Mostly Software

    • Was getting the “update information is outdated” graphical error in ubuntu. Ran `sudo apt update`.
    • Remember, containers use the host OS’ resources. They use the host kernel. You cannot have a linux container on a windows machine, or a windows container on a linux machine. There ARE services out there like “Docker for Windows” that provide this, but ultimately they use a VM middleman then a container off that.
    • Watched john wick 2 and 3. Keanu Reeves is 55. Citizen of Canada, born in Lebanon, and of English/Chinese/Hawaiian descent. No high school diploma.
    • Started thawing the last 2 racks of beef ribs. After 40lbs of short, 40lbs of spare, and 40lbs of bird in the last month, the freezer is now empty for the first time. Next trip will be maple/applewood pork belly, sliced into bacon.
    • Interviews.
      • Wrote the skeletal slidedeck that could be used for various presentations, depending on the prompt. Would have to fill in some detail to cater to the specific audience.
        • There is good balance. I alternate slides between quantitative/technical demos and qualitative/intangible lessons.
      • Went back over the 2017 recruiter emails. Compiled all the resources. Deleted the gmail label.
      • Wrote the full plan for remaining studying, mock interviews, etc.
      • Watched a view videos on practice questions.

      • Reviewed all my gdoc notes.

      • Organized my WHOLE drive.
    • Got a few more cascading sentry issues (4) from a postgres connection closing mid-request, from someone’s iphone safari. Resolved without action.
    • IAM – Identity and Access Management.
    • Windows file systems are usually, NTFS, FAT, or exFAT.
    • Mac file system is usually HFS Plus.
    • Didn’t make any market moves to prepare for black friday. I’m not in any consumer-heavy sectors anyway.
    • Something on bloomberg’s backend failed because it resubscribed me to the 4 newsletters I quit a while back. I had to unsub again.
    • Did some pro/con weighing for the possible case that I’m not moved up to the bay by the end of dec, which would mean that briley moves first. Considered job proximity, money for relocation, money for full rent myself, wifi, couch, staging at parents, change of env, more. Decided that I’ll stay until the next step is locked, rather than uproot.
    • Astronaut Mark Kelly is running for Senate in Arizona: https://onezero.medium.com/do-astronauts-make-good-politicians-96ec4945980. Good. Policy should be born from logic, not politics. We need more engineers and scientists in office.
    • Browsed a bit on amazon for black friday and prepped for cyber monday. Bought some coffee.
    • Cool chrome extension to hide all likes across all (main) social media platforms: https://www.hidelikeseverywhere.com/.
    • Watched a cam version of the mystery Knives Out.
    • Not perfect, but there’s a definite correlation between quality of code and quietness of typing. Fervency can come from true speed, but usually it’s poor form, inefficiency, disorganization, or a nonlinear approach.
    • Updates and restart.
    • Wrote the weekend study plan interview questions/whiteboarding practice.
    • Friendsgiving was solid last night.
    • 3 nfl games today for thanksgiving, love it.
    • Pandas has built-in support for moving back and forth between dataframes (memory) and databases (persistent).
    • Ordered white elephant gift.
    • Got some new watches.
    • Median and mean salaries for tech CEOs are around 300k in base, and 2m in options: https://medium.com/@sammyabdullah/startup-ceo-salaries-5bebe0f89e14.
    • Made new batch of protein bars, and (separate) macadamia nut butter. Definitely in the second best tier with pistachio butter, just below pecan.
    • Smoked all 40lbs of turkey for friendsgiving. Roasted the trimmings in a skillet for gravy.
    • Updated the supercontest banner. Deployed. Gitlab was being weird, wouldn’t trigger my build and the execution was slow. Frontend also wasn’t showing the logs, but locally did: `docker logs -f runner-mJ4Y_63h-project-14681470-concurrent-0-build-4`
      • Triggered and built fine about an hour later when I deployed again.
    • Did not have to adjust anything for the supercontest on thanksgiving. There are 3 games on thursday. As long as you pick them before kickoff, you are free to pick all 3. Everyone’s picks will not publish till sat night, like usual. Scores are fetched all thurs, they don’t wait for the usual 5, so the morning games will still update live.
    • Committed new lines. Submitted picks.
    • Tradebot.
      • Updated get_tickers() to use nasdaq’s ftp server, fetching all traded symbols. This yields ~9000 right now, much better than the ~2500 I was getting from that old sketchy api.
      • It also properly returns the tickers only. Market cap and other data can be fetched separately (as they are).
    • Placed an order last night (via amazon) from the whole foods market, instead of fresh. Experience was basically the same. Slightly different items. Different carts. Same 2hr delivery.
