Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • After some light research, SUWS is what I’d go for to trade the first index. I didn’t see a suitable fund for that second for US investors.

    annual performance is way more important than the cumulative index performance - net returns, right?

    Don’t buy funds based purely on past returns, but a fund because it fills some part of your overall investing strategy. I pick a set of indices as my target portfolio, and approximate it with funds that have low tracking error (returns largely match the index) and low net fees. If a fund doesn’t track it’s index well and outperforms in the recent past, there’s no guarantee it’ll continue and it could underperform going forward. Both indices are pretty new (10-15 years), so I don’t think there’s enough data to speculate about a 30-year time horizon.

    I largely ignore returns when evaluating funds/indices, I care far more about fund composition. The top 10 holdings are very different between the two indices you linked. For example, one has Nvidia at 18% of the index and doesn’t have Microsoft or Amazon, while the other has Nvidia at ~7.5% and does have Microsoft and Amazon. So it makes complete sense that they would have very different returns over the recent past since those three companies make up a large chunk of each index and their benchmark.

    How does trump play into all of this?

    Idk? He’d certainly have an impact on performance w/ tariffs, but I don’t know which fund would have larger impacts. But you said you’re looking at a 30 year investing horizon, so I dont think Trump is relevant here since he’ll be out of office one way or another within that time horizon.

    My biggest concern would be transaction fees buying the fund if you pick a EUR-denominated one, so ask your broker if you have a any questions about that.











  • Right, because the GPL is viral, forcing everything to be GPL-compatible or you’ll have problems. Some FOSS licenses aren’t GPL-compatible, notably the CDDL used for OpenZFS, which is why it has been a part of FreeBSD but not Linux (and it’s available now outside the kernel).

    The GPL makes more sense the more “application-y” your project is, but if you want it used more broadly, more permissive licenses make more sense. Yes, the LGPL exists, but there are still a ton of caveats to it.

    The code in something like coreutils isn’t all that useful generally, so protecting it with the GPL doesn’t bring a ton of value, whereas a more permissive license could.

    I like the GPL and its variants and I use it from time to time. I also like the MIT and similar permissive licenses, and I use them as well. Use the right license for the use case. I think the MIT is fine here.









  • Here are my reasons:

    • no Linux support - Heroic works, why doesn’t Epic do what GOG do and revenue share w/ Heroic?
    • exclusivity deals, which reduces options outside of EGS
    • Epic’s anticheat works on Linux, but their own games that use it don’t, that’s a pretty big slap in the face

    I certainly want more competition to Steam, but that competition needs to do something other than exist for me to use it. GOG is that, and if they properly supported Linux, they’d get most of my gaming money. But they don’t, so they only get some of it.

    Yeah, this probably reads like a Linux fanboy post or something, but I’ve been using Linux longer than Steam supported it with its client, and I’ll still be here if Steam leaves. It’s my platform of choice, and a vendor needs to meet me here if they want my business. Valve did, so they get my money. I honestly don’t need much, I just need games to work properly on my system.