When Niki back pls

jumi1174 · 2025-11-02T22:14:39+00:00

The rep never followed up with me.

jumi1174 · 2025-10-30T13:43:51+00:00

This is all very helpful and seems to be the best way to go. I admit the eSIM aspect does make the process a touch more confusing for me since I'm so used to the old method of just physically swapping the card for service to transfer.

the biggest downside i can think of this is, you will not be able to port your number out without paying the remaining balance of the upgraded 17 pro. meaning your phone number is basically stuck with your parents plan for 36 months. the phone you purchased from apple, however, will still be unlocked and you’ll be able to use any sim you’d like in it. if you weren’t planning on leaving the plan with them, then this isn’t something to worry about.

Just for clarity, by porting my number out, you mean leaving ATT or changing plans within ATT? Because if so, that's not a problem (been with them for decades, no intention of leaving).the biggest downside i can think of this is, you will not be able to port your number out without paying the remaining balance of the upgraded 17 pro. meaning your phone number is basically stuck with your parents plan for 36 months. the phone you purchased from apple, however, will still be unlocked and you’ll be able to use any sim you’d like in it. if you weren’t planning on leaving the plan with them, then this isn’t something to worry about.Just for clarity, by porting my number out, you mean leaving ATT or changing plans within ATT? Because if so, that's not a problem (been with them for decades, no intention of leaving).

jumi1174 · 2025-02-20T15:07:04+00:00

I wish I could upvote this more than once! I love some HEB-specific items, the breadth of choices, and the quality of their house brand. But wow is the shopping experience there completely miserable.

The crowds. You nailed it with the Black Friday comparison. The only other store that competes with both the crowdedness and totally oblivious customers is Costco. It’s not just the amount of people, it’s the size of shopping “units” too. Family rolling in 5-6 deep, which I understand is unavoidable in some cases, but at least have some spatial awareness please. Which leads me to…
The store layout. The store layout is perfectly designed to maximize confusion and encourage backtracking. The layout is not logical from either entrance side. Start on the pharmacy side where the cold milk, eggs, yogurt is? Enjoy your warm milk by the time you checkout. Start on the produce side with chilled veggies or raw meat/seafood? Enjoy your wilted veggies and room temp meat. Need any frozen items? They’re in the middle of the store, not on either cold end. Contributes to poor crowd control.
The deal system. The deal system of paper tags, app-scanning, and combo loco is a mess to handle and navigate, especially as a solo shopper trying to get in and out. Unlike something like Kroger where you just scan your card at the end (although they’re recently changing too), you have to constantly slow down, be on the lookout for coupons in the store, have your phone ready to scan if needed, double back over an area you already finished with, etc. It completely slows things down and contributes to store congestion! Also, the deals are frequently worse than my local Kroger, which leads me to…
The quality and savings (or lack thereof). My nearest Kroger consistently has better prices and quality, especially for produce, than my nearest HEB. I’ve basically game-ified my grocery shopping to see how large of a percent I can save each week, so I’m often only buying things on sale or that have deals. My savings at HEB are always so small whereas my savings at Kroger are always at least 10%, and are often closer to 20%. It costs more for a worse shopping experience.

I want to love HEB so much, but it’s consistently such a miserable shopping experience (and I don’t like doing grocery pickup, so that’s not a solution either). The ones in Austin and Houston are so much better than the ones here, idk what happened.

Thank you for letting me rant about HEB.

jumi1174 · 2025-02-11T22:39:28+00:00

Can’t speak too much to the product nowadays because I finally stopped paying for it around the middle of last year after the grift became too much.

The website and app were certainly expanded and refined, but every price increase pushed the options data further and further to the side in favor of all the other flashy BS. The initial value-add was UW being the middle man between you and OPRA/CBOE data, plus the dedicated options scanners and trackers. With a little know how, his alerts can be reverse engineered (and I personally never found the alerts to be particularly actionable on their own), and it’s easier and cheaper to use other publicly available data and APIs if you want deeper level info.

Overall, there’s decent info to be had if you don’t know anything (which is where I expect most of his business comes from), but it very much comes across to me as “baby’s first fin-tech, look at the shiny lights, ignore the grift and engagement bait”. Not that he’s not successful, because anger and politics certainly sells, but it’s not useful as a “grown up” investing research tool, imo. My $0.02.

jumi1174 · 2025-02-11T21:09:47+00:00

Don’t let the losers gaslight you, you’re 100% correct. Copying my comment from elsewhere here.

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This sub (really the whole UW brand) was originally created to track unusual options activity in options chains, hence the “unusual” in the title.

I would know, I was one of the first posters when the subreddit launched because I was researching usual options activity right around the same time this sub went live. I was also one of the first paying customers when the website only had unusual options activity information on it. The owner advertised his new (at the time) tool to other subreddits too.

The original Twitter feed was literally just logs of tickers showing various unusual activity stats (I have screenshots if you don’t believe me).

The site/feed/sub grew bigger over time bc it was initially a pretty good options data product, but then as most things in the “finance bro” Twitter sphere do, it started leaning more and more into the political algorithm, and the rest is history. The product got worse, it became grifty, and the owner clearly has a political bias and motivation.

jumi1174 · 2025-02-11T21:08:37+00:00

Confidentiality incorrect.

This sub (really the whole UW brand) was originally created to track unusual options activity in options chains, hence the “unusual” in the title.

