08 Dec 2024
| #money
This is something that I have been trying to wrap my head around for a while: people say that the global stock market returns around 5% yearly (on top of inflation, based on the last 100 year), but it’s still risky and the risk is the volatility: the stock returns change a lot year over year, but on the long run they average out. But if the returns average out, then as long as I don’t check my portfolio daily and make bad decisions on short-term swings, I should be fine, right? If yes, then where is the risk? And in general how is volatility the same as risk?
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10 Nov 2024
| #tech
| #japan
| #housing
We are building a house, and I recently looked into smart lighting and light switches concluding that the best option for us is likely Panasonic’s Advance Series Link Plus switches (アドバンスシリーズ リンクプラス). I got my hands on two of the switches and in this post I’ll share what I learned from testing them out.
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19 Sep 2024
| #tech
| #security
Recently I have been fuzzing C/C++ projects built with Bazel using libfuzzer, so I thought to share my learnings on some of the details on how to do this.
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08 Aug 2024
| #parenting
We just took a 14.5 hours flight with our 6 months old baby from Japan to Europe and in this post I’ll share how we manged to make it a pleasant experience for everyone involved.
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02 Aug 2024
| #japan
| #parenting
All levels of the Japanese government have various programs to support people with kids. One of this, ベビーシッター派遣事業割引券, is a national program subsidizing baby sitters for working parents: companies can purchase baby sitter tickets and give it to their employees. My company is participating in this, and since it is a bit complicated to use, I’ll describe how to use it in this post.
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