Posts by Christopher Reeve's Horse

Re: Piggly Wiggly

It's only now 'worth' that much because the hedge funds upped the stake by betting heavily against the company. In poker you can have a very high stakes game with everyone holding low value hands, and this situation in the market is more like a casino bet than a valuation of the company.

The Big Short Squeeze

I'm not sure this is the same as a pump and dump at all. I think it's been identified (someone please say I'm wrong if this is the case) that certain Hedge Funds are hugely overexposed to their own short options, like I think I saw the number that 140% of the entire float of GME shares is in short options. That's right, there are apparently substantially more shares being shorted than actually exist!

By my limited understanding the big funds are obliged to have to buy the stocks on expiration of their options, so there's every chance that the price will continue to increase and the hedge funds loose billions more by being forced into buying at super inflated prices - which continues to drive the price further up. It's not like loosing an investment, this is like turbo-charged hyper loosing. Obviously I'd love to be sympathetic etc. A big bluff is being called by lots of people with relatively low risk individual stakes. It's hilarious.

Just to be clear - I have no financial position on GME (or anything else). I think the phrase is "we. just. love. the. stock"

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Even a neutron star fails to be the densest thing in the news this week!

Re: Relax...

Technically incompetent at every level?

Yes, your argument is very good, but typically the user of excel has an entirely different area of technical competence. You clearly have a technical competence for Bash scripts, and that's great, but the problem is the overlap of responsibilities and the management of resources, and probably not the technical competence of the original user.

Re: Hefty price

Oh not another one... "tHE hUmAn EyE caN oNLy seE 30 fPs"

Although I suppose maybe some people don't notice the difference, but I suffer from noticing motion judder on almost every camera pan, especially is there's moving text.

Yep, a little competition is great - even though we don't know how good that competition is going to be yet.

One thing that's a little disappointing is the relatively small memory on the 3080. There's a lot of people with 10 series cards (because they were so dominant for so long) that didn't upgrade to 20 series (because prices were too high), it would be slightly bitter to go from a 1080ti with 11GB to a 3080 with 10GB. Even if the silicon performance is markedly better, the limited VRAM might come back to haunt you sooner that you'd like - and it's an awfully big step up to the 24GB 3090. Lets hope that a more sensible 3080ti comes along some time, possibly along with a decent 3060 at a lower price point?

Re: Image source

Clips like that are a powerful reminder of just how mind boggling fast these things are really going, it never fails to amaze me. Footage from orbit always gives a very serene impression that belies the devastating 17,000+ mph speed.

Apparently the kinetic energy of the ISS is approx 20% of the energy released by the Hiroshima bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule#Terajoule

Re: A larger share ?

I stand corrected, but the general gist remains.

Re: Personalised ads actually make less money

1. I did intend to mean social networks in a broader sense.

2. Neo-liberalism; 7 minutes of Noam Chomsky can explain it better, but to quote "undermining mechanisms of social solidarity, mutual support, and popular engagement."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBzSLu3MZ6I

Re: Wee radge bastard

I feel a staiheid rammy coming on about this

Re: You missed

or Knuckles, Feathers and Claws

Re: oneplus is great

I always assumed battery damage was caused, or accelerated, by repeatedly drawing it down to low levels? Every day is a learning day I suppose.

Re: My guess is..

Your right, it's dominated by gravity and the sheer mass. Momentum isn't the right expression.

However...

3.00E+19 kg of oceanic crust travelling at 3.17E-10 m/s has a momentum of 9,512,940,000 kg m/s

100,000 kg of jumbo travelling at 500mph (223.52 m/s) has a momentum of only 22,352,000 kg m/s

If you'd have said 425 jumbo jets travelling at speed, I may have believed you.

But it likely won't get junked until the primary purpose fails, because how would 'your average user' know anything about the security holes? Even if their security had been compromised, they still wouldn't be aware how.

Re: A less friendly-looking version of Spot was featured ...

Anton Chigurh* was so ahead of his time.

*Javier Bardem in No Country from Old Men, with his captive bolt gun

Re: Of course if they weren't so greedy ....

There is an important difference in steaming media, in that the choice of media explicitly defines a datum of customer behaviour and preference.

Re: Stewart Lee agrees.

Unfortunately I can only upvote this once

I think it’s not the people you happen to have casually passed, but the people you’ve had a more meaningful and longer interaction with?

Re: What about our networks?

Yes, that’s what I’m trying to suggest. It should be two things: device security and protected networks. But until your standard ISP supplied router is designed to operate simply in such a way, no one is going to stand a chance.