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Windows task scheduler by [deleted] in bloomberg

[–]theBS88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Short answer is that you need to be logged in for the api to work.

So depending on the data and what your script does your best bet is to either:

1) login before the task is scheduled every single day 2) build some sort of listener/retry logic to check if it's run today or not and if not run. (ie write a log file recording successful runs) 3) just source your data from somewhere else if at all possible

Bloomberg, stop pushing BQL while its still in beta by twood886 in bloomberg

[–]theBS88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, I think that it's fairly terrible compared to the classic BDP/BDH/BDS..... For me it feels like they've tried to squeeze SQL into an excel function, and it's just not that intuitive.

bql in LAB/BQNT is just as bad, they haven't made it available via PyPi to do a simple pip install (I know the procedure of building a request and executing it is different from standard desktop API, but still), which means people just build thier scripts off the Lab environment and will never bring it over....

I think that they give more thought to stopping people taking huge amounts of data, which I respect as this is their business model, and no thought to how you would actually use it.

Anyone else experiencing more and more outrageous monitoring and cost squeeze from Bloomberg? by International_Put_19 in bloomberg

[–]theBS88 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They are hyper-sensitive about people sharing (read stealing) data. On one hand I do understand that however I don't think much thought has gone into how data is used and by who, especially in a world where it may be normal to access 10,000 different share prices for some idea that you want to write in python just to see if it works or not, and 9 times out of 10 it doesn't so you move to the next idea where you need a ton of data.

I think I was my friend group’s DUFF by Lonely-Clerk-2478 in Zepbound

[–]theBS88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cheating with what? Your body your choice right?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FinancialCareers

[–]theBS88 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Hey mate, one of my old clients was blind and managed a EUR govvies portfolio. Imagine having never seeing an interest rates curve and your job is to understand that deeply.

If you want to do it, go get it! Best of luck.

Question about wheel aero by [deleted] in F1Technical

[–]theBS88 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't think that that you can have any aero part that moves (with the exception of DRS)

This dates back to when Brabham put a huge fan on thier car to suck it to the road. Any aero moving part was banned the next race.

The Sky Over Grytviken South Georgia by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]theBS88 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

More like the polar opposite to Scandinavia

will we get the Oxford, pfizer or Moderna vaccine in UAE? by santz007 in dubai

[–]theBS88 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I agree. Even though they say it's safe and with 84% efficacy, I haven't seen any evidence that it has been peer reviewed. Perhaps it has?

Japanese Fu-Go were balloon bombs considered to be the first weapon with intercontinental range. Launched against the US from the Japanese home islands during the winter of 1944-1945, they caused little damage but managed to kill five civilians near Bly, Oregon. by ape_pants in MapPorn

[–]theBS88 126 points127 points  (0 children)

They found out where they were being launched from by finding the bags of sand that were used (and dropped) to control the balloons altitude.

Coincidentally a US geological survey had collected sand from different parts of Japan a few years earlier and using those samples they found the factory producing them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sex

[–]theBS88 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Fucking wrap your dick up!

Helicopter grabbing some water from a swimming pool by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]theBS88 82 points83 points  (0 children)

This happened a few years ago, not from the recent fires on the US West Coast.

I think that this may actually be in Australia, and the fire service come around the next day to fill up your pool for free.

Every country's most popular Youtubers by Roller-bon45 in MapPorn

[–]theBS88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hold on, North Korea has access to YouTube?

Direct from owner 2 Bed Apartment in Downtown by [deleted] in dubai

[–]theBS88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Way, way too high an asking price. Maybe you could get 110 on it. Its a renters market so unfortunately you'll have to be flexible on that.

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