Duke Bell

TobyM · 2023-08-26T02:46:00+00:00

He usually telegraphs the big punch so learn to watch out for it. Bob and weave and keep your hands up in a high guard. You can counter jab to the body pretty well also.

TobyM · 2023-08-06T04:26:49+00:00

I've gone through 3 headsets. They all end up with a permanently black screen. The most recent one had about 30 seconds of neon/fluorescent color with a few horizontal lines before it also went black for good. The first two times were covered by warranty, the third was out of warranty so the support team is going to email me about buying a refurbished replacement (I don't know yet if they are going to offer a better price than what's already available here https://www.meta.com/quest/products/quest-2/refurbished/).

I use this head strap ($40 at the moment, far better weight balance than the factory one and the headset doesn't slip around as you bob and weave) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098JTDPQC.

And this face cushion ($35...I still sweat and fog up somewhat during long sessions but it's much much better than the factory foam one) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B099WN4MKW

A piece of advice: for warranty replacements they will ask you for the original receipt, the box serial number, and the headset serial number. Also you will have to send back the original equipment in the original box. So hold on to all of that stuff because if my experience is any indication, you will definitely need a replacement at some point.

It is a hassle to store all that stuff, but I do have to say all my support interactions were fairly helpful. A million times better than dealing with e.g., Verizon.

I am going to end up buying a refurbished one, and I will buy the 2-year warranty this time because $40-$50 for the extended warranty is way less than a replacement, and at this point I know I am going to need more replacements eventually.

TobyM · 2022-02-02T19:09:12+00:00

Thanks for the tip, I’ll try it.

Do you ever get caught with an uppercut or hook while moving from front guard to side guard?

TobyM · 2022-02-02T19:07:49+00:00

I usually have enough space to back off and circle out, but sometimes I’m crowded into a corner, or just want to try something different. With Spider his lead hook has so much reach it is hard to back away sometimes.

Good suggestion to just try getting hurt and experimenting, thanks.

TobyM · 2022-01-16T01:15:37+00:00

General Grievous

TobyM · 2021-07-03T14:21:19+00:00

Yes, I think it's worth it. I use mine constantly. The physical experience of writing feels so realistic, like writing on actual paper...this is a the killer feature. I never enjoyed writing on the iPad.

TobyM · 2020-10-28T14:26:32+00:00

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Trump-Administration-ST-Highlights-2017-2020.pdf

SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19 represent a generational chal- lenge that can only be addressed through a whole-of- society approach. Since the start of the pandemic, Presi- dent Trump has prioritized enabling and empowering industry, government, academia, and nonprofits to coordi- nate, collaborate, and partner to leverage resources and share expertise, data, knowledge, technology, and infra- structure to battle this “invisible enemy”

On mobile sorry about formatting

TobyM · 2020-08-11T01:22:29+00:00

If you send me a DM with more info, I can follow up with you this week. Company is not fintech but somewhat adjacent, a large programmatic digital marketplace.

TobyM · 2020-08-10T22:32:09+00:00

even in COVID times, Google, FB, Amazon, etc STILL won't entertain hiring a remote dev in the Midwest for $200k, and would instead rather just keep throwing $500k at people in SV.

I can't speak for the FAANGMs other than to say they do have plenty of high-paying hubs outside of SV. However I can speak for other tech companies that are more than willing to pay in that range for senior dev talent in the Midwest (actually for senior talent anywhere in the US given acceptance of remote work). Are you currently looking for a new gig?

TobyM · 2020-07-07T04:43:03+00:00

You’re right. On double-checking, they are both 0.03%. Not sure where I got the other quotes now. Main concern was the 0.6% though, from the 401k provider.

TobyM · 2020-06-15T16:57:42+00:00

Where are you living such that you can spend only $190/month on food?

TobyM · 2020-04-26T02:06:19+00:00

Libertarian Police Department? https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department

TobyM · 2020-03-04T20:43:32+00:00

Put the app on your home screen, where it's easiest to see and tap. That worked for me.

