lunaticlabs

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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
What you say about helicopters not being able to change speed on the rotor and requiring blade pitch is true, but at the size of helicopters, it has far less to do with the speed at which the engine can change RPMs as just pure inertia of t
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
I lived there in the late 90s and it was soulless and closed at 9 then too (except for In-n-out)
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by lunaticlabs 4y ago
It's like that in the USA, where I used to live. I live in Germany now, and I am a salaried employee. The law here doesn't generally allow any non-remunerated work beyond 10%-15%, and your daily work hour average over a 6 month pe
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by lunaticlabs 4y ago
Yes and no. The torque in helicopter is primarily a side effect of power being applied to the rotor. When a helicopter auto rotates (such as after an engine failure), the pilot has to remove anti torque forces with the pedals. This remains
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by lunaticlabs 4y ago
I worked at a startup working with haptic touch screens, and got to participate in a student hack-a-thon with our hardware at this location around 2014-2015. At the time, it looked like the pictures here: https://metropolismag.co
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by lunaticlabs 4y ago
The way I've structured options agreements is that if someone is let go without cause, they get their prorated shares that will vest next. So half way through the year on a one year vest? Give them half the shares. If we fired with cau
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by lunaticlabs 4y ago
I live in Berlin, and this is standard here. There are 6 self checkout stations with a single exit. Once you are done scanning items and have paid, your receipt has a barcode you have to scan to exit. It always takes longer to scan your ite
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by lunaticlabs 4y ago
I use unique addresses for almost everyone, and the spam fits a consistent pattern. Mostly, the emails don’t get sold unless I order from a somewhat shady site (grey market items not regionally available for example). Most of the time when
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by lunaticlabs 5y ago
This reminds me of a weird payphone trick from when I was younger. I grew up in Santa Monica, which had GTE as the local phone provider (I mention this because this trick did NOT work on Pacific Bell payphones). They also owned all the payp
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by lunaticlabs 5y ago
I've been working in games since the early/mid 90's, from before we had 3d accelerators right at the start of my career to today. Many of the comments I've read so far from other devs ring true, but seem to miss an impor
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by lunaticlabs 5y ago
I can concur with this. I am actually the youngest NeRD (NeXTStep Registered Developer) ever. I also programmed Mac applications professionally from just before OS X until after its release. I remember first seeing the API docs for it and b
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by lunaticlabs 5y ago
I worked at Sony when these were released, and worked with every one of these devkits. I had been working at Activision, and for various reasons wanted out. I ended up interviewing with Sony in Santa Monica at the time, during the process t
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by lunaticlabs 5y ago
I’ve been working in games since before then, and it’s a common trick. It’s often portrayed as if it would occur because of poor memory management (I.e. memory not being freed), but even with perfect memory management it can happen in const
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by lunaticlabs 6y ago
As one of the developers on this, and the first game that I worked on, it made me smile to hear that you and others liked it. I’m glad it brought you good times, even if it took 25 years to find out!
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by lunaticlabs 6y ago
Contact herman Miller, it can generally be repaired, and it may even be under warranty still. I’ve gotten an aeron repaired, it was easy and relatively painless.
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by lunaticlabs 7y ago
This matches with what I heard from a former silo officer. I did a tour of the Atlas Missile Museum outside Tuscon, AZ, which holds the distinction of being one of the only fully intact but non-functional missile silos that you can visit. T
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by lunaticlabs 7y ago
There are many, but here is a personal anecdote. For background, I am a relatively high income software professional. Many years ago, I moved states, and in the process had to switch banks, so I closed my old account before moving. Somewher
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by lunaticlabs 9y ago
I worked on games for the original PlayStation, and one of the requirements for release was that your title would be able to run for 48 hours without crashing (the soak test). A big issue we ran into as developers is that we only had 2 MB o
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by lunaticlabs 9y ago
I live in America, and the insistence on playing music at every location has long bothered me. It tends to never be music that I care much about, and the volume often makes it difficult to hear other people when you're in larger groups
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by lunaticlabs 11y ago
Although not heavily emphasized in this article, nor in the documentation, the serial nature of this library is very important. The android BLE library is asynchronous in its callback nature, but it does not contain any sort of automatic qu