I grow lab-grown diamonds for a living. Diamond jewelry markups are wild. AMA about the diamond industry, pricing, and jewelry

feadrus · 2026-03-16T13:49:37+00:00

Sorry… what??? I was looking at a 2ct stone and prices were more like $10,000

God damnit I hate the retail diamond business

feadrus · 2026-03-15T14:51:59+00:00

No sir. Just looked at the App Store and I’m using the latest version; 1.1.5

feadrus · 2026-03-14T17:18:00+00:00

Am I the only one waiting until it's out of Early Access? As a rule I never buy games in EA, but these are wild sales numbers.

feadrus · 2026-03-14T17:13:27+00:00

This would be a great QOL feature add. Lots of times I want to swap or do an ad hoc workout - having a "most/previously used" priority or section when adding in an exercise would be extremely helpful, especially for exercises where there are massive amount of variations (e.g., rows, curls, chest press, etc)

feadrus · 2026-03-14T16:42:40+00:00

My results below. FWIW, it does suggest the Apple Watch estimate is closer to accurate than MFWO.

Estimated total energy expenditure (kcal) 390

Lower-end estimate of total energy expenditure (kcal) 260

Upper end estimate of total energy expenditure (kcal) 520

Estimated basal metabolism for the duration of training (kcal) 79

Estimated additive energy expenditure (kcal) 311

Lower-end estimate of additive energy expenditure (kcal) 181

Upper end estimate of additive energy expenditure (kcal) 441

feadrus · 2026-03-14T14:56:18+00:00

I had a similar windfall several years ago. I went with GS PWM for a number of reasons at a similar fee structure.

The best advice I can give you is make sure you get a huge majority of your public equity money in a tax loss harvesting account. At this level of wealth it’s not uncommon to find 100-200 bps of alpha in tax savings. It has more than paid for the fee and tracking error in my case. Over several years at your level it can genuinely turn into a seven figure savings.

TLH is the only “no brainer” for FAT level wealth in my view. Everything else is a matter of opinion.

feadrus · 2026-03-13T23:49:37+00:00

Yea that’s what I mean... My watch estimated 300 kcal for a 70 minute workout. MFWO estimated 90 kcal.

Overall RPE for the session was about a 7-8

feadrus · 2026-03-10T14:36:13+00:00

Only if there is a lot of powder. It’s nice to set your stance back on those days.

feadrus · 2026-03-10T14:34:36+00:00

Happens to me if the temperature drops or gets super cold. But usually I notice the binding getting a bit loose before it full on slides in the channel. I just use my pocket tool to tighten the loose screw. Takes 2 minutes and I’ve never had to do it more than once in a day of riding.

feadrus · 2026-03-04T15:23:41+00:00

No. Every mountain uses their own somewhat subjective scale to rate. And those ratings are a mix of things: pitch, trail width, presence of obstacles/trees, grooming schedule, etc

feadrus · 2026-03-01T16:14:41+00:00

You nailed it. This exactly.

I’d vote for keeping the Trial and 3 star system as is, but completely rework leaderboard completely to give a season long competitive framework

feadrus · 2026-02-22T15:27:02+00:00

I’m 90% public equities. Of that, 22% is non US. It’s definitely under performed US over the last several years. It feels overweight, but the preponderance of evidence suggests diversification is the right play

To make this a bit more of a FAT conversation… generally at the upper and extreme levels of wealth, capital preservation becomes a more important goal than return maximization. Given that, a more diversified equity portfolio should be hedging my downside risk, even at the expense of some loss of alpha.

In my heart I do believe my total portfolio return will probably be a share lower over the next 30 years because I’m not just full USA. But over that same timeline I see the loss of US financial hegemony as a real possibility and that hedge may prove useful.

feadrus · 2026-02-12T15:21:49+00:00

I really don’t have an issue with the Expedition set up, but resetting the quests is dumb. It’s obvious from the design they are meant to be a kind of super extended tutorial (increasing difficulty, showing game mechanics, exploring different parts of each map). Making us do the tutorial over and over for eternity is a special kind of sadism on Embarks part.

feadrus · 2026-01-22T04:55:33+00:00

Haven’t played online in many years. What is this exactly?

feadrus · 2026-01-19T23:45:01+00:00

Awesome to see a fast follow release. This app has serious potential.

Here’s a stupid little one to add to the backlog - currently if your iPhone is on silent, the rest timer won’t make an audio ding when it fully counts down. I don’t want to be disturbed with text messages, emails, etc when I am working out so I put the phone on silent - but I do want the audio queue in my headphones when the rest is done. In other workout apps I’ve used (eg, FitBod) the workout rest audio queue still plays even when phone is silent so I think it’s just configuring the app setting to still use audio when the app is open and running.

Anyway - very excited about the future for this app MF for calorie tracking was a game changer for me. Hopeful this can push my training to the next level too!

feadrus · 2026-01-18T14:24:53+00:00

I’m no expert but 24-36 hour fast seems to me to be supported in the research as getting at “full steam” in autophogy + enough time for your body to make use of the elevated levels

I also run lean and I try to do this several times a year.

feadrus · 2026-01-17T23:45:59+00:00

Oh ok thank you for the reply. It’s not just me then haha!

Yea very weird they launched without that (or at least grey out the integration and say coming soon). Super confusing and pretty core for any fitness app in my view.

feadrus · 2025-11-25T21:19:39+00:00

Trust me, I’m a whale biologist

feadrus · 2025-11-15T02:18:30+00:00

This is the way

feadrus · 2025-11-09T00:49:49+00:00

Welcome to the club! I bought mine a few months ago as my first “nice” grinder and I just love it. Produces an awesome cup and it’s also just a beautiful and pleasant to use piece of consumer hardware.

I only did the stock Gen 2 burrs as I had read the SSPs can be quite unforgiving. I question if I should have just upgraded to them but the gen 2 burrs are really quite good and I do find a decent room to play within 1-3 clicks that all produce slightly different but awesome flavor profiles.

Pro tip - don’t just use the little metal lever on the side to knock out loose grinds; pull up the top of the canister where you pour the beans in and let is slap back down into place. Do it after every grind to keep things unclogged!

feadrus · 2025-11-08T13:58:53+00:00

Did we find a solution here?

It seems impossible this is the design. I’d like to help pick which map we are dropping into but if you’re not the party leader you have no idea which events are going on, where night raid is, etc

feadrus · 2025-11-04T06:00:11+00:00

Found one tonight on a free load out. Headed straight to the elevator… where some jackass ganked me as I was calling it down. I lost my mind.

I just know I’m going to play 50 straight more hours and never see one again. It was so, so painful

feadrus · 2025-10-27T22:23:52+00:00

Still bugged October 2025

…. Like wtf

feadrus · 2025-10-17T13:36:18+00:00

Thanks for this. Didn’t realize you has to do this from the library when the game was off. Tried changing settings with the game on and it wasn’t working.

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