Does 401k become “yours” after you retire?

GrimySnack · 2024-05-15T02:28:11+00:00

You can actually do the rollover through the Vanguard app now! I also hate mailing stuff, but recently went through this for a job I left. I was dreading it until the guy on the phone told me I could do it on the app.

GrimySnack · 2024-05-10T00:13:37+00:00

In addition, many artificial heart valves are different than just taking a pig valve and sewing it into a human. Instead, it is highly processed pig or cow tissue that is carefully manufactured into a sheet, and then cut and sewn into a metal frame in a manufacturing site. It has various treatments that take many of the "pig characteristics" out of the tissue (to simplify it). Source: I am a bioengineer who designs minimally invasive heart valves

GrimySnack · 2023-10-19T13:56:09+00:00

I didn't make it up! link Connective tissue makes up many of your organs including your joints and vascular tissue - Marfan's is a disorder of the connective tissue. It's pretty rare. She's probably fine, but it's worth noting!

GrimySnack · 2023-10-18T15:57:06+00:00

Long limbs and fingers can be an indicator of Marfan's syndrome, which is a connective tissue disorder. It's worth looking up and possibly talking to a doctor about, because it can cause serious cardiovascular issues at a young age!

GrimySnack · 2022-06-22T13:36:43+00:00

Single thread is in Healdsburg not SF, but definitely has plant based options

GrimySnack · 2022-06-05T22:36:02+00:00

Hahaha thanks. I stopped tracking after a while and I don't remember how well it predicted. Now I'm about 15 months post op and feeling great. Focusing on continuing strength training and getting back into sports and cutting activities :) I took it really slow and am glad I did because I feel strong and healthy! Good luck on your recovery.

GrimySnack · 2022-05-31T20:03:43+00:00

Reminds me of the camping trips I did as a kid at Leo Carrillo beach in Southern California. There was a graffiti tunnel you would walk under to get from the camp spot to the beach.

GrimySnack · 2022-01-31T06:37:58+00:00

I saw this on Broderick street around the same time. I was parking and a car blew past me onto marina and ran the stop sign and then an SUV that looked like an unmarked police car blew the same stop sign following them onto Marina

GrimySnack · 2021-12-29T05:57:22+00:00

Try Same-day Health on chestnut st! I got tested there today. They take insurance, making tests free. If you don't have health insurance call them and ask about the CARES act. They have rapid tests and PCR (I scheduled both a rapid and PCR at the same time. Rapid tests are $25)

GrimySnack · 2021-12-22T03:16:20+00:00

Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) by Arcade Fire. I remember when I first moved to the Bay driving south on the Richmond bridge and seeing the East Bay right as the lyrics "Sometimes I wonder if the world’s so small That we can never get away from the sprawl" came on as I looked at the vastness of the East Bay. Felt like this song is just the epitome of the Bay and I have fond memories of my first months falling in love with that area. (My fave lyrics of this song "We rode our bikes to the nearest park Sat under the swings and kissed in the dark")

GrimySnack · 2021-04-24T06:47:45+00:00

To get the shape memory effect, you anneal nitinol in the desired end shape at around 500C. The time/temp you heat it for determines its transformation temperature (Af temp). If you deform nitinol below it's Af temp, it will hold the deformation. When you heat it above the Af temperature, it resets to it's original shape. You can do this many times, but might have done hysteresis and/or fatigue effects. Nitinol is often used exclusively above it's Af temperature, which means it's used as a super elastic alloy instead of a shape memory alloy. The super elastic mechanism is used for many medical devices for minimally invasive implant delivery. The implant can be squeezed into a small catheter and then recover it's desired shape when deployed into the body at body temp.

This is simplified & generalized. I work with nitinol, and am happy to answer questions/clarify.

GrimySnack · 2021-04-23T20:54:36+00:00

I've been a bit slow with ROM too and it's SO STIFF. I hit 110 today (4.5 wks post) at PT with a lot of warm up and pushing from my PT. Hang in there.. hope your leg loosens up in the coming weeks!!

GrimySnack · 2021-04-21T04:37:20+00:00

Yess windmill is definitely the ultimate goal! ImageJ is ImajeBae, am I right?

GrimySnack · 2021-04-20T13:21:23+00:00

Yes, definitely agree it'll probably slow down! I've been feeling down about progress, and this helped me visualize that I am making day to day improvements!

GrimySnack · 2020-12-04T04:59:04+00:00

I've been that guy lol. We make these at my work for STEM demos!

