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by scott00 7y ago
A rollback without understanding is definitely risky. An uninformed rollback is one of the factors that killed Knight Capital Group in 2012. For those not familiar, the actual problem was they failed to update one of a cluster of eight serv
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by scott00 7y ago
You can actually make it work and still maintain pseudonymity. A primary key could register a backup key by generating a site-specific keypair, encrypting the site private key using the backup base public key, and then using the encrypted s
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by scott00 7y ago
I use the TSC for high precision timing, and turning TSC ticks into nanoseconds requires interpreting model specific registers, so my timing code would need AMD specific patches to work properly on those processors. Not necessarily a deal-
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by scott00 7y ago
In the event a primary care/urgent care doc disagrees with a hospitalist on the need for admission, why is sending them to the ED the right move? I was under the impression the ED is mostly for triage, and it seems like patients in thi
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by scott00 7y ago
Does the protocol actually make it impossible, or is it just not implemented by current OS/hardware?
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by scott00 7y ago
From a legal standpoint, the relevant language is "no benefits shall be paid to an individual under this chapter for... the period of unemployment... after the individual has left work (1) voluntarily..."[1]. I hope we can agree t
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by scott00 7y ago
Resigning allows you to answer no to "Have you ever been fired or asked to resign from any past position?" on future job applications.
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by scott00 7y ago
Unemployment benefits are likely to be substantially less than wages. In Massachusetts, unemployment benefits are about 50% of wages, with a cap of $795 per week (which works out to an annualized rate of $41,340/year). So the employee
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by scott00 7y ago
I doubt it. HFT is a shrinking industry. Solarflare implements their high end NICs using FPGAs, so they have deep expertise in FPGA implementations of network stuff, as well as integrating those implementations with the host OS (ie, writing
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by scott00 8y ago
A form so simple it only needs 117 pages of instructions.
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by scott00 8y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that although there are a lot of elementary and high schools that do a bad job teaching math in the US, there's also a lot that do a good job. Kids that struggle in math in high school and/or come from
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by scott00 8y ago
It's not insurance fraud (or fraud of any kind). Fraud is theft by deception. Your car fire example is fraud because to get the payout you have to lie to the insurance company about why the car caught on fire. Car insurance contracts q
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by scott00 8y ago
How much data do you sync? I'm syncing 60 GB with NextCloud and it annoys me frequently: every time I log in it spends 5 minutes scanning my data, pegging at least one core of CPU and using up a lot of my I/O capacity. And of cour
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by scott00 8y ago
The first thing I would say is don't let your age stop you. The next thing obviously is that you'll need to learn how to write software. I'd recommend you work through a few beginner tutorials and then pick a project and just
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by scott00 8y ago
One example from my line of work that could conceivably translate to web-land would be parsing numbers. I wrote a version of double.Parse() with less features for an order of magnitude speedup. The program was doing data analysis on a bunch
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by scott00 8y ago
They are federal charges: "... according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Newark, New Jersey, which filed criminal charges against Levoff".
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by scott00 8y ago
So is it like a every day kind of thing or like a few hours every week or two weeks?
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by scott00 8y ago
How common are scenarios where there are multiple ships within visual distance? From reading the account of the collision, it seems like everybody relied primarily on one radar to make navigation decisions, and that radar was either broken,
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by scott00 8y ago
What you describe only works for cash basis taxpayers. Public companies are all accrual basis taxpayers. Under accrual accounting increasing your inventory affects the financial statements as follows: * Balance sheet: decreases cash/ca
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by scott00 8y ago
Company executives are often smart, and often know their business better than anyone else, but they're also biased. What comes out of a CEO's mouth is very likely to have more to do with what he or she wants _you_ to think than wi
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by scott00 8y ago
You can probably mask off a few low order bits and still get most of the value for network management applications.
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by scott00 8y ago
Trackers don't care if they're wrong some of the time. The prediction problems they're using the data to build models for are pretty noisy anyway. If using inexact identifiers improves their model, they'll get used. Man
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by scott00 8y ago
Manuals are not really for reading cover to cover. You generally want to use the table of contents, the index, or searching of some variety (google, ctrl-f, whatever) to narrow in on exactly what you want to know. A few scenarios I find the
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by scott00 8y ago
The fair value of SVXY at 4:15 using the usual formulas was around $4, but it was trading around $70 at that time. However a lot of that price movement was due to essentially flash-crash type movement in the last minute of trading in the VI
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by scott00 8y ago
I'm not an expert in this stuff, but my understanding is that the scope of discovery allowed in each individual arbitration is likely to be substantially less than that which would be allowed in a class action lawsuit. A class action w
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by scott00 8y ago
People with sleep problems are often advised to quit caffeine. Many women who are or who expect to become pregnant also quit over concerns it may harm the fetus.
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by scott00 8y ago
It's not cost effective. In this case, it's looking like each arbitration proceeding will cost the employee that files it $400 in arbitration fees, and they will win at most ~$1000. Assuming $200/hour for lawyers (ha! if only
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by scott00 8y ago
The source for this on Intel processors is the Intel Optimization Reference Manual, section 3.4.1: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
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by scott00 8y ago
A very good point. Most of my GC whispering is done in .NET, which also has value types, but I was guessing that escape analysis in Java would solve most of the problems in this regard. Is that not actually the case?
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by scott00 8y ago
I was with you until you mentioned branch prediction... isn't branch prediction a hardware feature? How do you trick the HW branch predictor into predicting the unlikely case?

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