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by shric 2y ago
Exchanges have requirements imposed on HFTs to prevent this kind of abuse. This one would be no different.
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by shric 2y ago
> The average American household uses about 29 kilowatts of power per day (29,000 megawatts). Ignoring the megawatts error that the sibling pointed out, it's 29 kilowatt hours per day. Watts are a unit of power consumption -- joules
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by shric 2y ago
I'm imagining a tiling window manager screensaver that slowly resizes and moves your window boundaries throughout the day
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by shric 2y ago
i3/sway was recommended in the post, so yes.
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by shric 2y ago
Google. I can't imagine Facebook having tens of EB.
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by shric 2y ago
I haven't listened to FM, AM, DAB, or anything broadcast since I've been able to connect my phone to my car (20 years?). Why would I listen to what the station programmers decide (and possibly riddled with ads) when I can configur
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by shric 2y ago
My frame of reference; the largest storage platform I've ever worked on was a combined ~tens of EB (give or take) and that had over a billion users.
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by shric 2y ago
I usually group similar type things into directories so that I don't get much of an extension mix. The exception is my download directory and for that I generally want to order by time or size.
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by shric 2y ago
It doesn't make much sense. The only files I know of that are .s are assembly.
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by shric 2y ago
A fun read on word count optimization can be found in Abrash's Black Book: https://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/#lessons-learned... You can gloss over the asm if you wish, the tricks that are explained arou
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by shric 2y ago
Not making any statement on causality but I wanted to take a look... Firearm related deaths per 100,000[1]: Germany: 0.065 US: 4.054 (62.4x higher) Firearm ownership per 100 people[2]: Germany: 19.6 US: 120.5 (6.15x higher) If those stats a
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by shric 2y ago
Strange, I've been using Signal for years and its backup feature works just fine: 1. Enable backups. 2. Point it at a folder on your phone which gets synchronized somewhere 3. Note the 30 digit passphrase in your password manager. htt
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by shric 2y ago
Somehow I guessed it was Dijkstra just from the title.
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by shric 2y ago
My comment was on holding them, not receiving. That is, you should treat them like receiving cash and convert them into whatever you would normally do wisely with extra cash you received.
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by shric 2y ago
Also it's generally unwise to hold onto your employer's stocks that you were granted as single stock ownership is inherently risky. There's no reason to believe your employer's shares are going to beat the market. Also,
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by shric 2y ago
Master Foo long predates Python and Rust.
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by shric 2y ago
It's worth listening, it's 53 minutes at 1x speed. The main gist is that the list doesn't specify volume and the low quality of the data due to confounders. Also, conflicting studies. Examples of things that will "probab
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by shric 2y ago
Past the edit deadline, but s/confidence/convinced/
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by shric 2y ago
There was a recent (August 2023) The Studies Show episode[1] on WHO's cancer list. It goes in to why these lists are incredibly misleading. My own mother died of Ovarian Cancer at age 40 and used talc. I'm not confidence for a sec
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by shric 2y ago
I live in the center of Sydney. Every Friday in the city for as long as I can remember there's been a small but dedicated group of peaceful protesters gathering outside Town Hall. They must be over the moon today.
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by shric 2y ago
Discussed a few days ago (234 points, 73 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40689759
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by shric 2y ago
"For this article, you’ll need the following knowledge: Basic C understanding (Memory, Stack, Heap, Syscall)." Obviously, since C doesn't prescribe any kind of heap, stack or syscall behavior (or if they even exist), I assume
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by shric 2y ago
Nothing, except it's thousands (literally) of times slower than alternatives because it uses primitives instead of meshes and therefore doesn't lend itself well to GPU parallelization
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by shric 2y ago
Yes, I've done it many times! At the time of writing based on total games played at https://database.lichess.org/ one in every 272,369 games are mine :p
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by shric 2y ago
He stated that he tried using master tournament games but the dataset was way too small. But yes indeed, the single example game he showed was indeed a result of the winner playing very silly moves and the loser allowing it rather than resi
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by shric 2y ago
The creator admits it early on -- it's measuring rarity based on the specific notation everyone uses, which greatly influences the classification of rarity. Fundamentally all chess moves are a piece moving from one source to another de
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by shric 2y ago
Tell that to anyone wanting a performant Wayland experience with an Nvidia GPU and Sway while maintaining secure boot. It's doable, but it doesn't "just work".
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by shric 2y ago
Is there any reason to use nano over vim other than learning curve? If nano ever gets run for some reason (e.g. I forgot to set EDITOR) I immediately quit and launch vim. I readily admit nano is easier for beginners to get something done, b
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by shric 2y ago
(2020)
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by shric 2y ago
> Arrays in C have length information. Pointers do not. This is 100% correct. The parent of the parent is confused (or is just using terminology incorrectly) as are the current siblings to my comment. One post claims pointers carry lengt

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