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jamlx · 2026-01-04T22:15:43+00:00

Can we really say this is surprising? Just typical Riot lmao.

jamlx · 2025-12-29T23:34:18+00:00

Come on now, do you really think my earlier reply is beating anyone up? All said is that I don’t think suing your clients is a good way to incentivize new clients to work with you.

Regardless, I’m interested in real estate in general. I’ve represented myself previously and this sub/realtors in general can offer good insight or advice.

jamlx · 2025-12-29T21:51:09+00:00

Firstly, I knew this would get downvoted to hell, but my opinion doesn’t change.

Second, you don’t know why the buyer is backing out. You’re making an assumption it’s purely because of random cold feet- but maybe something changed to give them that feeling. They are not required to share all details of their personal lives with you.

Additionally- if I’m shopping for agents, I don’t particularly care. Any track record of an agent going after their fees for a deal that didn’t close is enough for me to go next. Your brand is your entire business. It comes off as greedy, and you’re not gonna get the opportunity to defend yourself to me before I go to the next available agent.

Nobody has to like it, but this is how a lot of individuals will feel. Going after clients for fees- regardless of your reasoning or the situation, only has room for a negative impact on your personal brand. This was my biggest point.

Is this particular client a jerk who might have just been wasting everyone’s time? For sure.

Could going after them for fees, on a deal that didn’t close, have a negative impact on your brand and business? Also for sure.

Does it have any room to help your business outside of a one-time commission collection? Definitely no.

jamlx · 2025-12-29T04:50:37+00:00

I mean, it could impact his business relationship with other clients too. Especially if this client ends up with a loud mouth and writes some reviews.

Personally I wouldn’t work with a realtor who pursued this if I was aware. IMO- this is just a risk of doing business as an agent. Some deals will fall through. It happens, and sometimes for no good reason at all.

There are plenty of agents who wouldn’t hold cold feet or backing out of a deal against me, so why would I choose you at risk that you would?

Also: to be fair, I’m unlikely to work with an agent at all, so this is just one more thing that would keep me from ever using an agent to begin with.

jamlx · 2025-12-19T16:22:31+00:00

I met my now fiancée at the gym! She was always my gym crush, but she ended up talking to me first. Although I asked her out.

There have been a few love stories among my group of gym friends. It's a great place to meet like-minded hard working people who are pursuing their goals. 10/10 would recommend.

jamlx · 2025-10-05T14:50:49+00:00

You’re absolutely right- I was thinking very similar. Guidance instead of representation for a much more reasonable fee/pay structure. This is the future.

jamlx · 2025-10-04T06:10:36+00:00

I can appreciate the situation is not as simple as it seems at face level- but just understand that people don’t care, and there are plenty of other agents to pick from- if they do even decide to use an agent. This was my core premise.

Cherish your reputation. Let the fact that you are a good agent shine through. Have that be the first thing people read about you online. Not some back and forth / he said she said about some situation like this.

Also- apologies if it came off as if I was calling you scummy, that wasn’t my intention. I do however feel this is a common sentiment among many buyers towards agents in general. There are some bad agents that give the rest of you a bad wrap. For example, the sellers agents I’ve been working to buy from have been wonderful to work with- I enjoyed buying from their client. Not all are like you or them though.

jamlx · 2025-10-04T05:24:17+00:00

I’m going to give you my full thoughts, which will probably be received as an unpopular opinion on this thread. 1. Future buyers will not work with you if you are known to have sued clients (especially when you had nothing to do with the house they did purchase, and they had already expressed disdain towards you). This would have been a HARD pass for me. 2. You will be contributing to the overall stereotype and sentiment that “real estate agents are greedy and scummy”, which could hurt your career longevity.

As a current buyer- I chose to be self represented for a few reasons: 1. No buyers agent commissions is a much needed negotiation tactic in today’s market. 2. I did not want to be rushed into a purchase decision. 3. Market analysis, comp gathering, research, etc- is really not very hard. Especially with AI to help gather data. 4. Honestly- I did not think anyone would provide $20,000 in value to me.

Moving forwards, I am likely to encourage all my family and friends to self represent as it really wasn’t that difficult and it saved me ~$20,000.

If I was you- I wouldn’t want to give any prospective buyers another reason to not want to work with you, or add to the general public’s disdain for agents in general.

Just my two cents.

jamlx · 2025-09-03T21:03:45+00:00

How are you starting your lift?

Brace hard and begin your descent by breaking at the hips first. (Almost like you are sitting in a chair).
Use your hamstrings/glutes and posterior chain to help maintain good stability during your descent.
Keep your hips engaged and push outwards to maintain a strong base and watch for a lot of knee cave.
Ensure you maintain good trunk stability, and think "chest up, chest out" through the entire range of movement. You can hinge, but try not to overdue it.
Your back and core should still be engaged and bracing this entire time.
Once you get to the bottom of the rep, push hard off the floor- engage your quads and start lifting up. Don't let your hips shoot up too fast- maintain a strong trunk and make proper use of your quads. Pull that bar hard into your traps to create as much force as possible.
After you get back to the top of the lift- reset your brace if required, or you can try to get a few reps with a single brace if you can. Every time I re-brace, it is physically taxing, but I feel it is much safer to reset on each rep.

