Our 2007 Honda CRV just hit 300,000 miles today! No major issues… it feels sluggish to be sure. In March it went from being our primary car to secondary, so it might go a week without being driven these days.
I used to shop at FYE a fair bit. There wasn’t one super close to me, but whenever I’d head towards the mall that had it, I’d be super excited to go. Usually would walk out with 5-10 movies to add to my collection. Now, it’s just ridiculous. They still have an average-size selection… but their prices are just horrible. The only thing they have in a price range I’d consider are a handful of things for $4-$6. But those are a small selection, and always just stuff I could get from other stores for $2-$3. Most of their stock is asking $15-$30 for DVDs. Seems like DVD purchasing is now a niche enough hobby that people who would buy them would also know their general market value, and wouldn’t ever spend that much.
I had a receipt with 3 line items. Before the transaction posted and was linked, I updated the receipt info to mark all 3 line items as "Category A" category. At some point shortly after the transaction posted, it automatically linked the receipt.
However, the transaction category was set to "Category B" instead (the same category the pending transaction was waiting in; based on what it assumed for that merchant). Is this a bug? When a receipt causes a split, each transaction gets categorized appropriately.
I seem to remember a net worth page where you could look closely at your net worth over any period of time you wanted, filter by investments / cash / assets / loans.
Now all I can find is on the Accounts Page, at the top there is a graph. You can select the length of time, but nothing shorter than 1 month, meaning you can't see easily "how much did my net worth increase yesterday" for example. And I don't see anything on the Reports page that shows anything related to this.
Ever since I switched my Fidelity card from using Finicity and digital.fidelity.com to using Plaid and myaccountaccess.com, I've had no connection issues. But I see now that the last successful data pull was 2 days ago. There's no alert that there's a disconnect or anything, it just says the last sync was 2 days ago. I've tried updating my login credentials, which sends me a MFA text, but after entering in the code from the text, I just get a "An error has occurred" message.
My house was built in 2024, on a new road that didn't exist before that. So I expected map systems to take time to catch up. But my address now appears correctly on Apple Maps. And my home address is listed correctly in the system. But despite Apple correctly knowing that my home address is "45 Mystreet Rd", if I ever get directions to "Home", it always navigates to "25 Mystreet Rd" instead. That is the address of my neighbor, who lives at the other end of this road.
It's just a minor annoyance, but I'm curious, why would it do this? If it knows my home address correctly, why does it change to a different address when navigating?
Several questions... The white number seems clear enough. I had $0 income on August 14. I had $1,131.56 of expenses. Net income is income minus the expenses. What are the red numbers? None of the 4 red numbers shown make any sense to me. Why would I have negative income ever, unless I categorized a debit as an income category instead of an expense category? Which I didn't do.
I made a support ticket back in April about how some of my budget bars were not showing correctly, and they told me that the engineering team was actively working on a fix. 4 months later, I'm starting to doubt it. And I've never seen anyone else mention this issue, so I'm really wondering if it's only my account somehow?
As you can see, "Groceries" shows empty, as if I haven't spent anything, even though I am over budget. And recently I noticed that for these broken bars, the "where you are in the month" tick is also at the beginning. It seems to happen on random bars, but a bunch of them are like this. It happens on both the website and the mobile (iOS) app. It only happens for categories that rollover, and ones I am over-budget on.
Put up some IKEA shelving recently, and they came with short straps to use to secure the top to the wall and prevent tipping. I am wondering, is it better those or standard metal L-brackets at the top to prevent tipping? If it matters, there is about half an inch between the top of the shelving and the wall due to the baseboard.
(Originally I planned to remove the baseboard to get it flush against the wall, but it seemed plenty close enough to the wall to not be worth doing that.)
Moved to a new house last year. At the old place, several games were living in piles on and under a table because there wasn’t enough shelving. We finally got our new shelves built and everything put away.
IKEA Ivar if anyone is wondering. Spend months sanding, staining, and polying.
Ever since moving to Azure DevOps; we've followed this same release process for almost all our projects (we run about 15 different projects/repos). Using trunk-based development. But something feels off sometimes, and I'm wondering if we're doing something wrong.
