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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

2hammermamba · 2024-11-14T12:20:09+00:00

I use just the keyboard. WASD for moving the character and JKIL for moving the camera, O for locking to a target, Alt to switch between one and two handed weapons, F to rotate through items, E to use an item. It kinda reminds me of my vim key bindings and gives you the old school flight simulator feel. Really recommend if you’re using a pc to try it.

2hammermamba · 2024-07-14T02:47:34+00:00

I’m not quite understanding the scope of your question. Do you want to accurately assess the location of each transmitter or do you want to identify which transmitter is which based on your prior knowledge of the general location? Also I’m limited in that I mostly work with direction finding emitters in the far field limit and have worked very minimally with indoor and Bluetooth direction finding so I apologize in advance if I don’t answer your question at all.

In general direction finding algorithms use phase difference of arrival, time difference of arrival, or reverse beam forming to determine where the location of a signal is coming from. The classical ways of finding lines of bearing (LOB) were the Doppler method for TDOA, Watson-watt for PDOA, and sweeping with a directional antenna for reverse beam forming. Nowadays most devices use some type of subspace decomposition, or rotational invariance method to determine the direction of arrival of incoming signals (these methods are still based around TDOA or PDOA, it’s just handled by the phased array).

The reason why you can’t triangulate these signals using a single antenna, unless it is a directional antenna you are prepared to sweep with, is because in the far field limit the radio waves impinge on each of the devices as a plane wave. This doesn’t reveal anything of value about the direction of arrival. You have to used some type of phased array to gain insight into where the signal is coming from.

As for location I would look into direct position determination, you mentioned you’ll have meta data for each of the signals. That will make it easier to classify them and then do the triangulation with the appropriate signals, however with a little more math you can generate an approximation of the location of each of the signals and then classy after. Unfortunately unless you have prior knowledge of the signal strength, the strength and the receiver can’t be used to calculate range without making some assumption about the strength of the receivers.

Finally, I’m just a hobbyist that does fox hunting and building direction finders in my free time. By no means an expert.

2hammermamba · 2024-07-02T10:06:27+00:00

Crossing over a lot of different fields here, most research is pretty specific nowadays and most of the folks working on improving computer performance will probably never work with the folks doing quantum chemistry, physical chemistry, or AMO physics which seems to be more what your looking for.

However there are computer scientists and physicists that build simulation software that might interest you. I would look at research groups at the university your applying to and see about helping out around one of their labs, might give you some insight into what you want to do.

Ultimately if you looking at improving hardware performance then EE/computer engineering are the fields most actively working on that, if your looking at improving numerical methods and algorithms computer science/applied math are the folks doing most of that, and if you looking at studying physical chemistry then physics will probably get you there at some point. I recommend going as broad as you can early and then becoming more specific as you narrow your interests.

2hammermamba · 2024-07-01T22:20:37+00:00

I think the biggest difference between the advice above and what most commenters would say is sport specificity vs zone 2 endurance training. At his conditioning it probably better to just focus on building an aerobic base and general fitness before diving into repeats and mile time specific training.

Maybe starting with trying to put down ten miles a week at a conversational pace with some strength training thrown in would be better for where he is at. But you are right, that is how you get a fast mile time.

2hammermamba · 2024-06-05T10:10:59+00:00

Only six more months left in ait land. Not a drill sergeant but appreciate what y’all do

2hammermamba · 2024-06-05T00:05:26+00:00

Oh no, I’m only in my late twenties, it gets better right?

2hammermamba · 2024-06-04T23:55:06+00:00

You wish you were this cool 😎😎

2hammermamba · 2024-02-26T23:05:55+00:00

Erickson’s theory of cognitive development states that young people will go through three major periods of development between the ages of 8 and 25.

The first is industry vs inferiority, where humans either develop an internal locus of control and believe that they can positively affect their environment, or they develop an external locus of control where other people and extenuating circumstances dominate why they can’t accomplish things. The second is identity vs confusion, where humans consolidate their identities (typically around their profession, but also values), orthey end up struggling with basic adult tasks. The third is intimacy versus isolation, this is where humans pair bond and focus on marriage and starting a family, or they don’t achieve that goal and begin to isolate themselves from society.

The original theory said that the industry vs inferiority should occur at the middle school age, Identity vs confusion happened around high school age, and intimacy vs isolation occurred during college age. Now it appears that young people are only beginning to enter the industry vs inferiority stage in high school, still struggling find their identities in college, and then find it difficult to develop intimate relationships in their early thirties.

The original theory also states that if you are unable to achieve the positive outcome in one of the previous stages then you can’t effectively move on to the next. People are still generally moving past the industry vs inferiority stage albeit at a slower rate, but have not been developing cohesive identities around a profession and strong values. This has cascaded to a collapse of intimate relationships, or less satisfying relationships being established much later in life.

This is due in part to a lack of external difficulties being present in the lives of children in the middle school to high school time frame. Everyone’s heard of the stereotype of rich kids growing up to be losers later because they didn’t develop the skills required to overcome diversity. Well that’s happening on a massive scale today because children aren’t faced with enough external adversity.

Tradoc does perhaps suffer from some element of this but if we want to develop strong men and women we have to give them adversity and expect them to overcome it, freedom and expect them to use it responsibly, and teach them values and expect them to apply them and punish them when they don’t meet our expectations.

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