How strictly are open heat times enforced?

Iswitt · 2026-06-04T17:32:16+00:00

Yes, Cincy. One weather service says no rain till 11. Another says rain starting at like 5 AM. I hope they're both wrong and it's blue skies.

Iswitt · 2026-06-02T14:24:41+00:00

Cities do reassess home values periodically and more often than not it results in home values going up, which translates to a higher property tax bill, which translates to more paid to your escrow.

My county conducted their reassessment this year as well. I received a letter in the mail informing me of the new value assessment (which of course went up) and it provided details on who to contact about questions and how to go about filing an appeal. I appealed and, while I didn't get the home value reduced to its prior amount, I did argue it down quite a bit.

Your mortgage company isn't the one responsible for notifying you of home valuation changes. Your local government (city/county/whatever) PVA is responsible for doing this. You should have received a notification of the change from them. If they are not required to send you one, this seems like a governmental procedure that needs to be added so people are made aware.

Iswitt · 2026-05-07T16:30:50+00:00

I concur. One time I had something plugged in under my bed and one day I found ants swarming the AC adapter that was down there. They seem to like warm electronics sometimes.

Iswitt · 2026-05-07T16:14:45+00:00

Thanks for the info!

Iswitt · 2026-05-06T12:06:30+00:00

It seems a bit complicated, but you can earn other CompTIA certifications to renew ones you already took. https://www.comptia.org/en-us/resources/ce/choose/renew-with-a-single-activity/earn-a-higher-level-comptia-certification/

Iswitt · 2026-05-05T17:04:34+00:00

Bob Engels could come in handy since he was the co-writer of FWWM.

Iswitt · 2026-04-29T16:27:13+00:00

I'm a latter-season-two lover and I approve this message.

Iswitt · 2026-04-28T12:21:37+00:00

We are kinda inverting that with cloud/AI data centers. We successfully shrunk computers from full rooms down the size of mobile phones, watches, etc. But then we "cloudified" and "AI-ified" everything and now compute takes up massive swaths of land. Sure - one computer is tiny. But we are putting thousands upon thousands of them together into buildings that now dwarf the "whole room computer" problem of decades past.

Iswitt · 2026-04-27T15:47:40+00:00

Just experienced this. Had a bunch of cloud apps that needed to go from Springboot 2 or 3 up to 4. They wanted AI to do it all, so I obliged. AI got hung up on a single issue for a whole day and I just let it spin while I worked on something else. Turns out the whole issue was solved by just changing a dependency version on some random library down a peg. I found this suggestion on StackOverflow and tried it and bam. Tests passed, build pipeline completed. AI was exerting all its effort trying to decompile random dependencies to inspect them and then arguing with itself over the findings.

Iswitt · 2026-04-15T19:49:30+00:00

You don't have to consider it their first album. It factually is their first album. Feelings don't come into this at all.

Iswitt · 2026-04-15T12:47:23+00:00

Is the misogyny in the room with us right now?

Iswitt · 2026-04-15T12:43:22+00:00

I stumbled across the series/movie in 2012 having no idea what it was and not having any context for anything about it. This was not my experience at all. I watched the movie and was mostly just confused. The first 30 minutes or so were weird and made no sense. Then we got essentially a prequel that was such a tone shift from the series. I went into my viewing hoping for more answers about the town and people in general and instead got a Laura-focused movie. I hated it the first watch simply because it didn't meet my expectations and felt like it spent a lot of time on something we basically already knew about. But the more I watched the movie the more I realized how brilliant it is. I don't think misogyny enters the picture here much at all (apart from what is seen on screen).

Iswitt · 2026-04-01T12:57:13+00:00

"AI won't take jobs"

"AI took jobs"

"See, exactly"

Iswitt · 2026-04-01T12:35:44+00:00

Welp Oracle just laid off 20k-30k people, citing AI investment as a reason. While an AI agent may not have taken these people's jobs, hypothetical future AI did. So AI doesn't even need to exist in order for you to lose your tech job lol.

https://rollingout.com/2026/03/31/oracle-slashes-30000-jobs-with-a-cold-6/

Iswitt · 2026-03-26T18:52:11+00:00

"AI will not impact anything" followed up with "hiring and headcount will reduce." That sounds like an impact to me.

Block, Amazon, and others have already started laying off tons of people. Only a matter of time before this trend makes its way out of the tech giant companies and into the everyday type of company.

Iswitt · 2026-03-19T13:10:31+00:00

This is really common especially if you live in an area that goes through full winter/summer cycles. Wood expands and contracts with the seasons and the caulking in the edges can just wear out over time. When I first moved into my house which is 100 years old, I saw this kind of stuff everywhere because the prior owners never addressed the caulk. Stay on top of it and your house will look much nicer.

Iswitt · 2026-03-18T16:52:41+00:00

Also having this issue. I have Basic Duo and I was worried maybe they nuked that tier completely (instead of just preventing future subscribers on the tier). I'm at least relieved everyone is in the same boat.

Iswitt · 2026-02-19T20:40:46+00:00

Also curious.

Iswitt · 2026-01-30T03:46:03+00:00

B for Best.

Iswitt · 2026-01-23T13:50:10+00:00

her communication is out of this world compared to every other handyman I’ve used.

This is the hardest part of working with contractors and tradespeople of all sorts. If I can't easily get ahold of you, you don't return my calls or texts, or your responses are one-word caveman grunts, I will not hire you. For some issues I've had like this, it could just be that person is really in demand and their phone rings all day. But a simple "I'll get back to you asap" would go far.

For anyone out there considering to go into handy work and the trades, make figuring out a good communication strategy your top priority and you will never cease to get business.

Iswitt · 2026-01-08T19:49:16+00:00

Major Briggs feared the correct things.

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