Patents magic and voodoo "any sufficiently advanced subject is indistinguishable from voodoo" At least it feels that way to me: meanderful.blogspot.com/2020/06/patent… #fintech #vc

If I could go back in time and had the power to change C++, rather than adding virtual functions, I would add language support for type erasure and concepts. Define a single-type concept, automatically generate a type-erasing wrapper for it.

#COVID19 a lot of "extras": thrombotic, myocardial, coronary, kidney, gastrointestinal, hepatocellular, hyperglycemia & ketosis, neurologic, ocular, & dermatologic "Extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19" Gupta, et al. July 10th nature.com/articles/s4159… #COVID19Aus

Briefly interviewed for the Australian Society for Computers & Law (AUSCL) today: linkedin.com/posts/auscl_hi… #hft #fintech

Today's attempted coup in Congress began with Trump saying "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," and then telling the crowd to head to the Capitol to give Republican lawmakers the message.

Trump, July 2020

CNN: The United States reported at least 3,805 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, the highest number of new deaths in a single day since the pandemic began.

So, what's the thinking around the information and latency advantage PFOF providers have regarding retail sentiment now? And, what is the thinking regarding FTDs and the MM exemption? #SEC #fintech

A bit of a change in Short exempt/Short mix in $GME from NYSE data:

$GME FTDs (fail to deliver) January first half: Busy period for 204 MM exemptions stretching out to T+5 perhaps. It would be nice to have data on "real" fails... #SEC

Cursed c++. Look ma, no commas... and enough space to compile 😐 godbolt.org/z/81bPfGY97

Three compilers, three different results. godbolt.org/z/cEoYrn4T8 Bugs filed for msvc and gcc after .Richard Smith clarification: gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_… msvc gets it right without the auto param with an explicit template pack expansion. icc/edg, clang, & msvc agree #cpp20 #cpp

msvc has a candidate fix in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10 Preview 2. impressively quick turnaround. developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/parameter-pa… gcc has ack'd the codegen problem #cpp #cpp20