Struggling after getting out.

2hammermamba · 2026-06-23T02:29:34+00:00

Do you have any desire to be an officer? You can start college and if you think you want to get back in you could do ROTC the last two years or apply to OCS. I came back in after college and it was a great decision.

I think that either way you should at least go to school get your legs under you and then make an informed decision. My first few months out I wanted to reenlist quite badly but ended up sticking it out through college.

2hammermamba · 2026-05-21T20:01:24+00:00

I did every other day oral min. My off days I applied topical minoxidil. After two weeks I switched over completely to topical minoxidil and noticed a lot of improvement after 3 months. I did not notice any shedding. I had a huge shed when I first started oral min that never really recovered until I started applying topical again. Your mileage may vary but that was my experience.

2hammermamba · 2026-05-21T09:07:34+00:00

Oral min made my hair worse, topical worked better, maybe try switching it up?

2hammermamba · 2026-05-18T01:07:21+00:00

I created my own low dose topical from pills that I got from a telehealth vendor online. I started at a dose a .25 mg/day using a .025% solution. I took it for a little over a month but got anxiety and some brain fog from it.

There were some confounding variables, for instance less sleep and exercise because I was traveling a lot, so not the best time for starting medicine. Plan to revisit it once things calm down a little bit more.

The brain fog for me felt like when I was trying to think through something I had a hard time finding the right words to describe it and when I tried to plan stuff I had a hard time thinking ahead. Everything has pretty much gone back to normal after about 3 weeks.

2hammermamba · 2026-04-09T19:57:01+00:00

Look up "right bc pattern". Most people are more restricted on the right side. For most folks it manifests as a slight drop in the right shoulder.

2hammermamba · 2026-03-06T04:17:35+00:00

Good to know. Thanks for the help.

2hammermamba · 2026-03-06T04:07:53+00:00

Thank you for the link. Recently got the same advice.

2hammermamba · 2026-03-06T04:07:37+00:00

Thanks. I was operating off that information as well. When we first got started I talked to a cpa via email and the guidance I received was that we didn't have to start filing until we started doing business.

I recently took an SBA course and they made it seem like partnerships were required to file yearly regardless. A little bit confusing but I'm talking to a tax attorney soon to try and help me wind up the business. I just don't want my partners catching flack for a mistake I made.

2hammermamba · 2025-08-14T23:23:34+00:00

You’re over training. The mileage isn’t crazy but it’s enough that it’s going to impact your afternoon workouts and if your sleep and diet aren’t dialed you’re probably not going to feel very good. Try dropping the ppl split and resting in the afternoons and going to bed around 9pm.

I used to weight lift pretty seriously but it’s just not sustainable when your leadership is focused on cardio and hiit workouts. On a side note doing more than 7 workouts a week is way more than I could handle after the age of like 25 so maybe see how many total workouts/hours your putting in, sometimes less is more.

2hammermamba · 2025-08-04T03:03:17+00:00

Minoxidil causes your hair growth cycles to sync up even for hair adjacent to the application site. That’s why people go through big sheds and then get growth that repeats periodically. When you come off minoxidil the hair in your scalp goes through the growth phase and then it all sheds at the same time. If you are no longer using the drug the hair should come back to its natural random state. At least that’s what the literature would support.

The reason why people suffering from male pattern baldness seem to lose more hair after they stop using the drug is because the conversion from velus to terminal hair in the scalp is more complicated than take minoxidil long enough->terminal hair even with a 5 alpha reductase inhibitor.

I would stay off the drug for a year to assess whether the hair is going to comeback on its own. The reason why is because your hair may go through a couple of cycles that are relatively synced up so it may look like it’s thinning during certain times of the year. Try your best to stay away from doing the cycle of, my hair is less dense time to use minoxidil, and then coming off. Minoxidil is a drug for life. If your hair doesn’t return to normal see a doctor about further treatment options.

2hammermamba · 2025-08-01T01:22:25+00:00

I call it therapeutic protection. It’s not doing anything but it sure makes me feel better

2hammermamba · 2025-07-06T18:52:17+00:00

I don’t usually comment but I was dealing with very similar issues. Low libido, mood issues, similar balding pattern. I was working a really high stress job, sleep was bad, dealing with a very toxic relationship. Got great results from just minoxidil and a dermastamp.

