AlEinstein

Options spread.

What’s heartbreaking is that he didn’t trade any leverage at all. He executed an options spread that was worth about $700k on each leg. Due to the nature of buying and selling options, the app showed his position as short $700k because the long leg hadn’t settled yet. All he needed to do was wait and he would have seen the balance go back to what he expected.

The floating point results are suspiciously good compared to the rest of the results. I wonder if they have some good VLIW instructions for floating point or it’s just an error in the spreadsheet.

This doesn’t have any info about the instruction set.

If you already know what a vector space is and what a tensor product is and you recognise and understand bra-ket notation I would say there’s a very good chance you already know what quantum entanglement is.

So who is the target audience for this?

It may be true that bitcoin will be a good store of value but this article doesn’t make a good case for it. For example, bitcoin is quite volatile, which would tend to make it a poor store of value. The article doesn’t address that aspect at all. If obvious drawbacks aren’t addressed then the case isn’t made.

I once had my card skimmed while I was overseas. Westpac reversed all the transactions and sent me a new card.

You are correct!

To answer your question, writing a NUL char to stdout is no problem. Some utilities can actually use it as a delimiter since it’s so uncommon. I think most shells would just print nothing on the screen.

Have fun in your HTTP 1.1 world.

You can multiply 1/3 by 3 and not get 1.

Did you even read the article? I’ve been wanting something like this for a while. It’s a solid engineering decision that needs good marketing to make sure people understand that it’s good for battery life.

Is this cache friendly on a modern cpu? On the face of it, it seems to be quite cache unfriendly.