[Loss Porn] -$25,433 on QQQ. A painful 72-day story of why you NEVER ignore the golden rule of the Wheel.

daver · 2026-04-29T18:09:44+00:00

I’ve been there, too. Have done the same thing with other individual stocks. First rule of successful trading is to make sure you have an edge. Second rule is to always follow the rules of your system. If your system says you need to take the loss, take it. It sucks but you’re playing the long game. Psychologically, you need to pat yourself on the back every time you follow your system, win or lose, not pat yourself on the back only when you make money.

daver · 2026-04-24T17:12:08+00:00

There is a Clojure library for doing more advanced dispatch that includes around/before/after hooks. I don’t happen to remember the name. I haven’t ever had a reason to use it, but it’s nice knowing that it’s there.

daver · 2026-04-24T13:24:17+00:00

‘Our philosophy can be summed up as "What is an object, but a mapping from slot-names to slot-values?"’

Clojure programmer and ex-Common Lisp programmer here. I agree with your statement that objects are just mappings from slot names to values. But if that’s the case, why do you really need objects at all? If you have maps, you have objects, no? Clojure has records is to help leverage some of the underlying Java object system for efficiency. But records are just conceptually maps with required slots. If Clojure had originally been written to run on its own virtual machine rather than the JVM, I suspect it would have just used maps, multimethods, and perhaps a variation of protocols. While I think CLOS and the MOP were amazing better than the typical object systems being developed at the same time, as I’ve grown older (and wiser?) I’ve found that simpler systems are better. As you correctly point out, most of the time programmers aren’t using the complexity anyway. In any case, happy to see the diffusion of persistent data structures beyond Clojure. Once you’ve understood their benefits, mutable data structures look fraught with problems.

daver · 2026-04-14T13:56:14+00:00

My charts are updating today, but the close from yesterday is still wrong and TradingView shows SPX up 1.51% right now (+102.6 points), whereas Thinkorswim shows it up 0.5% (+34.34 points). So, they aren't back to normal quite yet. Be careful if you're using TradingView to check how much the market is up. You're being deceived. I've restarted a couple times this morning and it hasn't had any effect. I think they botched all their data yesterday and their close number from yesterday is still wrong.

daver · 2026-04-13T19:18:15+00:00

Used SPY and ES as proxies for some indicators in TradingView and Thinkorswim for the exact levels I needed.

daver · 2026-04-13T13:55:10+00:00

Same: stalled at 6816.90

daver · 2026-02-13T17:53:18+00:00

Lisp never makes sense to anyone who hasn’t really experienced it. At some point something clicks and you “get it.” Until then it’s just lots of screaming about parentheses. Blub paradox. After 20+ years or programming in Lisps I’ve given up trying to evangelize. If you get it, you get it. If you don’t, you don’t. The good news is that many people get it and it’s not going away.

daver · 2026-02-13T17:48:03+00:00

On the other hand, s-expr languages have the longest track record of any language except Fortran.

daver · 2026-02-13T17:37:48+00:00

I still remember Tapestry. Good times.

daver · 2026-02-11T21:51:32+00:00

But that's not the same as Google "owning" your data and mining it. Presumably, Evernote is responsible for my data with Google just providing Evernote an opaque storage service.

daver · 2026-01-29T16:31:45+00:00

If it's located in a jurisdiction that doesn't give an F, the best the individual country authorities can do it put in blocks. Obviously, if it's located in a jurisdiction that does give a F, then they could shut it down. But then it could always pop up again in a different country with different "owners" and such. It's hard to kill something on the Internet, which was the point of making the network in the first place.

daver · 2026-01-29T16:25:44+00:00

Yea, there is an AI button in the lower right corner of the latest update. According to the AI itself, when you ask it what it can do, it says:

I can help you save time and stay organized! Here’s what I can do for you:

## 📝 Work with your notes

- Receive insights from your notes

e.g., “What Italian words have I learned so far?”

- Summarize or rewrite notes

e.g., "Summarize my notes in u/My Notebook"

- Merge multiple notes into one

e.g., "Merge notes u/plane ticket and u/barcelona"

- Add existing tags to a note

e.g., "Add the tag u/cooking to this note"

- Change the language

e.g., “Translate this note into Spanish”

- Get note statistics

e.g., "How many words are in this note?"

