tombert

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by tombert 5mo ago
Sure, and I think that these things will, eventually, crash. I suspect GameStop will before Bitcoin, but I think both will eventually. The market can stay irrational for a very long time.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I just did online school and didn't bother showing up to any kind of ceremony. I was 30 when I finally finished school, I didn't really feel the need to prove anything.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I find it weird that people idolize businesspeople who basically just engage in ponzinomics. They create businesses that don't make any money, often don't have any plans to ever make money, with the hope that they either get bou
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by tombert 5mo ago
I'm arguing it's not "success". I don't believe that a meme stock is a truly long-term business.
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by tombert 5mo ago
Can't you write off capital losses? I've been able to deduct margin interest from my capital gains.
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by tombert 5mo ago
If this deal does eventually go through, then it might be a good time for someone to start working on a competitor to take over the online auction space.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I'm not sure that the incentives actually are aligned. It seems like the incentives are to think short term and do sketchy shit to pump the stock.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I could see it potentially be something like the Walmart pickup service? Last mile delivery is pretty expensive, so conceivably they could offer faster and/or cheaper shipping if you picked it up at a physical store. I don't know.
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by tombert 5mo ago
Yeah I've never thought that that was the win that people seem to think it is. When you're that high up in the company, you have so much stock that you can pretty easily get loans against for however much you need, and write off
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by tombert 5mo ago
I guess it comes to management. I agree that if GameStop were basically rebranded as eBay brick and mortar stores, that might work. I guess I just feel like if it were GameStop itself that were managing it then it would be unlikely to actu
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by tombert 5mo ago
I really thought it was going to be the other way around. I am quite confident that if GameStop bought eBay, they would ruin it in the same way that K-Mart buying Sears ruined that company. I could be wrong, I'm not a business person,
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by tombert 5mo ago
Impressively accurate, as I have discovered.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I have found that for low-stakes stuff, where "good enough" really is ok, Claude and Codex have been pretty great. I don't particularly care if the code is optimal, just enough to do that job. For example, I had Claude genera
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by tombert 5mo ago
Funnily enough, my wife is Mexican and I think I have a higher tolerance for spicy food than she does. She won't even do the Taco Bell Fire Sauce.
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by tombert 5mo ago
Yep! I have an email in my profile, feel free to contact me. Happy enough to answer questions to the best of my ability in the future.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I don't generally love super spicy food (the most I do like 95% of the time is the Taco Bell Fire Sauce), but every now and than I want something really spicy. I'm not sure why this is the case, but I'll go to a place with
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by tombert 5mo ago
FizzBee is likely a good place to start, but since I have never really used it I'm afraid I can't recommend good resources for it. ------ If you're just getting started, I recommend checking out my former advisor's book:
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by tombert 5mo ago
I am always confused when BigTechCos buy SmallCos and then unceremoniously kill them off fairly shortly after. I guess it's basically to cannibalize the source code?
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by tombert 5mo ago
I think my parents were good parents. I like them. They were good parents who really wanted to take care of kids, and were active in mine and my sisters' lives. My wife's dad ran away when she was fifteen (and with two considerab
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by tombert 5mo ago
I am! The author of FizzBee reached out to me about a year ago on LinkedIn actually, because I gave a talk on TLA+ a few years ago. I haven't really played with it yet (outside of the few examples on their site) because I'm alread
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by tombert 5mo ago
I've dug around the TempleOS codebase a bit, and while it certainly is impressive for a single guy's work, I think there's been an overcorrection where people act like Terry was some hyper genius instead of "a pretty sma
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by tombert 5mo ago
I'm mostly diving head first into formal methods again. Mostly TLA+, but a bit more Isabelle as well. I haven't really forgiven myself for dropping my PhD; I think it was the right decision at the time, but I also kind of wish I h
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by tombert 5mo ago
My wife knows me well enough to know that sometimes I'll walk fast to the next exhibit and wait for her; I'm not trying to rush ahead, it is just easier for me to do that than the slow plodding you usually do at museums.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I think it's certainly fine to be grateful for your parents if you like them. I had pretty ok parents so if they need help as they get older I'll probably help where I can. I guess I just get a little annoyed that people act like
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by tombert 5mo ago
I don't think it should be "stigmatized", but I will say that walking slow actually hurts me. I love museums, but that slow "museum walking" will leave my back feeling extremely sore by the end of the day. I feel
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by tombert 5mo ago
You might feel an obligation , but you don't "owe" them anything. It's pedantic but there's a subtle difference. Doing something for someone because you're grateful for them is fine. I like my parents, I mig
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by tombert 5mo ago
No one asked to be born. People are only born because their parents brought them into existence.
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by tombert 5mo ago
I don't mean to be a douche, but that's an exceedingly ignorant and short-sighted statement. A child doesn't owe their parents anything. If your parent is upset about something about you that you cannot change, then that pa
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by tombert 5mo ago
My mom is fine, but my grandmother has said exceedingly racist things to my wife and homophobic things to my sister. I haven't talked to her in years and I suspect I will not for the rest of her life. People act like I am a douche for
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by tombert 5mo ago
Just an FYI...Claude is actually really good at building LSP servers [1]. If you want a better Julia LSP, you might just be able to get Claude or Codex to build one for you. I've been impressed with the TLA+ bindings it generated. [

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