This happens for several different tickets. At some point, based on schedules, client needs, and priorities, project manager says that everything in test is good to go for the next release.
This generally works, but results in a few different annoyances/problems:
Outside of completely abandoning trunk-based development, can this process be improved? How do others do release management for trunk-based development?
The other day there was a strange and confusing play that happened during the Red Sox - Blue Jays game. I've read about 3 articles about it which each explain it similarly, but there's a couple things I'm not understanding from what I've read.
The setup was simple... runner on 1st and 3rd, 1 out. Several people incorrectly thought there were 2 outs (scoreboard said so). Fly ball is hit and caught; both runners advanced as soon as the ball was hit (because they thought there were 2 outs). Ball is thrown to first to get that runner out, for the 3rd out of the inning. The player who ran home got his score counted, even though he didn't tag up.
The ruling was that the Blue Jays "failed to appeal to third base" and they they "only appealed to first base". And that "the appeal play decision takes precedence in determining the out". This is the part where I'm lost. I understand that an "appeal play" is when the offense does something illegal (like failing to tag up), and the defense "appeals". But what does it mean to "appeal"? The rules say it's not "appeal" as in talking to an ump to get a review; so not the standard English definition of "appeal".
So first, how do they "appeal"? Is it just throwing the ball to first base; that is "making an appeal"?
And second, what does it mean that "If the third out is made during a play in which an appeal play is sustained on another runner, the appeal play decision takes precedence in determining the out". Takes precedence over what? That sentence, directly from the official rules, sounds like it's missing something. And also what is "the appeal play decision"? What "decision"?
I feel like I understand most of the general concepts that come into play here; I just don't understand a lot of the language and sentence structure that the MLB rules uses.
In May (I think) I enrolled in Verizon Dollars after seeing it on the app. Every month I've seen it say something like "you'll receive $7.20 when you pay your bill". But my total dollars is still showing as $0. Last month, a rep told me that the program wouldn't start until the July bill. This month, a rep told me that it was only for Verizon Visa Card holders.... despite the FAQ specifically saying that a Verizon Visa Card is not required (though you get more rewards if you have that).
Waiting now for another rep to respond.... but does this program actually work for anyone? Is it just my account, or the whole program?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying season 5 was bad or that I didn't like it. But I'm annoyed about the whole thing...
The thing is, I was really enjoying the story as it was progressing through the first 3 seasons. I couldn't wait to find out what would happen when Peter activated the machine. And then, suddenly he's erased from time so we go to an alternate timeline where none of that stuff ever happened.
Fine, so I think I get to sit through season 4 and exploring this other timeline before getting back to finding out about that. Then towards the end of season 4, I can't wait to find out how they resolve this whole "getting Peter back to his own timeline" thing. So now there's 2 pretty major storylines that I'm looking forward to finding out the ending of.
Then season 5 starts... and it's basically like they just canceled Fringe completely and replaced it with a different show which starred similar characters. Not that the future world isn't interesting, but it's got basically nothing to do with getting any resolution on the threads that had been getting built up in season 3 and then 4. It was only towards the end of season 5 that you even find out that the future world they're in is the future of the non-Peter timeline; so I guess Peter never does get back to his timeline. And we just never find out at all what the fate of that original timeline was; what happened after the machine was activated.
Anyway, from what I understand, there were issues trying to get the show renewed for another season, and making this drastic change to the overall show was the only way they could get a season 5. I just really would have liked to seen a proper conclusion to everything being build up from season 1-3, and then also everything happening in season 4.
Ok, rant over. It was a great show. For the first 3 seasons, I really loved it. John Noble especially made it so much fun to watch. Season 4 was good in its own way, though I wish they had figured out how to get Peter back to his own timeline within the first few episodes and then continued the story from there.
Edit Thanks for the replies! I see I worded some stuff badly… I did understand that it was explained that there wasn’t another timeline for Peter to come back to. What I really meant was that I wanted to see stories continue in the world where Peter was always there; I was disappointed that they couldn’t ever reverse his erasure from time because it kind of reversed a lot of the character growth; especially his relationship with Walter. And I knew that he combined the universes with the machine; but we don’t get to see the results of that.
