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If you have an algorithmic edge, eventually it will stop working. If it's a really good one, your trades become someone else's edge. The market is constantly changing and active tr…

I won't downvote you, but I will die on the other hill - the one over there that has a guy sitting down with his arms folded sporting an angry face every time someone something pos…

I too went down that rabbithole. Haha. Anything around that time to get an edge in a fantasy football league. I found a bunch of historical NFL stats pdfs and it took forever to ma…

Government is the worst possible solution to every problem. (not an attack on you. I have to say that every time I see someone say anything along the lines of "the government shoul…

I would agree with you. Dating app data might not be legally protected like some PII out there, but there are easily foreseeable bad consequences from compromised dating app data o…

Old school Zeiss glass is like butter for any camera body. My dad told me to stick with Nikon and spend my money on lenses first. He was not wrong. You can put 25 year old professi…

This is one of those decisions that confuses you when you're on a mac and things just don't work how you'd expect.

This is the kind of thing I would have expected to read in 2600 back in the day. And why I _always_ looked for 2600 at the bookstore.

I find this odd because that's exactly how I thought viruses worked when crossing species and I have no background that would lead me to that conclusion and have almost nothing in …

Who buys a drill not strong enough for a hole saw? What does that even look like anyways? An electric screwdriver?

That's brilliant

global from day one and circumvent government interference --- There are banking laws all over the world that need to be considered and followed, the US in particular has a set of …

The selling point of Rust was that it protects programmers from doing dangerous things.

The BFF pattern is just "mostly microservices dedicated to a particular client type". It makes sense when you have drastically different needs between a desktop client and a mobile…

Today it is. Tomorrow everyone will look at it like Wish or Temu.

You could displace DeepSeek pretty easily with Amazon Mechanical Turk.

This really seems to me like a big warning that says to avoid hiring people that were laid off. Better advice. Be who you are. Work for and with people you like. Do what interests …

Oddly, yes. A regular bike accident would have been covered. And it would have been covered on a moped as well even though she's too young to have a license.

I _just_ went through this when my child had an ebike accident (AAA, southern california). You need specific ebike insurance. Auto/homeowners doesn't apply for different reasons.

So having clear requirements, a focused purpose for software, and a clear boundary of software responsibility makes for a software development task that can be accomplished? If onl…

If 150k will get you through six months and then some, take the time. If not, evaluate your spending and increase your savings so that you can take time off. If you are taking time…

paywall

Mental health challenges in the bay area tech industry are real for a wide variety of reasons. There's a bigger push in silicon valley for work life balance and mental health care …

I learned a trick with flipping coins from a barber at my grandpas shop when I was probably 6 or 7. Since then I've always been able to flip a coin and determine what the outcome i…

Honestly I got about a quarter through the article before I decided it wasn't written by a human.