@codinghorror@infosec.exchangeI had never heard of this. Fascinating. “Vickrey Auction: Also known as a second-price sealed-bid auction, this format is similar to a sealed-bid auction, but the winner pays the second-highest bid rather than their own bid. This encourages bidders to bid their true valuation, as they won’t pay more than what they believe the item is worth.”
@codinghorror@infosec.exchangeI had never heard of this. Fascinating. “Vickrey Auction: Also known as a second-price sealed-bid auction, this format is similar to a sealed-bid auction, but the winner pays the second-highest bid rather than their own bid. This encourages bidders to bid their true valuation, as they won’t pay more than what they believe the item is worth.”
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI sincerely cannot see the need nor even understand any reason why anyone would ever want this. The existing text format is simple to use and hard to misinterpret.
But if you’re using DROP (and everyone should) then I guess you, like me, now need to go rewrite working simple tools to use intrinsically more complex mechanisms to ingest more garbage data but get no more useful information.
Is there an aftermarket for used curly braces?
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI sincerely cannot see the need nor even understand any reason why anyone would ever want this. The existing text format is simple to use and hard to misinterpret.
But if you’re using DROP (and everyone should) then I guess you, like me, now need to go rewrite working simple tools to use intrinsically more complex mechanisms to ingest more garbage data but get no more useful information.
Is there an aftermarket for used curly braces?