Lion ponderings

The BC_Hash class was 1 of the lion kingdom's very 1st C++ developments in 1997.  It was really a dictionary.  Lions had very little exposure to common data structures.  Sadly, lions weren't exposed to proper dictionaries until 2015.  Maybe it was an extremely lazy time or lions just spent a long time in assembly & C.  There was a lot of resistance to the stdc++ library in the industry & a lot of alternative libraries like boost were favored.  Also, creating maps with any user defined class is hell.  That entails writing copy constructors, overloading all the standard operators.  It's very hard to debug operator overloading, hence why lions abandoned it.  The Arraylist did a lot of neat things the map class doesn't.  It protected against array overruns & deleted objects.  It was a lot more transparent about what it was doing. BC_Hash was very primitive.  It didn't have a common key lookup function.  It replicated every single getter.  It had a separate l

  Oomf.  Lions exited that turd at the last possible moment & it was partly from stig aviation.  Sometimes you get lucky.  The money they burned keeping everyone employed in 2020 ended up costing them in the long term while airlines which unloaded employees in 2020 did better.  Starting to look like the next Pan Am, Northwest, etc.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally noticed 1 of these retirement fund equal to 10x your salary memes said "starting".  So it's 10x the fast food job or whatever the minimum to survive was. Considering what would happen if lions went back to what they were doing at age 10, the fact is they spent a lot of time just watching TV in those days.  It would take a serious decline in health to go back to doing that, yet that's what all the attainable women did. The most likely outcome is to go back to writing useless toy programs & games in 1 endless s

  6 weeks post injury, the ankle was back.  It still takes a long time to warm it up.  Still slightly sensitive & swollen but capable of nearly the same effort as the old days without worsening.  Noted how the injury worsened for 4 weeks, then rapidly recovered.         -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lions aren't worried about the taxes on 100 millionaires, but the NIIT goes up to 5% during Bide's 2nd term & the threshold is not adjusted for inflation.  It's basically a catchall for all income not covered by FICA.  Remember when MAGI of $200k was enough to buy a house? Now that's not even enough for an apartment & it's still the threshold for a 5% tax.  3.5 wasn't the end & neither is 5.  It's going to make FICA look like a discount. There's a guy who's not worried about losing an election & it's why Trump will never be convicted of anything.  As long as Trump

It's been the big question for all time.  The internet abounds with anecdotes about pensions.  Almost all pensions these days are for government employees only.  The internet shows $26k/year for state governments, taxed as regular income.  The internet mentioned 1 with a $28k/year pension & $200k fund which lions believe is rare.  Most animals are going to have under $20k/year pensions. Lions believe it could take many millions to equal the value of any pension, since no passive investment will ever keep up with inflation.  On the other paw, if an animal gets really lucky & gets a 10% return on stonks, a pure stonk fund only has to be $400k to equal a pension.   That would devote 3.5% of the yield to inflation.  The lion kingdom will not get 10%.  It's in treasuries & slightly higher mutual funds.  The maximum in a real good economy would be a 3.5% yield after inflation.  That would need $800k in stonks to equal a pension while the treasuries became worthless.  Trea

 Another week, another news cycle & stonks were nearly back to all time highs.  Lions only got 3/5 of the way to their stonk allocation goals.  Lions just don't believe in buying when prices are at new highs, the same way they don't pay full price for food. The 401k is already a forced buy at high prices.  Helas, stonks spend most of their time at all time highs. The airline stonk continued to power higher after lions sold it.  It was nowhere near the highest it ever got though.  Current levels reflect where stonks were during the rate cut enthusiasm of March, but now that level is considered low. Lions believe Berk gets away without paying a dividend by sheltering interest earnings in a low tax state.  The adherence of the stonk market to the news cycle is unbelievable.  Maybe lions just noticed it in the last 10 years.  Maybe lions just noticed how meaningless the news cycle is.  As soon as the headline switched from mortgage rates back to Trump, the unforgiving rally con

 Finally caught up with generation X by watching Failure To Launch.  The generation Z version was No Hard Feelings.  Both were about parent hired escorts who became more.  33 year old Hunger Heroine reprising her role as a dominant warrior definitely worked better than 41 year olds Sarah, Jessica, & Parker.  Actually recognized the final bar scene from syndication but forgot the rest.     The highlight might have been Dr. Werner Brandes making an appearance. Sarah, Jessica, & Parker peaked in Navigator Lions pondered why  No Hard Feelings did so much better than  Failure to Launch on the internet.  Both had the big stars of their time.  Lions believe the McConaughe y character was not likeable for his time. Nowadays, polyamory is a hit because of Elon & the population decline gag.  In 2006, a guy who wasn't very wealthy, chewing up women & spitting them out might have revived negative memories of Bill Clinton.  It never clearly defined McConaughe y's wealth.  It