tweedledee

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by tweedledee 5y ago
A huge loss to and a massive vote of no confidence in MSR Cambridge. Is Epic worse than Facebook? I can’t imagine much of an upside to praying on human frailties in order to make games addictive to extract money from kids.
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by tweedledee 5y ago
I have hEDS which can cause POTS and had the exact same experience. The Golden Girls covered it over 30 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVyLZTKDy2E and it is still the default response.
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by tweedledee 5y ago
I enjoyed the realpolitik of Expanse but hated the trite interpersonal conflicts which seems to be a mainstay of modern drama. I find the main characters to be rather childish.
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by tweedledee 5y ago
I wonder how much may be due to LongCovid. If even 10% of infections result in LongCovid then I would expect to see it in job reports.
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by tweedledee 5y ago
My primary concern would be the noise. I can deal with small rooms, no windows etc. but I assume students crammed that close together would be crazy noisy. I have ADHD so I’m much more noise sensitive than most, but even for normal people I
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by tweedledee 5y ago
My favorite part was the gaslighting done by Cadbury. “It hasn’t gotten smaller, you’ve gotten bigger”
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by tweedledee 5y ago
Q seemed to be an 'Operation Trust' / операция Трест campaign. The idea is to undermine resistance by pretending there is already one in place and that the secret resistance with a plan that will be eminently successful. It u
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by tweedledee 5y ago
It’s still simpler and cheaper. The swashplate is much simpler. Much less power is fed to the main rotor as inertia is built up slowly and only for take off. The lower standard of reliability as worst that happens is you don’t take off. Eng
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by tweedledee 5y ago
For completeness I should add; Quadrotor configurations rely on varying prop speeds to control pitch, yaw, and roll. The larger the props the more difficult it is to vary the prop speed in a timely manner. Electric motors are more weight ef
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by tweedledee 5y ago
Most wing suit flying is generally far away from obstacles. When they do get close its not many obstacles and it’s carefully planned. Flying FPV through forests is a lot of fun because of how random it is, and how dangerous it feels, but yo
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by tweedledee 5y ago
I am aware crazy people do exist. It's a matter of degree and I would suggest that flying this thought a forest Endor style would be far more dangerous than free solo climbing.
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by tweedledee 5y ago
They are explaining how quadcopters don't scale very well. You may be misunderstanding the explanation. The surface area covered by the rotor is much less for quadcopters and it is difficult to make up for that. Plus small rotors are l
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by tweedledee 5y ago
I've flown FPV drones through forests, it's insane. The reaction speeds needed are crazy. It is almost impossible to last a day without crashing. I'm sure there are lots of fun things to do with it, but Endor style races is n
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by tweedledee 5y ago
That would involve Endor-style crashes, it would be insanely dangerous. Flying FPV drones gives much of the same feeling without the all the death.
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by tweedledee 5y ago
Some gyros can jump-start, as in pre-spin their rotor fast enough for vertical take off. It would add a bit of complexity but it'll still be relatively simple.
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by tweedledee 5y ago
The real problem is just how damn expensive it is to build anything inside Microsoft. It makes it hard and harder to justify spending the money. AFAIK it’s only getting worse. I expect in time that more and more dark patterns will creep in.
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by tweedledee 5y ago
100% it’s cheap enough that everyone should do it. The TNXB mutation has a ton of weird drug interactions. Anesthesia resistant being just one.
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by tweedledee 5y ago
You’re talking about phenotypes. With height people with entirely the same diets will end up different heights based on their genes. I used to think that intelligence was earned due to exercise and that others just needed to try harder. I’v
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by tweedledee 5y ago
This is absolutely world changing. I've known that this was coming and was only a matter of time, it did get here sooner than I expected. I have hypermobile Ehelers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) from a TNXB mutation. I was incorrectly told by
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by tweedledee 5y ago
Acquisitions. Say a big company lacks in category, an exec from that company can let a VC know that they would like to buy a company in that category and are willing to pay a certain amount. The VC then goes about bringing the company into
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by tweedledee 5y ago
Sorry, I misread as Edit #1. We know in certain countries in certain areas nothing gets done without some kind of bribe / kickbacks so we assume some of finders fee we pay for leads goes back to the customers exec. Sometimes we get ask
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by tweedledee 5y ago
I don't know of any firm immune to it and I've worked with a couple of the most prestigious and hear about many others. I've long given up wishing people were better. And unfortunately I expect it to get much worse. As the fi
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by tweedledee 5y ago
I was Applied Research, feature X was for internal use. The companies were supposed to be tallent and tech acquisition, they claimed to have feature X but were faking it. The 'talent' was fresh out of university people crammed in
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by tweedledee 5y ago
I'm privy to more details than I am giving out. I've been in SV for over 15 years and I have seen a lot in that time. I'm aware of what is normal. There is normal purchasing intermediaries and then there are purpose built bri
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by tweedledee 5y ago
I’m sure the tiny particles would damage the rotors as well. Even rain is bad enough.
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by tweedledee 5y ago
There is also the role of the VCs who facilitate much of this. They use VPs in big companies to offload crappy purpose built startups for huge profits then get their friends to offer the VP sweetheart deals and or future employment. AFAIK t
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by tweedledee 5y ago
This is so common it’s hard not to do. Not doing it definitely stunted my startup but it’s a lifestyle company and I don’t mind building slower. Edit: I should add that while I was working at a FAANG (before doing a startup) the team I was
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by tweedledee 5y ago
In 1984 I’d say he was more inspired by his time working for the UK government in Burma. Particularly the use of propaganda to control the population.
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by tweedledee 5y ago
I presumed Orwell was inspired by the UK and not the other way around
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by tweedledee 5y ago
AFAIK Sam Harris was always considered the weakest of the four horsemen.

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