How much is high-frequency trading worth? About $5B
I would never have predicted that biological viruses were written in LISP and, as such, all end in ))))))))))))). Is CRISPR just the equialent of MOV then?
Ars Technica summarizes how they function with no physical office. My personal take: all-remote is OK, all-in person is better (for the work), a mix is a goddamn disaster.
Math is so weird. We know of algorithms that are extremely Big-O efficient, even solving NP problems in polynomial time + a constant factor. The problem is that the constant factor is ... large. See also wikipedia and HN comments.
Now we know why the hobbits couldn't take the eagles to Mordor: roaming fees. (Yes, I know I'm the eight millionth person to make this joke, shut up)
I still feel like "1" is the wrong number of engines on an airplane but "yeah, it'll land itself" is a pretty cool feature. It apparently squawks 7700 and talks shit to the tower and recommends pulling the chute if that's the only other option. Mind you there's autoland and then there's autoland.
We programmers beat ourselves up about how bad we are at, well, everything and generally feel that Real Engineers are better. This is true, but remember that even mature engineering practice screws up. Sometimes it's caught in time and sometimes it's not. Sometimes we know what not to do and do it anyway.
Naming things is hard. "Pwnagotchi" makes it look easy.
I mentioned the causal-profiling app coz earlier and only now ran into this nice video that introduces both it and another neat performance tuning tool, Stabilizer.