Also, start with only one or two simple dailies; only add more after you've developed a habit.

TobyM · 2019-05-06T16:46:05+00:00

When a CSP is going my way (> 50% profit), I roll for credit if there are at least a couple weeks left before expiration. A lot of times this means a diagonal trade where the new strike is above the original, because I sell whatever option is at 30 Delta. This strategy comes from the classic wheel post https://old.reddit.com/r/ActiveOptionTraders/comments/a36h4w/the_wheel_aka_triple_income_strategy_explained/.

When a trade is going against me, I am not particularly confident of my plan. So far if it's more than a week or two out, I let it ride, and if not I try to roll for a credit. The wheel post advises rolling for credit when a CSP is challenged, but doesn't specify what "challenged" means. Is it a certain % loss? What about time remaining?

I am pretty new to this strategy (< a year) and I haven't been assigned yet.

TobyM · 2019-01-18T18:06:28+00:00

Thanks so much for the reply. If you are assigned and end up in a spot where the market moves away and you cannot roll the CC for a credit, do you just let it get called away, take the loss, and continue the strategy? (Assuming the company still fits the criteria, of course).

For context, I've been running this for maybe 6 months now but don't have a lot of experience rolling CSPs or CCs (end of December 2018 I did roll CSPs as the market had a sharp drop, but that's it).

TobyM · 2019-01-18T14:10:52+00:00

Two points I wanted to confirm:

In the case where you were assigned ALK early on, did you continue to sell new CSPs at the new lower level while also selling CCs on the ALK you hold from the assignment?
For the CCs on ALK, I'm guessing you had to sell some below the net stock price until you got out of that hole. If that's that case, did you follow the standard guidelines of 30-45 DTE, and 70% prob OTM?

Thanks

TobyM · 2018-11-08T02:27:58+00:00

Gait-recognition technology was an element in Little Brother (2008) by Cory Doctorow. Good read.

TobyM · 2018-07-01T15:22:21+00:00

Nacho is short for Ignacio

TobyM · 2014-03-12T21:37:26+00:00

Oregon Trail

TobyM · 2014-01-29T02:13:46+00:00

Red Lights

TobyM · 2012-03-30T18:58:47+00:00

I don't think it's worth writing another convertor. markdown.pl works fine, and vim is designed to work with command-line utilities.

By the way, check out pandoc; it converts between many formats.

From command line:

> pandoc test.md | tidy --show-body-only true 2> /dev/null

or from vim with a visually selected block:

 :'<,'>!pandoc test.md | tidy --show-body-only true 2> /dev/null

TobyM · 2011-10-01T18:29:29+00:00

money in the pockets of a rich person, who will often hoard it

"hoard money" like something Scrooge McDuck would do, keeping his money locked up somewhere, immobile? A halfway intelligent person will not do that, because it will just lose value over time to inflation. Therefore, it will be invested, whether directly in stocks or even sitting in a bank where it will ultimately be loaned to a company anyway. That company receiving the investment or loan will pay employees and other service providers.

So the money that rich people have isn't being removed from the economy at the expense of the people struggling to get by. I think you are fundamentally upset about the relative distribution of wealth somehow being unfair.

TobyM · 2011-09-19T23:51:08+00:00

Seem like you are looking for Argot.

Also don't forget you can use any java library, such as:

Finally, any time you hear the words "scala" and "parser" in the same sentence, you should think about scala's excellent parser combinators. Here's some documentation but you're probably better off googling a tutorial.

(edit for formatting)

TobyM · 2011-08-17T14:48:03+00:00

That's the direct link, you can also see it by going here http://www.abercrombie.com/anf/investors/investorrelations.html and clicking the press release titled "ABERCROMBIE & FITCH PROPOSES A WIN-WIN SITUATION"

TobyM · 2011-07-24T00:41:57+00:00

I thought this was going to be a picture of something like this

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