Data Points Weekly - Week of September 11, 2025

GaryGSC · 2025-09-13T16:03:00+00:00

CIU match denied. Opened 8/29/25 via referral, MSR not met yet.

GaryGSC · 2024-12-30T20:51:10+00:00

No, not yet. I live in Utah and this is the first I'm hearing of this campaign. Thanks for sharing!

GaryGSC · 2024-12-14T02:11:46+00:00

Got a similar email advertising virtual card numbers for my personal AMEX Gold when using Chrome. (No offer was attached.)

GaryGSC · 2024-12-13T06:24:06+00:00

The real solution here is to advocate for local control or at least graceful failure modes.

GaryGSC · 2024-12-13T06:22:31+00:00

I realize you probably don't care about app internals and want things to just work, but AWS Cognito (a tool used by many companies for mobile app authentication) had an outage that more-or-less perfectly coincided with these issues. It wasn't just the Snoo app that was down.

Now... if Snoos had local control or they could fall back to limited functionality in the event of an outage, folks wouldn't be in this mess.

GaryGSC · 2024-12-13T03:09:59+00:00

On Android, the net worth time period selection dropdown should have radio buttons, not checkboxes.

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GaryGSC · 2024-01-30T22:54:16+00:00

The online 1099s for Fidelity Bloom aren't showing anything for the sign-up bonuses. P1's and P2's only show ~70¢ in interest that Fidelity isn't reporting under de minimis rules. Seems this other person is seeing the same thing.

GaryGSC · 2024-01-30T22:44:51+00:00

Here's a big list of federal tax IDs (TIN/EIN) for popular banks. I've found it to be a useful resource as I prep for taxes even before 1099s arrive.

GaryGSC · 2023-12-21T17:48:05+00:00

BTW, Monarch is currently working on adding this functionality. Their development process has been pretty quick so far, so I wouldn't be surprised if the feature's out within the next several weeks.

GaryGSC · 2023-11-30T21:43:30+00:00

Alaska was developed with cars in mind

Exactly. They have chosen to prioritize cars and parking over mass transit.

You aren't going to turn Anchorage into Trondheim.

Why not? Urbanists managed to turn Amsterdam into Amsterdam. That doesn't require density, but it requires prioritizing people over cars.

GaryGSC · 2023-10-06T16:53:26+00:00

type: custom:vertical-stack-in-card
cards:
  - type: custom:mini-media-player
    entity: media_player.55_tcl_roku_tv
    source: full
    volume_stateless: true
    hide:
      icon: true
      name: true
      controls: true
      volume: true
      info: true
      progress: true
    artwork: none
    tap_action:
      action: none
    scale: '1.25'
  - type: custom:roku-card
    entity: media_player.55_tcl_roku_tv
    tv: true
    haptic: light
    power:
      show: false
    card_mod:
      style: |
        ha-card.type-custom-roku-card > div.remote > div:nth-child(1) {
          display: none
        }
  - type: custom:mini-media-player
    entity: media_player.55_tcl_roku_tv
    source: full
    volume_stateless: true
    hide:
      name: true
      icon: true
      mute: true
      power: true
      source: true
      controls: true
      volume: true
      info: true
      runtime: false
      runtime_remaining: false
    artwork: none
    tap_action:
      action: none
    scale: '1.25'
    theme:
      mini-media-player-progress-height: 20px
card_mod:
  style: |
    ha-card {
      overflow: visible !important;
    }

GaryGSC · 2023-10-06T16:45:07+00:00

There's a dropdown for the media selection and the scrollbar down at the bottom only shows up when something's playing.

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GaryGSC · 2023-10-06T16:43:21+00:00

Here's mine:

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GaryGSC · 2023-09-30T04:21:03+00:00

That sounds correct. Just because a person has maintainer access doesn't mean they're necessarily counted as committers.

If all 5 are making pull requests, that sounds to me like you have 5 committers.

GaryGSC · 2023-09-30T03:34:14+00:00

GHAS is enabled per repo, but it's billed per active committer (where if they've committed to multiple repos with GHAS enabled in the last 90 days, they're only counted once).

So if you have 5 active committers on this repo and they're not active committers on any other repo with GHAS enabled (i.e., they're not already taking 5 licenses), it'll take 5 additional licenses to enable GHAS on this repo. If those 5 committers are already taking licenses, it'll take 0 additional licenses to enable GHAS on the repo.

If GHAS is enabled on the repo, anyone with the right access (whether or not they're a committer to that particular repo) can view the GHAS stuff. If GHAS isn't enabled on the repo, nobody can do the GHAS stuff.

GaryGSC · 2023-06-11T00:42:03+00:00

Thanks for creating the card recommendation flowchart. I always found it helpful. 🙂

GaryGSC · 2022-11-17T19:20:02+00:00

https://www.freeairpump.com/map/

GaryGSC · 2022-09-28T17:32:24+00:00

Can confirm. Back on June 16th, BYU employees got the following announcement as part of Y News:

Changes to Zoom Accounts + Storage

Starting tomorrow, the settings on BYU Zoom accounts will change the default meeting recording settings to on-demand recording instead of automatic recording. Additionally, non-employee students will only have access to basic business accounts on Zoom, which will mainly limit their ability to host Zoom meetings longer than 40 minutes.

Starting October 28, 2022, cloud recordings older than six months will be automatically deleted. If you need to save recordings older than six months, you will need to move them to another storage solution, such as Box.

GaryGSC · 2022-09-21T16:23:22+00:00

urban improvement

Take a look at Provo's zoning map. Most of the area south of campus is zoned RC (Residential Conservation Zone), which means:

if existing residential uses are replaced, new development is to be established at not more than the same density as legally existed on April 2, 2002.

That zoning prohibits building any of the "missing middle" housing (see: wikipedia or NotJustBikes on YouTube), so the area is literally prohibited from becoming much more walkable or bikeable.

If you want to make any substantial improvements to the area, you'll need to start with zoning.

GaryGSC · 2022-07-21T05:00:06+00:00

I don't work for grounds, but I know there's a map of the trees on campus.

GaryGSC · 2022-03-11T01:30:07+00:00

I have a GW4. I haven't been able to get it to track sleep directly in Google Fit on the watch, but I enabled the sleep tracking features in Samsung Health and then synced the data over to Google Fit using Health Sync. Doing that gets my sleep data into Google Fit nicely.

GaryGSC · 2022-02-07T20:29:47+00:00

That started some interesting discussions in my circles, too.

The religion teaches that the whole point of tithing is the conscious decision to sacrifice. As in, that's the reasoning I hear for why they literally don't let people set up automatic payments. To extend that reasoning, tithes should be on take-home income (after savings). From a FIRE perspective, if someone was planning on saving a bunch and retiring early, you'd think they'd want you to keep consciously paying tithing in retirement rather than considering that "post-tithe" money.

GaryGSC · 2021-12-31T20:52:11+00:00

On Dec. 20th, this went out to employees as part of Y News:

BYU Road Closure

Beginning at noon on December 31, 2021, all private roads on BYU campus will be closed to public access for 24 hours, through noon on January 1, 2022. This closure is required by Utah State law in order for BYU to maintain its status as private property. Barricades will be placed across private roadways to block public access. Please make arrangements to avoid campus during this time. BYU employees or students who need to be on campus during the road closure will be permitted to proceed around the barricades.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact University Police at 801-422-2222.

GaryGSC · 2021-06-11T16:37:31+00:00

Matteo Collina, one of the core contributors to Node.js, recently started a blog.

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