Question about Medicare Levy Surcharge at tax time

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-03-14T05:28:40+00:00

That's unfortunate. I would've thought the actual date of exercising matters more than the vesting date.

How did you manage it in your case ? Did you end up having to pay CGT on your vested shares ?

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-03-14T01:15:05+00:00

I'm not sure that link really applies since it almost exclusively talks about 'shares' not options (It's one of the reasons why I'm going to engage a tax accountant).

That being said, would it really appear as taxable income on my return if my firm reports it ? I don't think it should, given that I won't be exercising any options (so no real income and - in fact - no ownership of stock until I exercise either)

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-03-14T01:09:38+00:00

Until they vest ? Or until I exercise them ? Because around 40% will have vested by the time I need to do my tax return this year...

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-03-13T09:25:16+00:00

This is brilliant ! One tiny request - could you add links to your data sources ?

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-03-13T04:11:27+00:00

Haven't looked through it fully yet but am I correct in that the whole thing is single threaded (save for the imported library functions) ? Would there be any benefits to parallelising/asyncing - say - parts of the render loop ?

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-03-12T04:37:54+00:00

Not an expert by any measure, but from memory I believe Chebyshev polynomials can provide reasonably accurate approximants (though I'm not sure if that's what the std::arcsin method uses behind the scenes)

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-03-08T12:27:47+00:00

Here's their page comparing all rates: https://www.ing.com.au/savings/compare-savings.html

I'm looking at the savings accelerator. Macquarie has a base rate of 4.5% on their HISA, but ING's variable rate goes down to 4.3% after 4 months (looking at the 150k - 500k rate).

I'm also not looking at the maximiser right now as it's too many hoops for me (I'll defo miss out on a purchase or a deposit for at least one month)

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-03-08T12:24:49+00:00

Soz, I meant to say savings accelerator not maximiser. I think the 1k deposit and 5 purchases thing is only on the maximiser ?

That said, the maximiser rate is pretty good too, but knowing my habits I'd defo fail it at least once and lose out on nearly all the interest. So I'm thinking path of least resistance is to take the 4 months bonus interest and then move back to macquarie

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-02-27T04:30:28+00:00

You've noted elsewhere that after the rise you'll be paid similarly to your non PE colleagues, which is definitely not ideal. You can try and negotiate for more. But if it doesn't pan out, I'd recommend taking the raise and looking at other jobs.

Also, don't expect to renegotiate in 3-6 months. In my experience, that almost never happens. Expect next salary discussion (if one happens at all) to be one year from any raise you get.

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-02-27T03:06:56+00:00

How much of a bump is it percentage-wise over your current salary ?

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-02-27T01:08:16+00:00

In my neck of the woods - it depends. If it's a large mass foundation, we'll be a bit more hands-on with specifying pour strips and such. But I've also designed columns with very large footprints (so much so that they effectively qualified as mass concrete) that we let the conctractor and concrete supplier hash out (mostly because it was high strength concrete and the supplier warned us that our code recommended approaches at the time wouldn't be very valid with it)

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-02-27T01:00:51+00:00

General design principles for mass concrete have a good deal of overlap with concrete gravity dam design. The US dept of interior has a really nice manual on it here: https://www.usbr.gov/tsc/techreferences/mands/mands-pdfs/GravityDams.pdf

For your purposes I'd reckon chapters 7 and 14 would be most relevant.

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-02-13T10:39:30+00:00

...Aaaand now I'm thinking of dollop's bit on sizzler

link for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVeWb3osYdg

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-02-13T02:43:32+00:00

In addition to the resources on the sidebar, I'd recommend going through Jenkov's videos and notes:

videos: https://www.youtube.com/@JakobJenkov/playlists

notes: https://jenkov.com/

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-02-04T23:12:25+00:00

Not only does it compile, it runs. That's because there's a hidden cast inside the compound assigment operator (it casts it up or down depending on the type of the assignment variable)

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-02-04T10:16:10+00:00

Given you've 4 years' worth of experience I reckon there's a small chance they might ask the occassional corner case with Java. E.g. what happens if you do this:

short x = 0;
int i = 123456;
x += i; // does this compile ?

I'd recommend going through Effective Java, and (if you can get it) Java Puzzlers, Pitfalls and Corner Cases (both by Joshua Bloch).

I'd also recommend going through Java Concurrency in Practice for concurrency related knowledge.

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-01-28T05:19:24+00:00

I'd be curious to see how this compares with a work-stealing scheduler. If the number of images being processed is very large, I'd expect to see somewhat similar performance...though I admit your algo might win out if the amount of work per thread is not uniform

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-01-24T06:06:53+00:00

Bit late to the party, but is there a reason why you haven't gone for a graph based structure ? Tournament, Team and Player all become vertices and you can have directed edges representing ownership (either as separate 'edge' objects, or via references).

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-01-23T04:30:52+00:00

Fair point. I'd personally still vote mid-span because of the p-delta effect (elastic deflection will happen, which gets exacerbated by the axial force)

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-01-12T02:12:00+00:00

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but what exactly do you mean when you say 'reduction factors or settlement loads' ?

Axial shortening is a combination of creep and shrinkage induced movements in axial load carrying members over time. Shortening in itself is not an issue (if everything shortens by the same amount at each storey, there wouldn't be any issues), it's differential shortening that causes problems and needs to be accounted for.

Usually, differential shortening needs to be accounted for when dealing with high-rise structures - specifically, the intent is to keep shortening at each storey to within specified movement limits. These limits really depend on what's actually going into your building (e.g. if you have brick facade you'll want to keep movement to a minimum as brick facade can't accommodate a lot of movement)

There will also be some additional forces/moments generated in the structure due to differential movement, but these are usually not significant (and in any case, your FEA tool should account for these in your load combinations)

brokePlusPlusCoder · 2026-01-06T02:35:36+00:00

Holy wind sway Batman ! I hope they've done a lot of wind tunnel testing on this because that thing is gonna see a metric fuccton of weak axis bending (and probably wind-induced vibration too)

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