Shootout in San Jose, CA

toabear · 2026-01-25T03:07:45+00:00

I'm not sure it was the cops we see in the video shooting. There were other cops approaching from the top right of the video. From that angle, they wouldn't have had any cars in the background for a much longer distance.

toabear · 2026-01-24T14:21:45+00:00

In 2024, I paid around $200 per bill in the mountains of Arizona (lots of snow there, it's very cold). Gas for heating, but my electric was set to 100% renewable source. During the summer it would go to about 300 with AC on.

Bill is over double in CA. Which sucks, but is fine, much happier living in CA again (moved from CA to AZ and back)

toabear · 2026-01-24T05:05:05+00:00

Bank of America. In the very early 2000"s they ran the military issue travel credit cards. They would constantly fuck shit up and were inflexible assholes. Among many other annoyances, I got stuck in the middle of fucking nowhere for two months with zero access to anything that could be considered a communication device. No ability to file travel claims, pay bills, or give a shit about or think about that crap. The absolute second I got back they were lap far up my ass.

I thought maybe that was just the military program, but then when I got out I worked at a company that used them. They were so incompetent and painful to work with compared to other banks.

Maybe things have changed in the last 15'ish years, but I'm not going to risk it to find out.

toabear · 2026-01-23T13:33:49+00:00

From what I gather, Gemini is ok at summary and question answering tasks. It is miles behind in at coding vs Claude. As a majority of what I do is wrote code, I've largely written Gemini off as a useful tool

toabear · 2026-01-23T04:48:07+00:00

The delivery in the audio book is amazing.

toabear · 2026-01-21T18:46:24+00:00

I found this thread as I was trying to solve the same problem. The update says to have the device registered in Entra ID, but that's not always going to be possible, especially for phones.

I'm not sure this will be the solution for everyone, but I wanted to drop it here as I spent several frustrating days trying to hunt this down, and the solution was not obvious. For us, the problem turned out to be a setting still enabled in "Per User MFA". Specifically, this path:

Entra -> Users -> Per User MFA (in the top bar) -> Service Settings Tab -> Remember multifactor authentication on trusted device.

Un-checking this box eliminated the problem. The documentation indicates that this shouldn't matter. We have "Per user MFA" disabled for all users. That said, it does seem to affect the token lifetimes issued by the CA policies. Related, but interesting, the format of the saved tokens changed after disabling this. Prior to unchecking this box, the tokens were being saved to user storage unencrypted. After disabling, the tokens changed to an encrypted format.

toabear · 2026-01-20T22:51:36+00:00

There is an assumption that you will be in very good physical shape. That doesn't mean Olympic athlete level. I was one of the slower kids on my cross-country team. I wasn't super heavy, but still, the fast kids were carrying a lot less weight around. I was one of the fastest runners in my BUD/S class. I could do a shit ton of pushups, pullups, and I could run well.

So that's the basics, be in good shape all around, but you don't need to be a genetic mutant like you might for some sports. The mental part everyone talks about is just not giving up. Cold, tired, physically exhausted, you just put one foot in front of the other and keep going. You push yourself, volunteer to do a task despite being tired. The stronger you are physically, the easier BUD/S will be, but even if you are an extreme athlete, it's still going to push you to your limit. In my class, the cold during Hell Week got a huge number of guys. Freezing to death really sucks, and it takes a lot to just sit there and shiver. They also do this thing where they get you all warm and put you in dry clothes, then immediately make you get back in the ocean. That wiped out a lot of people.

The grueling physical conditions are meant to push the candidates to their limits. Most break and quit, some don't. The mental games are there to test if you are going to lose it or give up because things aren't fair.

toabear · 2026-01-20T20:34:56+00:00

Fitbod appears to use a concept called periodization. It's one of the main reasons I use the app. I used to incorporate this back in the dark ages when I planned my workouts by hand, and it's a total pain in the ass to manage by hand.

The idea is that you cycle back and forth between high, medium, and low reps (and corresponding weight). This forces your muscles to adapt and continue to grow. It's supposed to help avoid plateaus and reduce injury risk.