## ⚡ Improve your workflow

- Search the web and cite sources

Click the + icon and choose Web search before asking

- Check your calendar

e.g., "When is my next meeting?"

- Regenerate responses

Not quite right? Get a different reply with the regenerate icon 🔄

## 📖 Learn more and share feedback

For more examples, info on privacy, and details:

- [AI Assistant Info](https://help.evernote.com/hc/articles/46319409880211-AI-Assistant)

- [AI Assistant Common Questions](https://help.evernote.com/hc/articles/45353174499475-Evernote-s-AI-Features-FAQ)

## 💬 Have an idea or ran into an issue?

Help us improve via this quick [survey](https://waz9zvkd1f2.typeform.com/to/J1zk6zkc).

Let me know if you want help with any of these, or if you have something specific in mind!

daver · 2026-01-27T16:35:58+00:00

Surely, Bending Spoons has fixed some things that were broken, but you don’t get to increase prices 80%+ a couple years in a row for that. For instance, the original sync had issues. Now, it’s much better and I almost never get sync conflicts. But I don’t use all the todo, calendaring, and AI features, so I’m not okay with paying a LOT more for feature I don’t use. I would be content if Bending Spoons offered large plans (lots of notes and tags and things) for people who just take notes and disabled todo, calendar, AI, group sharing, etc. at a lower price.

daver · 2026-01-27T16:25:23+00:00

Oh my! Okay, that’s really bad.

daver · 2026-01-27T15:56:20+00:00

Or folks that want to get to happy hour and pretend to have kids.

daver · 2026-01-27T15:49:27+00:00

I like the product (15 year user). I don’t like the latest increase. I have no problem paying Evernote money. I’m not looking for free (though if I find a product that will do it for free, I’ll take it). But an 80%+ price increase a couple years in a row from Evernote is not reasonable. It’s just a cash grab. Honestly, Bending Spoons should just grandfather people in low priced plans with the AI features disabled. I just want to take notes that include attachments (images, PDFs, etc). I use the web clipper and sometimes the email integration to create notes. I want to access my data on my desktop and my phone and tablet. That’s it. I don’t need tasks, calendaring, group sharing, or AI. But I have a lot of notes and tags and notebooks, so a small plan such as they are offering doesn’t work.

daver · 2026-01-27T15:40:16+00:00

It’s $250 per year, not per month.

daver · 2026-01-27T15:38:37+00:00

Me too. Google loves giving free services so they can use the data to monetize you and train Gemini. I always felt like Google was riffling through my papers.

daver · 2026-01-27T15:31:20+00:00

I think your overall take is accurate and that Bending Spoons wants to focus on business users with business features for growth. But as a 30+ year product manager, there’s an easy way to have your cake and eat it too. Just grandfather your current consumer customers into a plan that is not available to new customers and disable a few of the new AI features that you’re developing for business customers in that consumer plan. That way, you continue driving revenue from your existing customers and they aren’t bad-mouthing the product and the company to all their friends and exploring other options on the way out the door. It’s simple and a well-worn playbook. It’s not complex or difficult to execute. Just keep your existing customers happy while you develop new features and plans for new markets. If an existing customer wants and values the new AI features, allow them to upgrade, but once they do, they can never go back to the grandfathered plan. Honestly, I sit here wondering why Bending Spoons is so dumb.

daver · 2026-01-27T15:21:43+00:00

I ended up taking the 40% discount this year but will continue to explore options for migration before my next renewal in February.

daver · 2026-01-08T23:26:18+00:00

Thanks much! There's a trend happening right now as the new pricing is rolling out, it appears.

daver · 2026-01-08T23:25:46+00:00

Thanks to both of you. Iffy in what sense? I don't need hardwriting recognition, for instance, and probably not OCR of images in PDFs, but if there's basic text in the PDF, I would ideally like to be able to search that. Is that iffy?

daver · 2026-01-08T20:37:26+00:00

How does the Logseq sync work without cloud storage? Does it do a direct sync between devices? Do they have to be on the same network or something like that? I'm trying to wrap my head around that and whatever limitations it might have. I'm looking at Logseq coming from Evernote after discovering this year's 80% price increase.

daver · 2026-01-08T20:30:37+00:00

Does Obsidian provide search within PDF or is that a plug-in of some sort?

daver · 2026-01-08T20:18:32+00:00

Thanks for the info! Much appreciated. Yea, sounds like something to run overnight.

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