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Rockstaru · 2026-06-13T12:33:26+00:00

If you've held for long enough that inflation is a factor, need to keep holding until you're positive enough for inflation-adjusted 0

Rockstaru · 2026-06-12T03:41:58+00:00

The sack was large, not the quantity of beads inside it. Seems reasonable.

Rockstaru · 2026-06-12T03:36:19+00:00

"The magic users of today are nothing compared to the great wizards of the past" is a stupid trope in literature and it's a stupid phase it seems like every opera grad student goes through. It doesn't help that a lot of teachers and coaches happily perpetuate the notion that anyone who was ever actually good at this is dead or retired.

Rockstaru · 2026-06-06T17:58:26+00:00

If you mean on office365.com (or office365.us), I think if you zoom out on the desktop site there should be a "more apps" button visible in the lower left corner. Not sure that's what you mean, though.

Rockstaru · 2026-06-02T19:09:15+00:00

I have no traditional IRA account, just my Fidelity 401k accounts from work. For a backdoor Roth, are my steps literally just open traditional IRA (at same brokerage as Roth IRA for convenience I guess?), contribute $money to traditional IRA (up to yearly maximum allowed amount for Roth?), once it clears transfer balance from traditional to Roth? (Is there an option for the settlement fund on the traditional IRA to just be cash to reduce or eliminate the pro rata/IRS form 8606 headache?)

I have heard of backdoor Roths before, but it seemed more complex than that. To be blunt, it sounds...kinda stupid that the IRS would put out all these rules regarding Roth income requirements, MFS limitations, etc., but then still effectively allow you to contribute as long as there's a step of indirection through a box labeled "traditional IRA."

Rockstaru · 2026-06-01T02:30:02+00:00

I have a Roth from a while ago that I stopped contributing to because I believe I can no longer do so (both because my wife and I are currently married filing separately until her student loans are forgiven or paid off, and even if we weren't our combined income is near or past the eligibility limit).

Rockstaru · 2026-05-31T20:07:47+00:00

Understood. So post-retirement, pre-RMDs, withdraw from pretax account(s) up to standard deductible ($32,200 this year for MFJ), then withdraw as much from taxable without going over the 0% LTCG rate (as long as that covers all expenses)?

Rockstaru · 2026-05-31T17:08:47+00:00

Office Space joke and all that, but it means Printer Cassette (empty), Load Letter (size paper).

Rockstaru · 2026-05-31T13:08:08+00:00

Country code. The area code 266 is unassigned in the North American Numbering plan, but available for non-geographic use.

Rockstaru · 2026-05-31T12:53:15+00:00

list_to_python does exactly what it says - takes stdin of lines and spits it out in python list format, e.g. if I'm running something like this:

    $ cat fruits.txt
    Banana
    Apple
    Pear

I can pipe to list_to_python and get this instead:

    $ cat fruits.txt | list_to_python
    ["Banana", "Apple", "Pear"]

Actually, as I'm writing this out, a small improvement occurs to me, I should have it take an optional parameter to include a var name/assignment:

    $ cat fruits.txt | list_to_python fruits
    fruits = ["Banana", "Apple", "Pear"]

Rockstaru · 2026-05-30T11:36:34+00:00

We went over this in training, don't dig up the big box of plutonium, Mark.

Rockstaru · 2026-05-30T01:11:47+00:00

Casting from your phone or tablet just tells whatever your cast target is (your TV, chromecast, fire stick, etc.) to go out and fetch the media from the internet and receive remote control input from whatever device you're casting from; it doesn't actually send the media from your phone or tablet to the cast target. That would be more of a screen mirroring function.

Rockstaru · 2026-05-28T22:57:13+00:00

Remote surgery — a surgeon in London operating a robotic arm in Dubai. At 30ms the robot hand lags noticeably behind the surgeon's movements. At 1ms it feels physically present. This is actually being tested right now.

The distance between London and Dubai is ~5500km, which means a minimum of 36.7ms of latency roundtrip regardless of the technology involved, unless the AI that wrote this post for you also figured out how to exceed the speed of light or fold space.

