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ununoctium87

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ununoctium87··on Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?
Maybe someone trying out a badly trained GPT-3 generator
ununoctium87··on Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
Wrote an addin for Excel which offloaded workbook computation to the GPU for about 10-20x speed improvement.

Posted a video demo on YouTube and keep getting the few odd messages once a month asking if it’s available for sale but I’m still clueless on how to properly validate whether it’ll sell.

To make it a complete product would require a lot of time which I don’t have right now

ununoctium87··on New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night
QLD?
ununoctium87··on Museum of Bad Album Covers
The Scorpions - Virgin Killer (the original one especially)?
ununoctium87··on Value investing is struggling to remain relevant
While QE is around, banks and rich people will need somewhere to stash the ‘free’ money government is giving them.

Bonds and cash have negative real rates nowadays so the only thing they can do is pump up equities, real estate and alternative investments.

ununoctium87··on The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgaria (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=419bc_YjaFk
ununoctium87··on SEC charges former Amazon finance manager and family with insider trading
Options are non-linear and highly leveraged (usually 100:1)
ununoctium87··on Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping
https://github.com/localstack/localstack

Though I find a stronger argument in using containerisation to ensure an identical application run-time environment no matter the infra it’s running on.

If we are talking about infra engineering, then sure. That’s where I find localstack helps

ununoctium87··on Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever
Haven’t seen Kafka yet. Source: I work infra eng at Atlassian
ununoctium87··on Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever
Hello to you too, fellow Cloud Foundations team member
ununoctium87··on US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
Is the ransom tax deductible?
ununoctium87··on Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion
So, kind of like a software bug that causes 1 or 2 planes to crash, killing all on-board?
ununoctium87··on Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
Happy to help :)
ununoctium87··on Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
I’m responsible for a few repos, probably the most famous one being github.com/stretchr/testify.

My solution is that as much as I love open source and the community I’m in, I do not let it get in the way of work and family.

I’ll only contribute when I have spare time. Unless I were to be paid for it.

ununoctium87··on Apple knows 5G is about infrastructure, not mobile phones (2018)
That remark aged really well...
ununoctium87··on Ask HN: Anyone designs financial engineering tools as a hobby?
PhD in signal processing, amateur algo trader & economist and software engineer by day (not in the finance field unfortunately). I want to live your life!
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