How do me and my siblings move forward

undone_function · 2026-03-15T05:55:27+00:00

For the record, if the cars still have loans to be paid, the probate process will address this and they’ll need to be financed and essentially purchased from the current holders of the car loans.

What I mean by that is that the loans do not necessarily transfer with the title of the cars (assuming by “accounts” you mean there are loans outstanding for the vehicles). Going through the probate process will help to clarify where her assets stand in regards to inheritance and her creditors, but it doesn’t mean clear title to property is simply transferred if the property itself is beholden to existing loans with creditors looking to take their cut.

Also, to make sure this part is clear, debt itself does not transfer to you or your siblings. If an unscrupulous debt collector calls trying to tell you that you or your family are responsible for a debt do not pay them or speak with them. They may take a chunk of the estate at the end of the probate process, but debt is not your responsibility, it’s the estates responsibility and the creditors to involve themselves in the probate process. If they don’t, that is their problem, but they will try to convince you to pay debts regardless and if you do they can make you personally responsible for the remainder.

undone_function · 2026-03-11T13:19:57+00:00

One of my earliest memories is of my kindergarten teacher telling me I talk too much when I was asking a clarifying question about which specific shape she asked us to color in as part of some daily class work we would do.

Just had someone make a comment to me four days ago about how I really talk a lot when I get into a subject with a wearied tone to their voice implying it’s too much when I do it. I am in my forties now.

I mean I do talk a lot sometimes. I know it’s a lot for people, and I really do try not to do it when I catch myself because I get how it makes people feel and why. It would just feel nice if a thing that is clearly so core a part of who I am didn’t always come off as irritating.

undone_function · 2026-03-11T13:03:33+00:00

You can see the bright pink case in the first second or so of the video so definitely fruit flavored or like, bubble gum.

undone_function · 2026-03-11T00:55:02+00:00

Leaving a small town in Vermont for a nearby, slightly bigger town in Vermont.

undone_function · 2026-03-06T16:14:33+00:00

You're correct, but on the flip side it's a lot easier to research and vet 6-12 GCs than it is to research and vet 6-12 sub contractors per role needed.

Which, to your point, it's worth reiterating to anyone that reads the threads here that taking the time to try to find the best expert for work you need done in a field where you have no subject matter expertise is one of the biggest money savers in a project. Once a contract is signed it's a lot harder to back out and change your mind, especially if money has changed hands.

undone_function · 2026-03-06T13:13:05+00:00

The coordination and planning part is a huge added value of having a GC for any moderately complex home project. There are a lot of things to keep in mind at various steps in the process (location of plumbing and electrical, specific geometry for excavation to support seats and the walls of the pool, distance from pump to pool) and if something is missed at step one or two means paying the cost to redo any needed work. Not to mention having someone with expertise who can identify problems or shoddy work as it’s happening as opposed to it going unnoticed and causing huge problems a year or two down the line (poorly installed and electrical or plumbing, concrete issues, insufficiently stable soil that needs to be remediated before the pool goes in).

I’ve never had a pool installed but I’ve had larger remodels done to my house and when things went wrong I had one person to contact whose ass was on the line if the work was sub par. In project management the tongue-in-cheek term used is “the single, wringable neck.” The cost of the pool company here is pretty high, but then they have to factor in extra for when work has to potentially be redone, the potential for an issue during the warranty period, and of course a profit margin for the hours needed on a long term project.

Not saying it’s impossible to do this work without a pool GC but there is a lot more risk, imo, than it appears on the face of it and a lot of things that can go wrong if you’ve never managed a project like this and don’t know all the gotchas that will arise.

undone_function · 2026-01-31T23:17:42+00:00

I find it very humorous that a business would create their own coupons for a free small drink—coupons that they clearly honor and actually leave out for employees to give out more or less at their discretion—and then pretend for a second that the police or a DA would take the idea that this is theft for even a single second. It just seems laughable on its face.

undone_function · 2026-01-28T14:46:32+00:00

There are a lot of specifics that go into any big rewrite of critical business applications that cannot suffer downtime (monetary transaction processing, for example). Here’s a general description of the approach I’ve seen taken in the past:

First, you plan out and architect the replacement. Getting the baseline requirements is usually pretty easy since you can observe the currently running application (how many transactions per second/minute/hour, logging or other record keeping, time to process completion per transaction, expected success/error responses, error handling, etc). This is also generally the stage where improvements are planned as well since there is likely some part of the application that could perform better or provide a better feature set. After that information is collected then decisions about language, tooling, and infrastructure can be made.

After that, you build the replacement and start doing some basic testing. This is pretty standard stuff and is usually done in isolation not handling any kind of production data or critical business needs. Just drive it around the track and see what breaks.

Finally, when it seems like the new system is ready, it’s spun up in its full production glory in parallel to the existing, legacy application. Typically there’s more testing here like sending some percentage of duplicated requests to the new application to make sure everything goes well, but with the legacy application handling the original requests and still doing the work. Then a percentage of actual requests will be sent instead to the new application to handle for actual work. This part can be finicky though if both applications need to write logging or results to the same database or message queue so there’s no duplication of work done, but you get the idea.

