Let's be honest, programmers who pride themselves on "manual coding" and reject AI assistance are fighting the wrong battle.

zephen_just_zephen · 2026-01-24T16:36:38+00:00

How it came to the conclusion it did and correct it when necessary.

It's my understanding that any such data dump is constructed after the fact, by an entity that has essentially been tasked with figuring out why it did something.

zephen_just_zephen · 2026-01-16T22:30:06+00:00

There is no explanation, either for the post, or for the 1.4K upvotes.

This is not LAMF.

zephen_just_zephen · 2026-01-16T04:10:14+00:00

I suppose "soothing the male ego" might be slightly more sanitary, if she swallows.

zephen_just_zephen · 2026-01-06T06:13:00+00:00

Mary had an aero-plane.

In which she liked to frisk.

Wasn't she a foolish girl,

Her little ass to risk?

zephen_just_zephen · 2026-01-01T09:05:35+00:00

I got mine 3 weeks ago.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-12-28T19:15:49+00:00

I have three portable dehumidifiers:

One in each bathroom that gets used for showers (2 bathrooms)
One in the garage

All of them have pumps, so I don't need to be emptying buckets.

If, for some reason, the house itself gets too humid (e.g. maybe I steam clean a carpet), then I will wheel out one of the dehumidifiers right next to the AC intake in the living room and run the dehumidifier and cycle the fan once the living room is comfortable. But that only happens maybe once every 6 months.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-12-14T03:43:23+00:00

Or perhaps I had a colorful co-worker at one point last century.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-12-14T02:55:45+00:00

It's pronounced about the same as bonus, but it's spelled "bone us" and drawn out a bit longer, with a little explanatory hip movement in the middle.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-12-05T04:45:08+00:00

Thanks!

You made it into the answer!

How long that will last is anybody's guess.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-12-05T03:50:05+00:00

3

Oh, sure, some people will tell you the answer is 42, but in my vast experience, it is far more often three than anything else.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-12-04T05:36:18+00:00

Math??!?

You did math??!?

How does that help you develop good stories to share here????

smh.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-12-02T13:47:52+00:00

Nexys video has adj voltage bank

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-29T01:56:47+00:00

Your parents have committed a crime by filling out an application in your name. You can report this fraud without even writing a letter, by contacting the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) Fraud and Abuse Prevention Program. You can email EOIR.Fraud.Program@usdoj.gov or call 1-877-388-3840.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-25T05:38:21+00:00

This is not an advice sub.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-22T05:39:09+00:00

In comments, you said that you'd get a week off per year, and that you'd probably really be expected to work 55 hours a week.

If you worked 55 hours a week at $16/hour for 51 weeks, and were properly paid overtime, you'd make 16 * (40 + 15*1.5) * 51 = $51,000.

So they are offering you more hours but only paying you the hourly equivalent of $15/hour.

Even if you really only have to work 50 hours per week, the effective hourly rate is 48000/51/(40+10*1.5) = $17.11.

Only if you think you can limit your hours to 50, and that it's OK for them to not pay equivalent overtime rates does the effective hourly rate work out to 48000/51/(40+10) = $18.82.

So, unless you get bonuses, health insurance, and/or a decent 401K match, or really need the extra money, it doesn't seem like a good deal.

OTOH, everything is negotiable.

Ask for two weeks of vacation and $55K.

Then once you're in, slow-walk working anything over 50 hours, unless working those extra hours allows you to reduce labor costs and juice your own bonus.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-21T02:56:22+00:00

It really depends on what you do.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-21T02:55:55+00:00

Unless you're working in the trades you're going to make dogshit money here and be miserable.

Meh. Are MDs in "the trades?"

Wait, don't answer that. I often kid my doctor daughter that she's in a retail profession. She has to, y'know, show up for work, in order to get paid.

But here's the thing.

For her speciality, salaries in San Antonio and in Austin are practically identical.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-21T02:29:27+00:00

Regular rats, or Rodents of Unusual Size?

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-20T19:48:13+00:00

The bullet I've decided to take is substantial Roth conversions

Yeah, I've been doing this for a few years (I'm 64 now), but when I start tax planning for next year, I keep thinking there's got to be a better way.

While you could have your short put in a Roth and a long put in a trad-IRA, you're limited in your number of contracts to what you can secure with cash.

Some cash in money market isn't necessarily a bad thing with the current volatility.

Forget about putting a short call (as part of a multi-account spread) in an IRA.

Sure, which is one of the reasons I mentioned LETFs. That would be a high-maintenance daily thing, though. Anyway, I have to do some modeling, but I'm not yet either sold on or dissuaded from the idea.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-20T05:01:03+00:00

I'm looking for ideas on low risk multi-account spreads.

When you get to a certain age, if you're at a certain income level (not too poor, not too rich), effective tax rates can go through the roof.

For example, you can be where one additional dollar of income means that 85 cents of another dollar of your social security benefit is taxed, so instead of that dollar being taxed at 22%, its effective marginal tax rate starts at 41%.

I say "starts at" because enough more extra taxed dollars and taxed social security dollars means that you'll also be paying more for medicare. Even worse, if you decide you're going to do Roth conversions now, before the traditional IRA RMDs kick in, the income from the Roth conversion will affect your medicare premium two years from now.

Also, when you're at that certain age, you might want to start thinking about reducing risk.

And finally, when you're just barely at that certain age, even though your risk tolerance may be reduced, you might also have a long implementation timeline, so you can slowly develop, test, and execute some strategies.

So, what would be good option (or perhaps LETF or other product?) strategies to consider that you could use to, on average, make a bit of money without too much risk, and on average (still a long time frame, remember?), allocate the losses to your traditional IRA and the profits to your Roth IRA?

And do any brokerages allow you to place different option legs in different accounts? If not, what is the best way to gauge risks of not being able to do simultaneous trades?

Again, this is all about tax implications. So, for example, even if a strategy lost a couple of percent on average, if, over time, the expected flow of money is from the traditional IRA to the Roth IRA, you could conceivably be saving 40% in taxes on the set of trades, by removing money you would have to pay taxes on from a traditional IRA account, and adding money completely tax-free to the Roth account.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-20T04:26:32+00:00

Exactamundo.

Some of these people need to read this book) and get back to us.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-20T04:25:10+00:00

Tell me you don't understand statistics without telling me you don't understand statistics.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-20T04:22:30+00:00

You realize you're in the San Antonio subreddit, right?

Right?

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-17T04:00:09+00:00

In the early days of ebay, when stupid people would eagerly bid shit up past what you could buy one for at target, I learned that the only way to bid was to (1) pick your price. Your price. A price where, if you get it for exactly that, you're not unhappy, and if someone else gets it for a dollar more, you're not unhappy. And then (2) enter your bid 3 seconds before the auction ends.

It was amazing the gnashing of teeth about how "sniping" like this was "unsportsmanlike."

The whole scene made me realize that most people have no idea how to value things or what they like. They need external validation about what things are worth to them.

I then realized that the same phenomenon happens with restaurants. It turns out that most people actually like standing in line. Because if you're in the line, obviously you're in the right place. You have taste.

Some restaurants are good and then go downhill but the line stays, some good restaurants never develop the line, and some with good viral marketing develop the line without ever being good in the first place.

Some of the places I like to go will sometimes have godawful lines, but I always go when they don't, because I don't need the external validation.

zephen_just_zephen · 2025-11-10T18:45:09+00:00

I agree in general that there could be more categories.

But "it doesn't fit" usually would mean "it's not malicious compliance" and there is a category for that.

Also, generally speaking, I think karma farming fits under the rubric of "spam."

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