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- Private work.
- Went to the US Open, Arthur Ashe. Alcarez, Pegula.
- Remember python’s
deque. Double ended queue (so stacks too). Faster than list (O(1) vs O(n)). append(), appendleft(), pop(), popleft().
- Meta’s jupyter studio / scheduler is Bento: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/29/security/scheduling-jupyter-notebooks-meta/
- Signed up for a few more nyt newsletters.
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- Private work.
- UWS and EV today.
- Hans v Magnus over. Julius Baer starts today too.
- Split blogs (public, privateer, hedgineer, HR, others). Don’t really need individual ones for my sites (leave in public).
- More typing/ds&a.
- NY requires (just by default) Supplemental Spousal Liability insurance (bodily injury coverage for the other person in the car). It’s an additional $72/yr for my premium so I kept it.
- Transactions on private names basically stop at filing.
- Upgraded google one from basic to standard. Primary change is 100GB -> 200GB. $20/yr -> $30/yr.
- Remember itertools. Chain, accumulate, groupby.
- Saved a dog last night in central park. Wandering around uws. Saw tag matched the name of a shouter while we were walking earlier.
- Verified identity on linkedin via clear (??)
- Super blue moon.
- Remember that python’s
set is not hashable. frozenset is.
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- Private work.
- Settlement about some amazon products labelled austrian: https://www.muellersettlement.com/
- WPM getting faster (+accuracy). C middle not index. P pinky, return pinky. I often shift left index for T which naturally makes me want to press R with middle. Both index.
- Started trying nyt spelling bee as well.
- Paid NY tolls by mail. Jacob reis beach day. Hugh carey tunnel to/from bk. Verrazzano narrows to/from staten island (accidental). Marine parkway bridge to/from rockaway. $4.71 each, so $28.
- Google wallet provides “virtual” numbers to protect your card. I assume the wallet just abstracts your info from the recipient and proxies the authorization. Different num every use.
- Netflix uses envoy (created by lyft remember) for service mesh: https://netflixtechblog.com/zero-configuration-service-mesh-with-on-demand-cluster-discovery-ac6483b52a51. They also worked with kinvolk (https://kinvolk.io/) for some changes.
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- Private work.
- EV today.
- Renewed USPS electronic signature.
- Instacart filed S1, planning to list in september. Online grocery market share = walmart 25% amazon 22% instacart 22%. None of equityzen, forge, or equitybee had pre-ipo sell offers.
- Franklin posted 2 bbq videos for the first time in a long time yesterday. Pit-design-focused.
- Updated chrome. Updating docker desktop on macbook.
- Didn’t realize CSR gave instacart access. But it’s only for 1yr. And you get $15/mo credits for that year. Activated.
- Remember heap, good semi-sorting structure. Dynamic ordering, unlike LIFO stack. Imagine a tree. Top node is most (max heap), top node is least (min node), new stuff comes in (like orders on a secondary), tree rearranges.
- Putting your feet into cold OR hot water can help migraines?
- Continued with a bit of typing and ds&a.
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- Private work.
- Kafka.
- Python kafka lib: https://kafka-python.readthedocs.io/en/master/index.html (producers, clients, all)
- Fully managed kafka on aws (MSK = managed streaming kafka): https://aws.amazon.com/msk/
- You can expire/delete records in 2 ways: time-based and event-based. The former is a configuration setting, just like a TTL. The latter is via
delete-records.
- But remember – surgically/conditionally searching for specific records (and deleting them, or not) is not really the purpose of kafka. Event streams might not be as ideal as database/services in this case.
- NYT added connections to the games app.
- Typing.
- Mealprep. Powders, smoothies, liver, pecan butter, oat milk, chicken.
- Trading Places.
- DS&A.
- Python in excel (lol): https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/22/23841167/microsoft-excel-python-integration-support
- Code Llama, genAI for code writing: https://ai.meta.com/blog/code-llama-large-language-model-coding/. Based on the same model (2), but with additional language-specific training. There will probably be a vscode ext soon.
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- Private work.
- https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-amazon-prime-day-2023-aws-bill/
- Magnus wins the FIDE world cup.
- Wrote some CSS solutions to customize the wp block editor to indent properly, but ended up leaving alone.
- Still sick, but negative covid test. Watched Joy Ride since I couldn’t sleep.
- Did a refresher on event streaming (w kafka today).
- Downloaded java 8 (update 73) / linux / deb.
- Zookeeper, broker, client, published, subscribed, connect (file), stream (count).
- Received groceries.
- NVDA crushed.
- Submitted a note to fix a couple issues with the rise gardens rewards. Ended up just doing everything myself (SMS subscription, and search email for review opportunity).
- Getting back to typing properly and then speeding up (vs fast and now and slightly incorrect). Typing.com account and started exercises/tracking.
- Haven’t done any DS&A in a few years either. Reactivated leetcode and will do 1-2 per day for a month to stay fresh.
- Tabnine is port 1123. 9092 is kafka.
- Hawksmoor.
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- Home from SF trip. Parents, blake st, redwood, saul wedding, berkeley, food, games.
- Got the clearPlus (one-time) verification at SFO.
- Earplugs. SNR = single noise reduction. NRR = noise reduction rating. NRR is usually a few dB lower than SNR. The highest I could find were NRR=33dB, ordered.
- Chicken 65 is rapidly nearing korma as my fav. It’s not 65 spices, it was invented in 1965.
- Coinbase and circle now split usdc 50/50: https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/coinbase-acquires-minority-stake-in-circle-which-will-be-sole-issuer-of-usdc
- Received/replaced/activated expiring citi card.
- Private work.
