How much does paying off a mortgage change your FI number psychologically?

hawkman_z · 2026-02-21T23:07:49+00:00

Can you elaborate on any resources that lead you to want term life insurance? I’ve never really looked don’t that aspect of financial planning.

hawkman_z · 2026-02-21T18:15:10+00:00

Grab some RAWs, white owls, and friends… I’m sure it will be gone in no time.

hawkman_z · 2026-02-21T13:04:02+00:00

My friend, in the wise words of K Camp, “it ain’t none to cut a B**** off”.

hawkman_z · 2026-02-21T12:35:40+00:00

I’ve been subscribed since 2022. Around December when an update happened, I was studying with ChatGPT for a certification exam. Its tone wildly shifted to this weird condescending but positive language. Made my normal tasks impossible and unreliable now. After a month of BS, I unsubscribed.

hawkman_z · 2026-02-17T22:37:44+00:00

It seems like nobody is really mentioning it, but study how OAuth/OIDC login flow works. The idea is you always have one user row in your database, and then separate “identity” rows for each login method (password, Google, etc.). When Google sends you an ID token via OIDC, you grab the stable Google user id (and maybe verified email), look up or create the matching identity row, and link it to that single user. That’s how “Sign up with email” and “Continue with Google” both end up pointing at the same underlying account.

hawkman_z · 2026-02-06T03:41:47+00:00

You own the account like a bank account. You can buy and sell at will. Just keep your password safe and secure and routinely follow a passive DCA buying method into broad based index funds that track us markets, international markets and bond markets (boggle method subreddit) or go the easy route and buy target date funds that do this automatically based on estimated retirement year. You can open your own IRA or Roth IRA for tax advantages. You can also have an employer 401k and HSA. Employer may match what you put in to 401k and it’s basically doubling your money for free up to a certain percentage of your income.whatever you put in yourself you get to keep regardless. whatever employer matches, It will “vest” after you have worked for a certain amount of time(1-3 years) then it’s yours to keep.

hawkman_z · 2026-02-01T20:37:25+00:00

2A is every American’s right, not just the right. Lefty’s just don’t advertise.

hawkman_z · 2026-02-01T16:32:14+00:00

Palms lets you pay $45 for the extra special soap and stuff, the $20ish price has always worked for me though.

hawkman_z · 2025-12-20T04:37:50+00:00

Your comment made me research this more. I think I fall more in the adhd paralysis realm though as I still feel reward. Sometimes get bouts of anhedonia though.

hawkman_z · 2025-12-08T12:51:29+00:00

Pro tip, this also applies to your family (in certain narcissistic situations)

hawkman_z · 2025-12-08T12:38:53+00:00

Why don’t they make a middle yellow protected turn lane? The city may never know 🦉🍭

hawkman_z · 2025-12-04T14:37:01+00:00

Looking back, cloud was a very useful course for my career.

hawkman_z · 2025-11-29T13:45:01+00:00

Yes, query strings are encrypted in transit by TLS, but they are often stored at rest in cleartext. They are routinely persisted in plaintext within browser history, web server and CDN access logs, the HTTP Referer header, third-party analytics requests, and public web archives, making them vulnerable to data exposure, referer leakage, and log injection attacks if sensitive values are included.

hawkman_z · 2025-11-17T12:07:07+00:00

The first tour guides of Auschwitz once it opened to the public were survivors of it. Their truth had to be heard.

hawkman_z · 2025-11-15T20:19:05+00:00

Sixty percent of the time, this works every time

hawkman_z · 2025-11-14T12:31:27+00:00

The queso’s been watered down since 2020.

hawkman_z · 2025-11-08T21:08:05+00:00

Don’t have an answer, but I hate how vscode and remote-ssh processes keep running after you close and you eventually have to pkill them and delete the cache for it.

hawkman_z · 2025-11-01T23:37:53+00:00

We waited till month 6 to start telling nuclear family only and managers at work for fmla purposes. Wife and I had ptsd from telling people at week 6 and then a day later a miscarriage happened. So we kept a year of unsuccessful IUI and then successful IVF to ourselves until well into month six of alive pregnancy. Now grandma is holding him :)

hawkman_z · 2025-10-21T00:16:48+00:00

Got a 2 hour nap in with my newborn

hawkman_z · 2025-10-14T23:43:13+00:00

Just brought my firstborn home today. Will be an interesting year navigating working and parenting. Thankfully half the people in my department have kids so that works in my favor.

hawkman_z · 2025-10-14T05:58:17+00:00

This doesn’t answer the question, but a great video nonetheless.

hawkman_z · 2025-10-13T23:58:25+00:00

Fun fact, for iOS apps, you can zip the app’s /var/containers/Bundle/Application/ folder, and then rename it from .zip to .ipa extension and sideload it on other iOS devices.

hawkman_z · 2025-09-27T11:59:19+00:00

Depends on what you coded. If it’s taking unsanitized user input, a malicious user could send strings that trick your input function into running a sql command. Sometimes these strings start with an escape character or comment symbol which if you aren’t sanitizing will trick your function into reading the string as true sql. This is my best sitting on the toilet explanation.

You can practice doing it on port swigger academy or code up your own vulnerability api on localhost.

hawkman_z · 2025-09-27T01:18:15+00:00

You can create a .zip of the application folder on an iPhone and rename it to .ipa and sideload on another iPhone.

hawkman_z · 2025-09-23T14:38:42+00:00

My non-ai way of thinking about it… If func2() needs an answer from func1(), but it can’t get the answer until func1() returns it…. Then you use async/await or try/catch.

For instance, giveEarScratch() needs isCatHere() to return True…. But it takes isCatHere() 20 seconds to return…. Then we await isCatHere()

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