blinded

This is what I met. That and using PTO, dog sitting, a modest gift / card etc. It adds up.

Part of the issue is that the wedding market it just outrageous. The average cost of a wedding or attending one is out of control. The industry has done a good job marketing it. Social media "keeping up with the joneses" or comparisons is not helping either.

It adds yet another piece of pressure so I'm not surprised that less people are jumping head first into it.

Makes sense, netflix makes enough to buy them after 1~ year of revenue.

Thats silly. I wonder what is worse not caring about a specific sport or being a fan of the opposite team.

Friends and I were going to go for a football game, make a weekend out of it. Prices were just outrageous.

Schwab (or your brokerage) is reporting the RSU vesting on your w2 / paystub.

Gift or archive link?

From what I've seen in Schwab and experienced personally. The "sell shares for taxes" settings is a flat tax rate, mine is 26% last I looked. If you're in the higher brackets[1], ie making 250k+ it can be up to 9% difference. So if you get a vest of 20k in November toward the end of the year where you're likely in that higher bracket the amount Schwab sells could be 1,200~ difference (assuming 32% tax bracket, 26% flat), meaning you'd owe the federal gov that come tax time.

If you speak with a tax professional, for which I am not, they would tell you to calculate the difference and pay quarterly amounts. In practice this means that I sell more periodically just for taxes[2].

1. https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brac... 2. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

Edit: from what I understand payroll isn't informing Schwab of your current bracket, nor do I think they should have to.

Agreed. It's asking for trouble.

I don't think its just teenagers. Unless I know the number or am expecting a call, I don't pickup either. Too many scam calls or sales calls.

Its great!

Have you read / listened to The Sun Eater Series?

That's what I met to convey. Apologies for that.

I liked it a ton. Its nice to see hollywood take a chance on new IP. Not exactly the same comparison but The Silo series by Apple also comes to mind.

Do students carry their phones in locked bags right beside them when they play sports?

Agreed. It's silly, its free to leave it in your locker.

Dial back the vibe :)

nicely done

I worked at a SaaS that had a 220 million a year bill. We did a ton to reduce the bill (reserved instances, right sizing, etc etc). 2020 rolled around and the business decided to cut back, we were able to save 20~% with being more aggressive with spot instances, moving from vpc connections via transit gateway to more peering, swapped to karpenter, etc. If there is anything I've learned is that there can always be money saved.

Looks flat to me?

smmp-exporter ftw

Also the second they started charging podman dev picked up and that has gotten real good.

Nope. Not directly.

Hard agree. Would never work for a gambling or gambling adjacent company.

Sure! But over half the fun of coding is writing and learning.

Yep, we only eat out once every few weeks for date night.

Guess the sarcastic response would be: "so a bus?"

Dude if you want to find a nice spot in the woods on the river, secluded, in the middle of no where Airbnb, hipcamp, or camping are your only options.

Im an apple fan, my phone bent. I think its a legit question.

bend gate is back?

Second this! Will be interesting to see how the apple tv show adapts book two.