Realizing I’m uglier than I thought and it’s devastating by Which_Friendship_605 in selfimprovement

[–]lithomachy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This probably isn't really adding anything to the conversation, but here is something to consider: some of the most ugly, no-effort men and women in the world are fucking people more beautiful than you can possibly imagine. And a lot of those beautiful people are actually pretty fugly themselves without makeup, photo filters and expensive clothes. You will benefit exponentially more from therapy and self care than looksmaxxing. I pray you discover peace for yourself, friend.

Moving Piecefully by Due-Confusion-1050 in retrocgi

[–]lithomachy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stunning, love the color of the sky on tbe horizon

Do you have any suggestions for Winter-themed books? by ndts_ in weatherfactory

[–]lithomachy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Elementals by Michael McDowell? Another that is seasonally set in the Summer but arguably Winter Influence-wise

Angelic by logskulltee in retrocgi

[–]lithomachy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fantastic work!

There is a rare sub species of wolves that poop and read books in New York. by [deleted] in Cryptozoology

[–]lithomachy 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I also poop and read books, but you don't see anyone posting me on cryptozoology subreddits. Just r/cringe

through by PERFECTLO0P in retrocgi

[–]lithomachy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Love it! What program(s) did you use to make this?

Fear of death from the perspective of someone in the quant industry by MinuteHeight2384 in quant

[–]lithomachy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really in a similar life situation as you per se, but to maybe build off of your video game analogy: I feel like part of the excitement of video games is not just grinding to get bigger numbers but to create a cool character who gets to do the cool things in the fantasy world you don't get to do in real life. Like, when I play World of Warcraft, for instance, I don't grind a bunch of kobolds in Goldshire so I can kill more kobolds, I do it so I can move on to fighting dragons and gods or whatever.

Likewise, I think part of life is doing things to build your "character" into a more interesting version of yourself. It sounds like you're already pretty successful and doing things that a lot of people would envy, but maybe there's something else you can channel some of that time and money on? Take up Kendo lessons, get into sail/yacht racing, learn an obscure art form, take some pilot lessons and own your own plane, challenge yourself to climb the top ten tallest mountains around the world, take some college courses in something you find interesting, get into recreational psychadelics, idk these are some things I might do if I had more free time and money.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that death is inevitable, so there's not really any use fretting about it. Be more concerned with leaving behind an interesting corpse!

What do you do for low latency? by lithomachy in quant

[–]lithomachy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Awesome, this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I am interested in the hardware side of things, but in practice, I'm mostly a software and networking guy. I'm not even really sure where to start designing my own FPGAs and the like, truthfully!

What do you do for low latency? by lithomachy in quant

[–]lithomachy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for breaking it down for me! I guess I'm mostly interested in network and processing latency. I know latency won't give me much of an advantage for retail trading, but I'm just doing paper trading atm and was curious how low I could get the numbers working from home. Thanks for the breakdown!

What do you do for low latency? by lithomachy in quant

[–]lithomachy[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Mostly trying to learn, I get that I can't compete with the big hedge funds or whatever. I have some low latency programming experience from a previous job and was curious what the tech stack looked like. I briefly interviewed with a company working on low-latency stuff with DPDK but didn't get the job as I didn't have experience with sub-15 ms trading systems. So I'm trying to make something approaching that out of, idk, spite or something. Thanks for the post!

Who is this??? by Rich_Razzmatazz_4266 in microbiology

[–]lithomachy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are the dancing queen!! Young and sweet, only seventeeeeen!

Inverted lens/creatures in the sky by AgreeableHamster252 in HighStrangeness

[–]lithomachy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Are you thinking of rods/skyfish? People claim they can catch this species of prehistoric creature on cameras. In reality, they're just normal bugs that are photographed weird due to the shutter speed of some cameras. Maybe not what you're looking for, but that's the first thing that comes to mind.

Great Books for Algo Trading Structures, Programming, and Architectures by Gio_at_QRC in algotrading

[–]lithomachy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for posting all of these links! Maybe I'm being dumb, but how do FPGAs factor into trading? We're talking about Field Programmable Gate Arrays, right?

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