pgwhalen

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by pgwhalen 6y ago
> There is something that is driving us apart I must say I am too curious not to ask, this quite cryptic. What would you say is driving us apart?
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
By selecting all the cells in the row and clicking the sum button? I get your point though, many excel users are writing bits of code here and there, especially if you consider math to be code.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
I may be mistaken, but I think the kids that would benefit most from finance education don’t get to matrix multiplication anyway.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
In what sense are we not closer to a vaccine? I’m not following vaccine development closely, but my understanding is that many candidates are progressing along nicely.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
"Market maker" refers to a "role" in a market. HFT is simply one way that role is fulfilled, in some markets (equities, futures, ...) but perhaps not others (corporate bonds, MBS, ...). No market needs HFTs to provid
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Aren't you expected to be fake happy in all portions of American culture? I am American so cannot meaningfully comment on other cultures, but it I suppose it could be true for every culture as well. People just like being around happy
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
As of a few years ago, the starting big law salary has moved up to $190k from $160k. Otherwise this comment is correct.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
I'm trying to assume a good faith argument here, but I'm struggling to. So I'll just say that we see the situation very differently.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
This doesn't seem like a fair analogy for a number of reasons. But mostly just that COVID itself is not destroying businesses, whereas a hurricane literally is.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
> People are too afraid about getting sick and dying to go outside This is still a response to the pandemic, just a non-governmental one. I'm not saying such a response isn't justified, but it is not directly attributable to t
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
What if your tasks use blocking IO, and the number you tasks you have exceed a reasonable number of threads? Your answer might be to use async, event-driven IO instead, but the central thesis behind virtual threads is that this is a terribl
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
A small note: Helicopter Money has a relatively precise definition, and what the US government (and Federal Reserve) has done in 2020 does not fit that definition. The Fed's activities still fall under the umbrella of Quantitative Eas
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
I disagree that it is completely useless. You're basically arguing that time is only useful as a relative measure, not an absolute one. While that is true in some sense (the ordering of events and the space between them is what matte
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
> No, you may have to do a major upgrade every six months. I think the point is that it's not a major upgrade. There hasn't been a major upgrade since 9, and there won't be going forward. It's similar to Go in that
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
I think you have it slightly wrong. LTS is not a thing inherent to the language or to OpenJDK, it is a thing that a vendor provides. It is separate from from "update" releases that Corretto and AdoptOpenJDK provide. pron98 (pron
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
I was a little confused about this for a long time especially when AdoptOpenJDK was first created, but I believe this is wrong. Here is an OpenJDK build from Oracle: https://jdk.java.net/14/
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
> I’m not a Richard Stallman type, but I think it’s come to the point where if you have even the slightest pretense of being a “free web” person, using Chrome or a Chromium-based browser has become unconscionable. Thanks for phrasing it
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
I’ve always found it useful to not assume users on a website are a homogenous group of people.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
This is not just a facebook problem though. Taking your proposal to its logical conclusion suggests that the internet should have no user created content on it - or am I missing some possible middle ground?
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
I’m a little confused, what would the alternative be?
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Why permanently?
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
>This is some serious black magic If there were ever a time and a place for black magic, it would be this use case: swapping out an enormous layer (the hardware) at the bottom of the stack, while keeping everything at the top of the stac
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Minor point, they've settled on the name "virtual threads" instead at this point.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
It feels to me like you’re just saying the same thing in two different ways, and that the reasoning is not circular.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
In what sense did Goldman Sachs do something similar during the crisis?
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
I’m curious if you have a source that ML has increased financial markets volatility.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Bingo. Finance is just about allocating risk. When it goes wrong, it's either because 1) the risk taken was misunderstood, and/or 2) too much risk was taken. Fraud falls into category 1 (as do many other things, like correlation
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Any source on that happening with Covid PPE? I’d love to read about it.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Airflow is generally not aware of data flow, it just runs something once its upstream dependencies have finished. Less useful in a way, but also much more broadly applicable.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Fair point. Though the excess seems to already eclipse car crash deaths in their entirety, and I'm not sure if other major causes of accidental deaths (e.g. drug overdoses) would really be expected to go down during a lockdown. https

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