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by pgwhalen 1y ago
Java's biggest risk towards continued adoption, by far, is the culture surrounding it - old Java programmers and old Java programs continue to be needlessly verbose, even if the language now has the tools (pretty much) to be as terse a
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
Did you read the article? It’s mostly about the nuance of how to apply this philosophy in practice, not a pithy one-size-fits-all statement about all software engineering.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
It's hard to define what it means for a company to know something, but as a person inside a company spending on gen AI efforts, I'm pretty confident that we're not investing in it just to maintain an elevated valuation (we&#x
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I'm pretty deep into the arrow ecosystem and have been dreaming about something like this for a while now. Nice to see! I'm also imagining what this would look like in other languages (Java, Go, Python) - you can't do as muc
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I don’t understand the difference between NIMBYism and NIMBY other than the part of speech. I also don’t understand the level of vitriol in your responses, I do not intend to shut down arguments or virtue signal. Your association with NIMBY
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I’m not sure what “slam dunk” means in this context, but they do note how clear the effect is, even if it does unfortunately take 5-10 years before it shows.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I’m confused, what isn’t rational? NIMBYism in the form of historical preservation is perfectly rational, I don’t dispute that. Just noting that I favor housing affordability, which research suggests is at odds with this sort of NIMBYism.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
Yes, here's an episode of a podcast with the authors of such a paper. https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/2024/12/11/83-local-effects-of-up...
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
Ah yes, absolutely. I love historic architecture as much as anybody, but I am not a NIMBY and would prefer affordable housing for current and future members of my community more than I would preserving some particular moment in time for my
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
What does “causing real damage to historic areas” mean? Causing damage in what sense?
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
The research on upzoning simply does not bear out this conclusion.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I’m a sort of reluctant/embarrassed user of smart home technology. I understand your pause, but the opportunity is so clearly there, it’s just that no one has executed well enough on it yet. I’m not sure that a new OS is really the way
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
Even at the speediest trading firms, the large majority of code is not latency sensitive. Systems and algos are structured such that the fast acting stuff is simple and contained.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
It’s a superb codebase for sure, I’ve spent dozens or hundreds of hours reading it. But I would caution against using it as an example of Java the language because of how non-idiomatic it can be to achieve the absurd performance it does. Mo
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I'm not sure how this is related. The so-called "Operation Choke Point 2.0" (which as far as I can tell is just a term used by the Trump administration to describe behavior of the Biden administration) is about bank regulati
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I don't think this exactly the takeaway of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. It just means judges have more power to weigh in with their own opinions when there is ambiguity involved, not that all the specifics of implementation _
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I do not have access to the FT, can you link directly to the document from SEBI?
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
> "market manipulation" in general is hard to define. The working definition in the US is something along the lines of "placing orders in the hopes that the price of the security will change in response to those orders exi
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
The SEC has similar autonomy in regulating that you describe. Congress does not legislate the rules that the SEC holds firms to.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
A more straightforward explanation could be that the strategy is not market manipulation by conventional SEC thinking, and that this SEBI enforcement action is an unwelcome surprise rather than “damn they got us.”
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
Of course that’s preferable, but OP is specifically asking about the cold restore case, which tends to pose different problems, and is just as important to maintain and test.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
No. The figure is from their S-1 filing and further detail is not provided.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
Yeah, less than half a dozen schools in the second two categories can consider them revenue sports. However they’re at least distinguished from all the other sports that truly don’t ever generate revenue.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
The cultural rules tend to be more important when describing future events, where the “human friendly” description is what really defines it. When describing past events, it’s often most precise to describe the literal universe time that it
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I mean this earnestly, and not as some sort of comeback: what would “checking” this behavior look like? What is gone in society now that checked it in the past? I’m sympathetic to this view but I can’t really make it a coherent theory in my
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
My team has found a lot of success using testcontainers for testing Go and Java applications integrating with Postgres. They feel more unit-testy than e2e-testy. Admittedly I’m only talking about selects, inserts, updates, views, etc. not s
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
Is it even attempting to be veiled at all? You know you’re reading a company’s blog post, written about a feature the company is building for their product, right? It is explicitly marketing.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I was using imprecision in a more general and less mathematical sense than the way you’re interpreting it, but yes this is a good point about why FP is useful in many financial contexts, when the monetary amount is derived from some model.
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
I agree overall but my take is that it shows more ignorance about the domain of finance (or a particular subdomain) than it does about floating-point ignorance. It’s really more of a concern in accounting, when monetary amounts are concrete
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by pgwhalen 1y ago
There are a lot of specifics HN can and will nitpick in this piece, but the perspective is useful and not invalidated by these specifics. Personally I would never choose this lifestyle, but I like that OP highlights how clearly it can exis

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