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Comment Re:Confused (Score 1) 67

> enough to power 7,000 homes for a year

Does this mean "enough to power 7,000 homes while the turbines are in operation", or does it mean "6.5 years of energy generated by this infrastructure will power 7,000 homes for a year"?

If the latter, why now "will power over 1,000 homes while in operation"? That'd be a simpler way to say the same thing and to boot would include a round number.

In order to get a job in journalism, you are required to fail a test, showing you have no clue how units work in physics.

Comment Re:Robinhood = predatory, sketchy and legal. (Score 1) 11

>You cant convince daytraders that they’re gambling.

I know I'm gambling, but with the odds very much better than at the blackjack table. You can manage risk in multiple ways.
As for patterns, the are statistical things that are less like patterns but more like low or high entropy states which you can identify if you know how. See my book referenced in my sig for evidence I might have a clue in this regard.

I got a year's wages when I left Intel. I set a goal to survive 1 year and keep my capital. The year is up and I'm doing better than the goal. The alternative is to get a proper job. I'm consulting to keep my brain active. My stress is down and life is better. So I'm motivated to keep on going.

Comment Re:Robinhood = predatory, sketchy and legal. (Score 1) 11

>Please track your performance net of fees and taxes against the same capital allocated to a low expense ratio index fund.

YTD I'm making 62% return in Robinhood. That is from March when I switched. I made some more in Fidelity before March but that number is harder to find because Fidelity sucks. Right now the S&P500 is up 6.43% YTD. My pot of cash started as the payoff from Intel's layoff. It's now a bigger pot of cash and I've also been paying myself out of that pot.

I am fully aware that others have better information, but my trading strategy includes methods to address that imbalance.

The biggest information imbalance is that market makers have full visibility of the options they sold and they can manipulate the market price of stocks to optimize their side of the options trade. This is why stocks land on round numbers at option expiry time.It is to render the maximum number of options worthless.

Comment Re:Robinhood = predatory, sketchy and legal. (Score 1) 11

Since leaving Intel a year ago, I make my living day trading. I'm doing fine and I can do the mathematics. Random time series analysis is not a challenge for me.

Fidelity apply arbitrary rules that make no sense and generally get in the way of trading. Like day trade violations on days I didn't trade.

I switched to Robin Hood and it's been plain sailing. I make more money on Robin Hood. They don't screw with me. They provide adequate warning if I'm getting close to any limits and they don't hallucinate violations because the AI went wonky.

I haven't seen any significant extra cost. If it's there is miniscule compared to the cost of not being able to sell a stock that then goes down because Fidelity have a rule that robin hood doesn't.

Also robin hood give you access to IPOs. That has been lucrative (CRCL's IPO recently went well with a $33 IPO price). Fidelity never offered IPO access.

The crypto currently stuff is a non event. I ignore it and stick to leveraged index ETF like nature intended.

I count RH as less predatory than the traditional brokers.

Comment Re: 400m more LInux desktops -- Year of Linux Fina (Score 1) 116

I thought I read microsoft profit was $68B last quarter .. even with attrition that is staggeringly profitable also an indication of monetary inflation. Phase 1 is over. It's time for protection money. Nice airline, I mean, government you got there. Shame if you might have to think for yourself anymore. We're raising rates, bitch! And you are going to pay.

Losing desktops? Probably justifiable from management pov.

They don't care. They are making money selling Linux time on Azure. Windows is dead to them.

Comment Re:Cynical me suspects an agenda (Score 1) 65

You are trying to support the conspiracy theory of "Windows is turning into a subscription product!", in the same way Republicans keep telling people that Democrats are going to take their guns away, and that hasn't happened over the past 40 years.

Well Microsoft Office turned into a subscription product and that is kinda the same thing.

Comment Re:Google solved it already in 2024 (Score 3, Interesting) 26

No they didn't.

Google's surface codes are not sufficient to sustain computation with any real world error rate.
The IBM Bicycle code improves the bounds a little, but still requires physical error rates that are not achievable.

Read the papers. They describe the strength of their codes. From there you can deduce the headlines are lying.

Comment Re:Time to drop intel support (Score 1) 125

I have one of the last Intel mac models. It's served a good life.
An ARM based replacement will be no use since it doesn't have the specific CPU instructions I need and use. A windows laptop is no replacement because programming on windows is a shit show - MS C doesn't even have getopt. My windows builds for my command line tools have to use a replacement getopt library (ya_getopt) because visual studio doesn't doesn't have this library that is in the K&R C book FFS.

I'm on a Linux based Framework 16 now. I can code and browse and bash behaves like bash.

Comment Re:How much did this study cost? (Score 1) 69

When a physicist at a university turns their diagnostic tools to mundane every day things, rather than say quantum particle collisions, the difficulty of doing the experiment is usually going to be much easier. However it can have good consequences for the rest of us.

For example an Italian guy decided to take a look at how filter paper under an espresso puck affects the espresso. Here . This showed that the puck improves extraction and reduces channeling. It's a simple thing to do and it has helped me with making good espresso in the morning.

So I'm happy that this sort of research gets done.

Comment Re:How much did this study cost? (Score 1) 69

You could have just listened to any one who cooks alot and actually invests & maintains good knives vs blowing $$ on this dumb ass study. I never had tear issues cutting onions

I didn't have to. I have good knives. I sharpen them. I cut onions. Knowing something to be true is different to knowing why something is true.

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