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by djtango 4y ago
How did you go about learning how to handstand? I tried figuring it out with no guidance as a carefree 18 year old and managed to have a very unclean handstand. I tried relearning it properly as a 30year old and found out that a decade or c
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by djtango 4y ago
At least in the UK, I found that salaries for Chemists were depressingly low - PhD grads would earn around 30k GBP which made it hard for me to justify studying for so long. I really liked Chemistry but ended up moving into software instead
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by djtango 4y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/28/beware-the-pretty-people/ You reminded me of this this article. I always struggled to find it until today. It's opening paragraphs warned about the same thing you t
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by djtango 4y ago
I often used the telescope from high vantage points to take in the view The game I feel struggled most with this was FFXII - that camera was so bad, wanted you staring at the floor at all times. I remember peeking up inside the airship stat
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by djtango 4y ago
The Sony Xperia 5 iii It was really expensive and was impossible to get at launch. The optical zoom was a nice touch but I didn't really care for the weird aspect they have.
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by djtango 4y ago
I was a Sony Xperia Compact aficionado until the latest gen was impossible to buy due to the chip shortage.
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by djtango 4y ago
I prefer to think of it as what politics and society gained. It was pretty clear that most politicians, let alone leaders, didn't know what "exponential" meant over the pandemic. At a time where technological advance has vast
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by djtango 5y ago
I don't know the first thing about train operations - could someone ELI5 why signal failure is a recurring thing in the UK? After a decade of upgrades the Met line suddenly had extremely frequent signal failure (around 2019ish) and r
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by djtango 5y ago
Everything is a spectrum but I've eaten kaitenzushi in Japan that cost 1100-2500JPY per person that would have cost 5-10x that outside Japan and wouldn't have been nearly as good. I've found salmon and tuna can approach the l
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by djtango 5y ago
While there are many jobs that could be done more efficiently from home (massively biased towards knowledge work) there are plenty of jobs which are less effective from home. If you recall "ping-gate" entire underground lines were
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by djtango 5y ago
Even before reading this I definitely got SoC vibes - riding through a vast and empty world + that tense combo of loneliness and beauty
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by djtango 5y ago
Not a terminal user but is Twitter the actual competitor to BBT? When it comes to real-time news, I feel like Twitter is up there for fastest source...
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by djtango 5y ago
That's a reasonable question and has made me pause. The practicalities of things like pvp balance is interesting - if you invade someone on easy mode what should that mean? Does easy have an edge? Can players abuse that? What if an eas
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by djtango 5y ago
For me, Souls was about From Software doing something against the grain, breaking out of the mold and being rewarded for it. They made a game that was actively user hostile - brutal difficulty, gimmicky instakill traps, lost progress for dy
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by djtango 5y ago
I too am curious - if I had to speculate, maybe the crack is a high surface area for microwave scattering which means the rays escape the device so is an irradiation hazard? EDIT wavelength of microwaves is 1mm so could also be efficient di
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by djtango 5y ago
Don't know why someone downvoted you without taking the time to question you further. What is astral projecting? I have heard anecdotes of self-healing before, it reconciles with my internal model that induced muscular relaxation + inc
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by djtango 5y ago
Given that birds exhibit magnetoreception, it's not outside the realms of probability that they could sense EM radiation [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect [1] https://en.m.
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by djtango 5y ago
Aye cosmo canyon is a classic - the game is full of just so many bangers. I really haven't resonated with game music since that era in the same way. Last game music that really caught my attention was Hollow Knight
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by djtango 5y ago
>Also, I have always wondered if there's a way to translate these shapes to strings for quick "mental algorithm" matching. Something like, "5, left turn, 3, right turn..." I was once measured to have abysmal spat
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by djtango 5y ago
Which is laughably ridiculous when you start considering the extremes like Michael Phelps eating 10kcal for breakfast. The issue is the uptick in energy burn is unintuitive especially in the world energy dense high-processed food As an ex o
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by djtango 5y ago
That's a great share thanks - interesting to consider all the ways the English speaking world has exerted an edge indirectly. The observations don't necessarily have to be geopolitical (although it seems talk about China always
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Tangential comment: I'm a fan of Kevin's blog - think he has quite a unique perspective having worked in US politics and Tech but having a good understanding of Chinese tech too. I also appreciate Lillian Li's Chinese Charact
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by djtango 5y ago
You're right - IIRC building the pyramids required quite strong computational thinking for example. Or the whole shipping container complex. But coding is perhaps the purest manifestation of CS in all its glory where the feedback loop
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by djtango 5y ago
I've met people who started coding when they were 6 and have now compounded all that experience as they've gotten older. To me, programming is as much a skill to me as learning music or writing is. Sure, in industry some domains a
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by djtango 5y ago
Melvin Capital definitely wasn't a HF "no one had heard of"
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I'm pretty sure market makers have made a killing off option premiums, especially once they realized the way to kill a gamma squeeze is to jack up premiums to the max to kill momentum (as observed during the despac squeezes)
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by djtango 5y ago
I have definitely heard of more online relationships forming since the pandemic. IIRC I know of a relationship that has progressed to engagement since the pandemic that started as purely digital for the first year due to lockdowns and being
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by djtango 5y ago
LollipopAI | London, UK | Multiple Positions | Open to Remote within +/- 4hrs GMT | Salary range £70K - £100K + EMI options We're building a new way to shop here at Lollipop. People really hate the weekly shop, and we're work
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Except this is why chemistry is less entrepreneurial - you can't just set up a lab in your shed (for better and for worse) And so now I write code for a living instead of trying to push the frontiers of medical chemistry :) FYI I fully
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by djtango 5y ago
Calories are not just calories. They're a useful rule of thumb but they're not a metric to live and die by. Always remember that calorimetry is basically burning mass(nut) and measuring energy(nut) by how much it increased the tem

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