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Now this is embarrassing.
Just now I discovered quite a serious bug in the software I'm working on.
I'm quite certain the general concept is valid, but my implementation is buggy.
This is something I can fix but that twenty grand I thought I made last week just flew out the window.
I will give you one little taste: in 2001-2002 I worked on a database kernel for a Bahamian hedge fund. It's now a core component of a huge windows executable that trades a basket of 1000 commodities futures on the Chicago Board of Trade. It's consistently able to beat the best funds managers.
My invention isn't trading commodities but it's a conceptually similar program.
(I don't know how they fared with the 2007 subprime meltdown. My guess is that the fund's owner would have known to get out of the market, he's a real shrewd guy.)
My ship isn't at the dock yet but I think it's still headed in my general direction.
In any case I'm doing something more mentally challenging than reloading SN all day long.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday May 30 2016, @08:33PM
It's a short walk to Grocery Outlet, which has amazing prices on many items, and a short bus ride to Winco Foods, which sometimes is cheaper than Grocery Outlet and also has bulk food bins.
It happens that just this morning I found a bulk bin with black turtle beans. I'll buy some when my food stamps recharge on the third.
Today I bought 15 pounds of potatoes at Winco for $2.48. At Grocery Outlet, 10 pounds is $3.50.
I'm pretty sure the rice I buy is from California. I actually prefer the taste of brown rice.
This morning I walked all over Winco writing down the prices of the groceries that I'm likely to buy. A "Picnic Pack" of thighs and drumsticks is $1.49. I make a really killer chicken soup, I put potatoes and diced tomatoes in it.
I was vegan for much of this month. While I expect it can be done cheaply, I didn't really know what to cook so I blew through my food stamps prematurely.
Winco's bulk breakfast cereal is way cheaper than the stuff that comes in boxes.
They even have "Okra Chips". I'd never seen those before. I didn't get any but they look like fried whole okra.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]