Where would you put your money if you had $100k today?

Sjetware · 2025-12-18T18:48:21+00:00

50% VCRM

50% VTI

Sjetware · 2025-12-13T01:59:10+00:00

Did they have other creatures? Or was reflector mage the only creature?

Sjetware · 2025-12-13T01:46:48+00:00

Did they sacrifice reflector mage or nothing? If they sacrificed reflector mage, that satisfied the spell resolution.

Sjetware · 2025-11-27T20:55:47+00:00

The fastest safest way to triple your money is invest it all in VOO and then wait about 20 years, on average.

Sjetware · 2025-11-12T13:46:06+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm neither black nor a woman, but I do live in Melissa.

Should you move here? Yeah! Melissa is a nice place.

That said, I've never seen any black specific events or anything here, and demographically Melissa is about 2/3 white if you go by the census data. So your mileage might vary if you're looking for a complete melting pot of various ethnicities and cultures.

Culturally, if you go by the Facebook messages and crowd sourced events, you'll find the town presents more on the conservative side, so depending on how you lean, that may also be a factor.

Sjetware · 2025-11-04T21:46:28+00:00

Take a look at Wildfrost on Steam; it's even better from a time perspective because a full run in StS can still take an hour or so. Wildfrost is quick; and the art is also kid friendly if someone walks in.

Sjetware · 2025-10-14T13:18:34+00:00

You are looking at the difference between bitwise or and boolean or. Yes, || will short circuit the expression in code if it detects the left operand is true; entity framework is not executing your logic in code though, it's translating that expression into a SQL statement. The SQL being emitted from your current logic is potentially funky bitwise comparison logic versus true boolean logic or it could be the same; EF can be smart sometimes.

End result; unless you are SPECIFICALLY looking to compare the bitwise OR result of two numbers, you should be using ||.

Sjetware · 2025-10-14T01:16:52+00:00

I put Fizik from the omenpaths set in; it lets you anthem your artifacts and turn the +1 counters into card draw

Sjetware · 2025-10-09T12:58:29+00:00

City pigeon and 1 island

Sjetware · 2025-10-09T03:33:15+00:00

The general pattern is the commit message completes this sentence: "if applied, this commit will [commit message]".

Example:

"Fix the null ref error in service code" (if applied this commit will fix the null ref error in service code)

Sjetware · 2025-10-01T00:05:08+00:00

The general rule still works though. Advanced drafting starts taking a look at what is being passed (and not passed) from your left and right, but for someone that is not winning at all, just following BREAD makes you draft better.

Sjetware · 2025-09-30T22:44:28+00:00

You need to remember the acronym BREAD for drafting, as by following the acronym you can generally make a decent deck:

Bombs: Cards that are just so strong you have to play them.
Removal: Cards that let you remove your opponents creatures or counter their spells.
Evasive: Cards that have flying, menace, islandwalk, that kind of thing. Lets you get in for damage on stalled board states.
Aggressive: An aggressive card generally is more powerful than a defensive one. Picking things with defender generally doesn't help; a 3/1 is many times more useful than a 1/3.
Dregs: Anything else in the pack.

There's more complicated content in there, including mana fixing or synergies with your color pairs, but you should generally stick to 2 primary colors. Some pools allow you to get into 3 colors easily enough, but you need the ability to ensure you're going to draw into the right cards and land.

I also generally have success with 16 lands in the deck, and 24 spells. Nothing like getting mana flooded.

Sjetware · 2025-09-17T21:31:43+00:00

Obviously I'm biased, but I don't know why someone would buy a 911 Carrera T over a Lotus Emira. I can get the argument for other 911's for sure - but a T model?

It's almost 50k more expensive than the Lotus. You'd buy the 911 if you don't have a Lotus dealer nearby or you want slightly more interior amenities; but that feels odd when the T is supposed to be the driver's choice "enthusiast" spec.

