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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Prog has anabolic properties for sure. The improved sleep alone aids constructive metabolism.

    I just meant OP’s target has a high concentration of E receptors, and any growth signal in the body increases appetite. So the magic 8-ball answer is “likely yes 👍” because E prompts tissues in the body to ask for the additional nutrients needed to develop secondary sexual characteristics, including boobs.

    The optimizations I mentioned like dietary macros and GH support merely hasten that development and maintain health in the process. She doesn’t need them for HRT to work.

    Edit: and as you can see, I’m great at parties





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    This is my stance on wheel reinvention. And my pitch is similar. I offer it to juniors when it feels like they’re setting impossible expectations for themselves. But I just have to say.

    If you wait to start building until you’re sure you know everything, you will never build anything.

    Is excellent phrasing that I don’t think I’ve ever used. The truth of it is self-evident to any senior, but juniors should be able to grasp that “more” rarely increases certainty, so for training and discovery the best you can shoot for is “enough.”




  • Employee owned co-ops don’t have much of a marketing R&D or lighting budget, and no Costco warehouse I’ve been to has music (or even a PA system, come to think of it).

    Warehouse management’s sales tactics tend to be unsophisticated bordering on obsolete compared to traditional retail.

    For example…

    OP’s indiscriminate use of the x99.99 formula dilutes its effectiveness throughout the warehouse. This is especially true for big ticket items.

    Too many 9s in the sticker also makes customers doubt they are receiving any kind of wholesale bargain, if only because they begin to envision increasingly large arbitrary markup hidden in that portion of the price.

    ETA: but you’re right that one of the original sales dynamics relied on in Costco’s warehouse model is placing higher ticket and luxury items by the entrance such that customers must walk past them to get to what they actually came for. That trick is old but still works.


  • I’ve seen that scenario play out multiple times now.

    In every case management’s paranoia was a result of their inability to comprehend employee departure as anything short of personal betrayal and thus, drama ensued. Cringe-o-rama

    Practical takeaways (tips for non-IT knowledge workers)

    While avoiding toxic management in the first place is great, ultimately the best advice is to protect yourself in every case by learning better habits/hygiene: if possible, use only personal equipment for anything personal; otherwise, learn how to encapsulate personal activity/traffic effectively.

    Effective methods include portable or web-based encrypted remote to a home PC, lightweight virtual machine with a killswitched VPN that you run exclusively from an encrypted drive that travels with you, and so forth.

    Mistakes include:

    1. Any personal web browsing — trackable in enough ways that it’s best to just assume no countermeasure offers complete privacy.
    2. Storing personal data on disk — outside of security and privacy concerns, this has often been used by companies to claim employee IP as their own.
    3. Personal use of workstation/client software — least problematic, but much of this is trackable at the system and network level.