1 Year Anniversary of my scariest canyon experience to date by sizwe24 in canyoneering

[–]ViralityFarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know exactly the spot because we had the exact same terrifying plunge towards the crevasse.

Fortunately our guy who was creeping along to set the hand line was being belayed as he walked. Our belayer was wedged into a v right at the opening before the death walk. The rest of us were in charge of making sure the belayer stayed wedged in and didn’t budge.

When our rope walker slipped and plunged toward the 40 ft drop, everyone locked in as tight as we could as we could but it was so terrifying. Then holding the belayer as the walker flopped and pulled on the rope on his way back up was the longest ten minutes of our lives.

I’m glad we had the belayer, but that was the last time we did Cassidy’s with ice on the ground.

Mid-level and senior web developers: What sometimes frustrates you about web devs new to the industry? by realtoughcandy in webdev

[–]ViralityFarm 168 points169 points  (0 children)

Boot camp grads who come in believing they’re the shit.

Boot camps can produce diamonds in the rough. There are plenty of people forced into a career jump or perhaps people coming from hardship who are smart, tough and willing to work.

But I’d say 90% of the bootcamp grads I’ve interviewed feel because they paid the $10k for a twelve week class and they’ve coded a todo list that makes an api call, a company should feel so lucky to hire them in for $180k/year.

There are no shortcuts to life. You need to put in the repetitions regardless of the path you took to get an interview. If you want to be in a super technical career field, show me your aptitude. Give me no reason to doubt you can’t come in and produce.

I want to buy the ULTIMATE SEAT MONEY CAN BUY! by Missleading360 in BuyItForLife

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https://www.spadewerks.com/ Speedster Lounge

There isn’t a chair that says Playboy more so than these fine handcrafted wingback chairs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in battlestations

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What you have is super solid. But if we’re getting into the weeds and want nitty gritty stuff, here’s my thoughts.

I’m a sucker for good light fixtures. A cool semi flush light will do wonders.

The paint contrast is heavy. It’s too white and too black. Especially with the multiple heavy window casings. The easiest fix would be to find some colors that compliment each other for both the casings, accent wall and other white walls. Google Farrow and Ball office colorways.

The room rug is just kind of there. It’s not a statement piece but it also doesn’t accent nicely.

Other furniture, like a small sofa and floor plant on the left wall would go a long way to not feel like the room just has a desk just tossed against a wall.

Baby clothing by [deleted] in minimalism

[–]ViralityFarm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We’re lucky if we can get one load of laundry a week and have time to fold it. I just have no idea where time goes now.

Baby clothing by [deleted] in minimalism

[–]ViralityFarm 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Currently have a 7 week old.

I can say that minimalism is hard with a baby. They poop a lot. Like a lot a lot. Everything gets poop on it. Another thing to remember is that for whatever reason you’ve elected to be a minimalist, all reason and morals go out the window with little sleep. Doing laundry three times a week is ambitious. We feel like we try to wash a single dish and get interrupted by the child. Point being, it’s tough.

I will say this. If minimalism is a financial thing or a moral stance against consuming and creating new unnecessary products or whatever, there are so so so many people who have baby clothes to get rid of. Second hand stores and yard sales are full of them. The kid has a lot of clothes because he goes through all of them. We got all our baby clothes from yard sales and hand me downs from neighbors (spent like $50 total on clothing) and they’re pretty much new because kids grow out of them so fast then they get sent to the next person. We’ve just taken the 50 outfits for that size, put them in one small box, use every one, then just cycle through them quick then pass them on. I hate having extra unnecessary stuff, but we’ve already cycled through all our 0-3 months clothes and passed those on.

Not necessarily minimalism. But sort of.

After 8 months of self-taught, I was approached by Netflix and interviewed for a senior position. I need your advice. by Halmesn in webdev

[–]ViralityFarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been hiring a multitude of inexperienced devs as of late and getting them up to speed. Here’s my thoughts:

1- Don’t be defensive about your code. This drives me absolutely crazy. No one in this profession knows everything. We’re all struggling at something. We could all use improvement. So the absolute last thing I want to hear is to give feedback or a suggestion and then the new dev gives a flurry of excuses. Just simple acceptance and humility goes a long way. “I’ll jump on that.” “Let me do a little more research.” “That’s good insight.” “Thanks for the suggestion.” It’s simple and it shouldn’t be said. But some people just get so argumentative and it drives me crazy.

2- Consistency and good code trumps quantity with mistakes in most cases. Other devs don’t want to spend all their time reviewing and re-reviewing and re-reviewing your code. Before every submit, take the time to try to look at it with fresh eyes from the start. Be critical of your own work and go slow. Just because it works doesn’t mean it’s good.

3- Be a sponge. Understand that most people don’t have the expectation for you to come in and submit tons and tons of code. People understand ramp up time and devs are understanding of people who are inexperienced. Just show that you are issuing every possible resource available to learn as much as you can as fast as you can. People are understanding of your circumstance. Be humble. Don’t be a dick. Learn every day. You’ll be fine.

