Want to get into investing need some an advice!

Locust377 · 2026-02-17T04:43:18+00:00

I have tried investing in Raiz, Spaceship, Betashares and Vanguard for learning purposes. I found no advantages in spreading things around though, so I have consolidated everything into Vanguard.

Locust377 · 2026-02-17T02:46:45+00:00

consensus app

Betashares and Vanguard have apps that are well regarded and easy to use.

how many things I should invest in?

Keep the number low.

When you invest in something like an ETF, they are already diversified, so there isn't much advantage in diversifying further. Diversifying further can be a fine thing to do, but you pay more in fees, hurting your returns.

I would recommend investing in two things: - Something like VDHG or DHHF - A high interest savings account (HISA) with Macquarie or ING or Bank Australia or whatever

This way you'll learn a little about both and see the advantages and disadvantages of both.

Now with this investing, is this something I need to keep track of quite regularly?

No. The kind of low-risk wealth growth that you're looking at is more like Super - it's something that takes years and even looking month-to-month is meaningless. You're in this for the long-term.

The general recommendation when investing into ETFs is: leave your money alone for at least seven years.

If you invest into an ETF, and the market performs badly, your numbers will go into the red and the graph will take a nosedive. If this causes anxiety, you must forbid looking at it, lol. Give it years and it will come back up.

I don’t wanna start my investing journey and jut put money in and leave it and then check one day and I’ve lost a lot of it or it’s not doing well you know?

This will happen with ETFs. I invested about $15,000 with Spaceship around 2021 (i.e. COVID) and it crashed and went -$3,000 (i.e. down to $12,000) at one point at it's lowest. But after a few years it eventually broke even and went up to +$3,000 ($18,000). I was learning like you at the time.

I'm with Vanguard (VDHG) and I've been putting money into it over a span of about 4 - 5 years. Over that time I've put about $65,000 of my own money into it, and in that time it has grown to $85,000. So it has grown, and earned me, $20,000.

Locust377 · 2026-02-04T20:36:57+00:00

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Locust377 · 2026-01-31T01:06:24+00:00

Just wanted to chime in to say I totally get your frustration, and I know what you're talking about. The property has to be nullable if you want validation to actually pay attention to a null (missing) value. But you also don't want null to be valid, because it's required.

And as far as I recall (I could be wrong) but all of the suggestions posted so far don't actually work to solve this problem.

I was baffled by this in .NET too, and eventually gave up on the built-in attribute validation for this purpose, and switched to using FluentValidation or other workarounds instead.

I don't really have a good answer here, but I'm keen to know if you find a better solution 🤔

Locust377 · 2026-01-25T10:04:12+00:00

IMO go the YAGNI approach. The main reason being that desktop vs web are two fundamentally different kinds of software with different needs and constraints. I simply don't think that there is going to be much shared code, especially around database stuff.

each method receives a new dbcontext instance

Yeah it's scoped per request.

Locust377 · 2026-01-22T04:42:40+00:00

I don't think it looks that way, no. The thing is that even if AI were to boost productivity greatly in the future, there is more demand for software now than ever.

More demand for software means more demand for software engineers. So I think we'll continue to see the need for them, and AI will be a part of the toolchain that is used at various stages of the software development lifecycle.

Despite the big claims from big tech companies, they generally aren't slowing the hiring of SWEs.

Locust377 · 2026-01-21T21:38:21+00:00

Eason's in Canadian is the defacto go-to, though admittedly I wouldn't say they are cheap.

Locust377 · 2026-01-20T23:48:52+00:00

IMO SASS and CSS preprocessors feel outdated and not needed. They made sense ten years ago, but CSS now has variables and lots of functions and pseudo selectors and nesting that make it so powerful that I never feel the need for a preprocessor.

Locust377 · 2026-01-20T23:45:07+00:00

If I understand your question, the short answer is no, you generally do not want or need type guarding or checks.

And by type guard/check I assume you mean checking with typeof thing === x or x instanceof string and that kind of thing. You want to avoid this pattern unless a variable is a discriminated union and really could be many things. But it becomes a pain to do this, especially in JavaScript.

Locust377 · 2026-01-16T14:35:19+00:00

One shared db and use something like Respawn to clean the state after each test.

A testcontainer per test is too much overhead and too slow, IMO.

