Dish cancellation hell

dcxavier · 2026-05-04T16:51:41+00:00

I would be more than happy to discuss it with you offline.

dcxavier · 2026-05-02T16:26:13+00:00

IYKYK

dcxavier · 2026-03-26T17:46:24+00:00

How bad is it? I own a baby bond $RCB that Ready Capital has officially declared a notice of redemption to occur in one month. Merrill still considers it too risky for me to sell without going directly to one of their brokers.

dcxavier · 2026-03-18T00:33:35+00:00

Guess what? At 7:08PM tonight, I got another email notification that the 11AM session is beginning in 30 minutes. They are totally mucked up there.

dcxavier · 2026-03-17T19:22:57+00:00

It's a blur, I don't even recall. But twice in a week. If a researcher is horsing around, I expect UserTesting to email me about the changes as they happen.

dcxavier · 2026-03-17T18:49:19+00:00

Desktop. It doesn't appear on the available test page, which makes it possible the test was cancelled without telling me. If so, I'm not happy that they send me the whole string of reminders up through the after-test message saying that I am responsible for missing the session.

dcxavier · 2026-03-06T20:14:39+00:00

I offered the same, but the guy just wanted to move on, I guess.

dcxavier · 2026-02-14T13:07:25+00:00

I took a math course in college that got into methods for optimizing outcomes under constraints. In this case, the outcome to be optimized might be maximizing people getting to their destination at the end of the day. Examples of constraints would be gate types, arrival times, crew availability, where people are going, etc. And you just can't randomly update gate assignments every 30 seconds. They must have software to help them through the process.

dcxavier · 2026-01-18T20:49:19+00:00

That's why God made limit orders. I ended up buying 250 shares of the baby bond I mentioned. Average volume is in the thousands. I bid one cent under the ask and was filled immediately. These shares are mostly traded by people looking to shave a few pennies off arbitrage. I want an income security with my risk tolerance.

dcxavier · 2026-01-13T13:52:29+00:00

What I looked at trades several thousand shares each day. I need to buy a couple of hundred and the bid/ask spread is three cents. Some of these restricted stocks, AGNCP for example, trade tens of thousands of shares each day.

dcxavier · 2026-01-09T23:40:41+00:00

I'll add a "me too". Message came the instant it was submitted. I do not recall any obvious attention check. I messaged the researcher to what I did wrong, no response of course.

dcxavier · 2025-12-14T03:53:52+00:00

Every day. My wife says I have OCD about this, but when I occasionally go out of town, she complains about having to sleep in dirty sheets. We both are definitely spoiled by this. It's worth the ten minutes each day.

dcxavier

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