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Comment · 2 months ago
Even if they were, flying in restricted airspace is not against the rules when talking to ATC.
Comment · 2 months ago
Not sure anything is enhancing. Approaches have… always been documented? What has greater range - VORs? I haven’t seen any. I think it’s reducing everything to MON that’s it.
Comment · 7 months ago
As someone who never worked anywhere: what’s IB?
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
CTO of an HFT firm here. My opinion: repo (and probably author’s comments) are LLM-generated. That said, many questions and techniques touched upon are real. So even though I certainly would not use any of these verbatim (as I wouldn’t do with any other LLM code), as a list of pointers for someone relatively new to the field this is actually pretty useful.

Saves you a “generate low-latency trading system” prompt anyway.

Comment · 10 months ago
It does not. If this was the case, round trip wire to wire latency below 1.0-1.2 microseconds in software would’ve been impossible. But it clearly is possible - see benchmarks by Solarflare, Exablaze, and others.
Comment · 10 months ago
Is it a coincidence it’s 42 megawatts and not 41 or 43?
Comment · 1 year ago
They were most definitely IFR. Not because of the weather but because IFR is required above certain altitude 18,000 ft in the U.S. and typically lower in Europe (depends on a country). Jets including small private jets are almost always on IFR. Airliners with passengers - always.
Comment · 5 years ago
Don’t call me Shirley!
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Russian propaganda does not say that. Putin himself said on multiple occasions that any theories of staging moon landings are silly. Don’t have a reference at the moment but I have seen several Putin’s interviews to that effect.

Russian propaganda is alive and well on many topics but denying American moon landings is not one of them.

Comment · 5 years ago
One does not need a lot of bandwidth to trade successfully. In fact, a limited number of signals agreed upon ahead of time is enough. E.g. signal “A” could mean “buy 10 contracts”, signal “B” - “sell 100 contracts”, etc. And you can of course wrap 256 such signals into one byte. So transmitting a single byte at an opportune time let’s you control your trading on the other continent in a quite precise fashion. If you make such transmission, say, 10 times per day your bandwidth utilization is technically 10 bytes per day or about 0.001 bps - yet you can make a ton of money.
Comment · 5 years ago

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