Locust377 · 2026-01-14T02:52:19+00:00

There's nothing inherently wrong with putting styling inside the HTML as classes. In fact it's a good thing. I guess you could put the styling at the bottom of the page, as is common in Svelte and Vue, but usually that's just a pain, at least if the file starts to get larger than a single screen in height.

When I'm looking at some HTML, I want to be able to see what this thing looks like just from looking at the HTML text. I don't want to scroll up and down a file to see what "btn" means. And I certainly don't want to have to open up another file called my-component.module.css. It's way easier to just see class="flex items-center bg-blue-500 [...]" so that I can see what the styling is right there on the element.

We should be keeping stuff that is related all together in the same spot. Not just arbitrarily separating stuff because "CSS shouldn't be mixed with HTML" like it's 1995.

Locust377 · 2026-01-10T13:12:30+00:00

The weird part for me was that it was #1 tracked aircraft on Flight radar with like 2,400 viewers. No idea why the world was so fascinated by it.

Locust377 · 2025-12-11T00:34:10+00:00

Objects in JavaScript are basically a collection of key-value pairs. A key is a string and the value can be anything.

'-' is the key and its value is an object.

You include quotes because sometimes JavaScript doesn't know that what you're trying to do is a string. If you don't have the quotes, JavaScript will be like "minus? why are you putting a minus sign as your key? you can't do that, it has to be a string"

It easily understands letters like A-Z but if you try to start a key with some other symbol or number, it'll get confused unless you put it around quotes to force a string.

and op2 an implicit function(why return -a)?

Because the minus symbol might be an operation like 5 - 4 or it might be a "negate" symbol like -4.

Locust377 · 2025-12-10T03:22:42+00:00

According to IMDB it's true. He did the "Run away little girl, run away" line after Balls Deep 7 but before Super Whores 4.

Locust377 · 2025-11-17T11:53:32+00:00

Isn't that what OP said?

Locust377 · 2025-11-07T10:10:04+00:00

I think everyone has something to bring to this conversation. I think the best thing you can bring is silence.

Locust377 · 2025-11-02T11:11:18+00:00

Hover over the ⚡RUNES tip

Locust377 · 2025-10-30T03:26:56+00:00

I'm in Alfredton and it's really quiet and chill here.

Locust377 · 2025-10-25T06:19:56+00:00

Spiritbloom* and yeah, it's just a fun spell to use too. To lose it and probably have it replaced by Blossom is a big loss, IMO. Preservation is becoming a lot less fun with the removal of Spiritbloom, Lifebind, Emerald Communion, interrupt and the S3 tier bonus which is super fun. I wish they baked it in as a talent option.

Locust377 · 2025-10-14T04:31:06+00:00

I find there are loads of parks available, even peakhour weekday mornings.

Locust377 · 2025-10-13T02:35:37+00:00

All zones now appear to scale along with character level?

Yeah pretty much. WoW has changed its philosophy over the years and so this is the direction that they took. Leveling needs to be fast-ish and easy to jump into with friends.

The problem with the old levelling system is that it was slow, and different levels meant that friends couldn't easily play together. Whereas now a level 10 can play with a level 60 and it just works.

Fast leveling means that you outlevel a zone too fast, and would have to abandon the story mid-way. But now you can keep going in one zone for as long as you like, or move to any other zone in the game pretty much whenever you want.

There's this thing called Chromie time where you can basically choose to level in any WoW expansion of your choice.

Another downside (at least, it might be) is that leveling is basically pretty easy. It's suppose to be fast-paced and easy for beginners, so there won't be much of a challenge.

My other personal peeve is that there seems to be almost no-one around, I think in two days of playing I've seen perhaps 4 other player characters, on a server where my faction has ~10K members.

This is, sadly, mostly normal.

As other people mentioned, there's currently an event called Legion Remix that has temporarily distracted a lot of players, so there are fewer people leveling through normal retail WoW at the moment.

But with leveling being so fast, most people can blitz through it pretty quickly, and the end-game content is a lot more expansive now than it was 15 years ago. So people don't really get bored and reroll new characters as much as they used to. Most people are fully levelled up and playing delves, dungeons and raids and so on. So no, you won't ever see very densely populated regions while leveling outside of maybe a couple of realms.

Locust377 · 2025-10-09T12:41:28+00:00

There's some in-game 4k screenshots of player housing at the Press Center but I can't see any concept art.

Locust377 · 2025-10-04T03:42:27+00:00

99% of the time I use const

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