The image is a cropped xkcd with the text replaced but the same joke.

There is “not financially viable” and than there is spending 12 times the gdp of earth each year.

Jetbrains products also have a fallback license after a year, so you retain perpetual acces to an old version* and I don’t think there is much change in the space of git UIs.

* iirc the version that you had one year before your payment lapsed, it applies to discounted versions as well

As a climber I have to disagree, figure 8 knots are the best, especially when double back.
It’s the one knot I trust my life to on a weekly basis and I have rarely encountered a situation where they weren’t part of the solution.

Short answer:
It gave us compiler explorer, now that it has served its purpose we should stop doing it.

Long answer:

Why does hft even exist?

Hft can exist because most stock markets react to requests as fast as possible and have no noticable fees for certain use cases. This means algorithms that do simple trades like if goggle goes up, buy other tech companies or buy any stock that goes up in europe on the NY market can make small profits if they are faster than everyone else.

Does it have any value?

There is one exchange that imposes a delay on every request, effectively inhibiting hft, and its opening actually improved market conditions on all exchanges. This implies it has negative value.
They also spend millions on hardware, tools and developers to skim small sums of many transaction on the stock market. They are effectively a (very inefficient) tax on the stock market that goes to improving C++ compilers and funding hardware startups.

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I don’t know how to escape triple back tics inside a code block, just ignore the spaces

The other atomic clocks that are averaged to give us our ground truth for time.

… or one second back, that’s the problem.

Well, apart from the free movement of people and goods, the common currency, the gdpr, the international students and the consumer protection what has the EU ever done for us?

Brought peace.

Uh peace, shut up.

I had quite the opposite experience in the alps, we have hiked within meters cows because the heard was laying and standing on the path. I have never seen very young calves or bulls on the mountains.

While that works for “news agencies” it’s a free money glitch when used in a customer support role for the consumer.

Edit: clarification