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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…
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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.
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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…
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Open Interest
Open interest in options is how many live contracts are currently held. Larry Williams points out that when there's a lot of open interest, there's nobody left to buy. It's…
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Easy Good Fake Custard
A favorite snack of mine—feels like junk food, but not too bad, filling, and super-easy. Take about 12oz vanilla yogurt. I use cream-top full-fat yogurt. Add a couple of splashes…
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Oddfellow Outtakes
Posted for a friend, here's all the sets of images I generated working on "You Can Tuna Oddfellow, But….", from which the final gallery was selected.
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A Memoir From The Road: Forever In My Heart: Experiencing Jimi
November 27, 2018 I'm staying at my dad's place in Florida right now. I've been on the road for a few months. It struck me this morning, waking up in…
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Character Art Experiment: You Can Tuna Oddfellow, But….
These are some character studies I did of Tuna Oddfellow, the famous Second Life (and, increasingly, real life) alter ago of an old friend. This is a bit of a…
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Trading Thesis
Traders refer to a "thesis" a lot. I've come to believe this is just jargon for a hypothesis. "I think it will do this".
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Options Are For Strong Conviction Trades
I got some advice recently that I liked: options are for strong conviction trades. "I think this might work" is for shares trades, not options. "This is working as expected"…
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Haikus
Haikuity This would be haiku, But it only has two lines. Oh, wait — nevermind. This is a haiku. You can tell because it's, uh, not everything else? This, too,…
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Starting a temporary instance of N8N accessible via IPv4 over the local network
N8n by default binds to localhost, and even binding it to listen on all interfaces, it still by default listens only for IPv6. You also may want to tell it…
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Globs O' Blog: Blog Feed
This is 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…
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Laws Of The Land
This is my placeholder scratchpad for what will be my page of rules of thumb, natural laws, and other such handy guidelines. 1. Child rearing Keep a parent's vigilant eye,…
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Grim Grinning Ghosts Come Out To Socialize: 13 Ghosts
Some virtual spectral photography to spookify your Halloween. True fact: none of these AI-generated images had ghosts in them when I prompted them. WoooOOOOoooo! 👻 I believe I originally made…
Block Instagram share posts from Facebook’s “all” feed with uBlock Origin
Abstract: With the browser plugin uBlock Origin, you can block shares from Instagram with the custom rule: www.facebook.com##.html-div:has(a[href*="www.instagram.com"]) Note: Facebook changes their css often. This may not work for long.…
Ketoriffic Tuna Pig Salad au Gratin (with non-keto variation)
This is a regular snack around my place. Ingredients: 1 large (7oz unopened) can tuna, drained 2 thin slices ham healthy dollop or two of mayonnaise red Tabasco sauce black…
Prevent MacOS from locking screen when you disconnect screen sharing
I screenshare into a Mac for playing video on my TV, and had an intermittent problem where Firefox would not play video while screen sharing was connected, but then locked…
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Free Your Mind, And Your Sticky Notes Will Follow: Tech note: How To Export or Import Notes from the “Webstickies” Extension In Firefox
Amongst my most-used browser extensions is Webstickies by Lawrence Hook, which allows you to leave a permanent "sticky note" on any web page. It's available for both Firefox and (yuck,…
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How To Clean Suede
As with all other advice-y sounding things on this site, don't take my word for it. I'm just telling you what worked for me. Use your discretion. I'm not responsible…
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How To Defrost A Frozen Steak In 30 Minutes
As this is a food handling tip, it is presented as documention of something I do. That does not mean I suggest you do it. As with all things, the…
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CURL and Browser get different page versions (301 redirects, content changed, etc. — due to Yoast url parameter stripping only for non-logged-in users)
I had a truly maddening problem where my /embed/ functionality was sometimes returning full pages to CURL commands and online services like redirect-checker.org, etc. It turned out, it was Yoast's…
Alternative Education Review: Welcome to the Wobbly Wombat Academy, Where the Curriculum is as Unpredictable as the Weather
Richmond-upon-Thames, UK – Nestled precariously on a foundation of questionable architectural decisions and a deep-seated commitment to the unconventional, the Wobbly Wombat Academy stands alone in its unique approach to…
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A Reminiscence Of Dunces: Why Eat Pigeon?
Way back in the heady days of the dotcom boom, as a newbie in San Francisco, I fell in with a group of kids trying to revivify the Cacophony Society…
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Determining which javascript script changed an element’s attribute
Determining which script changed an element's attribute So, I had an issue where quite a while ago I added some js code that would open a [code]details[/code] disclosure element if…
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SQL query to list all WordPress post revisions for archiving
Here's the SQL query to get all post revisions, which I do prior to cleaning them out of the database, which seems to make it much faster: SELECT p.* FROM…
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Speeding up rsnapshot (rsync) backups by removing wildcard paths from exclude
I removed a bunch of wildcard paths from rsnapshot.conf's exclude, and suddenly tonight my backup ran in a few minutes instead of taking over a day like it usually does.…
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Display “fixed” elements still scrolling, not fixed to page (also, if z-index not working properly)
I had an interesting problem where I set an image's CSS rules to display:fixed and it still scrolled with the page. Here's what I discovered: In CSS, display:fixed means fixed…
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Performance troubleshooting & settings changes 2025aug29
Following several days of frequent freezes, I tried changing the following settings updated in : [opcache] original settings ;recommended by https://vpsfix.com/14433/virtualmin-post-installation-configuration-and-server-optimization-guide/ opcache.enable= opcache.memory_consumption= opcache.interned_strings_buffer= opcache.max_accelerated_files= opcache.validate_timestamps= opcache.revalidate_freq= opcache.save_comments= ;end recommendation…
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Directory and File Locations particular to this server
PHP config - Includes: - opcache settings - error warnings PHP slow log setup is in PHP log - PHP error and slow logs by pool are in
