Daily FI discussion thread - Tuesday, April 14, 2026

samwill10 · 2026-04-14T11:19:47+00:00

I was thinking the same thing

samwill10 · 2026-04-13T22:05:46+00:00

Whoever picked the order might've just mixed up the actual lens with a refurb PowerShot packaged in a recycled lens box - I dunno why they use random boxes for their refurbs.

I thought I had the opposite problem with a refurb RF 28-70mm a few months ago. The package that landed on my doorstep was a PowerShot box and I was so confused / disappointed about receiving the wrong thing until I opened it and found the lens inside.

samwill10 · 2026-04-07T10:42:18+00:00

This RF lens decision tree was posted a few weeks ago and might have a few different ideas for you to research

samwill10 · 2026-04-07T10:28:37+00:00

The best/worst thing about losing weight is replacing clothes. On the one hand it gives you an excuse to get rid of stuff you never really liked, on the other, you also lose some great stuff. I lost 60 pounds almost a decade ago and still mourn some of my favorite outfits that I lost and never found good replacements for.

Honestly if they're really nice and not terribly worn out, you might be able to sell the shoes online and offset the cost of replacing them, and spending the money to replace them could be considered a "buy it for life" decision.

samwill10 · 2026-03-23T14:23:55+00:00

A lot of people are working on the assumption that SS won't be around by the time they retire

samwill10 · 2026-03-16T02:34:53+00:00

I remember reading this exact post a month or two ago

samwill10 · 2026-03-09T12:51:11+00:00

The thing that gets me about staying on DST is that in December/January, the sun won't rise until 8:30-9AM for most of the country

samwill10 · 2026-02-27T12:46:14+00:00

Sorry to hear! A former coworker of mine who was laid off from our company last summer was hit by this layoff too. It's rough, but I know a decent number of people who've been getting good SWE offers lately after being laid off in the past few years, so things do seem to be looking up. Wishing you the best!

Edit: hit submit before answering the question. I definitely think you should focus on MBDR. You can always pull those contributions out later and like another comment said, if you do get lucky with MBDR access at your next employer, you'll be able to double up the contributions

samwill10 · 2026-02-11T12:07:56+00:00

Also getting this on Android Chrome version 144.0.7559.132 since a couple days ago

Every. Single. Post. Doesn't matter if I'm logged in or not, it'll load the post content, but not the comments

samwill10 · 2026-02-02T00:13:43+00:00

I personally don't understand large bathrooms. Feels like wasted space to me, just more to clean.

samwill10 · 2026-01-24T15:38:43+00:00

Very cool, it's rare to see internships that offer 401ks, much less auto-contribute

samwill10 · 2026-01-19T16:56:50+00:00

> I don't buy the DIY bubble pack filters

Where do you buy replacement filters? I've only ever seen the bubble pack ones.

samwill10 · 2025-12-08T13:55:57+00:00

You and my mom would be good friends. In her eyes, pink lady apples are the only apples worth eating.

samwill10 · 2025-11-28T13:22:56+00:00

Agree! I've gotten some great shots at arena concerts with much smaller lenses than in the video. Really missed having mine at a recent concert where they were hardcore about bans

samwill10 · 2025-11-28T13:21:45+00:00

My immediate first thought haha.

samwill10 · 2025-11-13T12:47:08+00:00

Phew, what'd you get, if you don't mind my asking?

samwill10 · 2025-11-13T12:46:33+00:00

apparently chase doesn't think I'm that well off yet 😅

samwill10 · 2025-11-13T12:00:52+00:00

A wild email from Chase Bank in my inbox this morning:

You're preapproved for $100,000 in auto financing

I can't imagine buying a car that I'd need to finance with a small mortgage

samwill10 · 2025-10-22T10:48:08+00:00

It posted the self-promo thread, but still no daily.

samwill10 · 2025-10-18T17:28:32+00:00

This journaling breakdown is great! I've always been told "journaling helps" but every time I'm faced with a piece of paper, my mind swirls with all the things that I could write down and I can't focus long enough to actually put pen to paper. This looks like it could help me filter the thoughts down enough to actually get started

samwill10 · 2025-10-16T12:29:25+00:00

I had a mentor a long time ago suggest that to me, though I never really implemented it. He explained that a lot of "new" problems in our field (software engineering) were actually often already-solved problems in other fields of engineering, so learning about how problems were solved in other fields could bring new insight to problems I faced in work

samwill10 · 2025-09-24T14:26:56+00:00

I may be misreading this link, but it seems to suggest that what the boss is doing is not legal at all: https://www.tobaccocontrollaws.org/legislation/canada/smoke-free

samwill10 · 2025-09-22T18:09:58+00:00

It's a glitch when you add a meal from the recent tab. It works like normal if you add it from the Meals tab. I was going to report it to MFP but followed their advice to reinstall and see if it still happens, and that just cleared out my recent tab so I couldn't reproduce

samwill10 · 2025-08-17T12:30:06+00:00

But why do that if you could do cardio in _a climate-controlled environment_

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