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billsnow
·3 years ago·discuss
It’s not symbolic, it’s literally an insurance company that the banks pay premiums to.
billsnow
·4 years ago·discuss
Why would it be beneficial for society to filter out people who make poor business decisions? Many of the greatest generals, politicians, scientists, and artists in history were terrible at business and fell for scams many times.
billsnow
·4 years ago·discuss
Ok fine that’s not what jane street does.
billsnow
·4 years ago·discuss
That’s not what traditional finance does…
billsnow
·4 years ago·discuss
He was there for only three years, and at least ignorant about the finer points.
billsnow
·4 years ago·discuss
Seems neat, but it looks like the major thing is the syntax. Of course c++ syntax is insane and should be updated, but i cant shake the feeling that c++ developers secretly love it. Scanning c++ code for a seasoned c++ developer is like the bushmen of the kalahari scanning the african savanna.
billsnow
·5 years ago·discuss
What none of these three points are true.
billsnow
·5 years ago·discuss
According to who? I checked the edac module for a year on my work machine, and it never detected a single error. I know I'm just one anecdote, but I doubt I'm that lucky.
billsnow
·5 years ago·discuss
ECC support is an actual +10-20% cost in materials for the motherboard and DIMM manufacturers. Also, ECC errors are basically non-existent on desktop/laptop workloads. ECC is worth the extra cost in servers, but for desktops and laptops, the market got it right.
billsnow
·5 years ago·discuss
Oh I have some bad news for you, buddy.
billsnow
·6 years ago·discuss
You can already do this. There's a kernel boot parameter called isocpu or something and the kernel will only run on the logical cpus listed. Furthermore, you can isolate your user programs. The general benefit is latency, but there's a theoretical trade-off in scheduling bandwidth. The memory heirarchy will be utilized less efficiently too.
billsnow
·6 years ago·discuss
yeah that's not the lesson from this