Car

 I might need a car.

web scrapping

 I really need to learn to web scrape today.

Goodbye Russia

 As the iron curtain is falling I have to say goodbye to to some YouTubers that I recently met.  Eli, Inside Russia and others too numerous to lookup in my history.  I started watching Bold and Bankrupt about a year ago then saw him collaborating with Johnny FD and got interested in some places I had never considered visiting before like Moldova and Transnistria.  Anyhow Johnny bought an apartment in Kyiv, moved in right before Putin invaded Ukraine then I started looking at the other side, except that the ones who YouTube in English are probably on Ukraine's side.

Python dev

I am finally working in Python again, although it is the wrong tool for the job at hand right now at work, but never mind that we have limited access and it is the right tool for working around the artificial barriers that they placed on us.

I got very productive with debugging python3 by having a free IDE that has powerful plugins.  I think that vim is pretty good and VScode is for me as it can also do vim commands.  It is worth setting up the interactive debugging before you get too deep in code and can't spare the time.  I personally like VScode, however I have seem people productive on PyCharm and Sublime (which I used for about 2 months and abandoned for Atom)

I send people to VScode these days as it seems to have the most mindshare and frequent updates.

Pixel 3 vs new iPhone 12

 Mint has a deal, buy an iPhone 12, get 6 months free, only $15/month for a 4 GigB plan after free. I don't need another cellphone right now because I still have a Pixel $60, XL $76 and Moto Play $199 new that are fairly usable, but darn, for $90 I might just upgrade to a Pixel 3 $90.  A quick look on eBay says that this is a good deal.

If anyone wants one of my used phones hit me up, the prices I quoted are what I paid.

This post is for you my bestie who says I don't post anymore and therefor you don't read my blog.

Robinhood 2.5% margin

Robinhood has 2.5% margin rates, looked at Schwab and Webull, rates are from 3.99%-8.32% for smaller amounts, use my referral if you want to sign up and get up to 4 free stocks if you open an account.

Excessive Android phone battery drain

 I had my battery on a Pixel phone go from 100% to 30% overnight with the phone turned off so I think that either the battery sucks and has an internal resistance or there is something running on the phone even if it is turned off, which is even scarier.  So I get similar results several times and I try to leave the phone in airplane mode, no big overnight drain, very strange.  So next I try to drain the battery all the way, I get a 24 hour usage on battery saver with airplane mode at 2% for 24 hours, well now we are getting somewhere, it is a miscalibrated indicator.  I will next try to calibrate it by running the phone up to 100% twice then running it down to shutdown twice and try again to measure the result.