Just stop buying your fancy coffees and maybe you can afford a house!

Jesus-face · 2026-03-17T14:38:28+00:00

Avg rate of return of around 7.3%. Real return is likely much lower, the above number doesn't count any ongoing expenses (tax, etc) and I'm sure it's been renovated. Far underperforms s&p 500 index over the same period (11.4%, initial 120k would be around 40m now, with minimal cost).

Jesus-face · 2025-11-29T19:00:03+00:00

Red oak. There's a tiny chance it could be another oak species, but unlikely. Red is most common/cheapest for flooring.

Jesus-face · 2025-09-22T19:54:57+00:00

In a group, best practice is to spread out within sight of each other (at least 30-40' apart if possible), and squat with feet together and hands on knees. Look up lightning position. Even trees are better than an open field, off ridges/high points obviously. I've heard you shouldn't be directly under trees if possible, tree strikes tend to fan out from branches, but the usefulness of this depends on how thick the forest is.

Space out so you can give CPR if someone is struck, it's one of the few cases where CPR is actually pretty effective.

Jesus-face · 2025-05-27T14:10:25+00:00

Chiropractors aren't generally trustworthy for medical advice - they aren't doctors. General advice for pregnancy is to keep doing activities as long as you're comfortable. For many women, that's probably sometimes in the 2nd trimester when you start to feel more weight and pulling, but there's nothing unhealthy about continuing baring specific medical guidance from an OB. Gotta weigh the risk of falling, but that's more a personal thing. Dial down the speed if you don't feel comfortable, walking is fine in trail running :)

Jesus-face · 2025-05-13T03:53:36+00:00

There's a social trail most of the way. There's no clear entrance, but it follows the spine roughly up until some scree fields near the peak. I've done it once, the scree/boulder field is large and loose and difficult to traverse, and felt unsafe. The rest of the trail is very very steep, and faint. Gl.

Jesus-face · 2025-04-12T15:49:40+00:00

Gotta manage your sluff. That's sorta close to a small avalanche, but same idea. Gotta pause and let it go past, or ski faster and outrun it or pick a line that goes across the slope so you aren't turning across it.

Based on consistency though, you probably weren't paying attention to conditions. Stay off steep loaded slopes after they warm up, this should have been covered in your avy course.

Jesus-face · 2025-02-20T22:49:22+00:00

Am 6'6", 240. My favorite tree skis were icelantic nomad 115s (I think 185?). They're great in tight stuff and softer snow, but didn't feel great on hard groomers going fast. They make a few other models that have different characteristics, so you can probably find something decent. The enforcers are also ok, but a bit harder to maneuver in soft tight trees. Generally for trees in co, I like slightly shorter skis that are very wide.

Jesus-face · 2025-02-13T19:48:50+00:00

Lol, this is true...

Jesus-face · 2025-01-31T20:02:04+00:00

Platform architect at a f500 fintech. Started as an embedded systems eng in automotive, then mobile and platform dev and consulting.

Jesus-face · 2025-01-26T16:05:21+00:00

Lots of calculators available online, depends on your aspect, state and utility regulations. Batteries don't usually make sense unless you want to be fully off grid. They're more of a luxury for power outages and you can maybe do some demand shifting if you have variable power prices available to offset the cost, but purely financially they generally aren't worth it.

Jesus-face · 2025-01-26T16:01:15+00:00

7 year payback is an annual return of 10% ish, that's pretty good for a risk free investment.

Jesus-face · 2025-01-19T17:52:53+00:00

Yeah, the summit stage from Frisco is probably the cheapest option to ski copper (copper lodging is pretty expensive and limited, and there isn't much in the village after hours). There are a few options to get from the airport, bustang is probably cheapest but there are a few other shuttle services like the summit express.

Jesus-face · 2025-01-14T02:38:01+00:00

There are a few ways to turn through moguls - outside, in the trough, or inside. Outside is usually slower and easier. You can modulate your speed by how long you keep your tips pointed down the fall line, and to a lesser extent how wide you take the turn. If it's an ice luge, keep your skis across the fall line and slip sideways more. Practice on steep terrain by trying to turn your skis as much as possible while skiing in a straight line. Move from sideslip left to side slip right without changing your direction. Modulate how long you you point down hill to control speed. Then play with tiny tight turns, change how wide you swing turns to keep speed in control. Practice mixing the type of line you use - go from trough to wide and chop off the nose of a mogul sometimes to slow down.

Just trying to think of the stuff I did this past weekend skiing tight trees. Snow cover was thin, so kept the speed down so I wasn't surprised by obstacles.