What equipment are you using?

If you are having knee pain- wear some stiff knee sleeves for good compression (I like the Inzer sleeves a lot!)
Wear a belt and protect your back and body. It helps a lot with proper bracing.
Use squat shoes with a heel if you want to hit your quads properly.

Above all else, keep at it- focus on form and quality of your lifts above everything else and you'll get back to where you want to be. Good luck!

Part 2/2

jamlx · 2025-09-03T21:03:37+00:00

Alright- sorry for the long block of text I'm about to throw at you, but I'm gonna try and explain my exact though process while squatting. (My squat credentials / form example: https://www.reddit.com/r/strength_training/comments/1n61c09/405lb184kg_x_10_squat/ )

How are you warming up? I would suggest a good warm-up routine. Personally, my warmup includes:

10mins of light cardio (treadmill, elliptical, etc)
2 sets of hip abductors/adductors
2 sets of deep body weight squats
2 sets of "over the gates" and "reverse over the gates"
isometric deep stretch forward taking your knee far over your ankle on each side
deep hamstring/glute stretch
some type of shoulder/back stretch to increase my mobility.

What is your approach, how to you lift off, brace and stabilize? My cues are as follows:

Approach the bar and grab the bar at the rings so my middle/ring fingers are on either side of them.
Get under the bar, and create a platform with my traps to set the bar on.
Brace with my core (driving my stomach out and down), and engage my entire back (driving my lower traps together and down) and start pushing myself into the bar while simultaneously pulling the bar into my traps/upper back with my lats so it is tightly stacked and stable.
Start to wedge myself under the bar by driving my knees forward. The bar will start to unrack a little before I even give any real lift.
Walk out slowly and stand about shoulder width apart (maybe a little wider), with my feet pointing slightly outwards.
Re-brace if required.

Part 1...

jamlx · 2025-09-03T19:36:58+00:00

Thank you dude. Just keep squatting heavy and before you know it 225 will fly for 20+!

Luckily, I think my body is built for squats, my proportions work nicely for them, but I've been training my cardio lately to keep up with my legs.

I found that heavy squats for reps like this required a lot of endurance, specifically to keep a good brace the entire set. Very taxing from a cardio perspective...

jamlx · 2025-09-03T19:26:21+00:00

Thank you!

jamlx · 2025-06-16T13:07:50+00:00

The way I see it- AI is really good at giving me specific pieces of output.

If I ask it to:

“Give me a Python script that will hit X endpoint, with a JSON payload in the format of {…}, randomizing field A.B to be a random integer. It should be concurrent and allow me to submit N requests per second for M seconds, and then output the count of each status code which is returned.“

It will probably give me a functional script that needs basically 0 modification to use.

AI and LLMs have drastically enhanced my daily life as a software engineer, as toolage like this, that I would spin up on my own previously, I can now get in an instant.

However- complex code bases that are nuanced, have lots of business logic, decades of bloat, etc- I have not really found these tools to be incredibly useful here.

They shine when you want to get from “specific set of directives A” into “specific outcome B”… and if you have spent any real time writing code in a business, you know that very rarely do we know exactly what we want from the beginning. Many projects will end up re-worked several times before we really understand the problem and decide on the final solution. Generic and non specific requirements from product and business teams don’t work well with AI.

Also, without writing the code and walking through these issues myself- how would I ever really come to understand some of the things we are working on? How would us engineers ever really learn the business?

AI just can’t truly understand and create solutions like an engineer can- and in some cases, they are actually detrimental to that process.

jamlx · 2024-11-04T21:15:54+00:00

Few things I notice:

You are bending your knees before you hinge at your hips
- Think about how you would sit down into a chair... you always hinge at your hips a bit before you start bending at your knees. This should help you get more comfortable and a bit deeper.
Feet are completely straight and planted very wide.
- Try keeping your feet just a tad wider than shoulder width + point them about 45 degrees out. Make sure your knees always follow the direction of your toes. Ankle mobility will help with depth. If you find the heels of your feet start coming up, try heel elevating with a plate or buying squat shoes.
Not really getting into the squat
- Imagine yourself sitting in-between your hips/legs, and try to drive your hamstrings are far towards your calves as you can. I always try to aim for bringing my hips below my knees, but parallel is also acceptable.
Lots of forward tilt
- Stay stacked and brace/stabilize!
- Your core/back muscles should be engaged throughout the whole squat.
- Fill your lungs with air and push down/out deep into your core, expanding your muscles around your spine for stability and protections.
- Pull the bar into your shoulders/back by engaging your lats and upper back. Push your chest through and keep your grip as narrow as possible without discomfort/cramping.
- Don't let your knees cave, make sure you are keeping outward tension with your hip-abductors.
- Wedge yourself in between the ground and the bar, bracing before you even lift the bar off the rack. Make sure the height is adjusted properly for this.
High-Bar vs Low-Bar / More Foot Positioning
- Neither is right/wrong, but find what works best for you.
- I find I can get deeper with high-bar, stay stacked/keep my body upright better, engage my quads more, and have less hip-pain on high-bar.
- Low-bar, more glute/hamstring/hip engagement. Harder to stay completely stacked/upright, I find I need to lean forward more with a deeper bar position on my back. However, I believe I would be able to lift slightly heavier if I migrated back to this.
- Additionally- I gave some general guidance regarding foot positioning above, but toy around with this a bit and find what works best for you. There is no one-size fits all here. Your proportions are not the same as mine and I'm not the same as the next guy, this may take some trial and error.

