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by scrlk 2y ago
> Rufus Peabody, who changed sports gambling with his data driven approach FWIW, quant sports betting trading firms have been around for a long time, just that they tend to be extremely low key (bookies ban people who win too much).
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by scrlk 2y ago
The IBM Centennial Film has a short interview with Fred Brooks about System/360: https://youtu.be/VQ0PBve6Alk?t=84 Set to some nice Philip Glass music to boot.
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by scrlk 2y ago
The 404 page of the Financial Times is one of my favourites: https://www.ft.com/404
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by scrlk 2y ago
I read the article. My comment was prompted by this: > One reason for this is that parts of the British state are fundamentally misaligned with goals like ‘improving living standards’ or ‘increasing wealth’, whether that’s through hand-w
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by scrlk 2y ago
British elites essentially gave up trying to rule after the Suez Crisis, when Britain's ejection from the superpower club was confirmed. The country has been aimlessly bobbing around since under a general policy of "managed declin
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by scrlk 2y ago
> What is the scale 0.00-9.00 ? Referring to the timestamps in the linked video (i.e. from the start of the video to 9 minutes).
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by scrlk 2y ago
In that case, I stand corrected. I had assumed that the ADIRU’s inertial reference data from its gyroscopes and accelerometers would feed into the FMS to provide INS capabilities in case GNSS was unavailable.
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by scrlk 2y ago
> a lot of planes simply don't have INS installed Perhaps in general aviation, but I can't think of any modern commercial airliner without an INS via the air data inertial reference unit.
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by scrlk 2y ago
Ibis also solves this problem by providing a portable dataframe API that works across multiple backends (DuckDB by default): https://ibis-project.org/
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by scrlk 2y ago
I think you misinterpreted my comment. I'm advocating for an energy mix where the majority of energy is supplied by intermittent renewables with a small amount of low-cost (i.e. not nuclear) dispatchable generation. This avoids the ext
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by scrlk 2y ago
They use a magnesium alloy chassis, which IMO, is superior to aluminium. Lighter and more dent resistant. Frankly, I'm not sure why people think that laptops with CNCed aluminium chassis are the pinnacle of build quality.
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by scrlk 2y ago
https://archive.ph/wO4Ul
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by scrlk 2y ago
To add, it's worth reading the Levelized Full System Costs of Electricity paper: https://iaee2021online.org/download/contribution/fullpaper/1... Energy mix is key: the cost of 100% dependency on interm
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OpenAI GPT-4.5 System Card [pdf](cdn.openai.com)
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by scrlk 2y ago
American Psycho at #55? Impressive, very nice. Now let's see the list from r/books.
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by scrlk 2y ago
Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous ties?
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by scrlk 2y ago
I can understand why some FTX creditors are pissed that the exchange didn't start back up under new management. They would have actually been made whole, unlike the current situation where they're getting "repaid" but pe
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by scrlk 2y ago
It's all traceable. Some of the ETH has already been run through a mixer and then bridged to BTC. In any case, since this hack was performed by a nation state actor (Lazarus Group/North Korea), being caught is effectively meaningl
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by scrlk 2y ago
Exchanges will blacklist the addresses that hold the hacked ETH. They won't be able to deposit, or if they can deposit, the ETH will be frozen by the exchange.
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by scrlk 2y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Bybit cuts a deal with the hacker to return the funds. There's no way that $1.46 billion of marked ETH can be liquidated and off-ramped to fiat.
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by scrlk 2y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-16/apple-pro... ( https://archive.ph/A2UUI ) > One major development snag involves the software used to power the modem, some of which was acq
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by scrlk 2y ago
There's a number of firmware jobs on their website at the moment. All of them ask for C or C++ experience - I haven't seen anything that's asking for Rust or Embedded Swift experience. E.g.: https://jobs.apple.com&
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by scrlk 2y ago
RIP. For those who haven't seen it yet, he was interviewed in the HL2 20th Anniversary Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4 (intro and chapter 1 at 13:40)
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by scrlk 2y ago
The UK regulator introduced the Interruptions Incentive Scheme in 2002 to encourage distribution networks to reduce customer interruptions and minutes lost. It triggered a large wave of investment in network automation (remote switching, au
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by scrlk 2y ago
Look at that new shade of red. The tasteful vibrancy of it. Oh my God...it even has a gradient.
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by scrlk 2y ago
Have people forgotten the authoritarian tendencies of the 1997–2010 Labour governments? This is nothing new.
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by scrlk 2y ago
Savile Row has existed since 1735, predating the founding of the USA by 41 years.
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by scrlk 2y ago
Not in equities (the LSE is basically on life support), but still doing well in areas such as FX, insurance and clearing.
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by scrlk 2y ago
"Sends other UNIX boxes to /dev/null" is one of the best Apple ads from that era: https://brainmapping.org/MarkCohen/UNIXad.pdf
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by scrlk 2y ago
I have showdead enabled in my profile and I sometimes see new users that are shadowbanned (i.e. their posts/comments are automatically "dead"). If it's not spam or low quality, I'll vouch for them.

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