DamonHD

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Tory politician heckler removed from conference [video](bbc.co.uk)
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Semi-retired. Started a PhD. Getting up whenever I like, though trying not to get under my kids' feet when they are having breakfast before school. And going out clubbing again. I seem somehow, partly because of some mild volunteeri
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I started and ran a small early (UK) ISP in the 90s! I can't remember how we did the billing but it was better than that. I suspect that it involved awk with : separated fields, because I remember my dyslexic colleague saying that al
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Oh yes, the whole "but you don't have a regular salary and spend it all every month" thing was a problem getting a mortgage for me also. Even though I got a pretty darn good consulting rate in banking and paid the whole mort
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Well, I think there is lots of interesing DS stuff to be done. I've had very good value out of a couple of DS folks who worked for me. And on the side while doing my PhD I'm trying to absorb some DS skills because they will be
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Indeed.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Sometimes people won't believe you, even with the facts in front of them, because their world is too small for them to conceive that what you did is possible. You don't want to work with those people, but they exist. I had a fair
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I don't know who would pay for data sciencing at the level that you probably want outside finance except possibly some of the AI outfits in a hurry, maybe even relatively new ones but flush with cash...
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I have semi-retired without needing anything like that! It helps not to have expensive hobbies nor own a flash car...
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Do you have trading records good enough for your tax authorities? Those might suffice. I think that the desks that I worked with in the City (derivatives, credit, high speed trading), though a while ago now, would be interested in your exp
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Ethically, IMHO, if you owe monies to third parties for undisputed work done, you should pay that. But as said in another response, hire a (not-too-fancy) lawyer or a company liqudator to constrain how messy this may get.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
It's hard work, but not much like any of those for me, and less each time I have another go. I see a problem that needs fixing or something that needs doing and I get on and do it. There is definitely angst on the way, but no need at
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Another is TCP congestion control including new variants such as BBR2 and relatives in QUIC: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/24/tcp_congestion_contro... You can probably get to hack on some of that work!
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by DamonHD 3y ago
As well as USENET that I mentioned elsewhere, a slightly less obvious set of distributed alogirthms are those that eg govern how small generators such as solar PV inverters sync to a grid, drop off if anything goes horribly wrong, ride thro
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by DamonHD 3y ago
The flooding algorithm of USENET is a wonder. Still worth understanding how it actually avoided endlessly sending the same articles in loops for example. (I used to run one of the world's busiest USENET nodes from my house for a short
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Scraping hundreds of site seems mostly unethical. My sites are periodically on the wrong end of scrapers, greedy by design or in error, occasionally needing to be manually blocked or even legals threatened. Just because something can be don
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I keep a browser tab open for each of my two Mastodon accounts (fulfilling different roles); they are on different servers. It's easy. I don't even run an app. I also use the 'personal' Mastodon account from my phone,
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I had/have multiple Twitter IDs: one for me personally, one for a particular topic, and one for brands and even other for IoT experiments. One of the brand accounts was handed over along with other assets when company IPR was sold: it
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I have accounts on two different instances: one small and very subject focussed, and one on a big instance. I try to keep roughly to topic on the former, but no one is shouting at me when I have a little fun on either.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Profit/margin was not larger than the ulp for single-precision float values for derivatives by the time I got there, so we all were using doubles. The rounding-for-settlement issue that you describe is, I think, separate.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Go and do some work on a heavily-used open source system that deals with distributed stuff, such as DNS/BIND or BGP or ActivityPub...
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by DamonHD 3y ago
The second one in particular had some very specific climate-change fixing goals which I can no longer ensure, and our investors did not get much money back. Also it seems that I live pretty modestly. So my careful semi-retirement might be
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Accepted a buyout of the shares or IPR for what felt like a pittance in the last couple of cases (well, second one was not yet VC) which is just about enough to semi-retire on, and I am trying to make use of what is in my head for a PhD!
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Do not assume that times, dates or names are easy!
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by DamonHD 3y ago
1) The general "don't let perfect be the enemy of good (enough)" applies. 2) Give yourself a time limit. Yep, "time boxing" in business jargon. 3) Make sure that you have written (almost) all the content before all
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by DamonHD 3y ago
To separate storage locally and in the cloud, with key config also captured elsewhere, eg Ansible rules to rebuild/reconfigure a server.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I referred to 'they' for my clients and start-up. You seemed to be making claims about those particular implementions, which seemed a bit odd.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
When you say "they" I could tell you exactly what format we stored card balances in, including the implied point position for different currencies (not the same for GBP and (say) JPY) and none of it involved DECIMAL!
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by DamonHD 3y ago
More to the point binary fp absolutely is a bad approximation to, and does poor arithmetic on, common legal sub-1 decimal currency values, ie those that do not have an exact binary fp representation.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
That pretty much guarantees being the victim of multiple coding bugs...

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