriented format. Sometimes using something standardized is just worth it though.
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by nly 1y ago
> And then, evolution found a way to add a "notch filter" such that despite increased attraction to closely related individuals, most animals (including humans) are repulsed sexually by their parents and siblings. Not being att
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by nly 1y ago
Recently I've been seeing a lot of holiday lets on sites like Rightmove (UK) and Airbnb with clearly AI generated 'enhancements' to the photos. It should be illegal in my view.
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by nly 1y ago
We have this in the UK too,but it's a waste of time. You just get a stock/automated response to most petitions. That said, they are required to set aside some parliamentary time for it and for petitions to be "debated".
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by nly 1y ago
And the best healthcare money can buy anywhere in the world.
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by nly 1y ago
They are randomly generated and therefore high entropy.
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by nly 1y ago
They've completely lost my business here in the UK. They are no longer the cheapest UK ETF or fund provider in any category, and their Vanguard Investor platform isn't the cheapest either.
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by nly 1y ago
Not if you run RHEL: dnf install gcc-toolset-X
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by nly 1y ago
Bad notification icons happen on Reddit all the time. I've always assumed it was just bad caching
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by nly 1y ago
We can't really criticise modern application developers for looking at this complexity, shrugging, and just using the only API available - inet_pton In a sensible world inet_pton would be deprecated with a compiler warning and replaced
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by nly 1y ago
You can't walk away from your mortgage in the UK without going bankrupt. If you're underwater you still owe.
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by nly 1y ago
Standard practice in all trading applications is to busy poll the NIC using a kernel bypass technology. Typically saves 2-3 microseconds going through the kernel network stack.
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by nly 1y ago
For some value of "you"? Isn't it notoriously difficult to live as a foreigner in Japan and buy property there?
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by nly 1y ago
Me either. Squinting at it didn't help.
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by nly 1y ago
How is posting factual information and his true feelings damaging to his former employer? They have no right to stop him from expressing his feelings publicly.
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by nly 1y ago
asn1c claims to support "unaligned basic PER"
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by nly 1y ago
If you'd spent 8-10x income on a home you'd be a NIMBY about some dick building directly overlooking your garden too
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by nly 1y ago
It's not neutral if you've borrowed to buy the home... If you're in negative or reduced equity your mortgage costs can increase dramatically when you refinance. This alone can easily cripple a large % of the population and t
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by nly 1y ago
Over the last 50-70 years the UK made the choice to stop building social housing and to sell off the existing stock with aggressive government subsidies. Complaining now is a bit like complaining there's no milk after you sold the dair
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by nly 1y ago
And yet I've never had any cleaning issues.
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by nly 1y ago
Dirty dishes, that are <12 hours old, out of sight in a shut dish washer, are hardly problematic. Doing the dishes just once a day saved water, energy and time.
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by nly 1y ago
Well file transfers via DCC (the IRC transfer mechanism) are direct. The receiver connects directly to your machine or visa versa.

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