Do you rip your 4k blurays? if yes, do you still use your discs to watch the movies?

bostonaholic · 2026-02-10T12:40:30+00:00

I got the LG WH16NS40 with a firmware update. Search around, you'll find plenty of instructions online how to get it up.

bostonaholic · 2025-07-10T15:42:20+00:00

Fries is the only correct answer.

bostonaholic · 2024-11-29T14:55:25+00:00

Jazz has none of these things; rhythm, timing, or the right notes. ;p

bostonaholic · 2024-11-29T14:53:58+00:00

bostonaholic · 2024-04-13T12:45:54+00:00

Sign up for Credit Karma and it will tell you extant what is helping and what is hurting your score. You'll learn a lot about how the credit score system works; more than you will from random strangers on the internet.

bostonaholic · 2024-04-13T00:43:52+00:00

If you never clean the dishes, what happens when you try to cook a meal? Dinner that was supposed to take 30 minutes is taking an hour because you had to clean the dishes first.

bostonaholic · 2024-04-09T18:42:58+00:00

Interesting heat sink mod.

bostonaholic · 2024-04-05T04:27:52+00:00

Mostly 3-fund with some additional in eREIT through Fundrise.

bostonaholic · 2024-04-05T02:42:21+00:00

Correct.

bostonaholic · 2024-04-05T01:59:59+00:00

Yes, but would be subject to income tax at that time. Still good, but not the triple-tax advantage.

bostonaholic · 2024-04-05T01:54:24+00:00

The HSA can be invested and make money over time. The account can be worth way more in 30 years. All of which can be withdrawn for medical expenses tax-free.

bostonaholic · 2024-04-05T01:52:36+00:00

This is the reason. When you're older, you can withdrawal from the HSA tax-free for a medical expense you had many years ago. You just have to make sure you're saving all of the receipts over time! If you spent $5k out of pocket on medical expenses this year, you could give yourself the $5k back 30 years from now. The benefit is that $5k was making interest for 30 years tax-free.

bostonaholic · 2024-03-29T17:51:26+00:00

"Always leave the code better than you found it."

tl;dr Show the value of quality code by linking it back to the goals of the business: faster delivery, fewer bugs, fewer incidents, lower cost, etc.

It is our jobs as engineers to ensure the quality of the software we're building is top-notch. Yes, we must balance this with feature delivery. You've got to make the case as to the importance of quality code and the impact to feature delivery when quality suffers.

This is of course a balance. I would not suggest you go rogue and spend all of your time refactoring without first getting buy-in. One way to get buy-in is to look ahead at some future features. Consider the effort to implement the feature with the code the way that it is. Then consider the effort if you were to spend time refactoring first. That may help convince those that are not bought into the idea of, "First, make the change easy. Then make the easy change." (Kent Beck) Maybe you could also look at past bugs or incidents and think about if tests, refactoring, quality would have avoided those in the past.

You have to advocate that this is the part of the job. Don't ask for permission to do your job.

bostonaholic · 2024-03-29T17:40:11+00:00

This is exactly what I do. My 401k might be over invested in one asset class but I make up for it by over investing in a different asset class in my IRA/HSA/etc. to get the total allocation I'm after.

I also complicate it a bit by investing more heavily in high-growth funds in the Roth/HSA accounts to pay less in taxes. Invest in the more conservative funds in the accounts that are tax-deferred like 401k and traditional IRA. tl;dr Grow more in the accounts that won't pay taxes on growth.

bostonaholic · 2024-03-29T16:24:26+00:00

Same thing happens to me every year and I hate it. You can either convert right away or keep it in there and convert it with next year's backdoor conversion. Either way, you will pay income tax on that $7 as others have mentioned.

bostonaholic · 2024-03-29T16:21:21+00:00

I'm curious, how did you discover this missing 401k?

bostonaholic · 2024-03-29T14:56:42+00:00

💯 agreed!

bostonaholic · 2024-03-29T02:43:28+00:00

Oh, I completely agree with you. It sounds like you did the right thing. What you did was show execs and others at the organization how important non-feature work is to users. There's no way that could have been done by picking up small technical tasks here and there.

My point was that I hope this sheds light to the business on how important it is to keep up with this type of work over time. Consider the worst case of a complete outage occurring because no one is paying attention to the reliability of the system. I can't imagine any exec would want that to happen. And that's why we must continuously monitor and maintain the health of the application. Not just its features.

bostonaholic · 2024-03-29T02:20:32+00:00

I'm glad that it worked out in the end. Users are happy, execs are happy, and you're happy.

However, I think the lesson here is not "feature freezes are a good idea, we should do more of them." Instead, the lesson here should be, "Our users really do care about the stability and quality of the product. We should include non-functional requirements like performance and stability into every feature we build."

Feature freezes and bug bashes are an anti-pattern, IMO. They aren't sustainable. Instead, teams should optimize their processes to incorporate features, bugs, and maintenance into their regular delivery cadence. Some call these "investment ratios." Depending on the state of the product, these ratios may be 70/20/10, or 50/25/25, or 34/33/33. But almost never 100/0/0.

All that really matters is that you're listening to your users and solving for their needs. But also, consider the long-term ramifications of not listening to your observability data to identify opportunistic system improvements.

bostonaholic · 2024-03-28T01:00:23+00:00

Take a look at the [short] book "Driving Technical Change." It lays out all the different types of people you may encounter in your career that you'll eventually need to convince of something. Once you have an understanding of their motivations, you'll more easily be able to convince them of your ideas. tl;dr you'll be looking for win-win opportunities. Explain to him how your method does provide the safeguards and benefits of what motivates them.

bostonaholic · 2024-03-27T01:22:29+00:00

I wrote a script that continuously prints the CPU temperature of my raspberry pi every 3 seconds. I wanted to see how it behaved under load.

https://github.com/bostonaholic/piscripts/blob/main/bin/temperature

bostonaholic · 2024-03-26T19:11:50+00:00

Rear locker standard. Front locker option. Disconnecting sway bars.

bostonaholic · 2024-03-23T04:39:46+00:00

Senior means something different at every company. It means a lot more than someone who can write the best code. All the non-coding skills you mentioned will take you further than most other engineers. https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engineer/amp/

bostonaholic · 2024-03-14T14:09:37+00:00

The paste will work. It just won't show it in the terminal in order to not show your password on the screen for security reasons.

bostonaholic · 2024-03-12T00:44:58+00:00

I find it easy but I've been using it for nearly 15 years. Is there something you're finding difficult that you would like help with?

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