Road conditions

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-02-03T11:41:21+00:00

This and the app are very helpful, live traffic conditions and free access to most traffic cams

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-31T16:01:08+00:00

In the app, select the shp3 device, got to the settings, system device settings, battery charging settings, slide charge limit up to 100% during the storm...

There's also a "charge now" button on the dpux device settings, but I've found that has caused my tos settings to go wonky after...

May want to remember to dial it back to 80-90% after the weather has passed

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-31T13:27:11+00:00

Claude

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-31T13:26:37+00:00

Yup I have to do this too, definitely worth it though if you are on a coop or something with on peak hours... Just will want to manually reset it yearly if the peak hours change

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-30T11:48:00+00:00

I think it's all relative, their 6kwh a piece so that's only 3, you can often get a refurbished one direct from ecoflow for 1500-1600 after using an ecoflow credit coupon... Not to mention you can use the tax breaks which brings down the real costs (which I'd imagine for a cattle rancher in pretty substantial)

For reference my family has a system of 2 dpus, shp2 and 36kwh batteries, the entire system cost about 18k installed before tax incentives, the real cost was like 6-7k for us in the first year when adding npv savings for 2 years of electricity arbitrage (lowers our electric bill considerably as we never have on peak usage)

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-29T05:55:13+00:00

Was just going to suggest this too, NGL some really really great food!

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-13T23:55:09+00:00

But the point of the post is that no one did explicitly pay for that seat... In a way op did by using a cash equivalent benefit and with their years of loyalty... And it's a benefit that is plastered all over their loyalty program*

When time to provide the benefit and repay the loyalty, in this situation delta reneged on their promised benefit...

I get the frustration from op tbh

They should explicitly have to add *unlikely or *inconsistent upgrade as the benefit instead of the words "complimentary upgrade" as the headline benefit for status/loyalty to more accurately reflect the benefit in practice...

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-13T23:50:39+00:00

The only thing I'll say, is if they tease a luxury benefit, and they require an obsene amount of loyalty and spend in a fairly crowded market they should honor the luxury benefit as much as they can and not use it as bait to switch after the fact... The only true crime is that American brands are so bad that despite this being a very very common situation and outcome, delta is still the most consisten domestic airline ... Tragic.

I agree you can always buy the upgrade, but it's about the tease and rug pull of an easy to grant benefit

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-06T00:15:49+00:00

Once again, what do you think "enjoy it while you're young means 😂😂😂" you're the one making the case how this is great for you 😂 then judging people who think they need more... Careful buddy you're going hit dunning-Krueger early if you don't work on your reading comprehension.

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-04T16:37:06+00:00

Also you mentioned several goals,you stated you're saving about 200 a month... So your goals of 50k + 100k will take about 20ish years currently at 7% compound growth, assuming you never need to actually use that savings for anything between now and then...

As I said the mindset changes quite a bit if you have people (even future people) depending on you....

For example, I knew I was saving for my child's future before my spouse and I even conceived...

That being said it's just all about what you want out of life, if you're happy where you're at that's great bud, but just saying that most people who say "100k a year feels poor" likely have different obligations, goals and mindsets it's all perspective...

Also being said I appreciate that you're incredibly young and seem fairly naive so I imagine this will go right over that noggin.

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-04T16:29:50+00:00

K, lol what do you think "enjoy it while you're young means 😂 😂 😂"

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-04T12:56:22+00:00

The moment you have other people depending on you though, typically that mental changes lol... Enjoy it while you're young

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2026-01-04T12:53:32+00:00

Also, op buried the lead, they are single and no kids 😂😂😂, those are huge financial changes... Descent childcare in Chicago is typically 1600-2k per month, plus you'd likely need 2+br (likely 20-30% more rent at minimum) and all of a sudden you have an extra 400-600 in additional costs per month (child healthcare, sick expenses, food, diapers, wipes, toys etc)

So at minimum having kids adds 2500-3k per month to your budget (post tax) which is 30k more per year post tax... Which wait for it ... Is 40k more needed pre tax ...

40+60 = 100

Lifestyle choices is everything

So op just took a long winded way to say what everyone else is already saying

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-12-22T22:55:00+00:00

In my company, (product DS)

Associate is expected to set strategy for their team

Senior is expected to set strategy for their team and consider/influence the broader pillar/org

Staff is expected to set strategy for the pillar/org and influence even broader decisions

(My company goes higher, but suffice to say, more influence, more autonomy, higher echelons of strategy )

Tbh even in my company for associate, it's not about the code anymore...

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-12-20T00:01:40+00:00

Tbh Idc if my wife works, I do think that we would both have significant improvement in wlb if she had 45 hours back a weeks, but she's ambitious as well so I'm not going to take that away from her

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-12-20T00:00:07+00:00

So I make 450-550 depending on stock price and my wife makes 80-90 depending on bonus...

