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SpicyP··on A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard
Love the idea!

My gym has stationary recumbent bikes -- I wonder if rigging up a keyboard to one of those would be better? If you don't need to put your upper body weight on handlebars, maybe it'll be easier to have a more traditional mouse/keyboard setup.

Won't be as cool though

SpicyP··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
Why did they need to test it over the United States though? If the purpose was prototyping you’d think they could have done that locally
SpicyP··on Kelly Criterion – how to calculate optimal bet sizes
This is not correct. Kelly criterion is not the square of the sharpe ratio
SpicyP··on Me and ADHD
With all these comments about stimulants, I think it's important to note that 25-50% of people with ADHD also have a sleep disorder (often not diagnosed). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6299464/

I have ADHD and have found that being on a strict sleep schedule and really making good sleep a focal point has helped maybe more than taking a stimulant

SpicyP··on A Gazillion-Dollar Standoff over Two High-Frequency Trading Towers
If you’re an options market maker and you are 10ms slower, you legitimately will be obsolete in the market. You will be arbitraged against when stocks move and you are slow to update quotes. This happens all the time, and it makes it so that you have to quote so wide that you aren’t competitive. Milliseconds are the difference from being competitive and going broke in the industry.