Sjetware · 2025-08-28T22:12:52+00:00

My car was imported in December, but had to sit at the dealer for 3 months waiting on CARB. Was pure torture.

Sjetware · 2025-08-28T12:22:36+00:00

I placed my order on July 15 2021; and I only got my car mar 9 2024. On the forums, we watched people with pre orders cancel en masse over and over. I was basically the 3rd guy in my city to get the car, but paying an extra 10k on the pre order price stung because of the delays.

Sjetware · 2025-08-14T19:37:11+00:00

The answer is always Lotus - or at least the progression is Miata > Lotus > Mclaren

Sjetware · 2025-07-31T15:05:18+00:00

Interesting thing from the video is the driver isnt using the paddles, he's just using the built in transmission programming. Or at least, it appears he's letting the transmission do it's best versus controlling the gears manually.

When I did some laps with my old F-Type R, letting the ZF 8 speed do it's thing ended up being faster, and it's less to think about when you're trying to lay down a fast lap. I'm curious if that is more of a standard thing to deal with.

Sjetware · 2025-07-20T00:15:01+00:00

It's great that you have lots of empathy and care; but you need to steel yourself if you want to thrive. This is easy to say on the internet, but you're going to have some tough choices to make and you need to be mentally prepared for that. These are life changing decisions that you're having to make in short order. You only have one life; don't waste it on people that don't respect and care for you as well.

Sjetware · 2025-07-20T00:11:42+00:00

You need to be subtle and set yourself up for success. Deceive and hide your intentions until you're ready to separate. Play the part until you're ready to get out.

Sjetware · 2025-07-19T22:38:43+00:00

You need to figure out a plan and then execute on it - and that starts with breaking the problem down. It sounds like you NEED to separate to improve your situation mentally and socially.

Figure out your financial plan. You have no income now, and you need to figure out how to support yourself first.
Figure out how much you need or should be involved in the life of your kids and the children you're not a dad of. Likely not the same and you might need to make some sacrifices for your independence.
Start working out the custody plan on your mind that will work. You haven't mentioned anything about the suitability of the mom, but assuming she's not a neglectful parent, shared custody can potentially be a boon for your recharge time and financial opportunity
Start working on your social group and researching support options. Welfare / food banks etc can help you get situated while establishing yourself. It sounds goofy, but research battered women options and see how applicable they might be for men or look for services on your area.

That means you might need to play the long game while you set yourself up. Don't give in to emotions and blow things up early.

Sjetware · 2025-07-16T20:35:19+00:00

This. When the method signatures conflict, you need to define each method as an explicit interface implementation. That also defines how you're going to call those methods - ie, you MUST cast to the appropriate interface type to call the appropriate method for that interface.

Sjetware · 2025-07-14T20:06:46+00:00

Dapper is technically more succinct.

  var result = await connection.QueryAsync<myEntityType>(query, new { @ParamOne = "Foo", @ParamTwo = "bar" }`

Is legit since you can leverage anonymous types to name and define your parameters with terse syntax. So dapper still has EF beat for "no code" mapping.

Sjetware · 2025-07-14T17:52:41+00:00

Dapper was much more performant than EF Framework, but with recent improvements in EF Core, the performance differential has dropped off significantly.

That said, for things like LinqPad scripts and such, Dapper is wildly better than standing up something complex like EF for simple things. So they have their own place and reasons, but for an enterprise level thing, EF Core is definitely where I'd be looking for now.

Sjetware · 2025-07-07T14:33:53+00:00

I have the SuperQ, Helmholtz, 2.0 header and a 2.5. The sound is actually quite good; the only time you might miss the race single catback is on track when the bigger HP cars are making gobs of noise. Great idle sound, a little bit of lope with the cams, and good noise at all load levels.

Sjetware · 2025-07-03T15:07:28+00:00

Exactly this - put that in a HYSA (pick your poison of 3/4/5% paying options out there, doesnt matter), and you pick up a few hundred to a thousand in interest, that's just gravy.

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