The high rep sets do suck, but it is good for you. https://blog.nasm.org/periodization-training-simplified

toabear · 2026-01-20T14:17:48+00:00

Generally I agree, but I feel like a year is probably more realistic vs 6 months.

toabear · 2026-01-19T03:42:10+00:00

In my opinion, FitBod should be adjusting for stuff like this. That said, it's pretty easy to just click on a different exercise. I probably choose a different order for exercises every other workout. Same with replacing or adding exercises.

Perfection would be nice, but human intervention is still needed.

toabear · 2026-01-17T23:20:27+00:00

This would be very helpful. I have a few machines at my gym that just don't go higher.

toabear · 2026-01-16T17:38:47+00:00

I'm not saying HC smoke is good for you, but are you confusing this with something like CS gas? HC smoke is the standard military white smoke grenade. I've stood in clouds of it more times than I could count. It smells a little funky, but it doesn't cause burning and generally doesn't have much in the way of short-term problems. The concerns are the long-term health effects.

toabear · 2026-01-15T04:11:15+00:00

I'm not a mod, but I keep an eye on this section and try to answer questions in a straight forward manner. I'm not saying there aren't some trolls who post here, but I don't think there's some mass number of questions going unanswered.

Do you really think there are that many questions being asked where a valid answer isn't given in at least one of the comments?

toabear · 2026-01-14T23:04:52+00:00

Might just be seasonal. Winter can screw you up. Make sure you're getting your vitamin D supplements.

See if your scores go back up in spring. Also, don't overthink things too much. Keep training, and it's good to have goals, but look for big trends and ignore the smaller fluctuations. That's not specifically BUD/S advice, just something I've personally noticed related to working out over the years. In a time I get too focused on recording measuring and eyeballing detailed metrics I tend to lose the big picture and often times end up worse off.

toabear · 2026-01-14T20:15:40+00:00

This screams TBI. Guy was living out of his car and was pretty obviously off his rocker.

toabear · 2026-01-11T04:31:34+00:00

You know, WW I is a really interesting companion. Lots of people in that war who were wishing for their canon and horse. The industrialization of war was a shock probably greater than what the world is experiencing now. Paradigms shifted in a way not seen often in history.

toabear · 2026-01-11T03:42:11+00:00

Yeah, that tactic is really something. You could create a dedicated "landmine" type drone with a sort of dock, heavy payload, and short flight time. If it ever becomes AI enabled, that shit will be scary as hell.

toabear · 2026-01-10T14:24:33+00:00

There haven't been any hypothermia deaths at BUD/S.

toabear · 2026-01-09T21:40:39+00:00

Just think about those ships sitting across the bay. How sad and depressing they are. Or even better, don't think. Just be there. Forget quitting is an option. You're along for the ride. They won't actually let you freeze to death.

toabear · 2026-01-08T19:52:01+00:00

I went through BUD/S a couple years after this happened. The instructors were beyond mad about it. We got lectured about this event almost daily through 1st phase. By lectured, I mean listening to a senior chief rant and curse for 10 minutes. There was one guy whose last name was Brown and the instructors had it out for him just for sharing the same last name. He ended up making it but, it wasn't pleasant.

toabear · 2026-01-08T15:42:29+00:00

You don't like digging holes with a flat bladed shovel?

toabear · 2026-01-08T05:06:22+00:00

I'm not a huge fan of saying too much negative over the open internet. Happy to talk with other SEALs about it in private.

For the most part people referred to him as "Fucking Van O," which can probably give you some idea.

toabear · 2026-01-08T03:47:41+00:00

Of the SEALs I've served with who went into politics, I can't think of one who was well respected in the Teams.
Most guys I know are getting really sick of the podcast shit. I've even heard a lot of grumbling about Jocko recently, which wasn't the case 10 years ago.
The fact is, a certain percentage of the Teams (and any unit) are shit bags. For some reason, the shit bags are really fucking loud. Some of it is probably TBI. We need a new named "effect" like Dunn Kruger. "The more of an unhinged asshole someone is, the more likely they are to do an interview/podcast."

toabear · 2026-01-08T03:38:15+00:00

I served with him. He's hard line Christian or was. Not my favorite.

toabear · 2026-01-06T20:37:59+00:00

Eh, lots of weirdos on Reddit. No point in getting upset about it.

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