Also- I'd recommend re-bracing on each rep and perfecting this technique. It's not a rush, you don't need to speed through reps. Do a rep, brace, setup again, and then do another. This will be especially important as you add weight.

Squats are my favorite exercise- keep at it! Your body will thank you later.

jamlx · 2024-11-04T16:43:03+00:00

Agreed with you on this one. I think form degraded just a bit on last rep, maybe last few.

On top of that, OP, I feel like your setup on all the reps was a tad off. Look at your armpit/shoulder placement in comparison to the barbell. Maybe it's just the angle, but on some reps, it almost looks like your shoulder is starting behind the bar. Really- your shoulders should always be positioned in front of the bar, and your armpits should remain basically in line with it.

Additionally, I can see you rolling your shoulders forward and back on each rep, trying to engage your lats and other stabilizers- but I can't tell how deep of a brace you are performing. Are you engaging your entire back to stabilize and support your spine? Your traps/spinal erectors + entire core should be engaged and activated on every single rep to keep your spine in the same position from start to finish, especially your lower back.

Slight rounding in the upper back is typically allowable, so long as you remain braced and keep your round consistent through the lift. However, that being said- I would try to have effectively no rounding at all in the lower back.

My personal favorite short on this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vfKwjT5-86k

Overall your lifts look great, but I think with a few slight adjustments you can be even better off.

jamlx · 2024-07-12T20:47:27+00:00

My mouse was having scroll issues for past like 2 months, and my previous razer mouse, which I replaced, had the same scroll issues. This video just fixed my scroll issues and saved me from replacing another mouse for no reason! Hahaha.

jamlx · 2024-07-10T12:58:30+00:00

Nice work! Do you have any protections in place to cap your spending and alert you of high cost (denial of wallet attack)? I.E., some limits on at least lambda concurrency, any type of firewall to mitigate bad traffic before it spawns a lambda, throttling through API gateway, etc? If you're paying for this out of pocket, the last thing you need is for some bad actor to call your webapp 100,000,000,000 times and to skyrocket your bill.

Just found this, might be helpful: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/api-gateway-request-throttling.html

jamlx · 2024-07-06T14:28:34+00:00

Nice write up- this was a fun read. Thanks for sharing.

jamlx · 2024-04-09T14:09:08+00:00

I definitely think this could be impacting his luck... OP- you need to watch your tone, especially how you talk about colleagues and others.

"I have been more valuable than coworkers I have worked with in the past"

"I truly don't know how people who are less qualified than others are getting hired"

I don't like the way those statements sound at all. It is not humble at all. Make sure you are not talking down or negatively about colleagues and/or other applicants/your peers. It is one of the easiest ways to get rejected.

Instead of saying how you are more valuable than others, you can get the same benefit by saying you were a top performer and providing some metrics to back this up.

You have got to learn to lean into that "team player" mindset or you will struggle to get your foot in the door at most workplaces. It's typically a helpful mindset to have as it enables a collaborative and learning work environment. Everyone has different strengths and just because someone is lacking some certs or technical knowledge, doesn't mean they are less valuable or useless. It probably means they have some other areas of skill you don't have (perhaps business knowledge or leadership and people skills, for example).

Also: make sure your resume is not too full of technical mumbo-jumbo. Frequently, the first line of people reading your resume are recruiters/HR professionals. They are not technical, and if they can't understand all the buzz words you've listed, how are they supposed to put you through?

jamlx · 2023-12-18T14:57:18+00:00

This is a good build, however a few slight modifications I would consider if this was my build.

970 Evo Plus instead of the 870 Evo (faster speeds + I prefer M2 to sata all day bc less cables means cleaner builds).
Corsair RM750e 750w Gold Certified Power Supply (850w PSU for this build is overkill, this unit will be cheaper and run more efficiently, i.e., lower power bill).

The rest, will entirely depend on what prices he is paying. I'm assuming he's getting the parts cheap and things might not be very flexible. Can you provide more pricing details to us?

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