I finally watched Barry Lyndon last week; I own it on DVD. I had heard good things, and it more than lived up to the hype. Despite being on DVD with noticeable poor resolution, it was one of the best-looking films I’ve seen. Absolutely gorgeous. I immediately went out and ordered this.
Following up on another similar thread about plot holes... I am always bugged by people referring to things as twists, when they are simply story beats that you may have not seen coming. A twist is when the audience is holding on to a truth, and then you find out that the thing is not actually true.
A character suddenly being killed at the end is not a twist. Finding out that a character you thought was dead is actually alive is a twist, because you were lead to believe they were dead.
I've seen people refer to the ending/escape in Shawshank redemption as a twist. No, Andy escaping is a plot point, just like Brooks being released and Red getting denied parole were. It might be a surprising plot development you didn't see coming, but it didn't take a key truth that you held to and suddenly show it to be not true.
The truth you are holding to could be explicit or implicit. In Star Wars, you are told specifically by a trustworthy character that Vader killed Luke's father. Therefore finding out that Vader did not kill Luke's father is a twist. In the Sixth Sense, it's implicit, because the main character being alive is just something you take for granted when watching basically any movie that doesn't specifically tell you otherwise.
But "the main character won't die at the end" isn't an implicit truth that you just assume. Maybe it could feel that way if you've never watched a movie where the main character dies. But people dying is normal; it happens in real life and in movies.
There's room for some grey area I think. For example "the bad guy wins" has some room to be called a twist, though I personally normally wouldn't.
So annoyed... so Gruv was matching Amazon's sale, and Gruv also sells through bestbuy.com. Through a rewards program I have at work, I'm able to get a Best Buy gift card... so I added a bunch of good sale stuff to my cart. Chernobyl, Back to the Future Trilogy, Knock at the Cabin, Sinners, One Battle After Another. All for about $88.
Was looking through the deals to find my last pickup to fill out the $100 gift card, and I took time to redeem my points for the gift card. And as I'm browsing, I notice the prices seem off. I go to my cart, and it's empty. All "sold by Gruv" products have just disappeared from Best Buy. I guess the sale ended, though I would expect the same products to be there at an increased price or something. Either way, I now get nothing.
I guess the gift card won't expire; will have to keep an eye out and wait for the next sale...
*Edit* Woah wait... suddenly everything is back! I had to find them all and re-add to my cart, but they're all there. And thanks to me ranting on this thread, I knew exactly which things to look for to re-add. This time I just checked out with those ones instead of wasting any time; will find something with the leftover gift card later!
As a whole I like the receipt scanning feature a lot. I don't use it all too often, but whenever I have a receipt with more than 2 categories on it, I tend to use it. I love especially how it even includes the tax amount on each split. But a big annoyance is that when you have to modify any of the splits (which of course you do; I would never expect it to place every item in the correct category without my input), then you also have to re-calculate all the totals manually, and you basically lose all the advantage of having that math done automatically.
Any chance of a feature where you could tell the system how to split the receipt before it does all those calculations? Something that shows you all the items, and you pick the category for each one, and then it creates the splits with the correct amounts?
Just curious... there's a lot of options of Bluetooth speakers out there; some by known audio/speaker brands, some by no-name cheapy things. But plenty of options which have good reviews and are pretty cheap. Does a speaker from Milwaukee make sense for over $100; is it a great sound quality compared to the average cheap speaker? Or is it mostly a matter of durability; able to survive the potentially harsh conditions of a construction zone?
If the latter, then I don't think it would be for me, as I can easily place another not-as-durable speaker up on a shelf in my garage where it's safe.
I need a belt. I had one for many years which worked but looked terrible by the end. The I broke 2 separate replacements after just a month each. I keep seeing adds for belts like Anson and Groove; does anyone have experience with these? The ratchet / micro-adjustment system is a nice to have but not a must.