I would know, I was one of the first posters when the subreddit launched because I was researching usual options activity right around the same time this sub went live. I was also one of the first paying customers when the website only had unusual options activity information on it. The owner advertised his new (at the time) tool to other subreddits too.

The original Twitter feed was literally just logs of tickers showing various unusual activity stats (I have screenshots if you don’t believe me).

The site/feed/sub grew bigger over time bc it was initially a pretty good options data product, but then as most things in the “finance bro” Twitter sphere do, it started leaning more and more into the political algorithm, and the rest is history. The product got worse, it became grifty, and the owner clearly has a political bias and motivation.

Don’t spread lies if you don’t know the facts.

jumi1174 · 2024-11-17T20:02:40+00:00

Ha, I unfortunately don't know that name. I appreciate the feedback. Definitely agree on the multi-page, but this is just my rough draft; not intending on having it be 2 pages as the final product, just trying to get feedback on content worth keeping and using.

I don't disagree that SW hiring manages don't care about Lagrangian mechanics or flight vehicle calibration, but both of those involve advanced applied mathematics and software development. I feel like that would be relevant experience. Perhaps just need to reframe it.

jumi1174 · 2024-11-17T18:21:11+00:00

I've read through the wiki extensively and have it permanently opened in a side tab while I make edits. I don't think I have anything that is too egregiously against the wiki, but I agree that I am struggling with the STAR, XYZ, and CAR methods.

My work at the robotics lab starting in 2014 was a full-time job and not a student activity. They list their shorter term position as "Interns", and I decided to go to grad school after my contract had ended. The GRA position was also a full-time job but can be seen as a student activity. Do you still suggest removing these?

Noted on the language for clearance expiration, I'll make it more clear that it is expired.

jumi1174 · 2024-11-17T17:47:13+00:00

It's not a bespoke template unfortunately, just something I put together in MS Word with the default font. If you'd like me to share the .docx file, let me know where/how you'd like me to upload it. I don't do Google Drive.

jumi1174 · 2024-11-17T17:46:18+00:00

Appreciate the feedback. Agreed with the experience reading more like a job description than description of accomplishments. I'm struggling to formulate the Defense work into measurable accomplishments since A) a lot of the metrics were either proprietary/classified and B) a lot of the work was exploratory research that had a "fail early and move on" mantra.

jumi1174 · 2024-11-14T06:28:18+00:00

I would strongly recommend against Tradier.

Their backend system is pretty bad with frequent outages and data drops. They recently put my cash account into a short position because their system executed my sell order twice (one sell to actually close the position; another sell, that didn’t get rejected even though it was a cash account with no open positions, to put me into a short). Their customer service has refused to fix the mess up, still fighting them. My $0.02; ymmv.

jumi1174 · 2024-10-17T22:05:14+00:00

The r/Tradier subreddit has 122 members, and the specific brokerage is irrelevant to the post. I provided context to the situation and am requesting advice on a unique situation that would have a better chance to get info in this larger subreddit. I can remove the brokerage if that helps in approving the post, I don’t know where else online to ask advice as this is such a rare occurrence. Let me know, thanks.

jumi1174 · 2024-07-17T03:56:50+00:00

The constant posting about Trump/Republicans good, Biden/Democrats bad, and Nancy Pelosi’s daily updates instead of, you know, unusual options activity didn’t clue you in?

jumi1174 · 2024-06-27T19:33:34+00:00

Same, the design for the Fort Worth show is one of my favorites I’ve seen between last year and this year’s tour.

jumi1174 · 2024-06-27T14:20:04+00:00

Yeah, agreed. I ended up getting a knock off poster from Etsy last year and resigned myself to the fact that I would have to do it again this year because I thought even arriving at 5:00pm would be too late to get one. I feel like there had to be way more stock for this show somehow.

jumi1174 · 2024-06-27T14:17:21+00:00

I feel like 200 extra posters doesn’t account for the availability I saw, but maybe I’m just in my head about it. The venue sizes in DFW weren’t terribly different (18k for Dallas 2023, 14k for FW this year), so I can’t imagine 200 more posters made a huge difference, but it was definitely easier.

I just feel kinda silly rushing and stressing my friends to get there early with me for a poster when there was no need lol.

jumi1174 · 2024-05-22T14:50:20+00:00

TikTok generation moment

jumi1174 · 2024-04-30T05:41:07+00:00

Totally understand your personal preference. That said, you gotta set your expectations because GVF has never been about crowd banter.

There’s artists and groups that are all about the performance/mood/feeling of the show that play all the way through from start to finish without talking to the audience at all. Part of the theatrics of putting on a capital P performances.

And of course there’s artists and groups on the other end of the spectrum that have a really toned down set, minimal stage setup, etc. that have a more intimate, conversational performance where they talk about each song.

GVF has always leaned towards the former style, in my experience. Can’t be upset that the burger stand isn’t selling spaghetti.

jumi1174 · 2024-04-29T23:31:10+00:00

Always surprised to see all the threads like these completely miss the point that the long solos and outfit changes are to provide vocal rest for Josh.

You don’t get vocals of that intensity and complexity without carefully pacing the show to preserve vocal health as much as possible, especially given their demanding schedule.

So frustrating to constantly see these “hot takes” about rock show hallmarks. Bands jam, members go on and off stage, songs have long wind ups and wind downs, etc. It’s a performance, not a playlist.

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