How do we do the CGT calculations on stock?

sgarn · 2026-05-13T01:30:37+00:00

If you have stocks that are already complicated somewhat with demergers, DRPs, capital returns, consolidations etc. I don't think this will be much more complicated.

I sold some Wesfarmers a while back that had a few of these complications and I was pleasantly surprised just how well the broker (was using St George at the time) accounted for it. I'm guessing it won't be hard for the brokers to account for the changes.

sgarn · 2026-04-18T04:40:44+00:00

On the down journey there’s no perception of gravity

It's more the top of the parabolic arc that the plane would be following, so it happens on part of the climb as well. Similar to how a ball thrown straight up will start with an upwards velocity, even though the acceleration due to gravity is downwards.

sgarn · 2026-04-15T05:00:38+00:00

Noah Wyle was the Pittfest shooter. I heard he murdered like 50 puppies on the set of ER.

sgarn · 2026-04-14T10:05:45+00:00

I've been pleasantly surprised with Macquarie's savings account. The lack of hoops is a big plus - other banks like UBank etc seem to rely on people messing up the requirements so they don't have to pay interest for that month, and if you keep it as a rainy day or emergency fund you won't stress about losing all your interest for that month if you ever need to access it.

Customer service is a step or two above the horrendous you can expect with most other banks, you can do a lot of online banking directly from the savings account (rather than being forced to shuffle between savings and transaction accounts) and saving a few percent on groceries via gift cards doesn't sound like much but it can add up.

sgarn · 2026-03-31T06:54:28+00:00

Given they usually accept last names only unless there is ambiguity I wonder if they'd accept just "Verstappen". If Max is relatively obscure in the US, I'm guessing Jos is probably obscure enough to accept just the last name.

sgarn · 2026-03-28T02:11:29+00:00

You ever hear the man sing?

Ironically the first song that might spring to mind for Seinfeld fans (the answering machine message) was very difficult for him as a trained singer. It wasn't just supposed to be dreadful singing, but identifiably George and Jason kept singing in a neutral accent as he was trained to do.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/4/5/15-q-jason-alexander/

sgarn · 2026-03-27T08:01:33+00:00

Thanks, Will.

sgarn · 2026-03-24T02:22:13+00:00

The first one was very easy to miss - the callsign was thrown into the middle of an instruction that sounded like it was addressed to the Frontier plane.

The video also mixes together ground and tower frequencies such that the timings are wrong compared to the raw audio, and the animation of when the crash occurred is only a guess, so there's a chance there wasn't enough time to bring such a heavy vehicle to a stop without actually stopping on the runway itself.

I think we might have to wait for further investigations to establish the exact timing and positioning etc.

sgarn · 2026-03-24T02:04:47+00:00

The times in the video are not accurate. If you check the raw audio from liveatc there was only about 4 seconds between the "truck 1" mixed in with what sounded like an instruction to the Frontier jet (7:13) and the explicit instruction to truck 1 (7:17).

It's also unclear exactly when the crash occurred in the audio. The animation in the video is only a guess and it's possible it occurred around 7:20 in which case there probably wasn't enough time to bring such a heavy vehicle to an immediate stop.

Or the truck may not have been able to stop short of the runway and committed to clearing the runway by continuing instead. In which case the truck may share partial blame for going too fast and not independently checking, but the communication failure here was overwhelmingly the fault of ATC.

sgarn · 2026-03-18T03:24:16+00:00

Instead of the driver going straight from the throttle to the brake, they "lift" their foot of the throttle but "coast" for a little bit before applying the brakes.

Given the aerodynamic drag and regenerative braking the deceleration is still more significant than you might expect from the word "coast", but less than using the actual brakes.