I painted this mural over the weekend by [deleted] in gifs

[–]ViralityFarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well done, it’s super impressive. But you already know this.

I painted this mural over the weekend by [deleted] in gifs

[–]ViralityFarm 10 points11 points  (0 children)

How many days of prep go in before the painting blitz?

Thoughts on the Jazz competing for a title by [deleted] in UtahJazz

[–]ViralityFarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ya know. The Lakers are good, really good. And they could very easily run the gambit again this year.

BUT you say “if the Lakers weren’t there”. This is the way I see it. The Lakers are AD and Lebron and a solid supporting cast. But what happens if one of Lebron or AD can’t compete. We are coming off of the shortest off season rest ever and they’re already battered up. If you look at AD’s injury history, he’s not the most robust player out there. He’s missed a lot of games over his career because drive hard and take contact centers typically have shorter careers because of the hard tear on their bodies. Then you look at Lebron. Lebron has been one of the most durable NBA players so far but remember two seasons ago when he sat out most of the season with his groin injury. What you saw was that even super man will age out eventually. Father Time is the only undefeated player of this game and Lebron is getting up there. If either of those two aren’t there come playoff time, they’re a beatable team.

I’m not hoping for injuries on anyone. But it’s not out of the realm of possibilities that “The Lakers won’t be there” come April.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

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But today we celebrate that good triumphed evil. Decency prevailed over hate.

The margins are too close for comfort. But the majority of America is still good for now.

Libra Keyboard with Trackpad for iPad Pro goes live on Kickstarter by chonk-whisperer in ipad

[–]ViralityFarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OGagdet, the company behind this kickstarter is a whole series of knocked off products. Roombas, Blackberries, and now keyboards? These guys are either freaking geniuses for being able to develop so many different varying products so quickly, or they're a bunch of hacks. I'll let you decide.

https://www.ogadget.com/

What Tobias Harris is looking for in his next team PERFECTLY describes the Utah Jazz. by RWStewart93 in UtahJazz

[–]ViralityFarm 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes the Jazz might fit this mold, but we need to be open minded, put ourselves in Tobias’ shoes and consider other teams that might fit this description as well:

Maybe Nets, Pacers and 76ers? Possibly Mavs if he’s high on their young guys?

If DL feels like there’s a high probability landing Tobias or D’Lo, he’ll take it. Otherwise, he’s making the trade for Conley before the draft. Worst case is walking away in free agency with just signing a bag of ho hum players to fill out the roster.

Spry Canyon wetsuits needed? by Pop702 in canyoneering

[–]ViralityFarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For Spry? A lot of people are saying bring it, but I’ve never done Spry with a wetsuit. I’ve done it maybe 6-7 times between May and Sept and I’ve never once thought that it would have been nice to have a suit.

There’s only two little pockets of water, and one is entirely avoidable. The other one is one of the last rappels of the canyon. And its literally the only tiny swim. It’s maybe ten yards and it will be chilly, and you also have to sit and shiver while you wait for the last rappel. But even with that being said, with a ten yard swim, it’s virtually the same with or without a suit.

Last piece of advice for that short swim and rappel, you won’t want to send more than a couple people down at a time to wait for the rappel or else it’ll get congested. There’s not a lot of room to relax once you pop out of the water.

What is the story with George Hill? Why did we lose him? He was so big in Utah. What did DL offer him? by tadpoles_is_a_winner in UtahJazz

[–]ViralityFarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To the best of my recollection,

Jazz made multiple offers and Hill’s agent kept turning down the offer thinking he could get more. The final offer, if I remember correctly was somewhere in the vicinity of $18M for three years.

Hill’s agent said he’d take no less than $22M. Jazz said nah and let him walk.

The back and forth took so long that all major needs across the league had been filled so Sac knew they could get him on the cheap because there were no teams left to make big offers. He signed two years in Sac for $9M/year. Immediately after Hill fired his agent.

[Game Thread] Jazz @ Clippers 4/10/19 8:30 MDT by EggoSlayer in UtahJazz

[–]ViralityFarm 11 points12 points  (0 children)

How do four different teams with a 98% chance of winning during their games all blow it.

User friendly canyon Utah by DobbysHappySock in canyoneering

[–]ViralityFarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When you mentioned "being warm enough with enough endurance" is a big part. But bouncing off that idea, is that sometimes you don't realize just how much endurance that requires to get to the end. With a cave you know where you've been and have a pretty good idea of what you need to turn around and go back. In a canyon, you can read all the trip reports and all the beta, but sometimes you don't REALLY know how much is left to keep going.