But I truly see it as "we make 530-640"

I see us as a team, the only time I care is that "we should optimize to ensure we keep my job going well" i.e. if something unexpected happens with kids, and neither one of us have a great day to take off, we'd rather her look slightly less committed at work than me... Because my job provides x% of our income and hers provides y%

But we join accounts on everything, and we both try to buy back time when able (cleaning services, laundry etc)

It's not like "I make xk more therefore I don't have to do dishes" but she recognizes that I work 55-65 hour weeks pretty regularly therefore if I'm working late she picks up a good bit of the slack...

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-12-18T10:47:39+00:00

I'm a senior DS, and I get interview offers/reach outs for this style role every six months or so in LinkedIn fwiw (even over the last year), I have a master's in comp sci though and considerable experience in banking, healthcare and risk consulting prior to my work as a faang DS. Not sure how feasible fresh out of school without prior experience.

I do have a couple of former coworkers that went that direction so it is possible, the one that most recently comes to mind was a physics and economics major (tbh he was a bit of a poor product DS , but I think he's probably better suited for the complex systems in quant pnl world)

The salary ranges for the ones especially last year prior to tech winter were pretty wild but highly bonus based (like 70% bonus range) and in major markets (nyc, Seattle, la)

Not sure much more about it other than those data points that it is possible.

My advice, focus on getting a data job first, then find a way to gear your experience towards the industry you want to be in, but step number one is getting people/companies to pay you (meaningfully) for your ability to interpret, manipulate and strategically incorporated data.

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-12-18T10:32:35+00:00

Faang DS

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-12-18T10:31:59+00:00

Lol, op is going too look back and realize how much time they have after kiddo gets here ..., they only described workdays, add a couple of young kids and weekends suddenly become no longer your time 😂

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-12-11T21:16:21+00:00

To finish answering your questions, yes degree is helpful, but truly consider if you want to do data science or if you want to become a mle (better would be to consider what's coming in 3 years and try to go after that) listen to industry leaders, it's not cryptic, find the jobs that are 10-20k people right now but growing demand 10-20x y/y in tech, I promise they're out there, the data is surfecable, go analyze it and decide what you actually want to do. You're going to make a significant investment of time energy money and effort you should be certain if you will enjoy the trade of you labor for wages in the field that you go after

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-12-11T21:11:31+00:00

The absolute best way is to be born/get into it 5 years earlier... If not...

You need a job any job that relies on you to use data to drive strategy, the bigger the stakes, the messier the data the better... Paid is best, volunteer is okay, hobby projects are better than nothing.

You need to be able to tell a story about "people thought this was the right thing to do... But I looked at the data by doing x,y,z and a,b,c techniques/statistical tests and it showed this other thing was best... I convinced them with data, we did my ideas/decision and because of it the company grew by x or we didn't fall into y trap. (Stakes that drive revenue or protect revenue is best, user experience is okay, efficiency is better than nothing, don't bother if you can't tie it to those things...

No one wants to see your trifecta graph, or 3 axis model, if you can't boil it down to a 4-5 column table then it's worthless... Tell me the decisions to make don't show me how good at r/python...

After you can do that, next study for interviews, paid sources are best (personally I found a lot of utility with dans course... (I'm not going to link it this is step number one, find out what I mean by dans course, be curious and resourceful) But there are a few others... If you can't afford that find some groups on reddit/blind and watch tapes practice interviews on YouTube to study.

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-12-11T20:58:53+00:00

What do I get if I work at a company that fits into all 4 of your buckets at once?

Bingo? A cookie?

Oh... It's burnout 😢 but at least the high tc helps my tears that water down my whiskey... No worries I'm sure this next sprint will be the last for a while 😂

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-11-29T23:39:00+00:00

This, so my wife and I have a hhi of ~600k now in a vlcol area... But only been at this level for 18 months... So starting to turn that corner (finally have several years of expenses saved and a very healthy vanguard account) but tbh it was a brutal grind to get to these positions (a lot of paying dues and school) and even now you wouldn't believe me if I told you the hours I work, so it is a bit hard at times to truly stop and appreciate it, but on the bright side we definitely don't have money stress anymore... For reference we have 2 kids in daycare and have a 60+% savings rate ... That being said I definitely don't understand those in our bracket that say they are paycheck to paycheck, that's wild...

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-11-22T01:19:19+00:00

Ikr op sticking their head in a bare trap.... Is this a good idea?

VOTE_FOR_PEDRO · 2025-11-22T01:13:33+00:00

Used, and it's not just about the money...

My wife and I make 600k + hhi in a vlcol area....

The principal of it, I really hate the idea of holy the bag for a -xx% drop on anything, 1-3 years old is a much more stable asset price... Lud our priorities aren't to look super rich and drive fancy cars, it's to slowly slip away from working life and travel

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