This is (almost*) the entire contents of the site, presented in blog form. This is all articles from newest to oldest, plus some blog posts that will only appear here, brief or timely posts that don't merit being saved as articles.
- You can see just the articles: /Latest page or the Articles category page
- Just the blog posts: on the Blog Posts category page.
*Individual movie reviews don't get posted on this page. I write too many of them, it would drown everything else out.
Put Options or Collar Can Reset Your Short-Term Capital Gains Holding Period For Stocks To Zero, Or Worse
It's a bit complicated, but under IRS Title 26, most* positions which combine normal stocks and options on that stock which hedge or lower the risk of losses are considered…
Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted in genres
Rage Against The Machine: Algorithms & Old Lace: LLM Poisoning For Personal Websites
Private AIs: They're Watching You Last year my friends in an Indieweb meetup began to notice that information about them was turning up in LLMs... some comically inaccurate, some uncannily…
Enable PHP 8.4 in Apache on Debian
According to the installer, to enable PHP 8.4 FPM in Apache2 do: a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif a2enconf php8.4-fpm
War And Precedence: Plugin positioning of unpositioned elements that aren’t yet positioned by later-loading stylesheets: A CSS Odyssey
So, I had a crazy problem. You'll notice that there's various draggable elements on this site... such as the "Kupietools" plugin tabs seen at left, the occasional "the site is…
Resolving cloudflare error “The number of lookups on your SPF record exceed the allowed limit of 10. This will result in emails failing SPF authentication”
I got the error "The number of lookups on your SPF record exceed the allowed limit of 10. This will result in emails failing SPF authentication" in my Cloudflare DNS…
How to backup a WordPress site via SSH
To make a complete local backup of a remote WordPress install over SSH, you need to perform two distinct steps: Download the files (using rsync). Export and download the database…
Posted inWriting Posted in genres
¡AI Caramba!: A Milestone Passed: Brief Thoughts On AI’s Increasingly Convincing Simulation of Humanness
Oct. 11, 2024 Those who've spoken to me about it know that I, through much firsthand experience, call myself "a huge AI enthusiast and skeptic". Generative AI is an amazing…
Posted inTrading Grimoire
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I heard an interview with a trader (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ETvTftY-tw) who never takes a trade that he is not willing to accept a complete loss on. I'm thinking about that PLTR protective…
Posted inTrading Grimoire
Get Really Good At One Thing
Everybody seems to say this. For me it could be the strategy I've been working on paper trading lately. But everyone says lack of focus will cost you.
Posted inTrading Grimoire
Patience
You need patience. You can't say "I don't want to wait, I might miss the trade." You wait for confirmation and then only get in if you didn't miss the…
See all in Articles...
Put Options or Collar Can Reset Your Short-Term Capital Gains Holding Period For Stocks To Zero, Or Worse
It's a bit complicated, but under IRS Title 26, most* positions which combine normal stocks and options on that stock which hedge or lower the risk of losses are considered…
Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted in genres
Rage Against The Machine: Algorithms & Old Lace: LLM Poisoning For Personal Websites
Private AIs: They're Watching You Last year my friends in an Indieweb meetup began to notice that information about them was turning up in LLMs... some comically inaccurate, some uncannily…
Enable PHP 8.4 in Apache on Debian
According to the installer, to enable PHP 8.4 FPM in Apache2 do: a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif a2enconf php8.4-fpm
War And Precedence: Plugin positioning of unpositioned elements that aren’t yet positioned by later-loading stylesheets: A CSS Odyssey
So, I had a crazy problem. You'll notice that there's various draggable elements on this site... such as the "Kupietools" plugin tabs seen at left, the occasional "the site is…
Resolving cloudflare error “The number of lookups on your SPF record exceed the allowed limit of 10. This will result in emails failing SPF authentication”
I got the error "The number of lookups on your SPF record exceed the allowed limit of 10. This will result in emails failing SPF authentication" in my Cloudflare DNS…
How to backup a WordPress site via SSH
To make a complete local backup of a remote WordPress install over SSH, you need to perform two distinct steps: Download the files (using rsync). Export and download the database…
Posted inWriting Posted in genres
¡AI Caramba!: A Milestone Passed: Brief Thoughts On AI’s Increasingly Convincing Simulation of Humanness
Oct. 11, 2024 Those who've spoken to me about it know that I, through much firsthand experience, call myself "a huge AI enthusiast and skeptic". Generative AI is an amazing…
Posted inTrading Grimoire
Size Down
I heard an interview with a trader (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ETvTftY-tw) who never takes a trade that he is not willing to accept a complete loss on. I'm thinking about that PLTR protective…
Posted inTrading Grimoire
Get Really Good At One Thing
Everybody seems to say this. For me it could be the strategy I've been working on paper trading lately. But everyone says lack of focus will cost you.
Posted inTrading Grimoire
Patience
You need patience. You can't say "I don't want to wait, I might miss the trade." You wait for confirmation and then only get in if you didn't miss the…
See all in Blog Posts...
