SkipperCat

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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Agreed about where the funds should go, and I'd also add that all intersections with cameras should have signs telling people of those cameras to get them to slow down and stop running red lights. The goal of these cameras should be t
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
One of workplace tragedy in America is how we moved from professionally managed pensions to individual 401k retirement plans. Most folks have no business deciding asset allocation, managing risk, etc.
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
I don't buy that argument. If the plumber/electrician is working for a company and driving a company car, then the company will pay the extra $15 for that corporate vehicle to be in Manhattan. If the person has their own business
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
It has been said if the US and its allies lost WWII, the victorious Axis would have tried and executed the US military leaders for war crimes for the bombing campaigns. A prime example of history is written by the victors. PBS did a great d
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
We did not send troops until '42, but from about 1941 FDR was sending massive amounts of aid to the UK and USSR thru the lend lease and other programs.
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
I mention that in my 3rd sentence, but as an American of Jewish decent, the sides of WWII could not have been any clearer. My family did not have the option to weigh the facts and choose a side, it was chosen for us. I am just thankful th
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
With good reason. It burns super hot and cant be put out with water.
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
A lot of people, including myself, feel similar when looking back at WWII. The roles of good and evil were very clearly defined and that has forged the US foreign policy up to today. Of course, there's a lot of things we know now whic
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Not a comment about who's right or wrong in this war, but it is fascinating that we have entered the age of the Internet being a place where warfare is fought. There have always been people posting web content about conflicts but now w
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Thanks for the follow up. I've always felt any questions is good for an interview if it starts a conversation. Your thread did just that so I'd consider it a success!
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
When I upgraded my Windows laptop (running Windows NT) from something like 64 MB to 128 MB, it made a huge difference. Most of the benefit was that it stopped using swap. Sadly, I was borrowing the the DIMM from my boss and I had to give
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
I had a friend who supported a Windows desktop environment in the 90's. He would constantly complain about how rebooting a workstation would take over 20 minutes. The amount of scripts and other tooling was nutz. My Macbook goes off w
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
That makes total sense if you're archiving the data, but what happens when you want to have 10,000 people have access to read/update the data concurrently. Then you start to need some fairly complex solutions.
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Why would your employer care what you invested in? How would they be impacted if you bought or sold public stock of someone they interact with? Would they care if you traded Google, Apple, Microsoft or Oracle? I think most employers would
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
A new spin on Enshitification...
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
KEXP (kexp.org) radio is playing a lot of his catalog right now. Listen in if you want to hear the impact of his work.
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Here's my favorite zinger of the article: "When she became concerned, I used Monopoly as a comparison, so, for her, Mommy is playing real-life Monopoly now." I wonder if she remembers that only one person wins in Monoploy and
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
From my experience, the best way to get a pay increase is to code software for things closer to the trading system. Write code that makes a trading app faster and increases PnL, you'll make more money via bonuses. If you're writ
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
SWE will probably make between 250-500k. Quants who can come up with profitable trading strategies can make a lot more. Managers of trading teams can make over 1MM and sometime a lot over 1MM depending on how profitable their teams perform
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
To a certain extent, you are correct. However, companies like Jane Street need to filter and doing so based on colleges is the most efficient when other factors are all equal. Top tier colleges strive to base their admittance on performanc
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
They're smart enough to know how create filters that don't miss people with competitors experience on their CVs. In fact, they actively seek those people out on LinkedIn and anywhere else they can find them. HFT jobs are high val
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Its mostly done as a way to filter job applications into a smaller set. When Google was the 'hottest' job prospect (many years ago) they needed a way to reduce the set of applicants down to a number where hiring managers could ha
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
A modern cut thru switch typically has one ASIC for a group of ports, and that ASIC handles all the traffic. If the traffic for all of those ports is greater than what the ASIC can handle, you'll have buffering and/or drops. That
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
I don't read the NYT as much as I used to, but I'll be a NYT subscriber for the rest of my life because they're the only media source creating content of quality and depth across such a wide range of American society (and of
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Why would the exchanges want to move their colos into the cloud. They've spent the capex and they can charge lots of money to rent data center space, cross connects and other services to their customers. If they moved to the cloud, a
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by SkipperCat 3y ago
I think it won't be AI that causes the collapse of university attendance. It will be people deciding not to go to college. Most people just want jobs. Many employers are finding out that people with or without college educations can p
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by SkipperCat 3y ago
I've always wondered why the family that pays full price for tuition does not get the tax credit for their charitable contribution to some other student whom they subsidize. If I donated $20k to a university, I'd get to write that
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by SkipperCat 3y ago
I deleted by bank app from my cell phone for this reason alone.
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by SkipperCat 3y ago
When you look at the defense budgets of many countries, it becomes almost impossible to make a viable business plan without the military as a customer. Plus, if the military and luxury markets allow you to provide your product/service
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by SkipperCat 3y ago
That's a great story. I was on a flight during the eclipse of 2021. It was hard to see the eclipse from the plane, you had to lie down on the floor and look up thru the window. You were very lucky for the pilot to bank the plane. An

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