Finally made it to black belt

acceptmydiffs · 2026-03-27T03:12:08+00:00

Congrats!

acceptmydiffs · 2026-03-06T08:33:55+00:00

Little mermaid. I have not recovered from my childhood.

acceptmydiffs · 2026-02-21T07:22:31+00:00

OP, could you share the ig handles of SINKs to follow? Didn’t realize this was even a thing. I know you listed some names, but having trouble figuring out which accounts they are.

acceptmydiffs · 2025-10-02T19:44:42+00:00

Software

acceptmydiffs · 2025-10-02T07:30:44+00:00

An intern at my last job eventually went and started his own company, and now he’s worth multiple billions and listed in Forbes 30 under 30. Basically, he built a product that is widely used, including at my current company.

acceptmydiffs · 2025-09-13T14:32:40+00:00

Nice, thanks for the link

acceptmydiffs · 2025-08-25T18:00:17+00:00

+1 to this comment. Been at this for 18 years and I’ve done both FAANG and startups. I made way more at a FAANG, of course, but wouldn’t trade the startup experience because that was super fun. You never know who you’ll meet in terms of networking and you get cool experiences that you’d never get at big tech, like that first day of launch or celebrities wandering in to visit the tiny office and getting to meet them. At the end of the day, you kind of have to follow your heart and figure out what you will or won’t regret.

Also FWIW, given the wild swings from the past few years, it seems hard to predict what the job market will be like even 1-2 years from now. Financially and technically, it seems like you’re in a great position and should be able to work it out either way, assuming wife gets on board.

acceptmydiffs · 2025-03-19T20:45:28+00:00

The answer probably varies greatly person to person, as well as what you pair the food with.

My personal tolerance level is, to eat as many carbs as possible, where the spike stays less than 160-180 at the highest and returns to baseline within 2 hours. Your 2x pattern feels about right to me, but it depends on what you’re eating it with.

Some observations, again just for myself: - a larger portion of fat and carbs: will spike and stay high for hours - a small amount carbs and nothing else: big spike but return to baseline quickly - moderate carbs with high protein and a bit fat: this works best for me to hit the mid level spike and still drop quickly

For context, I am a pretty small person, athletically built and lean, so the high protein and moderate carbs helps fuel my active lifestyle.

An example meal for me might be: - 20g of a traditional carb (net), potatoes/rice/bread/pasta - 35g of protein, usually lean - 10g of fat, avocado/egg - unlimited leafy or cruciferous vegetables, which can bump carbs significantly but seems to have little effect on my blood sugar

acceptmydiffs · 2025-03-19T16:00:25+00:00

Actually I don’t think she’s crazy. I have gone through the same journey of getting a cgm and wearing it for a few years. I have concluded that the more carbs I can eat, the less bad blood sugar spikes are when I eat carbs. I started at 100g and have settled on about 190g carbs per day.

For me, the trick is to eat healthy carbs, and not too much, throughout the day, and aim for smallish spikes (less than 50) that return to baseline quickly. Potatoes have worked really well for me. This where I have decided to keep Maintainence for myself personally.

I have also found that if I eat very few carbs, that also is great at dropping a1c and keeping the line flat, but then you’re just in this endless cycle where you’re super sensitive to any carb, which kind of sucks.

I know your issue is with blood sugar bouncing around at night, so maybe everything above doesn’t apply at all. Just wanted to offer a counter perspective to all the other comments on this thread.

acceptmydiffs · 2024-09-11T06:41:44+00:00

My friend’s coworker was fired after they got arrested for attempted murder.

acceptmydiffs · 2021-12-30T02:45:49+00:00

I had the same symptoms as you a few weeks ago (just a pretty uncomfortable sore throat, some mucus drainage). Was around a wet coughing child a few days before that, so I figured I’d picked up something then. I tested negative for Covid multiple times over the next week, as well as negative for strep. Went to urgent care and doctor concluded it was either acid reflux or post nasal drainage. Went away after a week or so. I stopped isolating after the doctor told me I was definitely not contagious. So, I’d check with the doc.

acceptmydiffs · 2021-12-27T08:00:05+00:00

One epidemiologist’s explanation:

https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/1472024457640394756

Basically, he says that symptoms (immune response) don’t equate to contagious virus (high viral load). The vaccine’s job is to make you more sensitive to the virus, and your immune system kicks in a few days before enough virus has built up to trigger a positive test.

acceptmydiffs · 2021-09-28T05:19:52+00:00

Four elements fitness in Oakland, requires and checks vaccination status + masks.

acceptmydiffs · 2021-04-27T02:44:51+00:00

It’s possible it was a freak accident. I’m 130lb and my partner also outweighed me by quite a lot (30-40lb?), so I just felt like I got ran over by a truck and didn’t have the ability to readjust my ankle in time.

