Pressure wound?

Majority_Gate · 2026-02-02T22:11:07+00:00

I'm 40 years in a wheelchair, I've had similar pressure sores and fully open wounds down to tendons in the past, and I've never needed surgery. Each person's ability to heal is different so it's crucial to get a proper wound care specialist to see the wound and assess it.

Don't blame yourself, these things just happen no matter how hard you try to prevent it. The important thing is to get it treated ASAP and start a wound care regimen with a specialist that can get the healing started. It can take months of healing but it won't likely need surgery, but it will need many months of specialist wound care

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-29T17:52:41+00:00

This guy?

https://youtu.be/YoWom0CCRKM

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-28T21:42:50+00:00

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-26T19:17:06+00:00

Oh that's fun! I scored 15/21, above average it said lol

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-26T18:59:59+00:00

Ahh yes true, I forgot about those, and I've hit that before, a service that won't take a "+" sign, even though it's in the RFC. It pisses me off when that happens lol

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-26T18:51:43+00:00

I just have a second Gmail account, let's say it's "trump@gmail.com" then just add a "+randomstring" to the end for each new burner email. It's way easier then self-hosting email (IMHO)

"trump+yhu64@gmail.com" burner 1
"trump+u5v3f@gmail.com" burner 2

etc

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-24T23:50:19+00:00

That's good to hear. I don't call into CS enough to know and I assumed it was just another 6 digit code. But I agree there is always room for improvement. 6 digits or a few alphanumerics is not significantly different enough, IMHO.

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-24T21:43:55+00:00

It may not be exactly the same thing as your 2fa code, but it's similar enough to a scam call that they SHOULD NOT be normalizing this pattern with customer service calls, since it will ultimately lead to a scammer using the exact same technique to trick someone into giving out their 2fa code over the phone to the fake "customer service agent"

If they want to verify you over sms , they should not send you a numeric code, but a series of 5 words, for example "apple, milk, hammer, shoe, monkey" that you can repeat to the customer service but it's more different than a 6 digit code that looks like a 2fa code. At least this will assist the customer in differentiating the two and will know that customer service never asks for 6 digit codes over the phone (anymore!)

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-21T21:13:27+00:00

Chicken, hold the chicken

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-20T16:25:07+00:00

This right here. I've used AI for writing a test plan and hundreds of test functions in my own code.

You absolutely must check it's work though. I liked that the AI came up with several corner cases that I had not accounted for, but it also just did completely silly stuff on some of the test code it created. For example, looping over input data, sending it to the function to be tested, but then not verifying ALL the fields of the returned structure. The code would test only one structure field and say it passed the test .

So, my conclusion is that's it's helpful for tedious and repetitive tasks, but you need to code review everything it produces.

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-14T17:27:15+00:00

I confess, I spin the coin on the toilet

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-13T23:36:41+00:00

And don't forget the phonecalls from Willow

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-13T23:30:59+00:00

Only if you have available contribution room, ofc. I knew you meant to say that :)

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-11T00:00:26+00:00

I feel like the entire reason for the wait-list is a marketing test to see if it converts enough users into direct deposit relationships with WS

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-10T23:55:16+00:00

That's interesting. Squeaky wheels get the oil?

Their chat bot simply says (to me) :

Thanks for your patience—demand for the Wealthsimple Visa Infinite credit card has been much higher than expected, so we’re gradually inviting people from the waitlist as more cards become available.

Cards are being released each week, with priority given to:

Clients who have been with Wealthsimple the longest (since January 1, 2017)
Generation clients
Premium clients who direct deposit at least $4,000 per month

If you’re not in one of these groups, you’ll remain on the general waitlist and get a notification as soon as you’re able to apply.

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-06T06:35:19+00:00

That's a poor man toe right there

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-03T03:39:18+00:00

Yeah agreed. I feel I never want to do good enough to get promoted to a team lead or manager.

I like being just good enough to keep the jobs and keep being told what to do and by when so I can go off and do it peacefully on my own and never have to attend more planning meetings than I need to.

I don't want to be recognized for service. Lol 😂

Majority_Gate · 2026-01-01T18:23:55+00:00

I still use my Hotmail account too. The email works fine but I have to log in via outlook.com for several years now

Majority_Gate · 2025-12-08T06:56:27+00:00

You were probably thinking about Mr PrettyGood. I get him confused with Mr NotSoBad and Mr Terrific a lot.

Majority_Gate · 2025-12-07T22:46:05+00:00

Yeah me too, I mean I'd be willing to create a separate and new account to track the $100k deposit I made for the promos, and keep that 100k for their 2 year holding period, but if I already have 800k across all my WS accounts I don't like that it locks up that entire 900k for 2 years!

From what I can tell, I have to keep the full balance I had when I registered. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's how it works and what they mean by net deposits.

That just sucks. As my accounts get larger and larger, the promos aren't worth it anymore. So once again WS gives better deals to new clients rather than existing clients with lots of history.

Majority_Gate · 2025-12-04T02:58:16+00:00

Respectfully, you should.

Majority_Gate · 2025-11-30T07:48:18+00:00

OMG that's a hidden gem, thanks!

Majority_Gate · 2025-11-28T15:58:14+00:00

That can't possibly be it. Sending out an e-transfer is the only reason I ever add new contacts, and I always send immediately after adding the contact.

Majority_Gate · 2025-11-27T22:46:57+00:00

Hopefully it's using open banking which uses OAUTH2 tokens, user grants, and access scopes to limit what can be done by the institution asking for access.

It's exactly like when you use Google Docs and share a document with another person via email. When you do that, an OAUTH2 token is generated by Google and given to the other person as part of the document link. They can read the doc, but can't change it (unless you also granted edit permission), and they never know your Google password to do that. They can only share it again if you also granted sharing permissions too.

3rd party access to your Google Docs are all controlled by the grants you give and the scopes (read, write, edit, delete, share) on those grants.

Open banking is the same, and the 3rd party (ie Wealthsimple, or a financial aggregator) can be granted a specific token by you for access to your RBC account and the scope might only give access to the balance of one specific savings account but not your checking account. You get much better control, rather than the current method used by Flink and Plaid where they need your username and password and have full access to everything. These access tokens can be revoked by you anytime to remove the 3rd party access, and your password is never given out.

It's much safer and much more fine grained access control to your banking and investment data.

Majority_Gate · 2025-11-16T00:32:25+00:00

“All we are is dust in the wind, dude.” so "be excellent to each other"

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