      • Got some more bbq gloves and press-and-seal through regular amazon as well.
      • Added the official amazon chrome plugin. Live tracking updates and more.
      • Prepped all food once it arrived.
    • 1-1 in ff. Out of playoffs for both. 4-1 in sbsc.
    • ESPN’s power rankings are pats ravens niners. Disagree. Ridiculous to keep the pats at 1 after the absolute blowouts of niners over packers, ravens over rams. I’d go ravens niners pats.
    • Supercontest. A uwsgi worker died (happens sometimes, respawns automatically), but it happened this time while processing a request. Psycopg2 detected that and failed the query with a helpful traceback.
    • Some interesting investing points from Tom Lee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnhjJJLQ_0I. Generational peaks cause a bit of bull. Every 20 years ish, when birth spikes are around 40 years old (the 30-50yr old band drives the majority of the economy). We’re about mid-cycle for a lot of HIS indicators (even though this expansion period has been super long), not late-cycle and recession-imminent as many (rightly) believe. The millennials are still peaking, yo.
    • VIX = volatility index from cboe.
    • Futures are like options, but you have to exercise them. You can also have futures for sell contracts.
    • Do Italians try to be Italian as much as Americans?
    • Shorts can have infinite loss. Puts are limited.
    • Did a little bit of organization for tradebot.
    • The Ravens have some recent finance grads doing mathematical analytics for playcalling onsides, 4th downs, 2pt conversions, etc: https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2019/9/22/20878730/baltimore-ravens-kansas-city-chiefs-analytics.
    • I’m not particularly impressed by the Farnam Street publication either. I’ll stay subscribed for a bit longer.
    • Friendsgiving prep.
      • Wednesday’s turkeys will have no garlic/onion for Allie and no pork for Sharon. No more bacon injection :(. I’ll instead do a memphis rub (paprika/cayenne/brownsugar/etc) with a butter injection+binder. I’ll still throw some herbs on there.
      • Smoked practice turkey and ribs yesterday at remilin’s. They were weird. Something is off with the traeger, wasn’t getting good smoke flavor. Looked up traeger instructions, we weren’t drastically off on anything.
      • Butterflied, separated, and brined all 40lbs for the actual day into legs, breasts, tenderloins, wings. I’m getting much better. You don’t need to spatchcock if you’re going to separate anyway. Still took about 90min and gets kinda annoying. Super messy. Disinfected the kitchen surfaces after.
      • Read a little more about gravy prep.
      • Went back tonight and smoked a chicken with Remy to test. Cleaned out the traeger firebox, made sure the pellets didn’t have any wet rot, ensured that it was started up properly. Chicken was butterflied, with absolutely no other change. No rub, injection, seasoning, sauce. Still weird.
      • Prepped my WSM for wednesday, since I’ll be using that instead.
    • Overclocking increases error rates, heating, power consumption, etc.
    • Added video player to chrome.
    • Sempiternal is the same definition as eternal. Lasting forever.
    • Ordered a couple new watches.
    • Elon was in the rick and morty episode from last night!
    • ZYME earned a couple hundred bucks more today.
    • Started using the pea protein. It definitely doesn’t taste as good.
        • Disney+ does not currently support streaming for browsers on linux. I have to use my phone (which can cast to the tv).
        • bmahlstedt.com cert expired because my letsencrypt bot container hasn’t been up. It will autorenew once I start it again (likely when I self-host).
        • Sbsc site wouldn’t open for cfenton on safari. Switching browsers worked.
        • App emailed properly, even for Bill who had submitted 1 pick instead of 0.
        • Finished Black Mirror.
        • My calm subscription renews annually today (Nov 23rd). The card on file was the old amex, so it failed. I was considering cancelling the subscription, but I do find it helpful, so I renewed with the new citi. It’s only $5/mo, and I support the cause/company.
          • My stats for last year: 98 sessions, 20h10m.
        • The kaep situation fascinates me. I equate it with protestors who block roads. You may be right, you may be peaceful, you may get more exposure, but you’re going to piss off a lot of drivers.
        • Caught up with Richard.
        • Cal vs Stanford and Wilder vs Ortiz.
        • Friendsgiving prep.
          • Made stock/broth, about 8 cups. Carcass, celery, onion, parsley, garlic, seasoning. Boil, then simmer for two hours. Strain.
          • Slowly combine with about a cup of fat (from another smoke sesh, or butter), and flour, over medium heat. Start with maybe 1/8 ratio (1 cup of flour), then add up to 1/4 as desired thickness. Get up to high heat, then remove. Add seasoning s desired.
          • Injected and rubbed the practice turkey.
          • Thawed the beef and pork ribs for monday’s smoke, from which I’ll keep the fat/drippings for wednesday.
        • Tradebot.