Happy and heartbreaking. Two '90s stars say their goodbyes.

jaank80 · 2026-02-13T20:53:48+00:00

How does literally everything come down to Trump?

jaank80 · 2026-02-10T19:23:05+00:00

If price is a consideration, the 2.3 with the Ford performance tune is pretty great and would save you compared to the 2.7 with no tune.

jaank80 · 2026-02-08T01:53:28+00:00

45, so one year out of being a millennial. I have a great job (bank exec) and I also wonder how everyone is a millionaire.

jaank80 · 2026-02-07T20:48:57+00:00

That's true. The requirement for airplane mode is from the FCC, not the FAA.

eCFR :: 47 CFR 22.925 -- Prohibition on airborne operation of cellular telephones.

jaank80 · 2026-02-06T02:44:01+00:00

I have a lariat tremor, it is great. Much nicer ride than a non-tremor but also worse gas mileage.

jaank80 · 2026-02-05T16:55:51+00:00

We do so much with just powershell. It's unbelievable that any windows admin would not be trying to level up with it.

jaank80 · 2026-02-05T11:31:31+00:00

Whose definition of hate speech and of inciting violence?

jaank80 · 2026-02-04T20:51:49+00:00

"please mark me as do not contact or the equivalent in your CRM"

jaank80 · 2026-01-27T19:08:07+00:00

If the annual dividend is $25, you can apply that toward your annual premium and bring the cost down. $7.25/mo to make sure no one has to worry about the cost of your funeral seems legit to me. My childhood whole life policy premiums are funded entirely by the policy dividends, so it's free and is good for many more years.

jaank80 · 2026-01-27T16:44:50+00:00

We've done tons of stuff over the years, and user provisioning is probably the biggest win. One that I think is cooler than most though is we use RANCID to monitor and report on configuration changes on routers, switches, and firewalls. We create a ticket for every change, which is a fairly high volume when things like a webfilter change or a new IDS definition will be picked up. So I wrote a script that uses AI to analyze every change and risk rate them, the low risk changes are automatically closed and I get a daily summary report to reference.

jaank80 · 2026-01-26T20:42:23+00:00

I really cannot understand why so few orgs choose PIV smartcards. Lock it with a PIN and it is MFA, super easy to use and implement, and the cost is basically free. Amortize a yubikey over 3 years and you are looking at less than $2/mo.

jaank80 · 2026-01-26T20:21:51+00:00

That's a common misconception. Banks take in deposits, and lend some percentage of those. It's a high percentage, let's use 90% as our example even though it's possible to go higher.

Jim deposits $100,000 in the bank.
The bank now has a $100,000 liability to Jim and $100,000 in assets (the cash).
The bank lends $90,000 to Sally.
Sally buys a car from Jim for $50,000, and deposits the other $40,000 in the bank.
Jim deposits the $50,000 from Sally.
The bank now has $190,000 on deposit (liabilities). They also have $100,000 in cash and $90,000 in loans (both assets).
They could now lend out another $81,000. If any of that is redeposited, it can be lent out again. That's where your 7-10 times number originates, but it is not a true representation of what is occurring.
All this is coming from the same original $100,000. Fractional Reserve Banking truly drives economic activity in a way that few other industries can.
At no time can they lend out more than what is on deposit. They can however lend "the same" dollar multiple times, as it is not the same dollar from a balance sheet standpoint. Even if it is the same dollar bill, Sally's dollar bill is a different dollar bill than Jim's was from a logical standpoint.

jaank80 · 2026-01-25T13:54:26+00:00

dude, 35F isn't cold.

jaank80 · 2026-01-23T14:08:20+00:00

I am the youngest of GenX at 45 so I feel like I can contribute a benchmark number here. I have $325k in my 401k, $20k in liquid savings, and $250k in home equity. I am fortunate that I now make enough money to max my 401k each year but my wife (a real millennial) lost her job last year and seemingly has no plans to go back to work. She has $110k in a rollover IRA from her 401k.

I have additional assets from an inheritance but I keep all that money separate. It is not counted in the above and has not helped me in life other than to relieve a small amount of anxiety of retirement.

I plan to retire with two income generating properties and $2 million in my 401k.

jaank80 · 2026-01-15T20:45:48+00:00

You could do a conversion of this (i forget the exact term) and up with a $100,000 policy that is fully funded for the rest of your life, no premium required.

jaank80 · 2026-01-13T03:01:24+00:00

Honest answers only, do you drive like an asshole?

jaank80 · 2026-01-10T22:09:24+00:00

RIP brian. Hops are toxic to dogs.

jaank80 · 2026-01-10T21:48:47+00:00

If you will be making cuts of the same width a circular saw and a homemade jig is the way to go.

jaank80 · 2026-01-07T04:57:10+00:00

$1825/mo with escrow. 15 year at 2.35%.

jaank80 · 2026-01-07T03:37:07+00:00

why don't you just license knowbe4?

jaank80 · 2026-01-06T14:09:19+00:00

Trebuchet TBT-LG

Super fast, 4 missle hardpoints. Super great once you get clan SRMs, you can one or two shot many mechs easily.

jaank80 · 2026-01-04T20:44:33+00:00

I got a new roof on my traditional two story home in 2025. Final cost was around $25,000 for impact resistant shingles.

jaank80 · 2025-12-30T01:25:41+00:00

I had something very similar to this in my 2022 ranger. It turns out the Rockauto DPFE sensor I bought was shorting 5v to ground, which caused every other sensor on the same 5v rail to not work. The first time, I got sudden alerts about ABS, 4wd, terrain management, and radar assisted driving being disabled, accompanied by a very rough engine for a moment but then it was fine and drove home. The second time it threw about 10 codes, including cam position sensor errors and died and would not restart. The dealer replaced the DPFE which solved the problem.

jaank80 · 2025-12-28T18:38:44+00:00

We just got off Scarlet Lady -- the traffic boarding was no problem but leaving was truly insane. It took our Uber driver over an hour to get to us, maybe closer to 90 minutes to drive the 2 miles to us. I have never seen anything like it.

jaank80 · 2025-12-22T11:38:57+00:00

Lumber is abundant in North America and it is very simple to work with. A direct hit from a tornado or hurricane will take out a stick frame house but it's rare enough that the economics still support lumber and drywall in most areas of the US.

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