My lovely fiance did the following today: handcuffed me to the bed, replaced the filling in the oreos with toothpaste, and replaced the toothpaste in the tube with mayo.

What did you fellows have to suffer through today?

Never have. Someday. I’ll be out of town soon and when I get back, I hope to get back into python. Also want to build a PC this spring — nothing powerful or liquid cooled. O0 Just something with a lot of RAM that will last a while and dual-boot Windows and Linux. https://www.learnenough.com/ Whenev...

Dualstow, have you ever tried Ruby on Rails?

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 1:06 pm Happy Easter
I shudder to think what kinds of candy you’re eating this week.

Ukrainian candies!

Happy Easter everyone!

We are already making tentative plans for another trip in December 2024, but who knows what the country will be like at that point.

I shouldn’t use twitter as a source though it is photographic evidence. London has Ramadan street lighting and no Easter signs whatsover. That’s … weird. X is unparalleled in many ways. It will have instant information on many matters wherein if you do an internet search on them you will find nothi...

^ Excellent ^ How hard was it to get into Ukraine? If you hadn’t yet tied the knot, you couldn’t say you were visiting family. I’m sure there are tons of Canadian passport holders who visit Ukraine every day because of the diaspora population. But, were there a lot of forms? Oh, good question! It h...

I got some of my friends into my little All-Terrain Portfolio creation. One side effect of DIY ETF investing is that they now see all the dividends, interest, and how the money is actually invested. With their previous financial advisor everything was an opaque wall of paper statements and confusing...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:55 pm

There should be more kits than just the Raspberry Pi. And there should be computers for old people.

For sure!

Something very satisfying about tech nostalgia. There's a fairly new video about the Texas Instruments computer (TI-99) as a "failure" on youtube, but I and a lot of other people had a great young adulthood learning BASIC on it. One of the things I miss about the old days was the boatload...

A forum member long ago told me to check out old copies of my favourite magazine as a teenager: Maximum PC. https://books.google.ca/books?id=5gEAAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=maximum+pc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjrw7a6wJeFAxUVEUQIHWaFCbgQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=maximum%20pc&...

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:21 pm I love rashist by the way.

Her vocabulary is a never-ending source of entertainment in our house.

I wonder what SBF is thinking right now. From billionaire business prodigy to prison. Can't imagine that would put anyone on anything less than suicide watch.

Wow, very interesting read. Thank you for that, Mr and Mrs Smithers. I read and hear a lot about Zelensky and corruption but I mean he's there . He didn't abscond with cash, and Бог knows he could have. He only leaves to drum up more support for the war effort. (I don't want to cheapen things by sa...

I’m decidedly unimpressive in person, M. I consider myself very lucky to have some long-time friends who know my quirks and put up with me. O0 Back on topic- do I dare ask Smithers what his fiancee thinks about all this? I don’t think he visits this subtopic. I’ll ask in the Check-in thread. From M...

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:05 pm Smithers, maybe she doesn’t want to chime in — understandably — but I was wondering if your other half has any thoughts on the war. Does she like/dislike Zelensky? Is she optimistic? Hopeful? Pessimistic? Just curious.

She said she’s interested in sharing. Will aim to get her response tonight.

Currently back to doing web development work using Ruby on Rails. I'm loving it.

Coincidentally, the latest Tony Robbins books espouses private equity (and various methods to get access to it), and recommends it for diversification.

My fiance and I randomly watched one of the Saw movies on a whim and now she wants to watch all of them... all 10 of them.

What have I started?

findings in an academic paper that illiquid investments actually seem to demonstrate a negative illiquidity premium There are so many negatives there I'm confused. Is this saying that one would expect that illiquid investments would be priced lower than liquid investments, because having liquidity ...

Small cap value fo' life. As I stated I made my allocations in January 2003 and have not added or subtracted to them since. For those who are facile with such things what has been the relative total performance (with dividends reinvested) for: Total Stock Market Value Small Cap Value Good question....

One possible explanation that Fama put forth is that value companies may not be mispriced. It's possible that people just don't like them and don't have a taste for them. It could be that people have an affinity for glamour companies like Nvidia or Tesla and are willing to pay a premium to hold them...

This forum is now clearly the nexus of misinformation on the Internet.

Small cap value fo' life.