shin_lao

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by shin_lao 5y ago
He clarified later that he did not. Let's not over estimate his tweets, other forces are at play.
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by shin_lao 5y ago
You, the customer, is the person who pays the employee down the road.
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by shin_lao 5y ago
An alternative is to build a system on a top of data warehousing technology, but it's very tough, so many stuff built on top of KDB+, I think it will stay for there for next two decades.
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by shin_lao 5y ago
TimescaleDB isn't an alternative to KDB+. KDB+ is more a programming platform than a database.
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by shin_lao 6y ago
Appreciate the clear messaging, I think they need more coherence regarding masking, otherwise they lose credibility. I also think the CDC should start to heavily invest in STI prevention now...
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by shin_lao 6y ago
Prey is a great spiritual successor to System Shock 2, but let's not forget Bioshock!
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by shin_lao 6y ago
Agreed, that part struck me as odd. I think it's making the job more intellectual than it is. I would add to your list: spend as much time as possible with customers and figure out the actual pain.
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by shin_lao 6y ago
It is in their interest to make you believe they can crack anything. Not sure why they said they cracked this app, because now they lost a source of intelligence.
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by shin_lao 6y ago
We are dealing with a person with mental illness, because nothing is coherent. It's all made up. That's why you don't answer that kind of mail, the goal is to trigger a reaction from you.
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by shin_lao 6y ago
I agree with your "can't sue over loss of trading", but that's not to me the problem. If he is a professional, Gill is in trouble. When I was working in capital markets, my contract stipulated that I had to disclose any
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by shin_lao 6y ago
You will have a very hard time to define what is advertising and what's not. How can a business tell you about its existence?
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by shin_lao 6y ago
It's not their money, it's the money from LPs who invested in the fund.
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QAnon Is Destroying the GOP from Within(theatlantic.com)
49 points by shin_lao 6y ago|38 comments
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by shin_lao 6y ago
In a recent webinar for capital markets, AWS didn't even try to advertise Timestream, they talked about the three most popular tsdb in finance and that's it. Source: https://pages.awscloud.com/awsmp-h2-fin-time-ser
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by shin_lao 6y ago
This is such a smart thing to do in the middle of a pandemic that showed that distributed teams can work.
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by shin_lao 6y ago
Even financial/economic policies are very difficult to discuss openly.
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by shin_lao 6y ago
I'm actually very happy they did because every time I upgraded, the headphones and the adapter would end up in a box. I have enough adapters to build a fort, which is kind of cool, but also kind of useless.
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Amazon Timestream time series database generally available(searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com)
2 points by shin_lao 6y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 6y ago
ITER and Sparc are not mutually exclusive routes. ITER will teach us a lot about Fusion, knowledge that will be useful to scale up production.
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by shin_lao 6y ago
Asset growth is taxed by capital gains tax.
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by shin_lao 6y ago
Sugar is in every processed food we eat, leading to an over-consumption of sugar. Sugar also has the tendency to make you want eat more of it, creating a negative feedback loop.
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by shin_lao 6y ago
Avocado oil is much better than olive oil, which has a low boiling point.
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by shin_lao 6y ago
It seems to me that it's using a strategy similar to SpreadSort, or am I wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsort
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by shin_lao 6y ago
GPT-3 is impressive, but is still "a Chinese Room" (1). It does not understand the questions. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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by shin_lao 6y ago
I think it will make sense when cities will have a better infrastructure for targeted deliveries. I'm thinking routes for drones and clear delivery spots. Would not be surprised 30y from now most homes won't have kitchen anymore.
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by shin_lao 6y ago
My advice about safety and speed is and stays: the language you know best is the language that will give you most of both.
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Cockroach Labs scores $86.6M Series D as scalable database resonates(techcrunch.com)
3 points by shin_lao 6y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 7y ago
Great reminder. Even if you pre-create a thread (thread pool), when the task is small enough (less than 1,000 cycles), it is less expensive to do it in place (for example, with fibers), because of the cost of context switching.
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by shin_lao 7y ago
Debt is one of the financial tools at your disposal. Properly used, it's extremely powerful.
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by shin_lao 7y ago
Former kernel developer here. SoftIce was one of those "magical software" that made things possible. Before, you would need two computers connected via a serial port to do actual kernel debugging. When VMWare arrived, SoftIce was

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