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Can you watch what happens on a market just before the press conference and do the same?


By the time you’ve reacted, it’s already too late.


This, as a generality. There are plenty of multi-billion-dollar Wall Street firms doing algorithmic trading. Your prospects for being smarter or faster than them are very poor.


You'd risk amplifying every fluctuation. It's often impossible to know what's a shift vs. what's noise until it's well under way (if not over).


I've heard of this working in other kinds of markets, where if you can identify the traders who consistently beat the market, and you can emulate them with precise timing, then you can beat the market too.


These were before news reports that came out with the scoop before any press conference. How would you know that some big news scoop is going to drop? You'd have to jump on every futures drop.


> At 3:40 AM ET today, nearly 10,000 contracts worth of crude oil shorts were taken without any major news... At 4:50 AM ET, just 70 minutes later, Axios reported that the US is “close” to a “memorandum of understanding” to end the Iran War.

Depends on what your brokerage allows, see timestamps.


Eager to make bank off the back of civilisation, too? My IT colleagues continue to impress!


Civilization will be effected the same way anyway, why not make a buck of it? But you wouldn't be able to anyway because some quant's ml model would have already sucked every dollar out of the opportunity two milliseconds after the insider executed the trade


Psychopaths and sociopaths come from all types of backgrounds. One things for sure, they all tend to gravitate towards power and exploitation of people without remorse. C suite and founders are far from immune from this...


> far from immune from this...

Its a pre-requisite for the job


> C suite and founders

You missed "VC backed" in front of "founders". Most founders are good people.


or reimplement excel with sqlite as a backend :-D

BTW sqlite can run SQL queries on CSV files with relatively simple one-liner command...


Can you just lay pieces of copper wire in the slots and fire it again to melt them into the clay surface?


Not on an open fire, I think. In a proper temperature-controlled electronic kiln, yes


i don't think phones are THAT watertight... they're not tested for long term submersion. usualy they don't even guarantee waterproof rating for more than first two years or when there are signs of wear. should work with some non-conductive oil or fluorintert tho...


Why not old android phones? :-D


Can't wait to see GPL2 ZFS :-)


No title text, No respect...


i think it's called EERAM, however having proper closed loop control with hand position feedback would be preferable in my opinion...


I beleive Android 16 now comes with termux-like Linux environment that can be enabled via developer settings menu.


Big difference! That's a full VM, while Termux is more like a Debian container. For most use cases you will have a better time with Termux, which also ships useful Android integrations such as clipboard and notifications.


Wait, isn't Termux based on Alipine?


Nope, it comes with apt. You might be referring to iSH on iOS, which does use Alpine in a VM.


Yeah but it sucks. There's a button in its settings to install a Debian chroot environment; gave it a go and it bricked itself, had to clear the app's storage and factory reset it.


Yeah, I can always use the Android Terminal once. If I re-open it, it says it's corrupted, and has to delete and re-install its minimal Debian environment.


Add to this list that it tends to not work while connected via a VPN. Not sure why but this makes me very skeptical of it.


Probably because their handling of VM networking isn't very robust.


Why should booting a Linux VM require network access right away.


Probably because it's trying to establish a network connection, and it might be running a networking setup that blocks until the network is up. Also, it's trying to run networking with the host so it can run things like the storage balloon driver and mounting the host filesystem.


that's sketch city. Why does it care? What are they looking for?


I'm thinking maybe they just want me to keep using termux over their sketchy shit


A bug in a not even beta program makes it 'suck'?


I don't understand this comment. Yes, absolutely. Alpha versions of software absolutely suck. The end goal is making it not suck, but if it's full of breaking bugs your can't just say it doesn't suck just because they're expected.


If it's not even a beta, then it can hardly be replacement for termux.


It's extremely flaky and unreliable, however:

https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/file...


Even more reason to keep supporting Termux.


(it's unreliable, see second edit)

Does it? I've looked at it only briefly (like enabled it, waited a while for it to download something big, then got a basic shell) but it seemed much less capable than Termux. Can you get cell tower info or copy to clipboard for example, or use other Android APIs?

Edit: looked into it a bit more, /etc/issue says it's a Debian 13 (latest stable), apt works with sudo (this is a locked-down device where I don't have root permission on, why does it need a fake sudo to use apt?) but of course programs like wavemon are useless because Android doesn't let you access the WiFi interface. There's no settings besides port forwarding and resetting the "partition". I don't see any documentation or info on how/whether you can interface with the rest of the system in any way. Looking on the web for Android terminal or "Linux developer environment" (as the system settings calls it) is predictably useless and only results in Google's unrelated Android SDK or other terminal emulator apps

Edit 2: okay, beware of it: I was curious if the same "you can't make the OS not kill your script" problem also happened in this OS terminal and.. it's worse. So I ran `while true; do date >> latest.txt; sleep 10; done` to see how long it'd stay alive and then did some other tasks like turning the screen off and on, opening a navigation app and zooming into a dense city, and loading a few websites. Locked the screen once more for good measure and then unlocked and opened the terminal. Guess what? It's broken. Not just crashed: I simply cannot start it anymore. The only "error handling" (Fehlerbehebung it says) step it offers is to delete all data and start with a clean system. The stack trace says there's a nullpointer in TerminalWebViewClient, with the next line being in Trichrome. It's a web browser apparently


> apt works with sudo (this is a locked-down device where I don't have root permission on, why does it need a fake sudo to use apt?)

It's a VM running normal Debian. Inside the VM, you do have root, and that sudo isn't fake.


YMMV, but I've had pretty good luck with just force closing it and launching again when getting errors like that. It doesn't necessarily mean the whole environment is corrupt, even though that is the recovery option that is presented.

It is very unreliable though. I hope Android 17 improves it, as other than the restart issues, I've generally found it to be very functional.


Even if you have Android 16 it's not guaranteed the terminal works. It's disabled by Samsung on my Galaxy A55 for some reason. Maybe the hardware doesn't support the feature.


I'm really looking forward to that being more usable, but it isn't quite there yet. The GUI especially.


Yes, it's good, but it doesn't have access to any sensor apis.


What about using PI/2 ? Seems close enough :-D


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