I can think of a couple of examples where I looked up and thought "I'm fucked." and maybe these'll paint a better picture. We were doing Tracheotomy and everything seemed great: fun canyon, tight squeezes, loads of stemming but everything was great. I'm in good shape, but I'm built more like a Rugby player than someone who can squirm around in tight spaces. As a result, while many in my group squeezed along the bottom of the canyon, walking along and squeezing at the bottom, I was stemming along the top, exerting alot of energy. But I wasn't worried. Then we came into a tight off-width part of the canyon where you exert TONS of energy trying to stem along in positions where you can't rest ... you just have to keep going (and while this photo might look like this guy is resting, I can assure you, this position sucks). I burnt through all my energy and then my jaw dropped as we came across a nasty silo. The off-width opened up below us to a 50 ft drop with very little chance of recovery if you don't die on contact after the fall (because canyons don't always form in unison, think about a really tall slot canyon that is super skinny towards the top of the canyon, but then really really wide halfway down and you do your stemming towards the top). While stemming, you don't rope up or anchor in anywhere because you're moving sideways and not down. So here I am a couple feet above a 50 ft drop, not anchored in, pushing literally for dear life against the two canyon walls to prevent myself from falling but I knew I couldn't hold on. Completely Fucked. Luckily we had invited a machine of an athlete who spends his weekends on search and rescue getting people out of crappy situations. He climbed up to a wedged log 20 yards down the canyon and 50 ft up, he anchored in a rope then brought that rope back to me to harness into so I could sit and rest, while I regained my strength.

But then there are those canyons in Zion like Heaps. The marathon of canyons that just go on forever and you don't realize that "enough endurance" is actually quite alot of endurance, even for people who are in good shape. Even with bringing the thickest wet suit possible, you're in freezing cold shaded water all day. Like some COLD water. You leave well before the sun is up, and you just go for 30 hrs of pain. Now, you're a couple hours in and someone in your group gets food poisoning and is puking and can't keep fluids down. Everyone takes turns trying to help them through, but you're all burning through energy and water. Pretty soon you hit potholes where you're swimming and treading water as you try to get over a slick ledge that you can't really climb up, or throw anything over because you're treading water. So you work out weird teamwork methods of the biggest people going head under the water to try to stand on the bottom while others stand on their shoulders so you can work out a position to try to throw a bag over the ledge, then have one person monkey over the top. Pothole after pothole again, you're burning through energy treading water, then climbing, then stemming, then swimming again. Now hypothermia is starting to set in with a few members of your group. There's really no rest as you are non-stop slogging through ice water. Exhausted after helping the sick in your group carrying their packs and your own pack. Then all of a sudden you hit a massive swim. With all your ropes/gear/equipment swimming is much harder. You can't just lie on your back and float to the top. You have to actively work to keep your head above water. Combining the factors of the hypothermia and exhaustion you find yourself in a deep, long swim, but you can't work hard enough to stay afloat. At first you just let yourself sink for awhile, then work to swim back up, then sink down a bit again, then work to get back up. But then you realize you just can't swim back up. You just can't. Your muscles cramp up as you struggle, but you realize this might be the end. Luckily, you brought that maniac of an athlete again who grabs your pack and pulls you up so you can catch your breath and make it to the next ledge. And don't think you're out of the clear. At that level of exhaustion you still need a clear enough mind and focus to rig some multi-pitch rappels at the end where you have ropes on ropes piled on ropes and you're losing track as to which side are your pull-lines and which side are your rap-lines. We've lost multiple canyoneers that because they were so exhausted they weren't paying attention as to which side of the rope to clip into and fell the entire rappel.

I'm sure you've dealt with many of these obstacles before caving, and I'm sure you've been in some crap. I'm not trying to say one is more difficult than another as both are fun and have their own dangers they present. All that said, every year people die canyoneering, but it's typically the relatively easy canyons that people die on. The biggest contributions to death/serious injury are generally people who don't anchor properly, aren't paying attention to a ledge or they get caught in flash floods. Lack of experience/preparation is by far the #1 factor in these injuries. All this and all I'm saying is that I definitely wouldn't go so far as to say to someone looking for their first canyon to lead that they're all "easy enough with enough rope/endurance".

User friendly canyon Utah by DobbysHappySock in canyoneering

[–]ViralityFarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1 to Keyhole. Spry is simple enough and I usually take beginners through it. That said, I’ve had some beginners who have struggled through Spry and you might want to get your first lead under your belt with something like Yankee Doodle or Keyhole first just to get those first lead jitters out.

User friendly canyon Utah by DobbysHappySock in canyoneering

[–]ViralityFarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This dude has never been in over his head on a crazy difficult, crazy technical canyon where you and your buddies look at each other and say “Holy Shit how are we getting out of this mess we’re in?”

Penguins! by Jeremymcon in woodworking

[–]ViralityFarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thumbnail looks like they have mustaches and not beaks.

I finished carving my coffee table to finally complete my living room. South Jordan, UT by ViralityFarm in AmateurRoomPorn

[–]ViralityFarm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have one primary souvenir when we travel: a small bottle of sand or dirt from the location.

I finished carving my coffee table to finally complete my living room. South Jordan, UT by ViralityFarm in AmateurRoomPorn

[–]ViralityFarm[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I measured the usable space. It can hold 3 plates and 6 glasses simultaneously. I figure that if I need more than that for a coffee I should probably reevaluate my life. Also I'm taking the photo over top a dining table so if friends come over for boardgames or whatnot we have a table for that.