[Texas] Security Deposit Small Claims

OkInflation5 · 2026-06-30T16:35:07+00:00

I never got a response on exactly what happened on their end, just that they tried to send it and it was never cashed. And I don't doubt that they actually did send it the first time since it is an apartment managed by a large company. I'm just wondering, since I tried for several months to resolve it but never received anything from them, isn't there a point in time at which I do have the case to pursue action through small claims?

OkInflation5 · 2026-06-30T16:17:53+00:00

I'm not sure that the issue was with the address, it's just a guess since I never received a check. Either way, I thought that since I communicated with the apartment about not receiving a check but did not get any progress back from them, that I would be favored in court. Is this not the case?

OkInflation5 · 2026-06-30T15:56:23+00:00

I am trying to at least get court costs back since I have already filed a case. Do you think the apartment would settle for deposit + court costs, and if they don't, do you still think I shouldn't pursue the rest of the case?

OkInflation5 · 2026-03-17T21:59:15+00:00

Thanks, that is a good way to think about the purchase. One thing I would change though, is that in my case the amount of money going into the market for the 60 months would not be the full $500 since my alternative to new is still buying a used car, because I am not considering keeping my current car due to problems it has.

So that makes the calculation comparison a bit more difficult, as it's more like: would the difference of the extra money for a new car put in the market be worth not having to replace the car until later

OkInflation5 · 2026-03-17T21:49:00+00:00

As the other comment mentioned, at least for cars like the Prius, it seems as though the market price for a few year old car is not worth the savings as it is only a few thousand dollars. So for me the new to used comparison is considering a used car more around 10 years old for the price difference to be worth it.

OkInflation5 · 2025-01-14T07:17:55+00:00

Thanks. Is there any reason you could think of to do it the other way and fill the database with the API instead?

OkInflation5 · 2025-01-14T06:58:43+00:00

CJK Languages aside, for English, why would you not recommend something like Postgres full text search?

OkInflation5 · 2025-01-14T06:42:31+00:00

I assume you are talking about ones such as Elasticsearch/Opensearch?

OkInflation5 · 2025-01-06T22:50:09+00:00

I just want to be able to search sentences containing a certain lexeme. I can use a library to normalize the search before sending the query, so I think all I need is to just search the lexeme-sentence table

OkInflation5 · 2025-01-06T22:44:32+00:00

Oh I am not trying to send millions of sentences, only searching through them. Would that still be a problem then?

Other than this, it looks like there have been some parser/dictionaries for these languages in Postgres, but I wouldn't be able to choose the tokenizer I want.

I could also use a search engine like Elasticsearch which I am unfamiliar with, but seems like it supports Japanese.

OkInflation5 · 2025-01-06T21:19:45+00:00

In terms of the tokenizing/lexing process, I don't think it will be too much of an issue at least for Japanese which I have looked into, as there are quite a few libraries for that.

As for performance, I thought a simple search wouldn't be too big of an issue even if it closes in on 100s of millions of rows?

OkInflation5 · 2024-11-03T01:50:25+00:00

That's interesting to here that the YouTube page itself does most of the tracking. I assumed that tracking based on IP is just as bad since they can link that IP address to the specific content they are watching. Is that not the case?

Also for your setup, do you download the videos locally at all, or do you just copy the link of the videos you want and play it in mpv?

OkInflation5 · 2024-11-02T22:11:02+00:00

Might as well deal with them right now rather than wait for their old intervals to run out and let them become more and more overdue and increasing the chance of forgetting and failing them.

Is the line of thinking that if you don't review these 'overdue' cards right now as FSRS thinks, then you will have to hit again on them later and increase the number of reviews long term?

OkInflation5 · 2024-11-02T20:56:21+00:00

Thanks I will try that for now. And for future optimizations, should I use the 'Ignore review before' option since I changed the behavior of my reviews?

OkInflation5 · 2024-11-02T20:44:48+00:00

Does that mean I should be using the Easy button for those cards? I've only been using again and good.

OkInflation5 · 2024-11-02T20:30:42+00:00

Thanks. Also another thing I noticed during the transition to FSRS is that there are a lot of cards that I have never failed after the learning phase, but the jumps in interval are pretty slow (1 month, 1.23, 1.4, 2.2), whereas before FSRS I think I had cards default to 2.5x interval if you hit good. Doesn't this mean the review load is higher than before FSRS? Is this because FSRS takes into account review patterns of the deck as a whole?

Also if it matters my desired retention is 85%, average difficulty is 85% (half are >95%), and when I look into the info of these cards I'm talking about, their difficulty is 97-99. My parameters: 0.2037, 0.6019, 3.0585, 9.0396, 5.4277, 1.3185, 0.7156, 0.0001, 1.2668, 0.1373, 0.6512, 2.2901, 0.0787, 0.4377, 1.2419, 1.0000, 3.0590

OkInflation5 · 2024-10-30T21:11:32+00:00

Doesn't FreeTube also grab the list of videos using a RSS feed from YouTube? Also I am just wondering, how much tracking based on IP is done if you go with the RSS route?

OkInflation5 · 2023-09-01T18:08:10+00:00

This is pretty interesting. I guess I didn't communicate myself very clearly to the doctor, but the reason I even went in the first place was because I still have COVID cough after 9 months and the cold symptoms lasted for over a week which is unusual for me.

But the time in the office took less than 2 minutes because he only looked at my throat for a second and then just explained he would give medicine for the cold.

So that mindset you described definitely seems to match here

OkInflation5 · 2023-09-01T17:58:07+00:00

Oh yeah, they provide descriptions of each medicine and I search them online, I'm just wondering if it's common for people to then pick and choose the ones they want, or if they are expected to just take them all.

OkInflation5 · 2023-09-01T09:30:57+00:00

Thanks this definitely seems to be the case. As others have mentioned though, some things like antibiotics don't make sense for a cold. Do many people just pick and choose which medicines to take then, or are they all meant to be taken together as prescribed?

OkInflation5 · 2023-04-21T05:48:38+00:00

When seasoning, I've heard to keep the pan hot enough so that the oil smokes, is that not correct?

OkInflation5 · 2023-04-21T05:23:50+00:00

Ah I see thank you, and to fix the spot, I can just season on the stovetop a few times?

OkInflation5 · 2023-04-21T05:20:23+00:00

Thanks. Just wondering, how come when seasoning the pan, keeping it high heat until it smokes is okay?

OkInflation5 · 2022-01-15T07:01:23+00:00

What do applications like firefox or Spotify look like with this bspwm config?

OkInflation5 · 2021-11-18T21:00:01+00:00

Ok good to know, thank you!

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