thr_low_latency

> If you only have seven good hours a day in you, does that mean the rest of the day that you spend with your family, reading, exercising at the gym, or whatever other virtuous activity you would be spending your time on, are all done poorly?

Yes.

Yes, like the definition of Nazi and the fact that Goodwin's law no longer means you lose the argument.

A very vocal minority of users tell us how indispensable they are. I'd like the admins to run the experiment where the large subs are re-opned minus moderation.

Moderators _seriously_ underestimate how hated they are. At this point I'd rather the admins just take back the subs and let the voting system sort it out. Like how it did for the first 10 years of the site's life.

The salaries of the people doing this sort of thing start at mid six figures out of university and go up substantially from there.

To be fair so did ITG.

The first step of getting decent latency out of modern computers is to build a pile of cash that's taller than you then set it on fire.

They are optimized for throughput, not latency. If you want to do things in microseconds instead of anything from milliseconds to seconds you look at all the lovely code everyone has written in the last 40 years then throw it on top of the burning pile of cash.

I work in an area where microseconds matter and have to write everything from scratch in kernel mode C because nothing else cuts it.

A bit of background around the company: They received the largest fine (until that point in history) for trying to use this to front run the market from their dark pool.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-securities-regulation-itg...

It's easy to make things cheap by making them wrong.

Making things fast though is a whole other world.