I bought this book in the early 1990s and still have it with the red cover. My favorite part that stuck with me all those years was this section:
"And right here let me say one thing: After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!"
I've been giving cash and encouraging them to put it into diversified exchange traded funds. I may offer to match any returns for a year this time, so they are less likely to spend it all. It's a tough sell for young people but I want to help them develop good habits early.
I've been running a 2080 TI with AMD 5600x on Linux Mint Cinnamon for three months 24/7 with no graphics issues. Previously ran the proprietary nvidia-driver-550 but now use the nouveau open source drivers. There are five choices for Nvida drivers either open source, closed or open kernal (up to 570/580 now). This was a complete switch off Windows 10, which I've only had to boot twice in three months, to transfer some data.
Every game I've tried on Linux was either gold or platinum on ProtonDB and ran fine so far. WINE worked for running a couple non-game apps. Lutris is another way to run programs but I haven't needed it yet.
Definitely try it if you have a machine sitting there. There is so much support for Linux and Mint on the web it was easy to answer any questions I had setting things up.
Fast Acting Humalog 1000 unit (10 ml) vials cost CAD $40.34 = USD $28.73 in Alberta. Anyone can get Blue Cross from the government which is CAD $720 a year. Then each 3 month supply of a prescription like insulin has a co-pay of $28 a quarter, for however many vials you need. I last used Lantus 24 hour insulin in 2020, when it was around CAD $60, but the government has been switching to biosimilar brands and providing free insulin pumps and supplies including test strips, which only use fast acting insulins. Lantus is most similar to this California insulin.
Faster Than Light is another great roguelike, especially with the Multiverse mod [1]. You pilot and crew a ship, relentlessly pursued by your enemies and forced into ever more difficult battles. It teaches you how to think long term but also survive in the short run, so you can prosper in the long run. A bargain for $3 recently.
That's an interesting question. According to Rich and Greg's Airplane Page[1], the A320 has three generators rated for 90kVA continuous each, one per engine and a third in the auxilary power unit that isn't normally deployed. Cruising demand is around 140 kVA of the 180 kVA supplied by the engines, leaving 40 kVA to spare. The A380 has six similar generators, two in reserve. They give the percentages so you could calculate how much fuel each system is consuming.
I would get out of the investment at the best possible price. Imagine you think your shares are worth $5 million right now, but you could only get out at $3 million. If you were not invested in this company, would you take $3 million cash right now and buy into half the company at a deep discount? If you really think there might be an 8 or 9 figure exit in the future, sell 90% of your investment and keep 10% as an option. Staying invested with shares heading to zero makes no sense to me.
The Killer (Chow Yun-Fat by John Woo) There was a box in the Blockbuster that said, "This movie used more bullets than any in history!" There are multiple stories pulling in different directions, not just action.
In my city, the signal controller registers when a pedestrian pushes a button for the walk signal on a crossing that conflicts with a protected left turn. If it is fully protected, with a green arrow followed by red ball, then pedestrians are not given walk signals during that turning phase but prior during the through phase in their direction. If it is protected-permissive, when motorists see a green arrow followed by a green ball, then the pedestrian gets their walk signal ahead of the turning traffic, so they can clear before the left turning vehicles intersect their crosswalk. The collision you saw is the same issue that happens with right turn on red. The pedestrian has a walk, the car behind them turns into the pedestrian, even though they have a better view than a left turning vehicle of the nearby person. One alternative is to give separate phases to each traffic movement, such as the pedestrian scramble where all directions of pedestrians go with all vehicles stopped. The issue with delaying the left turn while the pedestrians go first is it increases cycle time or gives a greater percentage of cycle time to lower volume side road traffic, which tends to reduce the service level for most motorists waiting at conflicting red signals for these movements to complete. Lower service levels lead to more complaints, especially when there are thousands of vehicles per day vs. 100 pedestrian crossings, but Traffic Engineers have to fight for those pedestrians using what is often a difficult compromise.
"And right here let me say one thing: After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!"