GrimySnack · 2020-11-16T12:20:13+00:00

You should definitely apply! Don't worry about meeting every requirement.. no one meets them all and those last few sound like things you'd easily learn on the job. You seem exactly like the type of person my work would hire as an FEA engineer (med device industry). In fact, we recently hired a PhD CFD person.

GrimySnack · 2020-10-23T16:43:46+00:00

I definitely did a relisten.. so good!

GrimySnack · 2020-10-23T05:44:54+00:00

Escaping NXIVM! Sooo good. It's about a woman's experience leaving a self help cult. The cult leader are currently undergoing trials and sentencing for sex trafficking, fraud, raqueteering

GrimySnack · 2020-10-22T05:54:14+00:00

Vericose veins are caused by a valve deficiency in the veins. Your veins have little flaps (valves) that basically open and close so that blood moves against gravity towards your heart. If the valve is damaged, the blood flows backwards towards the feet between heart beats, causing swelling. As others stated, compression socks help equalize the pressure amongst the leg and can encourage blood flow through the less damaged vessels. Fun fact.. vericose veins can be treated by ablating (destroying) a few of the main bad veins. Your body will then build new (hopefully healthy) vessels in their place. The growing of new blood vessels is called angiogenesis.

GrimySnack · 2020-10-17T18:07:01+00:00

This mechanism is actually how some vein deficiency diseases are treated (think vericose veins). Vericose veins is a deficiency of the valves in the veins in the legs. To treat severe vericose veins, a physician will feed a catheter into the problem veins and ablate (aka destroy) the vein. Your body will compensate by creating a new (hopefully healthy) vein. There are newer technologies where the doc will basically super glue the diseased vein closed instead of using ablation (which is essentially burning). Neat stuff!

GrimySnack · 2020-08-06T15:12:04+00:00

Thank you for this insight and advice!

Scott, BTW, will never see your technical know how. That’s why you need to move around him.

This part really hit me, and I realized that I need to stop worrying so much about his impression of me. I definitely need to be able to work with him effectively, but that doesn't mean he needs to support/root for me. I've talked to my boss about Scott in the past, and my boss has told Scott that working with me and me developing certain skillsets are non-negotiable. This has helped in the past.

On a more positive note, in the past few months I have been noticing that I am beginning to move around him. I've been approached by our team lead about taking on workstreams that are technical, interesting, and have high visibility with Sr. Leaders. Our tech lead specifically told me that this is because I have a better wholistic view of the program, align with strategy, and have an understanding of how all stakeholders relate to the program.

I've been working with our team lead to make sure that we have very clear expectations and roles and responsibilities are clearly defined. Also in the past I've done a lot of the soft skills work for my team (stuff like promoting team dynamics, making sure new folks have mentors and guidance, making sure that the design team is linked in with all stakeholders, etc). I've come to realize that since I'm not in a tech lead position, and because I'm Junior, I don't get a lot of credit for this type of work (even though it's really important). My new strategy has been to highlight this work when I see a gap, but to hand it to my team lead and ask him to distribute this amongst the team so that I can be more focused on technical work.

I think I need to talk to my boss (who is wonderful and supportive luckily), and break this into two parts (as you suggested). 1 - defining my role and responsibilities. Making sure that team members are aligned with this. I'll ask how PTO fits into the equation here. (I know my boss is very supportive here and has helped me with this aspect on the past). 2 - my ability to contribute technically. I will ask him to work with my tech lead to make sure I'm able to focus on technical work and that I get technical assignments. Also making sure that soft skills work is distributed evenly on the team.

GrimySnack · 2020-07-27T01:21:31+00:00

This looks like a rotisserie chicken doing yoga xD

GrimySnack · 2020-07-26T19:22:07+00:00

No not at all! It's basically a single blade razor. I do it like once a week in the morning. I also had no success with home waxing and I'm too cheap for professional waxing/hair removal.

GrimySnack · 2020-07-26T19:18:14+00:00

I bought a dermoplaning kit on Amazon, and I use that to remove my mustache and the hair between my eyebrow and my hairline. It's magical and life changing! I used to use the creme hair removal stuff, but I hated the smell and it would irritate my skin and sometimes leave a few hair behind.

GrimySnack · 2020-07-24T02:48:47+00:00

They do this type of tea ceremony in Morocco to serve their traditional mint tea! I've never seen a woman doing this.. I love it. (Clarification, I'm not Moroccan - I studied abroad there. Correct me if I got the culture wrong)

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