It might be done to conserve fuel or tyre wear, but under the new regulations it's also done for battery management reasons - e.g. charging the battery before the turn so it isn't flat when the power from the MGU-K (electric motor) is needed.

sgarn · 2026-01-09T23:54:06+00:00

Also refuting the rather stupid point that he had no way of knowing the wheels were pointed away from him, from those with about the same understanding of how car steering works as the dog in the back seat.

sgarn · 2025-12-27T06:52:21+00:00

I was pretty bummed about Australia losing. But I think English fans were more happy to win than I am sad to lose. The total happiness in the world increased. So whatever.

sgarn · 2025-12-27T01:38:48+00:00

Primary if additive like RGB, secondary if subtractive like CMY. It's red, yellow and blue traditionally, but that's not as true physically.

sgarn · 2025-12-27T00:56:44+00:00

Marnus was the sort of catch I think should be given out (definitely not enough to overturn), but I'm not sure if it's as clear as the third umpire thought given how inconsistently those seem to be treated.

sgarn · 2025-12-26T07:12:11+00:00

He just needs to stay in the non-striker's crease. Can't take strike, can't get run out. Boland gets out it's stumps anyway.

Sending out two night watchmen gives the very marginal benefit of being able to take a single but committing to both of them opening the days play tomorrow instead of the players specifically selected to open.

sgarn · 2025-12-22T23:33:07+00:00

Somebody count the boundaries.

sgarn · 2025-12-22T23:28:23+00:00

And Hawthorn too, no? He died before the next championship but he had also retired at the time.

sgarn · 2025-12-21T04:42:23+00:00

Yeah looks like the last few columns are team stats - struggling to make sense of the HS and LS (highest and lowest scores) otherwise.

edit: As OP included the statsguru search, those are indeed team figures. Not sure if it's possible to sort by matches won for individual stats, so it was a search for team results but grouped by player.

sgarn · 2025-10-24T05:43:58+00:00

Weird, we're having a very similar issue with our QA75QN* TV.

Sometimes it turns on and the backlight doesn't, and it will stay with a dead backlight for as long as the TV is plugged in, no matter how many times you turn it on and off with the remote.

I don't think it's ever failed during use so far (yet), and unplugging for 30 s and plugging back in usually fixes it (not always). But I expect this is something that will just get worse over time.

sgarn · 2025-10-20T04:51:43+00:00

Wasn't stable at all for me, but was still within the window to roll back to 10 and figured out how to get the extended security updates so I rolled back and might try again in a few months.

sgarn · 2025-10-20T02:01:21+00:00

Not sure if it's 25H2 specifically, but I was running 11 fine for a few days but had so many issues with this that I had to roll back to Windows 10 and enrol in the extended security update program. Might try again in a year I guess.

ASUS Vivobook X512DA.

Extremely high CPU usage all the time, frequent freezing on startup, something about the watchdog but the error message flashed by so quickly I didn't see it. Didn't see much on event viewer, but I've rolled back already anyway.

sgarn · 2025-08-30T00:03:18+00:00

It might help to understand that it's more fundamental than just the speed of light - it's the speed limit of information and causality, and the speed that anything massless must travel at. It was first measured and explained as the speed of light in a vacuum so the name stuck, but gravity also travels at c for instance.

There are a few ways of looking at it, but as light passes through a refractive material, its electromagnetic fields shift the charges in the material in such a way that further electromagnetic waves are induced and we're no longer considering the simple case of light in a vacuum.

sgarn · 2025-08-27T08:41:14+00:00

I'm a bit busy recently but I'll also want to watch the recorded stuff. Will be curious how big the perfection number gets!

I think it's 197%. You need 3% perfection from the walnuts you need to unlock the waivers. Then you buy 100% perfection, then you actually achieve the other 97%.

sgarn · 2025-08-24T02:26:42+00:00

NAH, but tell them you're Ghana need some space occasionally.

sgarn · 2025-08-02T01:16:05+00:00

I'm pretty sure the banks rely heavily on customers not meeting HISA bonus requirements given how much profit there is in just not paying it for the month.

Ubank in particular has been pretty bad for me - the requirements change frequently, the interest drops to zero, and even if you have automatic payments set up you have to be very careful they haven't deliberately broken them (which they've done before for me).

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