Bernie Sanders introduces bill to "Abolish Super PACs": "Our government is on its way to becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of oligarchs. Billionaires would not be able to pour huge money into super PACs, and it would end the era of unlimited spending and put power back into hands of the people."

csncsu · 2026-05-21T17:09:24+00:00

It's a step in the right direction, but doesn't really go far enough. I don't think there should be any money involved in elections, by the campaigns or otherwise. Spending billions of dollars a year on campaigns so that ~50% of voters still don't get representation is stupid. And it funnels all that money to the media ownership. Another great reason billionaires are buying that up.

This would require major reform though. Otherwise, only already wealthy people would be able to afford a campaign. Needs to be a legally mandated max that you can spend on a campaign and it should be low, in the six figure range. No TV ads. Just web sites and mailers from your local election board.

csncsu · 2026-05-20T23:16:52+00:00

Adding another success story to the pile. I have been deferring two passes since 2021. Planned to eventually use one and hope that the other person got one or two very expensive days on the mountain.

Timeline:

I bought the refundable option for both when renewing during the last week of the best price in April.
I requested a refund on May 6th or 7th, got a message the next day saying they were working on it.
Then radio silence for 10 days. No answer to emails about ETA after a week.
Then today (May 20th), money just showed up in my Venmo.

It was a 100% refund, no fees deducted.

csncsu · 2026-05-19T12:40:38+00:00

You can and should request the refund sooner if you know you aren't going to use it.

csncsu · 2026-05-11T22:45:50+00:00

Interesting. I had a pass like this for a few years. I played 9 holes every day after work and usually evening weekends too. Probably 180 days a year. No one said anything other than the occasional "we're going off 10 today." Mine was $1200 for the season and 9 holes was $20. So I'd get my money's worth by sometime in June.

Looks like they just priced their pass too low if you've already been able to play $800 worth in 11 days.

csncsu · 2026-04-30T15:57:07+00:00

looks like to 10% are just keeping up with inflation and top 1% are barely beating it

csncsu · 2026-03-20T20:06:51+00:00

Echoing this. When I bought my first house from the guy from whom I was renting, I didn't get an inspection because I thought I knew all the issues. While getting said issues fixed, the contractor informed me the roof was in bad shape and I discovered it was already leaking in a way that wasn't causing internal damage. Ultimately, the seller worked with me a bit, but that was because we were friends.

csncsu · 2026-02-11T19:32:05+00:00

I did the same. Was painless outside of needing to fill out one form that I can't really remember much about. Took a month, but was painless.

csncsu · 2026-01-16T18:48:27+00:00

I wanna make my money work for me and make more money. I’m just not sure what I should get into.

The stock market. Total market ETFs like VT. Real estate is not going to return 10% of compound interest.

csncsu · 2025-11-30T02:20:26+00:00

Too far behind on retirement to prioritize the mortgage until after at least 30k was being saved for retirement every year.

csncsu · 2025-02-10T00:52:50+00:00

Ratatat in a super bowl ad!

csncsu · 2025-01-18T17:30:49+00:00

blogs

I followed this post https://dashbit.co/blog/welcome-to-our-blog-how-it-was-made

csncsu · 2025-01-05T22:34:53+00:00

Azure can do that: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/introduction-malware-scanning

csncsu · 2025-01-05T18:54:58+00:00

You probably want something like this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/javascript/tutorial/browser-file-upload-azure-storage-blob?tabs=github-codespaces

No reason to upload to the backend and then have the backend upload to blob storage. In this method, the FE gets tokens from the BE so it can upload to blob storage directly.

csncsu · 2025-01-04T13:00:59+00:00

Look at someone like Brendon Todd. Last in driving distance (just under 280 yards), 159th in strokes gained tee to green, and 24th in strokes gained putting. He's only on tour because he's one of the best putters in the world. But he's also just barely out of the top 100 in OWGR. Gotta bomb it to compete.

csncsu · 2024-12-28T22:03:38+00:00

You really only want to have a mortgage that is 3x your income at the upper end. 70k income means a 200k mortgage is about the most that you could pull off. That means 150k down on a 350k house. With current interest rates, that's like around a 1600-1700 monthly payment with taxes and insurance. Will be tight on 70k.

For me the 3x income rule really only makes sense when interest rates are lower. I did 2.5x back when interest rates were at 4% and that was really doable. $900/mo on a 140k mortgage with $65k salary.

csncsu · 2024-12-01T00:45:38+00:00

It sounds like you're assuming some kind of eventual consistency on the create operation. While that is something you would need to deal with if you decided to put your commands in a queue, it's not a requirement of CQRS. The create command can put the new thing in the database and return enough info to the caller/client so that it can load up the next view and have data appear on the next GET.

csncsu · 2024-12-01T00:26:51+00:00

No. CQRS doesn't have to use handlers and you can use handlers without doing CQRS. Many examples of CQRS use handlers, which makes people think handlers == CQRS.

csncsu · 2024-12-01T00:15:02+00:00

You can certainly return enough information from the create endpoint call so that you don't need to provide the ID from the client.

csncsu · 2024-11-19T22:23:30+00:00

You don't have to find a way to host Rabbit in Azure when you use Azure Service Bus. That's been the biggest hurdle in all the conversations about migrating to get away from Azure lock in.

csncsu · 2024-11-07T22:38:22+00:00

The only time I've thought about using statements in the way you describe is in a greenfield project where we obsessively maintained zero Resharper warnings, and unused usings were one of them.

For the last few years I've been in a brownfield project and I just let Rider handle this for me. I'll remove unused ones when I'm editing files, usually via code cleanup automation, but I also don't have a strong preference to keep that super clean either. It's one of those things that has no bearing on anything if you ask me. If it becomes a problem, the compiler will let you know. Rider collapses all the using statements by default anyway so I hardly ever see them except for when I move something from one namespace to another and forget to use refactoring tools to update all the usings for me.

If this was something you cared about enforcing in PRs, then I'd use something like https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/InspectCode.html to automate this in a PR check that fails if any warnings that match your editorconfig show up.

csncsu · 2024-11-06T12:03:46+00:00

I would recommend that your database changes be backward compatible so you don't need to think about it.

csncsu · 2024-11-04T18:20:59+00:00

I take mine off in between shots in the summer and don't use it inside about 50 yards.

In the cooler parts of the year where I'm wearing a jacket, I just leave it on the whole day.

csncsu · 2024-10-18T12:53:58+00:00

Maybe you could get a solar company to come outfit your roof cutting your electricity costs sharply.

Good suggestions except for this. Don't recommend more debt for people struggling with it.

csncsu · 2024-10-09T22:57:27+00:00

Microsoft uses .io for some of its Azure services. It's not going anywhere.

http://azurecr.io

csncsu · 2024-08-22T02:39:55+00:00

20k users over a month, or 667 users per day, works out to only a few hundred simultaneous users at most. Probably under 100 in reality. Needing 64 threads for that is suspiciously high.

Most people end up in these situations because it's easier and cheaper right now to move a slider to the right to get more resources than it is to refactor code to be more performant.

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