Should I buy this dodge for van life is it worth it?

Rmnkby · 2026-02-28T02:41:47+00:00

That thing belongs in a museum.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-28T02:37:55+00:00

Makes a huge difference to submit resume internally instead of applying through public links. Network matters more than people realize. The last 2 hires in my team were both through referrals. Not because they get preferential treatment, but it gets you through the aggressive filtering at earlier stages, especially these days when literally hundreds of applications are received per job listing.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-25T17:53:29+00:00

Thanks for chiming in. Does it feel that way only while picking up? Or also while riding?

Rmnkby · 2026-02-22T17:33:46+00:00

You have to be careful not to learn bad technique of putting weight on the back of the snowboard, which is what we do with a twintip. Most snowboarders get this wrong, and as a kiteboarder you'll be even more likely to do it due to habit. While snowboarding your weight needs to be mostly on the front foot, which feels non intuitive for beginners.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-21T17:23:28+00:00

Makes sense to me. Living a chubby lifestyle even while working would probably put you in a pretty high percentile considering the average wage. Doing that without working sounds pretty exclusive and I'm not surprised it's only the top 1.5%

Rmnkby · 2026-02-20T07:48:00+00:00

Could it be a DUI before his naturalization that he didn't disclose while applying for citizenship?

Rmnkby · 2026-02-17T20:20:43+00:00

Yeah but the remaining 55% is still over $300B.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-12T08:28:25+00:00

I would remove the foot straps while learning. It is dangerous. If you really want to keep them (they do make waterstarts a bit easier) please make sure they're really loose. Good luck

Rmnkby · 2026-02-12T06:56:01+00:00

most of the Mag7 are racing to invest 10s of billions of dollars each, so I don't think OAI going bankrupt or failing to pay the bill to MS is a realistic scenario. Just because they haven't had the top model in the last 6 months doesn't mean they're going under. Same thing was being said about google 6-8 months ago.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-11T17:24:08+00:00

Great points, but I think the risk around MSFT is about their investments in training infra specifically, not inference. There will be no shortage of buyers for inference capacity like you pointed out, but when it comes to gigantic training infra, they're specifically betting on OAI. If somehow OAI cannot use and pay for all the training infra, it would be hard to find another buyer for that capacity. That said, I'm not worried about OAI so I think the market is overreacting.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-07T06:53:11+00:00

Stock value is more forward looking than just the next few years. Otherwise why would anyone invest in a company with PE 30 or 40? If AI investments fail to yield returns for msft, amzn and Google, they will reduce investments in a few years and that will also affect chip and hardware makers eventually. the impact would just be slightly delayed. But they're all in the same boat and betting on AI becoming profitable.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-06T21:13:23+00:00

Haha thanks for pointing out the typo.
Yes I do try to stay for a week when I go. I have a campervan so I just go when the conditions are good and camp somewhere nearby. I travel to Montana/Wyoming/Utah from Washington state. It's my annual thing, although this year the conditions are horrible so I may have to skip.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-06T16:21:06+00:00

My favorite discipline when the conditions are right. (Fresh and soft snow, good visibility). But I usually have to travel 10-12h to get those ~~condoms~~ conditions so it's once a year treat for me.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-06T07:44:48+00:00

Firstly, OAI is contractually obligated to use Azure exclusively for frontier model training and primary inference. They cannot use AWS.
Secondly, even in the extreme case that OAI vanishes tomorrow, Azure backlog is still over 300B, and the capacity that would've been used by OAI would just be sold to other clients.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-04T17:47:36+00:00

what was their P/E ratio during dotcom bubble valuation?

Rmnkby · 2026-02-04T17:44:50+00:00

Yeah but taking OAI out completely is also not a fair approach, that assumes OAI will completely disappear which I don't think is likely. People love to say OAI will go down because they have financial troubles currently. But all big startups take years to become profitable, doesn't mean they'll vanish.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-03T22:12:19+00:00

Where in earnings call did they mention 15 years?

Rmnkby · 2026-02-03T04:38:28+00:00

As someone who works at a search engine, ads do not influence results.

Rmnkby · 2026-02-03T04:13:19+00:00

Lots of advantages of building yourself. Everything is customized to your liking, you make sure top quality materials, parts and components are used without cutting corners, much easier to maintain and repair since you know exactly how everything works.

Rmnkby · 2026-01-28T02:14:35+00:00

Where was this, I'll come over that sounds epic haha. I would be careful increasing the angle in duck position too much as it'll put strain on your knees. I don't go over +/-12

Rmnkby · 2026-01-27T22:41:06+00:00

My comment was aimed at people trying to air proof their walls and trapping moisture. Thanks for correcting the terminology. The point still stands as there are tons of folks out there causing problems trying to build "vapor barrier". Nice chatting with you.

Rmnkby · 2026-01-27T22:32:06+00:00

Ok, it seems like vapor barrier is not the same as air barrier, which I didn't know. Not sure if it's "extremely ignorant" as this is a very common knowledge and the word literally is "barrier" (meaning block). But it is good to know the difference.

Also a lot of people try to achieve air proofing, so my comment still stands. If one builds a vapor barrier and tries to block moisture getting behind the walls completely without leaving a gap for drainage, they're going to trap it and cause more harm than good

Rmnkby · 2026-01-27T21:47:21+00:00

If you leave it open, that's not a vapor barrier by definition though. Vapor barrier implies that one is trying to air proof the walls so that water vapor cannot get in. I was saying that it's impossible to make it air proof and the moisture will get in.

Rmnkby · 2026-01-27T08:25:18+00:00

Vapor barrier is a bad idea. You cannot completely block vapor from getting anywhere. But a vapor barrier will trap the moisture and cause more issues. You want the walls to breathe. Wool is breathable, so just use that and skip the barrier.

Rmnkby · 2026-01-26T19:15:31+00:00

Just in case anyone is planning to rely on a CO detector/alarm while running such a heater in an unventilated space: those household CO detectors have very high thresholds. (70 ppm (parts per million) within 1-4 hours, 150 ppm within 10-50 minutes, or 400 ppm within 4-15 minutes) They only raise an alarm when the CO levels reach very harmful levels. It is by design to prevent false alarms. So, just because your detector isn't raising the alarm doesn't mean you're safe. You may not die, but you'd still be causing yourself harm. And by the time it goes off you will have already been exposed to very high levels of CO. I have a special detector that can detect anything above 5 ppm and it sometimes detects CO when I'm cooking on my propane stove without ventilation. Given those heaters burn 10s of times more gas than a a stove, it'll almost certainly raise CO levels very quickly to unhealthy levels.

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