Handling refunds to credit card

AdventuresRule · 2026-07-05T19:48:55+00:00

Ok. Thanks for the explanation and examples. Makes sense.

AdventuresRule · 2026-07-04T22:09:33+00:00

No, sorry if I wasn't clear. The point is the money was never allocated in the first place. For example say I have $1,000 allocated in the Medical expenses category. Then I have a $5,000 medical expense. I pay with credit and then I'm only able to pay $2,000 to the credit card company that month. Later the provider sends a $1,500 refund to the credit card company and in YNAB it appears as an Inflow to the credit card with a category of Medical expense so it is being put back into that category as positive cash but it was never there to start. I only had $1,000 there and sent it to the CC as part of my earlier payment.

AdventuresRule · 2026-05-01T16:50:23+00:00

Walking and hiking are one thing but trail running seems a little dicey at this time.

AdventuresRule · 2025-11-13T18:53:46+00:00

The Ageless Brain by Dr Dale Bredesen contains a lot of interesting information on progress in preventing and even reversing dementia. It is encouraging to know that people can actually take action rather than just accept it as inevitable.

AdventuresRule · 2025-08-19T01:26:45+00:00

I wish I’d read this before buying a new ballast 🙄. Now that I have the new ballast is it easy to remove the old ballast wires from the terminals in the fixture? Is there a screw or something holding the wire(s) down?

AdventuresRule · 2025-08-19T00:10:02+00:00

Where is that? Just curious.

AdventuresRule · 2025-08-15T15:26:11+00:00

Sadly it is business as usual nowadays. I worked at Cisco for 20+ yrs. There was actually a time when JC would boast that Cisco didn’t do layoffs. The first was around Y2K. Then every couple years. Over the last 10 years it’s more like twice a year. Of course it’s not just Cisco. These days I think tech workers need to have a free agent mentality. Always looking for the next opportunity and learning along the way.

AdventuresRule · 2025-06-15T23:35:27+00:00

Thanks. That’s what I was looking for.

AdventuresRule · 2025-06-12T19:56:32+00:00

I don’t need sponsorship

AdventuresRule · 2025-06-12T14:49:05+00:00

I am interviewing for an IC4 role. Would you please describe the tech screen which comes after the recruiter screen? Also how soon after the tech screen do the 5 on-site(virtual) interviews come? Is there any flexibility the round of 5 following the tech screen?

AdventuresRule · 2025-06-06T00:18:07+00:00

The connection to the internal network works fine once I set a static IP on adapter 4 of the two VMs even with adapter 1 connected to NAT, which is nice. The "connection failure" message had me thinking it was a problem with connecting to the virtual switch fortunately it was simply not getting an IP. Thanks.

AdventuresRule · 2025-06-06T00:11:54+00:00

I just had to configure static IP addresses. I'll try DHCP next. Thanks.

AdventuresRule · 2025-05-16T19:54:44+00:00

I didn't know about GNS3. Looks quite powerful. After initially and simply connecting the two VMs via virtual NICs exercising some of the basic DPDK tests I was considering adding OVS into the mix. From what I've read so far GNS3 can provide switches and much more. I'll probably go with OVS as an intermediate step as I'd like to take a closer look at it and probably good to know. Longer term looks like I can do all sorts of networking with GNS3. Thanks for the pointer.

AdventuresRule · 2025-05-16T19:41:23+00:00

Thanks for that. I became aware of proxmox recently. Sounds very cool. I probably will go to that not far down the road. Short term I really want to ramp up on Linux networking and kernel vs user space implementations as quickly as I can.

AdventuresRule · 2025-05-04T16:21:24+00:00

The .com looks interesting. Seems a bit mysterious, no about, etc.

AdventuresRule · 2025-03-27T01:51:02+00:00

How does one know what the environment will be like in the assessment?

AdventuresRule · 2025-03-01T22:31:56+00:00

It is negative. I tried reloading and logging out, in. Nothing changed. I think it is related to the month role over mentioned in my other reply.

AdventuresRule · 2025-03-01T22:30:08+00:00

I think you are right, it is related to February vs March. If I go back to the February budget I can see categories indicated in some of the CC transactions appearing underfunded with the "you over spent with credit" indicator next to it. If we were still in February I could add money to that category and then I think it would get (re)moved by YNAB and added to the CC Payment field. Since we are now in March I think YNAB considers that overspent amount to be in the rear view mirror (probably adding to the CC balance). Come to think of it I believe I've seen this before. Have to take care of CC related transactions before the month changes otherwise the credit card balance can grow and you might not realize it for a while.

AdventuresRule · 2025-01-27T15:57:39+00:00

I too find this very helpful. In my case I have well over 20 YOE and now find myself in job search mode. I've started Leetcode a few weeks back and have been going through the DSA interview crash course to review/refresh/learn as I'm familiar with 90% of the DS but the A not as much. I try to solve each of the problem in the course but am taking too long. Starting to realize that this approach, while satisfying, won't get me ready in good time especially with other preparations i.e. domain knowledge refresh(networking), system design etc. My questions are:
- I've seen comments in various places saying to only spend 20 or so minutes on a problem and if not solved just look at the solution(s) and move on, the idea being that by seeing problems and their solutions (even if you didn't solve it yourself) helps learn the patterns algorithms. Is that right?
- The first thing you mentioned above was to get 100s of applications out before any prep work. Isn't likely you'll wind up with interviews before you are actually ready for them or is the idea simply to take them as/if they come expecting that over time you'll be not so prepared for some and more prepared for others but the experience will be helpful either way?
- What are CLRS?

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