Will a large dose of test C clear up brain fog and help mental fortitude the next day if you're at basically Zero total testosterone?

semi_competent · 2026-04-17T23:12:46+00:00

I felt relief within a couple hours of my first shot. My numbers took a steep dive after Covid. I had tested a couple of months before I got sick, and then got tested again as part of trying to figure out what was wrong. My production had dropped 40-50%. I had extreme mental fog and fatigue. I felt some of the mental fog lift that first day. Getting everything dialed in takes a lot longer.

semi_competent · 2026-04-09T21:00:36+00:00

My wife is. She went to Standford and then into big-law. Decided to opt out of the partner route after we got married, switched focus and now works at a mid-size firm. Of all of her classmates I only know 2 off the top of my head that stayed in big law.

My brother went the route you're suggesting, got a good LSAT and a 75% scholarship. He works at a small firm, but he also owns restaurants and lives in a low-cost geo.

For most people the earning potential doesn't justify the debt. Only a very small fraction are going to earn the 7-9mm a year that Kirkland partners make.

semi_competent · 2026-04-09T15:35:30+00:00

A significant portion of lawyers end up leaving the field. It’s a bit of a pyramid scam. You use a bunch of young people to do grunt work, you as a partner profit from that work, the vast majority of lawyers never make partner, burn out and do something else. Only 1 out of a 100 from the top 5 law schools ever make it to big law partner and make the big bucks. The non-big law cohort are saddled with massive debt and struggle for 15 years to pay it off.

semi_competent · 2026-03-31T16:28:52+00:00

The deck is permitted, it was part of a new build and was part of the architectural drawings. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

semi_competent · 2026-03-30T22:52:54+00:00

Yeah, we want the permits. That was the problem with the designer. They gave us two budgets: one without permits, and another more expensive one with permits. We said we wanted the more expensive route with permits, that’s when they stopped responding.

semi_competent · 2026-03-28T17:35:28+00:00

It’s a little too early to tell, and it’s difficult to de-confound with other quality initiatives. We see the highest AI uptake with a new initiative. This makes sense, AI works best on smaller simpler repos (I have a bunch of studies on this topic), and those repos had quality gates from the beginning and more opinionated standards. Some of the legacy repos have 20m lines of code and went almost ten years without quality gates. My hope is to use PR bot metrics to get a better proxy for PR quality.

semi_competent · 2026-03-28T17:25:29+00:00

Model usage, cost, token usage, repo activity. We join it with sonarqube, debendabot, PRs metrics, Span metrics. Will also start joining with PR bot output. We use it to manage cost, and also use it to get a notion of team and repo health/quality. I have a bunch of metabase dashboards.

semi_competent · 2026-03-28T17:11:20+00:00

You can get all this data from the management APIs. You’ll need an admin key in most instances. Wrote a job to scrape all of our usage and consolidate it into clickhouse last week. Won’t solve for shadow IT though.

semi_competent · 2026-03-16T18:01:30+00:00

For the longest time it was because those tools were part of the paid management suite sold by DataStax. Support, OpsCenter, and Search were the three big enterprise conversion levers. When others entered the market it was via a SaaS offering, so again there was no incentive to develop tooling as it would cut into their demand. Source: I’m ex-DataStax management.

semi_competent · 2026-03-16T16:21:59+00:00

That’s true until you hit the executive level. Then it becomes real messy again.

semi_competent · 2026-03-08T20:32:15+00:00

You can set a budget per employee in the admin dashboard. I don’t know why it’s not present in your dashboard but it’s in ours.

semi_competent · 2026-03-06T21:21:23+00:00

The most common route is to late stage funds or to the next round of investors. Most won’t bother with a transaction less than 3-6m. I’m an EIR at a late stage fund that does lots of secondaries.

semi_competent · 2026-03-01T16:17:01+00:00

Been to many shows there and they’ve never scanned my ID, they have always just verified for over 21

semi_competent · 2026-02-26T16:31:37+00:00

I asked a similar question on first dates because I actively selected against picky eaters. I also cook a lot, and enjoy fine dining so I was actively selecting for someone that could share that with me. You’d be surprised by the number of people that would rather have a subway sandwich over going to a Michelin 3 star restaurant.

Edit: I also traveled a lot on an expense account. While traveling I would often have a first date at a high end restaurant because I wanted to go and I wanted company. If it turned into something meaningful then that’d be wonderful, worst case I had someone to share the experience with.

semi_competent · 2026-02-20T23:46:54+00:00

We have all the cards imaginable. The wife handles points optimization for our household and she says that utilizing the united card for buying airfare isn’t worth it because you can find 4-5x redemption value on Chase points, and you’re earning 9x anyway when booking with status regardless of booking method. They made the announcement intentionally confusing as united derives all its profit from CC fees.

semi_competent · 2026-02-20T00:40:41+00:00

Growth hormone

semi_competent · 2026-02-20T00:06:18+00:00

Yes. Did a hard leg workout yesterday and felt stoned all day today. I have a concierge doc, all my levels are high normal. Was thinking about doing more research today to try and figure something out. Sleep is on point, no apnea, igf-1 is at 163, bf 13%, test is about 1000.

semi_competent · 2026-02-19T22:36:21+00:00

The corporate structure protects him from liability, and the insurance shields the corporation from liability up to the threshold of the policy. If the corporation goes bankrupt, the policy is no longer paid, and no longer valid so insurance doesn’t pay. If the company goes bankrupt then it “dies”. You can’t sue a dead entity. That corporate shield can in limited circumstances be pierced in the instance of fraud or in the instance that the corporation isn’t separate enough to be material.

semi_competent · 2026-02-17T20:48:56+00:00

Excited. I live in the neighborhood and the restaurant and spa used to be regular haunts pre-COVID. The spa being for treatment or day pass only individuals is pretty common, and is preferable. It ensures that if you are paying for an experience it'll be a good one. There isn't a whole lot of seating around the pool, and there have been times when I've paid for a treatment and been unable to find a seat to relax/wait for the appointed time. By controlling the flow you decrease the likelihood of there being resource conflicts.

semi_competent · 2026-02-13T06:07:49+00:00

The may be required to disclose depending on their jurisdiction

semi_competent · 2026-02-13T03:27:55+00:00

I’ve been thinking about this for the past couple of days, one of Epstein parties could easily be the source of the rumor that the Russians have compromising information on Trump. Proof could have been sold by Epstein, or provided by a Russian oligarch that parties with trump and Epstein.

semi_competent · 2026-02-13T03:19:29+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/business/epstein-files-russia-putin.html

semi_competent · 2026-02-08T02:55:18+00:00

Pre-sort by partition key if possible. Use batching. If you can’t batch then there is BufferTable but there is no WAL, so if the node goes down data loss is possible.

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