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Presumably, SBF was hoping that the crypto winter would end soon, which would bring everything else massively profitable for them again, and then plug the holes he had.
- FTX had lower fees than Coinbase
- FTX offered a lot more coins to trade than Coinbase
- FTX (like many others, but not so much Coinbase) were giving large sign up bonuses, and advertising like crazy. (Finance YouTubers like Graham Stephan, Meet Kevin, Jeremy Financial Education, Minority Mindset, etc. are taking some heat for their paid promotions they did for FTX.)
- FTX offered options on some cryptos, like Bitcoin. This seems to be kind of rare.
- FTX offered leverage (like most of the other big exchanges, but not Coinbase)
- Since FTX also set up a separate FTX.US entity, it gave the perception that it had all the same US regulation protections as Coinbase. And since FTX was much bigger than Coinbase, it gave the perception that FTX was more likely to be more solvent than Coinbase. A month ago, I suspect if you asked most crypto people which exchange was more likely to go under first, they would have all said Coinbase.
This whole industry looks very unhealthy. The large exchanges that most people use like Binance and FTX have books and operations shrouded in mystery, so nobody really knows how solvent any of these things were. FTX said they were not lending out coins (and by law, as an exchange, they are supposed to have all assets), but only after a leak revealed by Coindesk, did the public find out something was really wrong. Without that leak, FTX would still be doing business as usual.
Meanwhile, Coinbase which is a publicly traded company in the US which is many magnitudes more transparent with their books (because they are required to be), can't seem to make a profit.
The overall implication is that regular exchanges that just make money from fees are in an unsustainable business model. And all the other exchanges that are making a profit, might be doing all the shady things that FTX was caught doing.
In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that... and perhaps more, only one of each of us.
Don't destroy the one named Kirk.
But it was extremely dangerous. He didn't develop any long term issues, but he told one story where they suddenly lost a man. There was a quick shadow and then a man was gone. They found a piece of dive suit in the area. They believe it was a giant squid that got their buddy.
There is an SNL segment with Dana Carvey where he plays Tom Brokaw pre-taping all sorts of variations of Gerald Ford dying. (Dying at 83, 84, shot dead, overdose on crack, chopped by plane propeller, eaten by wolves, mauled by lion in convenience store.)
Since Thorp, Casinos have made it harder to beat them (e.g. larger decks), but they still tease the possibility you can beat them to entice people to try (and lose).
Edward Thorp later went on to write Beat the Market, where he tried to apply similar probability principles to the stock market. He independently invented the options formula, before Black-Scholes (which the latter won a Nobel Prize).
This article is about how Duke Nukem II specifically implemented drawing so that it could actually achieve playable framerates on EGA video cards and slow ISA buses, which were too slow to do a naive implementation.
Paramount also bought this Great America for a period. Klingons walking around definitely didn't fit with the US historical theming.
Marriott (the original owners) had licensed the Looney Tunes characters for their run. Those were the most fun. One of the last rides built under Marriott was The Edge (drop tower ride). While it didn't really fit the US historical themes, they tied in the Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote to market the ride, which was perfect. The ride was painted orange (drawing on the yellows & oranges used in the desert background paintings of the cartoons). I don't remember if the ride itself had any Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote depictions anywhere, but I remember the cafe next door to it had a Road Runner analog clock with the Road Runner's feet pointing to the hour and minute.
But ignoring the patriotism angle, back then, to the best of my recollection, Marriott actually made a legitimate effort sticking to the park theming to try to give you a sense you were walking into another world (similar to the Disney approach). Each "land" (e.g. Hometown Square, Yankee Harbor, Yukon Territory, Orleans Place), was themed to a different US historical period, and the buildings, rides, decorations, and even the restaurants/food made a stronger effort to adhere to the historical themes in each land than they do today. You didn't need to feel patriotism in order to enjoy the immersion of being in a fantasy historical period/place.
In contrast, the last time I strolled through Great America, I got no sense of any theme, nor feeling that I have walked into another world. Ironically, the thing I remember most is the Claw Crane Machines were touting you could win iPhones. So instead of being able to escape into a fantasy reality, this really kept me stuck in the reality of our normal world.
So for a hypothetical example, it could be that using general purpose SIMD triggers the system to throttle up the CPUs and/or move to the high performance CPUs, whereas the dedicated CRC instructions might exist on the high-efficiency cores and not trigger any throttling.
I've forgotten all my computer architecture theory, but if I look back at Ohm's law and look at power, the equation is P = I^2 • R. Handwaving from my forgotten theory a bit here, ramping up the CPUs increases current, and we see that it is a squared factor. So by cutting the time by say a factor of 3 does mean you are done 3 times faster (which is a linear component), you still have to contend that you have a squared component in current which may have been increased.
I have no clue if the M1 actually does any of this, but merely stating that it is not obvious what is happening in terms of power efficiency. We've seen other examples of this. For example, I've read that Intel's AVX family instruction generally increases the power consumption and frequency of when utilized, but non-obviously, it often runs at a lower frequency when in 256 or 512 wide forms compared to the lesser widths (which then requires more work on the developer to figure out what is the optimal performance path as wider isn't necessarily faster). And as another example, when Apple shipped 2 video cards in their Macbooks, some general purpose Mac desktop application developers who cared about battery life were tip-toeing around different high level Apple APIs (e.g. Cocoa, Core Animation, etc.) because some APIs under the hood automatically triggered the high performance GPU to switch on (and eat power), while these general purpose desktop applications didn't want or need the extra performance (at the cost of eating the user's battery).
But I've been worried if that indie is going to survive financially. Any tips on writing your own?
(How could this work in theory? Maybe the computer has a separate watchdog controller board which allows the computer to be turned on and off remotely, and that controller acts as a proxy for the API request.)
Pallene is Lua with strong types, designed for the purpose of being able to (AOT) generate faster and native code.
It's compiler design also has deep knowledge of the Lua implementation, so it short circuits the formal Lua/C API so crossing the Lua/C language boundary in Pallene is even faster (and Lua's is already good...much less overhead than crossing in Python).
Here is a link to the thread directly from Linus explaining his position on MMX/SSE, AVX/AVX2, AVX512. His complaints on AVX512 are both about fragmentation and regressing from the learned lessons from their prior generations. And he also looks to NEON and SVE2 and suggesting ARM looks seems much saner to him:
"So just as a bystander, I'm looking at AVX512, and I'm looking at SVE2, and I'm going "AVX512 really is nasty, isn't it"?""
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=193189&curpost...
Cisco also only builds a limited number of architectures and platforms.
All of these things make it difficult to depend on for open source projects like Firefox.
Yes, it's marketing fluff (as with any marketing), but I liked that one.
For all you tech people like me that have problems answering to non-techie family members what you do, I thought that was an example of a beautiful succinct answer that still conveyed enough of an idea to be satisfying to laymen.
As for one I really hated from Sun: "Java Desktop System", which was just a distro with GNOME, and had nothing to do with Java.