Does stock market volatility bother me? It actually doesn’t. I don’t lose any sleep or worry about my retirement funds at all.
This is a short note to explain why it might make sense to take a very conservative approach to your retirement portfolio. It’s a response to the blanket advice so often given that you’re making a massive error if you go ultraconservative.
Disclaimer: I’m not a finance researcher. I’ve read finance papers over the years, handled some finance papers for an academic journal, and even published a couple papers with finance content. That doesn’t make me a “finance guy”! This is a blog p...
My early research was dominated by the topic of inflation. I’m not going to go into the details of that today. Instead, I want to respond to some things I see in various places on the internet (Reddit, HN, YouTube, …).
Every five years or so, I’ll do thorough retirement planning over a period of a few weeks. I’m back at it again. Suze Orman’s toxic, uninformed commentary. In the earliest days of thinking about retirement in detail, which was around the time I g...
I don’t often work on Windows, but there are a couple of times that I need to do so: If I want to share a program I’ve written with a Windows user. I obviously have to get it to compile on Windows. If I only have access to a Windows machine....
Here are some notes for myself as I’m getting betterr to run on Windows: Working with shared libraries on Windows is seriously not fun. The only way I got the program to run was to copy all DLLs and their dependencies into the directory with...
I’ve been a heavy user of the D programming language since 2013. The appealing thing about D both then and now is its potential as a glue language. Back in the old days, we’d talk about scripting languages as glue languages, with R and Tcl being t...
The wonderful reply guys on Mastodon. Yesterday, I posted this in case it helped someone else:
I ran into a strange problem today while attempting to use RStudio as my Python IDE. I don’t do all that much with Python, but since I work with data as part of my job, it’s inevitable that I’ll have to do some things with it (and I’m perfectly fi...