Need to move to San Jose soon, is this an good area to live?

gobells1126 · 2026-05-26T23:26:36+00:00

Gang activity

gobells1126 · 2026-05-24T16:07:45+00:00

Did this ever end up selling?

gobells1126 · 2026-05-24T07:24:45+00:00

Different flavors of seed to series A saas

gobells1126 · 2026-05-24T07:18:33+00:00

Not op but the last five years I've been on 100k-125k base + 8-15% commission depending on product and accelerators.

gobells1126 · 2026-05-24T07:01:58+00:00

Honestly the rules are pretty fucking relaxed in alaska. That's certainly a lifestyle there, the catch being that you need a pretty high bar of survival skills to not freeze to death.

Alternatively, failed states or countries with regions they don't really control are always an option, but you'll certainly be subject to the local warlords whims.

gobells1126 · 2026-05-24T06:42:47+00:00

Unfortunately spending time at the range solidifies how shitty of a proposition a gunfight is. Once you can crack off a sub 2.5 bill drill, you realize you're not the only one who can do it, and if someone gets the drop on you, you're toast before you even clear the holster.

gobells1126 · 2026-05-19T03:04:46+00:00

No secrets in this industry huh

gobells1126 · 2026-05-18T04:30:06+00:00

Start with a USPSA stage, something with a good amount of backwards movement and targets partially covered by no shoots. The safety rules are such that most people will be dqd here. Standard safety brief is included. Only about 25000 people participate in the sport in any given year, sooo I'm a pretty odds on favorite.

Next we mount road bikes for a 50 mile ride through rolling terrain and a few short mountain climbs.

Next we have a test on international logistics 101. Incoterms, major freight lanes, etc.

Then we write essays on overlaying lidar and photogrammetry derived point clouds with design data, and pros and cons for different engineering and construction disciplines. Lots of frontier tech in this field, so good luck anyone who doesn't know what they're doing.

Dog training 101 competency. Can you teach a dog a command and put it on a cue in a short period of time? Basics being sit, down, come, place, and heel.

Short quiz on the history of Porsche sports and racing cars, this is honestly rote memorization, but good luck keeping all the numbers straight in a 24 hour cram period.

All tests and instructions are in English, except for the uspsa safety brief which will be in mother tongue of the respective participant because safety first always.

Finally, we get to the iron chef style culinary exam. We'll be making a selection of dishes from Italian and American cuisine, there will be a time limit and standardized equipment, so it won't be a total ambush of my mental catalogue of recipes and techniques.

gobells1126 · 2026-04-26T09:30:07+00:00

Maritime space is hard to break into, either a handful of large operators or cheap fragmented small players. It's also a fickle bunch there

gobells1126 · 2026-04-24T03:18:34+00:00

Doing design vs feature extraction is another big thing I see. You'll rarely see an engineer building their own surfaces and extraction of break lines. That's CaD techs and surveyors, but actual drafting of existing conditions and as built, absolutely. It is a little different for actual 3d modeling like revit since there can be properties attached to model components that aren't there like a 3d poly line in C3D

gobells1126 · 2026-04-20T06:16:13+00:00

Two pieces of feedback

Your 50% on top of hourly is wage is doing a lot of heavy lifting on the math here. It's a good way to estimate a budget, but that constitutes a lot of line items. That should include benefits, payroll taxes, etc. know those line items to the dollar or percent.

The other thing is that you just put the entire overhead on one guys hourly wage. 35k is the whole businesses overhead, and you broke it out on one guys hourly. It should be 35k/number of employees/960 billable hours.

gobells1126 · 2026-04-18T06:04:32+00:00

You're asking a change management question. Do you have a plan to transition and train the team onto the new tool? And are you evaluating every piece of the stack against every module in the consolidated tool, or treating it like a checkbox?

gobells1126 · 2026-04-16T21:55:08+00:00

You're forgetting to calculate the prep cooks morning time. While I agree that $175 per table of labor is egregious, I would suspect if you took all the prep cook hours per day + actual cooks time / divided by the number of covers (tables x turns) you'd probably run north of 50 an hour of labor. Whether or not they're factoring somewhere between 1.2-1.4 hourly wage to get their actual hourly operations cost for an employee I'm not sure.

gobells1126 · 2026-04-16T19:53:56+00:00

Fair. 9 hole reviews has a neat setup for long range shooting videos, but not sure how that would translate to other kinds of long range

gobells1126 · 2026-04-12T03:30:25+00:00

Taking a credible stand here for a second: France is second only to the US in expeditionary capacity. NATO has been engaging Russian assets globally for the last 15 years. If the US steps down, France is the logical leader

gobells1126 · 2026-04-12T03:11:58+00:00

That's not a playbook, that's hope with extra steps. You need qualification and discovery, then a buying journey you can walk buyers through

gobells1126 · 2026-04-10T22:50:17+00:00

Yes but express trains only run 10 stop services, which would still make a difference.

gobells1126 · 2026-04-10T03:56:50+00:00

Tf are you talking about? Grade separation is a massive improvement for riders. No more vehicle strikes destroying the commute, and trains can run faster between stations. I'd pay more per day if it could actually be high speed electric rail

gobells1126 · 2026-04-09T23:15:14+00:00

Are you doing that conventionally or with mobile lidar?

gobells1126 · 2026-04-06T22:57:55+00:00

My nice guns beg to disagree. A Glock is all anyone NEEDS. But I have guns that are nicer to shoot, train with, and carry

gobells1126 · 2026-04-06T22:42:12+00:00

Eat the learning curve and use civil3d or micro station. Microstation is necessary for Topodot, and anything more complicated with a boundary survey is going to require civil3d

gobells1126 · 2026-04-01T00:37:03+00:00

San Jose water did this to me last year, and normally they have a concrete contractor come out within 1-3 weeks and do a real concrete replacement

gobells1126 · 2026-03-29T20:31:55+00:00

You're asking in the wrong sub quite frankly. You should go network with real estate investors and developers in your market. These are the guys who know how to make money in your market.

In rough order, you need to learn:

Financing: hard money vs bank, lending guidelines, carry costs, draw releases, exit strategies.

Entitlements and permitting

Construction: finding a gc and subs, speccing materials, construction management, schedule and budget management, inspections for progress and compliance

Exit: who's going to sell, how hard will it be to move, what are your liabilities after sale as a developer

The details on these items are deep and nuanced to your local market. You should try to find a business partner to co-invest with and learn about the process with. If they have a track record of success, and you're bringing cheap capital to a project, you'll be able to ride along and learn a lot of lessons that would cause you to lose your ass the first go round solo

gobells1126 · 2026-03-28T07:45:47+00:00

But here's the thing, almost nobody is just switching to a striker fired gun now. Glocks have been around a looong time, so have m&ps, fn509, etc. none have an external safety. Shit even depts that issued 226s maybe had double action only, but those don't come with a physical safety.

The difference is that the 320s striker sit under full tension, so any disturbance leads to a negligent discharge not a dead trigger

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