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by nly 2y ago
I've never met a fellow software engineer who "centers divs" for 6 figures. But then I work with engineers using FPGAs to trade in the markets with tick to trade times in double digit nanoseconds and processing streams of mar
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by nly 2y ago
Well in the case of Bitcoin it's just one simple hash function. ASICs were inevitable.
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by nly 2y ago
It's because software devs are smart and make a lot of money - a natural next step is to try and use their smarts to do something with that money. Hence stocks.
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by nly 2y ago
Nobody ever got fired for buying Nvidia
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by nly 2y ago
I'm 10GB over my limit, so no... they don't.
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by nly 2y ago
Stuck on GSuite Legacy (with my own domain) and Google won't let me give them money to upgrade my storage. Workspace too expensive for family purposes. Recently got a new phone and can't use Gemini with my old GSuite Legacy accoun
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by nly 2y ago
It's not 1993. IDEs tell you the type if you hover over the auto. Or control and click takes you to the type definition. You have to weigh up the cost of going through the code and changing all the type declarations auto x = foo(
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by nly 2y ago
I have a friend who decided he wanted to try all the drugs. Weed, LSD, MDMA, Cocaine. He never did heroin (afaik) but tried more than I can recall. He's very well adjusted and no longer does drugs at all. He doesn't even drink. No
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by nly 2y ago
There's such a thing as a personal inflation rate. CPIH in the UK for example includes the cost of housing but the weighting of housing is effectively an average of a teenager, a mid life family and a pensioner. It comes out at like 20
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by nly 2y ago
Why would they have done well? they likely use a payment processor who dynamically price their € fees in Bitcoin and immediately liquidate all Bitcoin received.
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by nly 2y ago
The way this portrays tax relief as increasing your returns is quite misleading. Tax relief only improves your retirement if the marginal rate of tax on your contributions is higher than the marginal rate of tax while in drawdown.
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by nly 2y ago
There are no guaranteed returns. Stocks aren't guaranteed to beat inflation, even over decades. Now, my parents generation had truly guaranteed defined benefit pensions where their employer effectively backstopped their lifetime liabil
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by nly 2y ago
You might want to read this paper from the Bank of England https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-... Choice quote from page 1: "Money creation in practice differs from some pop
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by nly 2y ago
Your explanation of fractional reserve banking is somewhat correct, but missing the big picture Licensed banks can and do write loans at any time without having any deposits to 'lend out'. In doing so they create both the loan (an
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by nly 2y ago
It only prevents tampering if the cost of generating hashes is extremely high. Internally in your company you're not going to spend millions of $'s a year in GPU compute just to replace a database.
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by nly 2y ago
In % terms though?
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by nly 2y ago
I place a couple of online bets a year on big events. It's a bit of fun and i can afford to lose what I stake What you need is good regulation, which is pretty much what we have in the UK.
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by nly 2y ago
1966 called and wants its idea back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith_constant As soon as DJB pays up: http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt
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by nly 2y ago
It's easier in most cases to just use a parser flexible enough for you to specify whatever variant the producer actually emitted.
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by nly 2y ago
Oil shell? https://www.oilshell.org/ Compatible with most bash scripts
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by nly 2y ago
The primary purpose of command line program output is to convey information to a human, not to other programs. Command line scripting is supposed to be adhoc and hack.
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by nly 2y ago
How does this compare to Boost.Multiprecision, which works well with Boost.Math? https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_86_0/libs/multiprecision/do... https://www.boost.org/doc/libs&#
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by nly 2y ago
Still loads of Python 2 scripts floating around at my employer and my prior 2 employers (6 years total)
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by nly 2y ago
cppyy does this for C++
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by nly 2y ago
Why don't they just adopt the same fundamental IPC design as Wayland? Swap out the root wl_display singleton object for something dbus appropriate and away you go? More or less all the display specific stuff is an extension on top of t
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by nly 2y ago
It's not the data format that is important, but the tooling, code generation and binding quality.
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by nly 2y ago
Any recommendations for the best registrar for someone in the UK? I'd ideally like custom DNS entries (so I can import my zone from Gandi) and DNSSEC support, but i guess it's not essential.
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by nly 2y ago
A lot of slowness comes typically comes from wanting to avoid methods that enable side-channel timing attacks
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by nly 2y ago
Parsing decimal strings to double in that way will produce the wrong bit value in many cases.
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by nly 2y ago
Anyone who cares about performance is already using NIC accelerated APIs like Onloads or VFI

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