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mrigoron I chose the ThinkPad Z13 Gen1 as my Linux laptop

Since moving our dev environment onto remove VMs, laptop choice has become much easier. Battery isn't drained as much by tests/VMs/containers, RAM isn't as much of a concern, mac ARM vs x86 isn't an issue anymore.

Used same pattern as slack - https://slack.engineering/remote-development-at-slack/

mrigoron Apollo will close down on June 30th

Relay App is also shutting down https://www.reddit.com/r/RelayForReddit/comments/13wsn92/gue...

mrigoron China plans to break up Ant's Alipay and force creation of separate loans app

India has NPCI https://www.npci.org.in/who-we-are/about-us

mrigoron Building a vision of life without work (2015)

It seems like an ethical move if you agree with Peter Thiel's model of stagnant US. Since we don't grow anymore, the only way for advancement is for others to step aside. We're not creating new spots from expansion like in the 50s. So taking up high earning spots to accumulate above self sustaining amount is taking jobs from others that haven't reached their FIRE number (which could be seen as unethical). This doesn't apply to new/growing fields like tech.

mrigoron Building a vision of life without work (2015)

Spending usually looks like a smile curve, high at first (travel, hobbies, toys) then low (done all the things) then high (medical bills).

mrigoron Django 3.1

yeah, it supports macros

mrigoron Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A

what BT accessories did you settle on?

mrigoron Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Cannons

Do earplugs not work for these?

mrigoron Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’

He bought 50k of Out of The Money PUTs expiring next day. So he bet AAPL would go down. When market opened AAPL went up and his 50k options would expire worthless at the end of day.

To get the leveraged money he bought stock and sold CALLs against it. RH has a bug where they give you credit for the premium collected instead of reducing buying power.

mrigoron Most internet service providers are gone – Sonic has survived and thrived

You don't have to rent their modem

mrigoron Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds

selling insurance to buy insurance defeats the point, ATM options only pay for expected moves so you have no protection gain with your strategy

mrigoron Don’t keep cell phones next to your body, California Health Department warns

Joel Moskowitz is a psychology professor.

NIH has a whole page dedicated to this https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r...

mrigoron Hedge funds embrace machine learning up to a point

Are you referring to gamma hedging or another strategy?

mrigoron AMD's revenue rises 18%, but margin forecast disappoints

For those playing the earnings:

After-hours: 12.10 -11.16%

mrigoron Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-driving tech

According to TSLA, Mobileye didn't want their data used to train AP2 https://electrek.co/2016/09/15/tesla-vision-mobileye-tesla-a...

mrigoron SipHash and HalfSipHash Added to Linux Kernel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SipHash

mrigoron Return of the Mac (2005)

The new Macbook Pro supports max of 16GB RAM while Thinkpads support 32GB. This makes it hard to justify getting a Mac.

mrigoron Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the U.S. Next?

Bafang BBS is a nice alternative. Goes on the crank shaft and converts most bikes to electric. More powerful than Stromer for fraction of the cost...

mrigoron How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone

For those unfamiliar with google's deep learning, this talk covers their recent efforts pretty well https://youtu.be/kO-Iw9xlxy4 (not technical)

mrigoron Why Ferrari engineers don't like turbos

Volvo is working on an electric turbo apparently http://www.autonews.com/article/20141007/OEM04/141009809/vol...

mrigoron Microsoft Band

Promo video is up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvjulEJH9w

mrigoron Tracking Mobile Phone Usage During World Cup Final

Unrelated to the topic: that logo animation (as you scroll) is very distracting.

mrigoron Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to donate to charities while on Amazon

Without rate limiting it looks be to susceptible to abuse.

mrigoron Moto X phone specifications

I hope its customizable or using voice commands with two phones nearby will be awkward.

mrigoron Converting to Powerline on one machine can be a help to your whole house

If you're thinking about doing this, make sure your 500 plug comes with a gigabit port. Some of them are only 10/100.

mrigoron Why it’s important to talk about Tropes vs. Women In Video Games

Thunderf00t rebuttals this quite well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJeX6F-Q63I

mrigoron SimCity mod demonstrates the possibility of offline play

https://twitter.com/MaxisGuillaume looks like they're working on fixing a lot of the issues

mrigoron CSS Variables published as First Public Working Draft

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-variables/