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by sbf501 4y ago
I bet it is literally phonetically easier for traders on the NYSE floor to shout round number rather than "Selling amazon at 978.23!!!" At some point the number of significant figures slows down your transaction speed, as a human,
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by sbf501 4y ago
That's not true. It has an impact on options re-pricing after the split occurs. I don't pretend to understand it, so don't ask for more details, but options traders love splits, apparently (at least the traders I know).
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by sbf501 4y ago
Are those numbers real? Or is this a late (early?) April Fools? I can't even tell anymore.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Around 1995 I wrote a DirectDraw text-editor that would render two images and force you to defocus your eyes like the op-art-3d puzzles: making the viewer have to focus far away. It worked for images but not for reading small text.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Odd that OP would give a grim warning without an equation. I graduated in 1991 with BSEE and the curriculum was a rush to get us to diffeq and linear systems because 90% of the remaining three years of classes were taught using S and Z plan
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by sbf501 4y ago
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica FTW (There was also a computer at MIT called "zurich.ai.mit.edu" that you could FTP to in 1990 and download really raunchy NSFL porn. I still have scars.)
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by sbf501 4y ago
> as a lone inventor genius a la Tesla The de-facto deification is pervasive.
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by sbf501 4y ago
As another Member of the Society to Reduce Wesley into a Little Styrofoam Dodecahedron, I can certainly attest that usenet wasn't as gleamingly professional as we remember. The original stereotypes of discussion group users (trolls, wh
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by sbf501 4y ago
who cares what your car looks like. owning one is a hassle and a money sink and i resent that i've lived in 5 cities who have de-prioritized mass transit. cars look boring is like saying it's a bummer cancer isn't cool.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Sadly, the sites that don't work on 12ft.io is growing. I keep running into this when trying to read NYT.
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by sbf501 4y ago
> Instead, they use a random algorithm to choose which seller “sold” this drill and gets the money. So the Makita store is not guaranteed to actually ship me the product, it just comes from ANY store that matches the UPC code? Holy shit.
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by sbf501 4y ago
I never understood why this is such a surprise? The frequency of a word is proportional to its rank in the frequency table... what else would it be? It always struck me as circuitous logic, or a truism? But I'm not a math person so I&#
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by sbf501 4y ago
I don't follow on #1. If I'm buying from the Makita store on amazon (because the Makita site literally sends me there), how is that a risk? I'm legit asking, not trolling. :)
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by sbf501 4y ago
Rule #1: Always buy from the official brand store on Amazon: e.g., only buy Makita products from the Makita Amazon shop; another example: Cuisinart, or Klein, or Fluke. Rule #2: Buy books from Powells.com Rule #3: Only buy things that cost
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by sbf501 4y ago
I had to adjust my hydration when switching from all-purpose to 00, but it is definitely a superior structure, especially with a 48-hour ferment and a little diastatic malt.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Not OP, but the texture is different. Soak some black beans overnight then cook them, and compare them to rinsed canned beans. The latter are slipper and spongy, the former are lighter and have better texture.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Well, I live in Berkeley, so I'm pretty damn spoiled when it comes to cheese shops. But I can see that being helpful if there are no cheese stores, import stores, or specialty foods stores in your town.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Way off topic here, but Anna napoletana tipo "00" changed my life.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Opposite here: I dislike Trader Joe's. I call it "bougie safeway". Trader Joe's is great if you like boxed, prepared food, but it isn't much better for anything else. Their produce is meh and overly wrapped with pac
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by sbf501 4y ago
What the heck? Is there actually any relationship between these words? I got to within 900/1000 today in 33 guess, and was SOOO far off from the answer that after 30 hints I gave up. Not sure I understand the rules.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Referees need to start rolling a d20.
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by sbf501 4y ago
It is WSJ's equivalent of clickbait. What, did you think they were immune or too highbrow?
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by sbf501 4y ago
Weren't scientists of old after endowments from kings and royalty, too? Further, I seem to recall a Vertiasium about the guy who solved the cubic, fighting for a position at a college by dethroning another professor through an academic
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by sbf501 4y ago
Same thing here. I think tooling (packers included) aren't really designed for this, as demonstrated by the hacks you need to apply to aliases and directories. I hope this is fixed over the next few years, because like you, I got it to
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by sbf501 4y ago
Side note about SD Cards: I recently started writing embedded code to talk to them, and they are a fussy bunch. Several libraries I found on GitHub failed ungracefully and did not report that the card write buffer was overflowing. I wonder
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by sbf501 4y ago
I remember a github repo like this from ages ago. How is the token used? I assume the token has a function that triggers an abort, but does that mean the downstream code has to constantly check the token, or does it simply generate a fault&
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by sbf501 4y ago
I started reading this hoping to get some insight into creating a way to abort an in flight promise, e.g. async/await pattern for a tower of async functons, and not a Promise.all[]. However, this is so exhaustively well-written then I
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by sbf501 4y ago
Raise your hand if you're one of the ding-dongs who in 1991 thought the internet was only ever going to be good for song lyrics and porn. /raises hand in shame/ (Note: i'm excluding things like EaasySabre [sic])
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by sbf501 4y ago
I still use Motif Window Manager & X/Motif when writing native linux apps because I miss those big blocky buttons.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Here's an unpopular opinion: it is unstable because we don't know what exactly "front-end" means. First it was static HTML pages, then it was CGI (ColdFusion & DHTML FTW!), then it was PHP, then it was Rails, then it

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