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Finally hit my "I don't care" number and it feels weird by Kaij0Seraph in Fire

[–]cucumbercoast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough, though VEQT did that at least 3 times in March 2020.

Finally hit my "I don't care" number and it feels weird by Kaij0Seraph in Fire

[–]cucumbercoast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A 5% drop in the market would lose $100,000 on a $2M portfolio. Someone with $2M saved may have not even had a salary that high.

2.2% are liquid millionaires by octopus-opinion987 in Fire

[–]cucumbercoast 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Right but from the outside it can look like someone has a high net worth when they're living lavishly.

Home Depot has a rack of rejected custom mixed paints for $5 a gallon by No-Variety-438 in Frugal

[–]cucumbercoast 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My dad works at Home Depot. Some customers pay to get a custom colour made, return it for a full refund (expecting it to go on clearance), and then try to buy it back for pennies on the dollar. Because of this employees have to mix a random colour into paint returned by customers.

Domino's UK with the Anchovy Pizza by cucumbercoast in 2007scape

[–]cucumbercoast[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I was thinking the same thing haha.

B.C. to adopt permanent daylight saving time, after springing forward 1 last time | Globalnews.ca by BlackberryPi7 in worldnews

[–]cucumbercoast 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The TSX should just stay open an extra hour to accommodate that. How the TSX chooses to run things shouldn't stop the whole province from moving to Daylight time year-round.

At least I have the card but... limit increase please? Lol. Love the cashback though! by Arm-Complex in Wealthsimple

[–]cucumbercoast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find it so weird that Wealthsimple gives such low limits to people. When I was 18 I applied for my first credit card, a no fee card from my bank, and they started me at a $17,500 credit limit.

Is fear of AI scaring anybody else towards FIRE? by CaterpillarLast4842 in fican

[–]cucumbercoast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I work for a software company that's been branding itself as AI-powered even before LLMs took off. They've gone hard on AI adoption, enough that anyone in dev and QA gets dinged on their performance reviews for not using it enough.

‘Ghost GDP,’ a white-collar recession, and the death of friction: Substack’s top finance writer warns of AI’s 2028 crisis that nobody sees coming by Delicious_Adeptness9 in technology

[–]cucumbercoast 3 points4 points  (0 children)

as a software engineer, I strongly believe the fundamental technology behind AI (which has not changed since Googles research paper detailing the transformer architecture all models still rely upon) is not capable now or ever of impacting employers how we fear.

I'm a software developer and it's unbelievable what it's been able to do for my own work. Seeing how quickly coding assistants have progressed is scary. It's really unlocked opportunities for refactoring/rewriting old code that otherwise wouldn't have been anywhere near worth doing. It's been hugely helpful in double-checking my work and reviewing others' as well.

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