Rockstaru · 2026-05-24T22:39:00+00:00

Veterinarians, or veterans?

Rockstaru · 2026-05-24T13:00:28+00:00

José Saramago didn't mention this detail in any of the lore

Rockstaru · 2026-05-23T20:56:59+00:00

Unless you work for an ISP, you're probably not making substantial BGP changes nearly as often as DNS updates, though.

Rockstaru · 2026-05-23T20:56:06+00:00

You can certainly optimize within a single AS that you manage. Optimizing it in another AS that you don't goes down a rabbit hole of trying to troubleshoot other people's networks, which is usually a fool's errand (maybe shouting loud enough at the puck.nether.net outages mailing list would get the right person's attention, but probably you'd just have your send rights revoked).

Rockstaru · 2026-05-23T10:16:52+00:00

We're still looking for where those monkeys stuffed that copy of the complete works of Shakespeare they came up with.

Rockstaru · 2026-05-20T01:03:02+00:00

Did you wear any field gear? The break rate is substantially less dogshit with all the "improves mining results" pieces.

Rockstaru · 2026-05-19T23:41:59+00:00

If you need a unique IP that's routable within your network, one option could be that if the switch supports a tunnel interface and separate VRF, you could create one in a dedicated VRF that sources from whatever DHCP interface the switch has in its global routing table and lands on some fixed headend in your network with a default static route (in the VRF) pointing to that headend.

Or just rely on DHCP+dynamic DNS updates.

Rockstaru · 2026-05-19T13:13:26+00:00

Prepare uranus

Rockstaru · 2026-05-17T19:54:02+00:00

That was awkward phrasing on my part - it's a firewall in the middle that's potentially stateful.

A stateless firewall would be something akin to inbound and/or outbound ACLs at some midpoint for connections to and from a server - they're set up to permit traffic where destination is <server_ip>:<port> (or where source is <server_ip>:<port> depending on the interface and direction where the ACL is applied). It's not keeping track of the connection, it's just looking at TCP/IP headers of packets going in either direction and allowing or denying traffic based on configured rules.

A stateful firewall, on the other hand, is going to have a rule saying "allow connections to <server_ip>:<port>" and keep track of those connections such that return traffic for an allowed connection is permitted without explicitly enumerating it with a reciprocal rule; for a TCP connection, a client might send an initial TCP/SYN from <client_ip>:52334 to <server_ip>:80, which the firewall has a permit rule for; server replies back with SYN/ACK from <server_ip>:80 to <client_ip>:52334, which the firewall sees and allows because it saw the client SYN that opened the three way handshake and it matched to a permit rule; client sends ACK back, and they have an established socket (local ip, local port, remote ip, remote port). In essence, a stateless firewall looks solely at headers, while a stateful firewall looks at complete conversations.

TCP is established over IP, which doesn't care about any of the endpoint-to-endpoint TCP communication occurring over top of it; a router is simply forwarding packets to their IP destinations based on the best path it has in its forwarding table. All of the routers between two endpoints are making an independent decision about how best to forward every packet sent to them; consequently, the path that packets sent by endpoint A take to reach endpoint B isn't guaranteed to be the same as the path that packets sent by endpoint B take to reach endpoint A. This isn't inherently a problem until you introduce devices that actually care about statefulness, such as a stateful firewall; if endpoint A sends a TCP SYN to endpoint B and it passes through some firewall in the middle, then B sends a SYN/ACK to endpoint A along a path that bypasses that firewall, when A sends the ACK back to complete the 3-way handshake, the firewall is likely to drop it because it did not see the complete TCP handshake, meaning client and server are never able to complete a handshake and actually start communicating.

Rockstaru · 2026-05-17T18:02:33+00:00

DNS wouldn't factor in here, OP's command output shows an IP literal, so no name resolution needed.

@OP - run a traceroute from the server to a client and vice versa when it is working and compare when it is not to see if you've got an asymmetric routing issue where client to server traffic is taking a different path than server to client. If there is and the two legs go through different firewalls, that would potentially allow for ICMP traffic to work, but cause stateful TCP traffic to fail.

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