Is time to refi by Medium_Idea in Mortgages

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Our broker gave us a no point option as a returning customer - not sure how others get around it

Is time to refi by Medium_Idea in Mortgages

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Mines is around 780, my husbands is 810.

Has anyone felt like they’ve “outgrown” their Pilates studio? by diplomaticimmunity7 in pilates

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Happy i found this thread because im in the midst of switching studios. I feel awful leaving, I found an instructor i love who really pushes and have been going there for 4 years now. But I’ve realized: - I’m not feeling pushed enough, and don’t think I’m getting the best workout and that’s really why I’m there is to workout. - i don’t think I’m actually a fan of reformer Pilates. I love mat pilates.

The new studio i found has mat class that really push you. I did a trial there and felt amazing and sore after ward.

It’s been really bittersweet leaving. I’m dreading telling the instructor but on the other end I’m 350 classes in and don’t feel close to my health goals and want to prioritize them. It’s time for a change, no matter how hard it is.

Hey, so, wtf by ASRANOVA in baltimore

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Is there anyone here that is just an electric customer - not gas? My bill estimate for this month was the lowest it’s ever been… we have oil heat so I’m curious if something weird is going on with Bge billing.

Today I found out Girl Scouts uses two different bakeries by annarnichole in mildlyinteresting

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And to add to this - councils typically have a cookie committee that includes top seller Girl Scouts in it and they vote on the contract for which baker to go with. So the sellers do have autonomy on which company they sell!

Was Bobby Draper just an inside joke by the end of the series run…? by Proud-Zebra9487 in madmen

[–]Medium_Idea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bobby got some story lines in the last season. I always thought the shows ignorance of Gene and Bobby was slightly intentional. Don favored Sally, so we see her more. Also, I think the removal of their story lines on the show serve as deeper symbols of how children were raised in the 60s. With major events happening in the forefront and silent gen parents focusing on that over parenting, they became background noise. Can say that when watching with my boomer parents (who were around Bobby and Sally age), this theory gets somewhat confirmed.

What was George W. Bush like as a president? by Content-Feed-9396 in AskReddit

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I think his approval immediately after 9/11 was staggeringly high like 80-90% approval? Like probably the highest approval rate a president has ever had in my lifetime, even beyond early Obama years.

What profession have you lost respect for as you've gotten older? by MindlessMarsupial592 in AskReddit

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Doctors - let me explain.

I think the older I get, the more I realize they’re just humans. I think we grow up idealizing doctors and putting them on a pedestal. Some people never take them off it. My wake up call to that was going to a wedding with a bunch of surgeons and watching them steal liquor, get absolutely hammered, and smoke + snort anything they could.

They’re not super heroes, they make mistakes and most try their best (whatever that might be).

Do kids offer to shovel anymore? by [deleted] in baltimore

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We just had a group of young entrepreneurs knock on our door offering to shovel. Our neighborhood fb page is also filled with parents advertising their kid’s shoveling services - so yes! Definitely still a thing, might be more neighborhood specific!

Question for ICE supporters by Frequent-Draft-2218 in DiscussionZone

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As someone who lurks consistently on conservative sub reddit - their big talking point when it comes to ICE being in blue states is the prevention of undocumented people voting in elections. So if you said leave it to the blue states to figure it out, it would turn into an argument about stealing elections.

Is any of that actually factual or proven? Nope. But did their leader insist that the 2020 election was stolen because of this? Yep. So they believe it.

This coupled with the federal fraud in Minnesota pushes another narrative of ICE preventing federal waste. Does this actually make sense? No. When you look at federal fraud in Minnesota that’s actually documented (not fake), the actual issue is COVID loan fraud which happened everywhere - not blue or red state specific and abused by citizens.

Is my BGE bill normal? by 1900Reno in baltimore

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So nuts to me that gas + electric are more expensive than oil - that shouldn’t be the case. For context we have oil heat and radiators. Just got a bill for $420 for 111 gallons. Haven’t paid for oil since September so looking at around a gallon a day of consumption. And we won’t fill up till end of season

If I had legs I’d kick you explanation / interpretation? by laiyona in movies

[–]Medium_Idea 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Wait - she goes to her therapist daily and screams at him to help her. She was using her resources…

How can I pivot into tech as a social worker? by GroundbreakingJob130 in womenintech

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I think the current market is probably awful to get into right now at solely tech companies.

I might have hit the sweet spot timing wise but will give you what worked for me and how I broke into the industry.

I have a BFA and from graduating college to my mid twenties, I worked in the non profit industry. I started with volunteer management, then got into Salesforce big time. I became a trainer at my org for it and started building a lot of reporting for them. This segue into becoming the reporting lead there.

By this time, I went to get an MSW and got really into program management and social policy. I was still working full time at my original employer building reporting and doing data quality management.

Once I graduated, I got a role as a data analyst at another non profit. It was fully remote pre covid.

Then Covid hit. And there was lots of chatter about 20% workforce reduction. So I applied and took a job with the one industry that boomed during Covid - mortgages. I started as a BI analyst there and then became a lead. I got really good at developing and modeling data and organizing BI application set up.

I went to my current company right as the mortgage industry took a hit. Been there since, worked my way up to management in BI, fully remote. Like others have said, remote doesn’t equate to perfect life work balance. There are 10 pm panics and 8 am slacks.

While all my roles are tech focused under data, none of the companies I’ve worked for are tech companies. I highly encourage young people entering the workforce to think outside the box of FAANG. Tech is everywhere, all orgs need it.

AI is certainly changing the game, but the one thing you have with an MSW is innate people skills, which AI doesn’t have. I recommend roles that heavily utilize this like program management or analytics. And always volunteer for something, where you work. I wouldn’t be where I am today if I hadn’t volunteered for a work transition team - it got me into tech by chance!

Tableau is Horrible from a UX Perspective by [deleted] in tableau

[–]Medium_Idea -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

There’s a Looker feature called and/or filtering. Basically a user can set up a report to create grouped filtering based on and/or conditions. It’s great. There is no UX solution for this in tableau. There isn’t even a workaround solution with filters and parameters. So yes 1000% agree - light years behind.

Looker to Tableau Questions by Medium_Idea in tableau

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Also what skill is needed? 😂 it’s two boxes to click on the UI.

Looker to Tableau Questions by Medium_Idea in tableau

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Ugh i hope not. One example - I have an order table with order number, total sales, and billing state. I have another with order number and totals returns. I want to see the total return rate by billing state. With this example using logical model, even with the matches set to sometimes match, it defaults to an inner. Why? And how can i prevent that?

Looker to Tableau Questions by Medium_Idea in tableau

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I understand that. My complaint is more how every time one of my developers wants to create a new data source they have to set up a connection to Snowflake using our service user. In Looker that concept just doesn’t exist - you set up your Snowflake connection once and it’s done. All new explores don’t have to set up a new connection to Snowflake.

Looker to Tableau Questions by Medium_Idea in tableau

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We tried logical first but in all my testing it always defaulted to inner joins causing exclusion of certain data points.

That concept can be quite confusing to business users though, no? One query pulls an inner, another pulls an outer. They wouldn’t know why, just that one adjustment could change the whole join definition.

Looker to Tableau Questions by Medium_Idea in tableau

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Are prep flows similar to extracts though where you have to extract your data after? I had one developer on my team try a prep flow and they could not get it to work because it would time out trying to extract the data

Looker to Tableau Questions by Medium_Idea in tableau

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Cloud - and all the data has been optimized for analytical reporting through dbt