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by rr888 4y ago
Plus a side project.
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> these companies can't promise you 8% APY without essentially running a ponzi scheme It doesn't mean its a ponzi, but certainly an 8% yield isn't a safe investment, there will be some liquidity/market/credit ris
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After having trouble with battery life in Linux I just went back to Windows. Everything works as designed and does what I want. Only problem is some Python libraries dont work so well, but I dont need that much. Most of my time is using IDE
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by rr888 4y ago
Agreed, the platform is not as good as Visual Basic was 30 years ago. No-code and low-code platforms do most of what you want. Unfortunately most are hosted.
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They might just be doing division by division. AWS layoffs tomorrow.
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I got my first drivers license in Utah in the 90s while I was a tourist. You did ~20? multiple choice questions then a 10 minute test drive - wasn't even on real roads. Looks like it hasn't changed https://www.youtube.c
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by rr888 4y ago
The Jetbrains IDEs work in a generic VCS way that doesn't match how git works which makes you productive but removed from how git actually works. I've found vscode IDE is just as easy to use, but the GUI matches git very closely s
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by rr888 4y ago
wintail/baretail actually works great.
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Even with 5-day weeks lots of colleagues were running side projects. Honestly a 4-day a week job WFH I'd probably try to run two jobs at a time. I'm here to work and get paid, not have a good balance.
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by rr888 4y ago
Its crazy, I've gone in circles between WSL, dual boot win/linux, VMs, everything on windows, remote linux servers, containers in Docker Desktop. Right now I'm back to just using Windows and ignoring Linux altogether, which s
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DC: Metro extension opens, adding six stations, including Airport(washingtonpost.com)
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A lawyer died and arrived at the pearly gates. To his dismay, there were thousands of people ahead of him in line to see St. Peter. To his surprise, St. Peter left his desk at the gate and came down the long line to where the laywer was,
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by rr888 4y ago
I remember during the dotcom boom people thought the infrastructure providers like Sun Micro would be safer, but it got screwed along with the website companies.
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Nassim Taleb in Antifragile talks about the Lindy Effect and how he uses it to predict how long books & information will be relevant. I love the concept and as a result spend more time reading older books, than newer news articles/
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> Might be a bit different now, this was back in June/July 2021. That was near the peak, it was a completely different world back then.
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I always thought Google PageRank would penalize you for a webring as its often from an unrelated site so could count as a spam link.
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by rr888 4y ago
Average Speed traps work great. I used to hate those in the UK. With all the toll roads in the USA I'm surprised it hasn't been done already. Eg on the interstate for an hour or two, sensors can tell when you entered and exited &a
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by rr888 4y ago
Anyone know about ML? It used to be a different job market, I was thinking of moving into that area but now not sure if its bubble has been popped or always will be a premium.
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> Lots of no responses or form rejections To be fair, this was normal at the peak too. (as well as ghosting after doing 3 rounds)
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Its a difference now that there are waves of people coming to software from other industries. Its one of the few industries that does not require certification, pays great and you can pick up relatively quickly.
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I really care more about compile times more than speed in prod.
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What was the other node alternative that was faster? I was going to try it out, but can't remember it. Deno seems too much of a change.
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That's an interesting related problem - their costs are real dollars/Euro/Peso etc, but their revenue is in crypto. Eg they have to pay rent, salaries, AWS bill but their revenue is in ETH or BTC or SOL which is a fraction of
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by rr888 4y ago
This is a classic result of socialism. See Hayek: "centralized planning, which inevitably leads to totalitarianism" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom
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The trade payoffs are random. Its like a casino, they house takes a cut on each trade.
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Thanks fixed. (I originally put 1999, I'm getting my bubbles crossed.)
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> If they are losing 100% of the time No its not so one sided. If you really can lose 100% of the time you can just reverse the positions and make money. Price movements are usually random so you'll make money some times and lose at
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by rr888 4y ago
> it's to be an equity volatility trading desk There are already a lot of real professional trading desks doing this. How can you compete with them?
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To me its extraordinary that its just a few years old. Started in 2019, valued at $32 billion just a few years later. For an exchange?
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> "yea, that's how it is here." Its also how it is in the UK and most other countries. There is a benefit that the central bank can control the economy much better. When the fed raises rates most people dont directly noti

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