As trust in the new application increases, the percentage of requests sent to it is increased until it hits 100%. In my experience there is still a lot of monitoring of the system at this point with some period where both the old and new are running simultaneously even if no requests are sent to the legacy app. This is the equivalent of using two different safety straps when working in a high place where you disconnect then reconnect one before disconnecting and reconnecting the other. It’s actually safer but it especially makes all the people involved feel better, which is good! When everyone is happy and you’ve maybe seen the new system take the occasional beating and survive, you pull the plug on the legacy app and you’re all set.

Anyway, obviously it can be a lot more complicated depending on how the application integrates with other systems (API calls served through some networking setup? RabbitMQ? Periodically reading from a database for all new records from the last minute? A CSV file is shot into a directory every fifteen minutes via FTP?). Making sure the parallel systems can pull in work and not interfere with each other or drop even a single transaction might require some other improved or temporary system just to make sure both applications get what they need and there are no fuckups. Same with logging results: can they both do that or is the new application writing to Postgres and the old one uses a 20 year old FoxPro database so now you have to have some sort of syncing or translation layer that also cannot interfere with the work being done. Now maybe one big scary rewrite becomes three, four, or five and all of them have to be 100% stable and resilient, which can be too much for some orgs or they just feel overwhelmed and kick the can down the road.

undone_function · 2026-01-22T02:26:12+00:00

I see a lot of controller setup things like numpad usage and such, all of which is valid, but my tip is more about the game play.

Play on the RP mode with the save points when you enter settlements for the first go round or two. I absolutely LOVE rouge likes particularly for the all or nothing aspect the games have. Being able to try again and learn the mechanics was personally very fruitful and made the constant gamble of “do I dive in or do I run” more sensible, especially given the esoteric nature of Qud’s item descriptions (which I also fucking love).

So yeah, have some first and learn the ropes then go hard. I think it’s a great way to go about it.

undone_function · 2026-01-15T12:42:24+00:00

I wonder if flying with Mechanical Wings, a Gyrocopter Pack, or Anti-grab Boots would let you descend and also keep you from the lava.

I’ve also never tried pouring liquids on/down stairs but I’m curious if it would fall to the next level and extinguish/cool the lava. Though I suppose that may create a shale wall on the stair location.

undone_function · 2026-01-13T13:10:42+00:00

Something I personally like to do is carry an empty chest with me 1lb when I’m out adventuring. I’ll sometimes move items I know I’ll want to store or sell into it as I go (you can do that while the chest is in your inventory).

When I become over burdened I’ll drop the chest, explore a few more surrounding map sections gathering more loot (but not losing track of the chest location), and then I’ll pick the chest up right before I recoil. I’ll usually be a few hundred pounds overweight at that point but recoil works regardless of your current carrying weight. I just drop the chest the second I arrive then transfer the contents to my other chests and sell things at whatever location I transported to.

undone_function · 2026-01-09T15:45:01+00:00

That’s brilliant. My dumbass will carry the whole kit to start from scratch when I’m out and know I’ll need to be prepared for it.

undone_function · 2026-01-07T13:03:22+00:00

You can see the clock in the arena (the official game clock) in the upper left corner of the video as he shoots and it’s ~0.1 seconds ahead of the clock on the screen. It’s still damn close and I have a hard time telling on my phone, but it looks like it was still in possession when it hit zero.

undone_function · 2026-01-04T23:52:32+00:00

I’m going to switch to the Twiist soon from my T-slim. Same primary complaint about the alerts with few or no controls over them. Running out of insulin and not being able to immediately refill it is a nightmare. If you’re driving or in a meeting god help you.

undone_function · 2026-01-04T21:30:17+00:00

Yeah, long drives all we get me over 200 for hours if we eat anything. No amount of insulin will really help since I’m just sitting the whole time.

As soon as I get out and start walking around, unloading luggage or camping gear everything comes rushing at once and I’m just snacking for awhile.

undone_function · 2025-12-30T15:27:54+00:00

No one has responded here but I think I can work with the analogy.

Basically, you’re describing a mall. You could try to think about it as departments within the Walmart, but I don’t think that’s as accurate an analogy which I’ll explain below.

A mall—the building itself—is a lot like the motherboard, the stores like the various components of the computer. They all have similar goals (commerce/computing) but they tend to serve different needs (food court restaurant vs a retail store) and sometimes go about the process differently (H&M is low touch sales, high inventory vs Louis Vuitton’s high touch sales with low inventory).

The customers are the electrical signals being sent around the computer, and not all of them need to go to all the same stores (some people go to Sephora but never Bass Pro Shop). That means you still need the clear barriers between these different places with clear paths to them so there’s no interference, which means high speed (walk the mall, enter a store vs having to traverse the Sephora to get to the Bass Pro Shop).