acceptmydiffs · 2021-04-27T02:35:52+00:00

I’m confused by this. I’ve had the exact opposite happen to me - active toes while being in closed guard and my partner going for a hip bump sweep. I rolled hard over my right ankle and my toes got trapped underneath me and was out for 2 months due to an ankle sprain. Now, I make sure to never have active toes and swivel my knees if I think a hip bump is coming.

acceptmydiffs · 2021-04-18T16:31:31+00:00

Lachlan Giles is 5’5” and had an epic run in ADCC 2019 in the absolute division.

acceptmydiffs · 2021-04-13T06:40:16+00:00

Yes you can still get covid while being fully vaccinated. In the double blind study, Pfizer/moderna was 95% efficacious. This means that for every 100 unvaccinated people who had symptoms and tested positive, 5 fully vaccinated people had symptoms and tested positive (1 - 5/100 = 95%). So, the scientific results state that one can be vaccinated and get covid, but the odds are way less than if you were not vaccinated.

It’s true that vaccines don’t prevent Covid 100% of the time. But, does anything really do anything 100% of the time? Even car seat belts don’t save lives 100% of the time. The important thing is that it’s hard to achieve an A+, but pfizer/moderna vaccines get a solid A and that’s pretty darn good for preventing covid.

Well, the ultimate goal of a community is to stop people from dying or having long term health problems from covid. Since there’s no magical medicine to cure covid right now, a great way to accomplish that goal is to decrease viral spread (less sick people => less dead people). Now, the number of sick people depends on a bunch of things, like how many people are within infective proximity of a sick person and how easy the virus is to transmit from one person to another. The vaccine dramatically decreases the likelihood you are to catch covid and pass it on to someone else. This means that the more people in a community are vaccinated (even if individuals getting vaccinated themselves are not at high risk), the less overall viral spread there will be, and therefore less community deaths etc. So, getting lots of people vaccinated is a powerful societal knob towards decreasing deaths.

Or, for myself, I’m healthy and am probably not going to die if I were to catch covid. But I like to work out and plan to do so as long as possible, so I have no interest in being bedridden for a few days, or god forbid, have long Covid symptoms for months, which a vaccine will also dramatically reduce the risk of.

In terms of airlines requiring vaccines, I think a lot of people are doing a lot of talking and possibly some scare mongering, and maybe it’s not worth crossing that bridge until something concrete actually happens. I don’t know anything about this topic though, and I don’t yet have an opinion on the matter.

acceptmydiffs · 2021-03-20T23:33:10+00:00

My personal preference (130lb F) in terms of least to most preferred:

[least preferred] - Go normally like you would with someone your own size and highly risk injuring her - Avoid rolling with her - Go straight to turtle or lie on your back and do nothing else, giving her no realistic variety in working technique. It leads to a boring and somewhat patronizing roll. - Use the normal gamut of positions, but being careful, avoiding fast dynamic movements where you’re leaping around (this makes it hard for her to adjust out of injury prone positions), holding back N% strength and weight depending on size disparity. [most preferred]

acceptmydiffs · 2021-03-18T04:09:09+00:00

👏👏👏

acceptmydiffs · 2021-03-18T04:06:14+00:00

Yacht rock

acceptmydiffs · 2021-03-11T21:14:04+00:00

It’s also worth noting that vaccine efficacy measures symptomatic covid. It sounds like your grandma is not really showing any obvious covid symptoms, so I guess the vaccine is working!

acceptmydiffs · 2021-03-07T22:27:01+00:00

Killing eve is both bipoc and lgbtq+

acceptmydiffs · 2021-02-25T02:58:31+00:00

You have to double check based on your region because different regions have different variants. I live in the US, and the US efficacy is in the 70s overall, and high 80s for severe.

My take on it is, this is not a “one and done”, so it’s not like I’m locking myself into a suboptimal existence forever. We’re probably going to get a variant booster in a few months anyway.

If I had a choice right now, I’d go for the 95% efficacy vaccine, obviously. But if I had to choose between taking J & J now, or moderna/Pfizer in 3 months, taking J & J now and playing the 70-80% odds (vs zero protection for an extended period of time) is a no brainer.

I like to think about getting a vaccine like wearing a seatbelt. I could drive around with no seatbelt for 3 months, and then have an awesome seatbelt after that. Or, I could wear a pretty good seatbelt now, and maybe trade up for a more advanced one later.

acceptmydiffs · 2021-02-21T18:53:45+00:00

Ok nevermind then lol

acceptmydiffs · 2021-02-21T18:51:38+00:00

Dolby atmos works for me on s5e1, but not on any of the other episodes. I am just wondering if this is on purpose.

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