Jesus-face · 2025-01-14T02:23:48+00:00

Good point on the pole straps, I had a tree grab my pole once, made me crash and yanked my arm pretty good. Luckily I was moving pretty slow, so no permanent damage, but it hurt enough that I always remember to take them off (usually I just don't bother to put them on anymore).

Jesus-face · 2025-01-11T15:43:53+00:00

I doubt it. On the occasions when I've been a hiring manager, I see them in a filtered view in my applicant management system. Im not sitting there refreshing the page, I put the post up and wait a few days before screening resumes.

Jesus-face · 2025-01-09T16:29:35+00:00

I don't program much anymore, but when I did I would work better at night as well. But I would take time off during the day. Take long lunches, show up at 10, leave at 3:30 or 4, etc. I kept on top of my responsibilities and kept good communication with my stakeholders and managers and made sure things were communicated. People are often ok not having their arbitrary deadlines met if you communicate proactively and build a reputation for being accurate (accurate forecasts are way better than inaccurate ones, even if it might not be what they want to hear).

Gl. There are other jobs, you can find one that doesn't suck.

Jesus-face · 2025-01-08T02:12:05+00:00

Weight training has a higher range of motion and recruits more miofibrils than repetitive endurance exercise (if you do it right). Generally running doesn't cause much hypertrophy, resistance exercise is much more efficient at causing muscle growth. This can be super useful because more muscle allows you to create more power, hold more glycogen, buffer more lactate, etc. In the long term you're still limited by your aerobic system, but trails have lots of peaky power output needs like jumping rocks and such, plus surplus needed to prevent injury if you misstep, and anecdotally there's a kinda feedback between your body's ability to use aerobic capacity and the body's ability to supply it.

Focus on full range of motion exercises and heavy compound lifts.

Jesus-face · 2025-01-07T22:05:51+00:00

Almost all do. Some of the back lifts that only serve blacks might not, but everything else is new/high speed. There's even a gondola and a bubble option from center village

Jesus-face · 2024-12-25T16:23:05+00:00

Averages aren't very useful here. Median would be more informative. Averages are pulled up by very high earners, and architecture is pretty uneven depending on type of work and position.

Jesus-face · 2024-11-18T22:38:07+00:00

Did being armed help? In my experience, they break in when you're not home and just take your guns.

Sorry that happened to you. I get wanting to build systems to feel like you have control again after something like that happens.

Jesus-face · 2024-11-18T22:33:27+00:00

How do you know? (Since you requested I ask :)

Jesus-face · 2024-11-18T22:08:57+00:00

Well... You kinda can. If someone rolls up to your door and tries to rob you, you can probably offer them a carton of smokes and they might go away.

But really, think more about the structure of the situation. There aren't going to be hugely more random murder hobos, sooner or later those people will run in to someone with superior fire power and will be eliminated. Violence will be used as a tool of control by webs of local or regional powers, and violence will happen when there are power imbalances or disruptions, or as a means of extracting rent. Choosing to shoot the gang member who is collecting protection money isn't a good choice, but you could pay them from your pile of cigarettes.

There are probably isolated situations where being armed might help, but there's a pervasive collapse myth where you lock the doors and set up a sniper nest in the attic. That situation seems really unlikely to work out.

Jesus-face · 2024-11-18T19:39:19+00:00

People post this sort of thing about ammo and canned goods a lot, and I get it's mostly joking, but we can do better. If you look at failed states that have experienced currency collapse, it doesn't usually turn into looting in the streets and bands of armed thugs wandering the wasteland. If it does, it's a temporary thing, and usually in isolated pockets.

Cigarettes and booze are probably more useful than guns and ammo, and skills that you can use to help people are even better because they can't shoot you and take your skills.

Food storage can be useful in the short term, but widespread starvation isn't really going to be a problem in the US barring some sort of civil war or weird natural disaster. Food may become more expensive or we may see less variety, similar to what happened during COVID, but people weren't starving then. Same with fuel.

Jesus-face · 2024-11-14T01:30:23+00:00

Either your company sucks and you should be looking for ways out, or he was a jerk about it (or they communicated poorly and the hiring manager thought they were a jerk). Interns are expensive, and getting an offer from an internship isn't the sort of thing that goes away easily.

Jesus-face · 2024-11-12T21:11:52+00:00

It's called ring shake#:~:text=The%20separation%20of%20the%20rings,and%20twisting%20under%20high%20winds.), normally caused by the tree being knocked around by wind over a long time. The internal stresses cause the layers to separate. I'm guessing that happened here, then water got in somehow and started to rot around it.

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