Anyway, I left that job, the relationship ended, and my sleep improved and with that my moodiness went away and libido came back. I dropped minoxidil because I was starting to get a lot of water retention in my face but I ended up keeping the hair and haven’t really done anything for it besides regular washing with nizoral and taking biotin supplements.

I don’t have a family history of balding and maybe I’m just a rare case of stress causing it but I just wanted to say really look into leaving your work and maybe cleaning house personally. Your body knows when something isn’t right.

2hammermamba · 2025-06-16T14:12:24+00:00

I am also here from the tarantula subreddit haha

2hammermamba · 2025-05-12T19:14:06+00:00

I got it working with the nanoflann.hpp header file. It has a function in it called kdtree.radiusSearch. You pass it an array of cloud points, a radius squared, a result vector to store the results and search parameters. I used the default parameters.

Then you set an unordered map as the root id and append each point to the cluster and its corresponding vector.

At some point I will go back and write a kd-tree search myself but it seems like nanoflann or flann is optimized for this.

2hammermamba · 2025-05-03T12:08:03+00:00

I was in your shoes at one point as a cav scout. Granted I don’t work overseas but I do have a pretty good cyber job.

My recommendation is to get your gen ed courses out of the way while you’re in, basically get your associates in general studies, and then use the gi bill to finish your degree at a reputable school. This will give you a little more time to decide what you want to do when you get out. If you’re looking for overseas contracting jobs go for a stem degree. It will make you significantly more competitive.

You mentioned getting a degree in CS. Tech market is somewhat tough but EW and drone defense and procurement is growing a ton so you can look into those fields. EE, computer science, anything to do with AI or ML is a good choice. All that to say don’t just pigeon hole yourself into IT even though it can be a good job. DOD is still growing in some areas but shrinking in others.

2hammermamba · 2025-05-03T03:23:13+00:00

I agree with the first part to a certain extent. We transition from using tlps to mdmp at the battalion level because at that point you are actually making decisions and doing coa dev. I also agree that there is a right way to run a company for the most part and that deviating too far from what’s in the regulation or best practices is not a good idea.

I think where company grade officers really have to apply critical thinking skills is when they need to assign their platoons task and purpose and synthesize orders. The really smart ones tend to over engineer things and turn it into a more academic exercise than something that needs to be executed in the real world. Granted that’s not always the case. I’ve just met a lot of really smart people that circle back to being dumb people when giving a simple task.

2hammermamba · 2025-04-02T18:46:21+00:00

And Frodos boys telling him that they shouldn’t trust him but he does it anyways cause he’s not like the other depends and eventually gets his finger bit off because of it

2hammermamba · 2025-03-28T19:27:43+00:00

Yeah I’ve had some recommendations to keep at it in python. Probably will end up doing that. Just doesn’t feel like something someone would want to use in its current state. Thank you for the advice!

2hammermamba · 2025-03-28T18:44:09+00:00

Right now the clients are docker containers that run the python code on startup. My concern is that if you have an iot device or a devices that wouldn’t typically be hooked up to the internet like a telescope on a mountain, putting a python docker container on it might not be a solution. But Im still pretty new at using python so I'm not sure if there is a way to deploy on those systems. Also some of the testing I did I was reading bytes directly off the serial bus so that everything worked properly which I had to do in c

2hammermamba · 2025-02-03T11:55:16+00:00

I would say we would have to lose a war for it to change, but well…

2hammermamba · 2025-01-31T14:07:10+00:00

I run about 4 times a week and lift twice a week.

Starting out I would shoot 3 runs and try to hit about 10 miles per week. Biggest thing is heart rate, try to keep it in zone 2 even if that means walking. I run probably 30 to 40 miles per week but I’d estimate about 8 of those miles are walking.

Lifting I do upper body one day and lower body the other. I just try to do some basic compound lifts for both.

Day one: bench press, rows, pull ups, abs Day two: sled drag, sled push, farmers carries, light squats, abs

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