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one of my mother's favorite poems
as someone who often was a wild-man in daze of yore, i have always found a deep something in the fourth stanza:
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night. now, tamed (broken ?) by age, i am left with a ghost of a roar
i'm sorry to say mother, like Dylan Thomas, went out not raging, or grieving, but, in an alcoholic stupor.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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No one on my team is working on the same stuff as I am!
Let me tell you, that makes for a very poor code review experience!
modified 10-Jan-22 23:43pm.
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Or the best code review experience! No one knows your code better than you, so go over it carefully with your rubber duck.
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Well, you only have to do three lines of code a day - how hard can it be?
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Sometimes, ahem, I do more than that!
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Well yeah - but the extra one is just a comment ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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"I work alone... yeah! yeah!... with nobody else..." -- (George Thorogood)
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One of the main but often overlooked points of a code review, is that someone else knows your code.
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Exactly!
Works best when they start already knowing a bit of it, unfortunately!
If, only, for motivation...
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That's the history of my (working) life.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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You're a legend too!
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Not bad a throw, for a 1.5 million kilometers away hole...
Obligatory link, Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb
modified 10-Jan-22 23:55pm.
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Bitcoin heading for worst yearly start since at least 2012[^]
Quote: Cryptocurrencies are likely to remain under pressure as the Fed reduces its liquidity injections,” said Jay Hatfield, chief executive of Infrastructure Capital Advisors. “Bitcoin could end 2022 below $20,000.
Currently, it's at just under $40,000 - but if lots of you sell, it'll plummet. If you don't, you could lose a packet. If few of you sell, it might be stable or even recover. Decisions, decisions ...
I'm not gloating, I'm just glad I have never been tempted to "invest" in crypto.
Do you have any? Or do you think it's just another pyramid / Ponzi scheme at heart?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Genuinely I have no cryptocurrency of any form, and neither does Herself.
Just not a natural gambler, I guess.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I know! I was just messing with you!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Yeah, I try not to "invest" in "products" where the tweet of a single billionaire can make the value plummet.
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It's about 2.5% of my portfolio. I don't think it's a pyramid or Ponzi scheme, but it's definitely speculative. Some say that it will replace gold as a store of value, and others say it will go to epsilon. I lean towards it going to epsilon but can also see it going to the moon.
Well, the world's gold stock is about 200K tonnes, or about an ounce per person. There will only be 21M bitcoins, or about 1/300th of a bitcoin per person. So if I have 300 ounces of gold, I can hedge it with 1 bitcoin.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Do you have any? Fractions of them, but forgot the password.
OriginalGriff wrote: Or do you think it's just another pyramid / Ponzi scheme at heart? Come on, this isn't a church.
It's not, it doesn't require "more idiots" to dance.
Also, inflation.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Do you have any? Nope! The closest I get to gambling is Premium Bonds.
OriginalGriff wrote: do you think it's just another pyramid / Ponzi scheme at heart? I don't think it's 'structured' like a pyramid scheme. It's much closer to Dutch Tulip Mania - when the price of Tulip bulbs vastly exceeded their intrinsic value. And then the bubble burst.
P.S. Before our Dutch friends take a shot at me. I don't subscribe to the view that Tulip Mania was a country-wide and country wrecking thing. But I do think it is one of the earliest examples of a market bubble bursting.
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OriginalGriff wrote: o you have any? Or do you think it's just another pyramid / Ponzi scheme at heart?
This. And like all victims of Ponzi schemnes, they will defend it until the bitter end.
If and only if I'll get some good info on promising upstarting coins I may try a pump and dump myself, but I'm too averse to this kind of speculation to even know the right channels.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Just holding, in it for the long run. Bought in at 2k in 2017, so if it pops, so what! I have a number of different ones, and spread depending on if they are 'classed' as store, currency, utility or just meme, to spread risk and take a punt across the different classes. a few weeks ago when BTC was up at 60kish, I was sitting over 10x on original buyin cost. Yes, it's a rocky road, but i'll take my chances, would fully expect BTC to reach new ATH this year at some point.
Need to have a diversified investment portfolio, so the usual stock/bonds/property (uk and europe, both rentals and commercial dev loans) Currently, my best performing overall asset class is property development loans in Eastern Europe approx 10+%pa, and of course this is tax free for my residential status.
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I put a few pounds in just for fun, and I know I am not going to make a fortune from it. My real savings are all kept in sensible places (not under the mattress).
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