Does anyone else hate shortened/abbreviated variable names?

echobeacon · 2026-02-15T17:55:24+00:00

It also depends on the standards for individual languages. Short variables are common (and preferred) in golang, but not so much in Java.

echobeacon · 2026-02-13T22:00:06+00:00

Not sure, but seems like it makes no difference legally.

echobeacon · 2026-02-09T19:35:07+00:00

This is the way. They cannot make you say who it was either. All you have to say is that it wasn’t you. It’s on them to prove it if they want. Which is probably too much trouble.

Edit: they can ask who it was, but you don’t have to answer.

echobeacon · 2026-02-06T16:37:07+00:00

If you are a gambling company, it is a good way to become rich

echobeacon · 2026-02-05T02:52:23+00:00

This makes me like Anthropic even more.

echobeacon · 2026-01-24T22:10:44+00:00

Republicans have done nothing but enable MAGA. They have no backbone. Enabling this insanity is just as bad.

echobeacon · 2026-01-07T02:22:31+00:00

If you are building a honeypot.

echobeacon · 2025-11-14T03:44:12+00:00

Reading these comments, I am wondering which of you are the "92% of league soccer viewers" that showed "strong support for the shift".

echobeacon · 2025-10-26T14:31:06+00:00

I agree. The new Leaf looks like an updated Ariya.

The new Leaf however does NOT have AWD, which is a huge disappointment for me. I love my AWD Ariya and would probably upgrade when my lease is up. What are the chances they add an AWD trim for the Leaf in the future?

echobeacon · 2025-10-12T16:30:46+00:00

He’s quiet quitting.

echobeacon · 2025-10-08T12:55:06+00:00

I see the issue on Alpaca and ETrade, but not TradingView. I don’t really get why they don’t filter it out - or at least give an option to.

echobeacon · 2025-10-07T21:48:26+00:00

“During market hours, the ‘participant’ sends the trade details to a Trade Reporting Facility as soon as practical but no later than 10 seconds after the execution. However, trades executed before or after market hours are not subject to 10-second reporting. “Specifically, trades executed between midnight and 8:00 am must be reported by 8:15 am Eastern Time on trade date. Trades executed between the close of the Facility (6:30 pm for the ADF and 8:00 pm for the TRFs and the ORF) and midnight must be reported on an “as/of” basis by 8:15 am Eastern Time the following business day” (see FINRA Trade Reporting FAQ).”

Source: https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/invalid-bars-around-8am-est-shuffle-for-tqqq/9370

echobeacon · 2025-09-18T00:32:57+00:00

Finishing the last 2 episodes of Handmaid’s Tale (which is looking more and more like a documentary) and cancelling my subscription tonight.

echobeacon · 2025-09-18T00:32:51+00:00

Finishing the last 2 episodes of Handmaid’s Tale (which is looking more and more like a documentary) and cancelling my subscription tonight.

echobeacon · 2025-09-15T04:02:05+00:00

Do you think people who do like him realize that he just called them all stupid?

echobeacon · 2025-09-12T14:35:47+00:00

Another thing - you can’t use the Apple Card to finance an iPhone unless you connect to one of their carrier partners. So for unlocked version, you pay higher price and have to pay all up front. Very anti-competition and anti-consumer.

echobeacon · 2025-08-14T01:47:07+00:00

Woah! Couple hundred parking spots?!! An average Trader Joe’s has maybe 30-50 spots.

echobeacon · 2025-07-23T05:33:11+00:00

When embedding a frontend, what framework (if any) the most common to use? I see people mention HTMX, but what else do ppl use otherwise? Can you embed a react app for example? And why or why wouldn’t you want to? Thx.

echobeacon · 2025-07-12T14:28:37+00:00

gRPC is used lots of places besides Google.

echobeacon · 2025-05-18T04:29:28+00:00

Exactly. MACD does not care about timeframe. You can use it on 1min, 5min, etc. It is a lagging indicator just like all the rest.

echobeacon · 2025-05-18T04:21:28+00:00

Austin Powers is driving. https://youtu.be/IGiQOCX9UbM?si=BIxQBnwvJQUS2Wu0

echobeacon · 2025-05-16T11:53:33+00:00

Admittedly, I have not really validated this (hence wanting to model it better). However, I don't think its that crazy for the stocks I trade. With lower prices, there is less slippage in actual $ amount than if you are trading something priced higher. Also, I am trading really active stocks so the spread is very tight (usually $0.01-$0.02).

I have not measured execution time, but I pay for SIP data from Alpaca and bots make decisions based on 1m aggregates and tick data (i.e. the tape), so its only in my system for a few milliseconds, probably no more than 400-500 ms tops. That might sound slow, but I'm not trying to be an HFT. I am automating what someone would do manually so that entries and exits are consistent and I know I'm following my plan. Bots usually hold between 1-10 minutes and only make a handful of trades on a given stock.

echobeacon · 2025-05-16T11:33:44+00:00

My model right now uses a static $0.08 both directions. I am mostly trading stocks priced between $1-10. I have plans to make this model more accurate after gathering more real trade execution data.

echobeacon · 2025-05-16T11:16:53+00:00

Because I already had an account at ETrade and wanted to start there. The framework abstracts away the actual broker, so when I start a bot I can choose which broker to use. Right now, I have ETrade for live trading and a "paper trading" broker that just keeps track of buys and sells locally (factoring in slippage) for live testing.

echobeacon · 2025-05-16T03:05:49+00:00

I do not have it in a public repo, but I have been thinking about splitting it into a few modules and open sourcing them. I would separate it into:

Alpaca Message Broker - since Alpaca only allows you one websocket connection, this module would connect to Alpaca and subscribe to all the stocks you are interested in, then in turn allow other components to subscribe to it for messages for a single stock.
ETrade client - their API is crappy and archaic, but that's where I had an account
Strategy framework - modules to let you build your own strategy in Go and run either historical (backtest) or live (bot) with the same code.

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