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Imo they should have just clawed 1 or 2 bits out of the ipv4 header for additional routing and called it good enough

This would require new software and new ASICs on all hosts and routers and wouldn't be compatible with the old system. If you're going to cause all those things, might as well add 96 new bits instead of just 2 new bits, so you won't have the same problem again soon.

I'm not at all a fan of GitHub actions, but come on, Hudson/Jenkins was a nightmare world, GitHub actions is a million times better


Jenkins is in every way a “Java” program, and not the good kind.

What you can say for it, is that it was free and near infinitely hackable.


I use Jenkins every single day, and have been using it my entire career through three different companies self hosting it.

Please tell me how we somehow have been hobbled despite having simple and clear pipelines setup that autobuild any branch we want and allow one click deploys to our preprod environment and automatically manage versioning and scalably handle load from "Literally zero" to "Everyone in the company wants to rebuild everything now" and goes down less than github.

What are we supposedly missing?

More importantly, what are we missing that tangibly improves results for our consumers?


Assuming all those three were post-Jenkinsfile, it’s pretty decent.

Multibranch is still weird and obviously added-on.

Writing plugins is ugly.


Working with Jenkins CasC, JobDSL and declarative pipelines, I'm not sure where the million times comes from. Sure, there are some annoying parts, and GHA has the social network for reusable actions, but apart from that it's not that different.

Oldschool maven type jobs where you type shell script into a `<textarea>`? Yeah, let's not talk about those, but we don't have a single one left anymore.


Jenkins Groovy is awful and full of footguns. Have you ever run into a serialization exception?

It's too powerful and there are too many of its implementation details exposed to the user.


I haven't seen a serialization exception, but I have run into plenty of footguns with YAML (ref GitHub Actions).

The DSL semantics can be weird with when things like params/env expansions in options block are evaluated.


Progress in cancer treatment has been incredible

Just one example, prostate cancer today has a 90+% 10 year survival rate, in 1970 that was 25%


More importantly they serve ads and capture all of the revenue from them


I've been wondering if the stock market would be more efficient if trades executed only every <small time interval> instead of continuously, i.e. every 1 second an opening trade style cross book clearance happens. Orders would have to be on the book for a full interval to execute to prevent last millisecond rushes at the end of an interval

I'm probably missing some second order effects but it feels like this would mitigate the need for race to the bottom latencies and would also provide protection against fat fingered executions in that every trading algorithm would have a full second to arbitrage it


You could do this but the cost would be wider bid/ask spreads for all market participants. If you make it harder for market makers to hedge their position, they will collect a larger spread to account for that. A whole lot of liquidity can disappear in a second when news hits.

I’d rather have penny-wide spreads on SPY than restrict trading speed for HFTs. Providing liquidity is beneficial to everyone, even if insane amounts of money are spent by HFTs to gain an edge.


It's really binary events that they should throttle execution and do batch orders.

The bad part of HFT is paying the smartest young minds this country has to offer to figure out how the parse GDP data as fast as computationally possible so they can send in an order before other players can. That's a dumb game that doesn't provide much benefit (besides speed in sparse critical moments adding a few % to the funds ROI).

They can arbitrage all day, but don't let them buy every Taylor Swift concert ticket the moment it goes on sale because they have a co-located office with a direct fiber line, ASIC filled servers, and API access.


Would be interested to see real numbers around societal value from marginal added liquidity versus aggregate spend into the zero sum arms race.

I have also seen enough to be quite sure that many hft strategies are quite normie investor predatory.

Again, I’m not zealot. I trade stuff. I love liquidity. I’m happy to pay someone some fraction of a penny to change my mind. Service provided. But the returns from vanilla liquidity provision commoditized long ago to uninteresting margins. That leaves a lot more of the hft alpha pool in the predatory strategies and capital flows where the incentives are.


this is exactly what many dark pools do

"continuous periodic auctions"


> Is the new Gemini really that good?

yes, definitely one of the best models out there atm

> The "AI Overview" stuff on the google search page is so incredibly bad

because it has to have basically zero cost, that overview is a super basic model


that depends, if you explain the rules of the game you're playing and give the dice a goal to win the game, do they adjust the numbers they reveal according to the rules of the game?

If so, yes, they're thinking


As someone who plays a lot of Dungeons and Dragons, it sure feels like the dice are thinking sometimes.


The rules of the game are to reveal two independent numbers in the range [1,6].


Sounds like the rules are the same actually

In the UK a bike is required to have 2 brakes, and a fixed wheel counts a single brake, i.e. you can't ride a fixie with no extra brake but you can with a single brake


> CloudFlare bought the company and is keeping the team.

So the team is joining cloudflare...?


After an incredible journey, I’m excited to announce a case of beer is joining my fridge.


I think it's more like: after an incredible journey, I'm excited to announce this hamburger is joining my stomach


Sure, but Replicate will probably cease to exist in the near future. So a more accurate title could be: Cloudflare buys out Replicate and transfers staff to internal teams.


And the money is joining some bank accounts!


> So the team is joining cloudflare...?

That's not a given as well. An acquisition usually involves restructuring the acquired company, sometimes in a way where the original team ceases to exist.


No they will all get sacked next year.


> but also the timeline strongly implies that a specific source was simply guessing the URL of the PDF long before it was uploaded

A bunch of people were scraping commonly used urls based on previous OBR reports, in order to report as soon as it was live, as it common with all things of this kind

The mistake was that the URL should have been obfuscated, and only changed to the "clear" URL at publish time, but a plugin was bypassing that and aliasing the "clear" URL to the obfuscated one


> in order to report as soon as it was live

We don't actually know that, it's just that the report did hit Reuters pretty swiftly.


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