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New comment by oangemangut in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

oangemangut — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:05:47 +0000

isn't it logical though that the power company would buy power for less than it sells? and paying the same rate that it buys from larger producers seems fair.

New comment by oangemangut in "It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)"

oangemangut — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:47:35 +0000

We always have blocks of hard cheese and cheddars in the fridge and I feel fine cutting off any moldy bits. With the shredded stuff, I'll forget about it and we end up binning lots since its impossible to tease out the bad from the good.

New comment by oangemangut in "Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’"

oangemangut — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:31:34 +0000

For these institutional traders, the pools offer them opportunities to trade with a small set of counter parties that also have deep deep liquidity, so in a sense it is kind of like the wholesale markets for retail. Orders hit the book in the pool and they don't have to worry about 'current retail' stock and can trade massive blocks with trade certainty.

New comment by oangemangut in "Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’"

oangemangut — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:26:53 +0000

Even in dark pools the trades have to happen within the NBBO, they can't just trade at whatever price they want.

New comment by oangemangut in "Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’"

oangemangut — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:22:40 +0000

In the case of Dark Pools, it would actually be the crier saying "a lot 10x the size of what I'm auctioning just traded somewhere else where none of you lot can trade for xx price". So after they say that you actually do know the price that they bought the item(s). This is since the dark pools have requirements to report to the trade tapes their trades in fairly similar latency to the exchanges themselves.

EDIT: The rules also dictate the allowed prices the dark pools trade at. They have to be within the national BBO, they can't just trade at whatever price they want. So the public auction is actually helping them find the prices, without their pre-trade information affecting the price before execution.

New comment by oangemangut in "Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’"

oangemangut — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:20:16 +0000

If you look up RegNMS the goal is to make public markets fair by having rules that have to be met in order to trade. Dark pools allow participants to 'hide' information that's not public. It is mostly about the order books. If dark pool sell order for 1B of TSLA stock goes on the order book, only other members of the pool get that information. The dark pools are required to still follow RegNMS rules for trade prices, but there is an inherent asymmetry in the market information in this case as the dark pool participants can see the public markets and their dark pool in order to make trading decisions.

In your neighbor's house example, it would be like if there was a street market auction for trading cards happening in your neighbor's front yard, but in the house your neighbor and another neighbor had gotten together to trade 100x the average #of cards using the prices they hear from outside, and the people outside only see the deal they made after it's done.

New comment by oangemangut in "Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?"

oangemangut — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 08:40:22 +0000

we're trying to cut back to only Disney+ for kids and we use prime video for us. Amazon's genius "take this prime video credit for slow shipping" has us renting movies maybe once a week and it's much better value for us than all subscriptions services that get no playtime.

New comment by oangemangut in "Making an Intersection Unsafe for Pedestrians to Save Seconds for Drivers"

oangemangut — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:35:45 +0000

I don't see why a re-design like this wouldn't have included both pedestrian and car infrastructure improvements. Tighten all the turn radii, add bump-outs to each corner, and you could have a signalized intersection that is better than it was before for both.

New comment by oangemangut in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)"

oangemangut — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 03:21:50 +0000

TN should help get the right Canadian talent into the US if it's something the companies need.

New comment by oangemangut in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

oangemangut — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:07:17 +0000

We have a double drawer dishwasher and it hurts my brain watching friends plan around their nightly wash.

New comment by oangemangut in "Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?"

oangemangut — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:41:48 +0000

Having also worked on desks in the 00s and early 10s I think a big difference here is what trading meant really changed; much of what traders did went away with innovations in speed. Speed and algos became the way to trade neither of which humans can do. While SWE became significantly more important on trading desks, you still have researchers, quants, portfolio analysts, etc. that spend their working days developing new algos, new market opportunities, ways to minimize TCOS, etc.

That being said, there's also a massive low hanging fruit in dev work that we'll automate away, and I feel like that's coming sooner rather than later, yes even though we've been saying that for decades. However, I bet that the incumbents (Senior SWE) have a bit longer of a runway and potentially their economic rent increases as they're able to be more efficient, and companies need not hire as many humans as they needed before. Will be an interesting go these next few decades.

New comment by oangemangut in "Working from home is powering productivity"

oangemangut — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 23:23:43 +0000

just curious how this works, do the kids just need a lift home and you can continue to work? Just wondering how you fit a full day in even with WFH (asking because both spouse and I are 3+ days in office and pickup/drop off kinda happen before/after the work days so WFH isn't make a big difference for us, personally)

New comment by oangemangut in "Dual-Clutch Transmission: Wet or Dry?"

oangemangut — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:50:15 +0000

if you use fuel consumption instead fuel economy to look at it the differences can be small. I have both auto and manual transmission vehicles, and for me personally, I almost always beat the rated consumption numbers in manual and rarely beat it in the auto. This just boils down to how I drive; I end up going much slower when driving manual (in a small Ford Ranger pickup) than I do in either auto.

New comment by oangemangut in "The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy"

oangemangut — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:38:17 +0000

some content creators I click on _despite_ them having to do the click-bait stupid YouTube thumbnails.

As an aside - word you may have been looking for is irrespective, or perhaps just plain old regardless. irregardless is not a word.

New comment by oangemangut in "Weight-based motor vehicle tax"

oangemangut — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:15:49 +0000

It seems somewhat common, it's just that it's not weighted heavily enough in the the overall registration costs.

New comment by oangemangut in "Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London"

oangemangut — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 22:31:01 +0000

Because it should be okay, and it's a societal failing that it currently isn't as safe as it should be. Cars are always safer for their occupants, but using them puts vulnerable road users at greater risk of serious injury or death. In my city I love to see more people on the road with their kids on e-bikes. It shouldn't be a moral failing on part of the parent to be doing that. OTOH, just this morning one of the A*Hole parents back her SUV out of a parking space in a day care parking lot while on the phone and holding the phone to her ear. When I motioned for her to get off her phone in the DAYCARE PARKING LOT she shrugged and sped off.

New comment by oangemangut in "Zero energy ready homes are coming"

oangemangut — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:16:51 +0000

Sure, when we subsidize all expensive bits of suburban living it artificially decreases the cost to the home owner of all the negative externalities.

New comment by oangemangut in "A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)"

oangemangut — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 08:17:27 +0000

everything in your sentence can be traced back to luck in some way. Genetic gifts I'm sure contribute to work ethic, but also the families, societies, you're born into. The teacher you met in 1st grade that encouraged you to keep trying etc. Luck is in everything IMO

New comment by oangemangut in "Waymo's collision avoidance testing"

oangemangut — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 19:41:42 +0000

I'm trying to figure out how many hours a month are you in a vehicle where that makes sense for you?

New comment by oangemangut in "Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API"

oangemangut — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 01:21:39 +0000

I feel like this is going to be to kotlin's disadvantage going forwards as languages features are slowly added into Java, they will be more 'complete'.