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by seabird 6y ago
Wow, sometimes this site really needs to exit the stratosphere and come back down to earth. I live in the Midwest and you can comfortably pay a mortgage on a sizable house, all utilities, all necessities, and still have a shitload left over
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by seabird 6y ago
You ignored two really important parts of my comment. >"I said "whatever, it's a good thing I don't play too much WoW" and made peace with what it was." and >"I'm not going to suffer through som
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by seabird 6y ago
It's really rich when these types get riled up about software having very obvious flaws. I respect the author and really want to like Wayland, but there's big things missing. I recently installed Fedora after my Windows install bo
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by seabird 6y ago
There is no undue air of cynicism. No fundamental assumptions have been broken. Odds are overwhelming that everything will once again happen as it has thousands of times before. A very risky play from a hedge fund has resulted in people who
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by seabird 6y ago
Halting trading temporarily is extremely common. A halt for hours or days at a time is not.
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by seabird 6y ago
WSB has experienced ~6x growth in the last month. The vast majority of it is people who have no idea what forces are at play, and think that this is some way to dunk on a hedge fund with mechanisms they don't understand. They're a
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by seabird 6y ago
Naked shorts are not impossible, especially if you're talking about naked call options. They're comparatively rare (being illegal just means you get fined if you get caught, it's really "not that serious" for a big
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by seabird 6y ago
No idea why you're getting downvoted -- whether or not you're able to do it depends on if you are one of those exceptions and that is an important part I missed in my original post. I was referring to market makers, as I think i
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by seabird 6y ago
Not an expert myself, but I've been interested in the field for a while. The clearinghouse ultimately moves the security and money to their right place, and allows brokerages to let each side move on faith that everything will be right
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by seabird 6y ago
I'm not a domain expert, but it would seem that whether or not something was sold naked is ultimately determined in the instant that you are obligated to deliver -- not doing so is a Failure to Deliver, which is when your problem actua
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by seabird 6y ago
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152600018515730&w=2 This is what I had in mind. This obviously impacts some useful gdb features, but such is the nature of OpenBSD.
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by seabird 6y ago
The number of regular OpenBSD users that are not programmers is probably vanishingly thin. If my memory serves me correctly, there are features of modern x86 processors that it straight up doesn't implement on a don't-care basis,
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by seabird 6y ago
Largely correct. The only thing I would add is that I wouldn't be surprised at all if it landed a fair bit above where it started, because there being short interest 140% of the float has a pretty chilling effect on people looking at i
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by seabird 6y ago
That's not how this works. Of course the play is bad if you completely ignore that the key part of the play is that short sellers and call contract writers are contractually obligated to buy pretty much regardless of the price. Whether
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by seabird 6y ago
Yes, GME's current price does not reflect the value of the company. That being said, anybody that feels that staying involved in a short play involving a profitable retailer with significant activist investor interest when short intere
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by seabird 6y ago
This has very little to do with HFT. I would argue that the person who wrote this Twitter thread really quickly veers off into the territory of just-plain-wrong. What's more likely, - Citadel is paying multiple billions to get in on a
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by seabird 6y ago
That's true, but I think it's a very fair assumption that the parent of my initial comment realizes that the grandparent has a position, considering that they're asking why they took that position.
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by seabird 6y ago
I haven't redefined anything; your definition of "long means that they're holding shares or call options" is completely in agreement with my statement that "long just means not short." The parent seems to be co
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by seabird 6y ago
There's nothing nonsense about it. These big firms have billions on the line and are interested in protecting it. WSB is a comedy outlet where active posters are at least in the high end of hobbyist traders, and they realized that some
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by seabird 6y ago
Long just means "not short", and not that they think GME is currently at a reasonable price. No rational actor in this situation believes that.
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by seabird 6y ago
They're not managing this by having a huge amount of capital; what's happening here only works under some really specific circumstances. Recent-ish short interest data had GME at ludicrous levels (over 100% of issued stock was sho
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by seabird 6y ago
"Finance obsessed" is a pretty accurate description of what's going on here. A huge number of people on this site have trouble understanding that there's a world outside of the Bay Area where rent isn't $3000+ a mon
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by seabird 6y ago
He's writing this in Borland C++. If my memory serves me correctly, there wasn't even a widely available STL implementation for this compiler, let alone standard header names, standard containers, lambdas, <algorithm>, <n
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by seabird 6y ago
The point isn't that you can do web UI in Qt (you can, but it's on a canvas and very rough around the edges), but that web UI frameworks often struggle to achieve a lot of what is just a wave of the hand in desktop frameworks.
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by seabird 6y ago
I would go so far as to say that 9front's marketing works to try and attract only the second group in that trichotomy. The first page is footed with BLM and antifascist logos. Plan 9 is everything an old-school 4chan technology poster
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by seabird 6y ago
You would have to integrate a storage controller into your design and verify that it works. It's not insurmountable, but it's engineering time that has to go toward something that a lot of people aren't ever going to use, alo
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by seabird 6y ago
Humility is good, but it's important to acknowledge that CMake very often feels awful. I consider myself a competent developer and it's still pulling teeth trying to get what I want out of it. Some things will get easier with time
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by seabird 6y ago
These things aren't microservices for a dating app that is going to fold in two years. The core of working in any safety-critical field is strict empiricism. You have to accept how little you know and not believe anything you haven&#x2
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by seabird 6y ago
Those aspects of a vehicle are only commoditized if you discount the massive amount of time poured into design, integration, and manufacturing engineering. It's easy to buy some bolt-on aftermarket automotive product and attach it to y
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by seabird 6y ago
You're going to need to commit a lot more time than that. HDLs and the surrounding concepts have key fundamental differences from software that a lot of developers have a hard time stomaching. That's why high-level synthesis is th

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