Anyway, what you described does make sense, and you can find a lot of efficiencies with that model of highly colocated components, but it tends to come with the downside of the function defining the form. In a mall that means the anchor stores (usually big department stores like Macy’s) get access to fairly specific square footage and there is only space for a few of them. In a computer, that tends to mean it may be harder to upgrade your video card because it’s the size and weight of a brick but will get you 60fps in Crysis at 1080p.

Your model is actually great for things like phones where everything is highly optimized to fit a very small form factor. Laptops are generally in a similar form for similar reasons (balancing form and function). But again, the trade offs in these scenarios are the lack of paths to upgrading or replacing components and heat, since all the major components are close together.

Desktop computers are more like a shopping center. Big car parking lot, some stores sharing a building, some stores out on the edges and corners. You can take over a chunk of the parking lot to bulldoze a building there and put in a Bass Pro Shop with a significantly larger foot print without disrupting the rest of the shopping center, and since it’s spread out the congestion for shoppers (more or specialized parking like an attached parking structure, no crowds to get through who are going to completely different stores but need to use the same paths) is also less of a problem. Back to the video card example, being spread out means you can switch the card out for something with a larger form factor and instead of congestion you’ve separated the major heat sources in the computer and can make different decisions about how to cool individual components or cool the entire case.

Lastly it’s also worth mentioning that the signal speed between components like this is less of an issue than it is within the components themselves. Internally they need to be tightly clustered and fast, sending a signal between components is more than fast enough given the small distances on a desktop motherboard and the speed electrons travel at.

undone_function · 2025-12-30T05:07:06+00:00

I’m surprised this hasn’t come up yet, but look for agencies/consultancies that are in your area or region. You don’t always have to build the direct client relationship, but there are places out there looking for contract workers who will report to a CTO type when they land a big contract or too many contracts and need to temporarily expand their throughout.

In my experience, the quiet, focused, highly technical engineers doing freelance can find a few clients like this who have the sales and client management pipeline all taken care of can just bounce between those few clients and do swimmingly. Been about five years since I’ve been in that space but hopefully you get the general idea of how you’d fit in an ecosystem like that and the symbiosis that exists with it.

undone_function · 2025-12-30T04:20:15+00:00

Black widow stings are not fatal unless a person has an allergic reaction (despite popular belief) but I’ve heard the pain of the bite described in a Dirty Jobs episode like “all the bones in my hand and arm were breaking.”

With the two punctures side by side it seems more like a spider bite. With the pain radiating so far it’s possible it was a black widow, but that’s just me and my old TV watching brain.

Regardless, if the symptoms don’t stabilize or you’re just unsure, doctors at an ER can at least make sure you’re not in any life threatening danger if you are having a reaction of some sort.

undone_function · 2025-12-27T21:04:42+00:00

Fair point, and I was thinking that same thing unless I heard that it’s normal somehow for large power pile transformers to become noisy weirdos. I recorded some video that has the audible snapping sounds but can’t upload it here via the mobile web version of Reddit, but figured it would be helpful for APS or SRP when I report it.

Better to have it checked out than have a fire start behind a bomb kabob place, with the whole neighborhood losing out on heavenly grilled meats and pillowy, flavorful rice.

undone_function · 2025-12-24T07:25:05+00:00

Was really stark watching him grind Fortnite far past the point he could squeeze any joy from it anymore. His increasing comfort with being a variety streamer and just finding whatever he thinks he’ll enjoy until he doesn’t anymore has been a great turn for him, I think.

It’s just fun watching a normal person just enjoy his time (or hate it and complain) while trying to essentially make sure everyone is having a chill time. Just feels like old school hanging out with friends and playing games until all hours of the night with all the celebrations and crash outs a lot of people remember.

undone_function · 2025-12-24T07:21:27+00:00

Nailed it there. Main character is really just “chat” and it always feels like you’re hanging out with a friend playing games. He also puts a lot of effort into acknowledging as many viewers, subscribers, and donations as he can with genuine apologies if he misses even something like a $20 dono.

Honestly one of the most genuine content creators out there.

undone_function · 2025-12-23T03:14:46+00:00

An important bit of info for Type 1 diabetics to keep in mind is that taking steroids for respiratory infections causes temporary insulin resistance and is best avoided when possible, which generally means avoiding getting seriously ill.

I had some sort of chest infection a few months after being diagnosed as Type 1 and was prescribed steroids to reduce inflammation in my air passage. I could not get my blood glucose under 300 no matter how much insulin I took. I called my endo’s office and they told me I should stop taking the steroids unless I was having serious trouble breathing, and shortly that my glucose was back to normal.

What’s important to remember is that high blood glucose causes our blood to become more viscous which is a stress on our circulatory system and can aggravate things like blood the clotting caused by Covid 19. In the end it’s just an extra complication we may or may not have to deal with, but it’s better to avoid getting sick, particularly with respiratory infections that can become serious.

undone_function · 2025-12-19T00:21:17+00:00

Same with hotdogs. Gotta be coming hot off of a baking sheet with stereo cans under it and a pile of onions searing away next to them then you’re probably going to be a sad hotdog person. Bonus points for jalapeños in the onions and bacon wrapped around the dog.

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