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Hopefully you can synch the light flashes to the ball rotation: 1: maybe make the ball look like it isn't rolling - or even backspinning 2: perhaps it could you make the amount of side-spin or other spin more obvious to help learning M
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Relationships and Power in Startup Ecosystems (2019)(siliconhillslawyer.com)
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Is your zigbee running at 2.4GHz? Everything interferes with that.
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> yacht money Huh? Apparently Amazon has never paid dividends, has done much less than 1% buybacks, even as CEO Bezos was getting less than an engineer in total comp (but did get loans or something). Apparently Bezos owns about 9% of com
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China produces over 2x the CO2 of the US. Although China is also the world's largest exporter of CO2 (embedded in products and services), the US is still behind. Current climate change really depends on cumulative historical CO2 emissi
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Unfortunately, VCs seem to avoid speaking the truth. I liked the comment in the article: Capital goes somewhere. It shapes what gets built, who gets a chance, what the world looks like in a decade. I'd rather be one of the people d
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Preemptive: Anthropic intends to distil from Kimi, for a model Anthropic has yet to develop and complete. Any similarities between their new model and Kimi, are because we all know that the Chinese copy. We know US AI companies never stoop
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Longer HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45364329 Technical term "pointer assisted reading" (which I don't think includes the repetitive ADHD behaviours). My google-fu failed to find a good
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> RGBC C is Cyan (~+½G+½B)
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> don't mess with your sleep or you might start a murder cult Or: don't select members that are really into bicameral mind ideas In my extremely limited experience, some crazies are into split brain thinking, and some crazies h
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HN discussion and link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939524
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> knowing what questions to ask in the first place That's my 2nd hardest skill when trying to use AI. 3rd hardest is better filtering. I keep having flashbacks to learning how to use Google effectively. I'm an arthiest, but I&
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The police are just part of a broken system: they seem to be as constrained as I am. In my very limited experience, individual officers seem well intentioned. They are extremely well trained in the privacy rights of crooks: I'm guessin
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> Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit Intelligence is learning to avoid using childish cliches, unless your intention was to mislead. Categorisation and understanding dependencies are hard enough problems already. At the sup
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I am part owner of a plain SaaS company, and our financial motivation is very very strongly to keep our business customers happy. Churn is highly expensive for us. Churn is even more expensive for growth SaaS companies, due to equity mult
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> marginally higher petty crime rates And what is a petty crime these days? Within the last year in Woolston Lyttelton and Brighton: I've been assualted unprovoked, I've had the outer unit of my split heatpump stolen (for Al, $
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Try to be more generous with your change requests - not everyone has enough time to fix every bug in their comment. The strongest plausible interpretation is that when keywords are in another language, it is best to give the original langua
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> Everything slowly degraded when they moved to the subscription model The main benefit of SaaS to a customer is that theoretically the company should care enough to keep their customers therefore the company should want to keep the p
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This is clearest when we create open source communities that are not centered around a code project. Stack overflow was an amazing open documentation community. Even if the code snippets were less amazing. One central fault of GNU is their
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by robocat 3mo ago
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859673 1 minute skim of that surfaces aviaviavi's comment on moving to Python not Rust: Main factors were (roughly in order): - None of us are experts in Rust
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Perhaps don't have kids in your 40s. It's pretty mean to have kids at 50 because of the high risk of sickness or death while they're teenagers (or younger). Plus the risks of genetic faults in children rises dramatically for
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by robocat 3mo ago
"How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" by Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen is from before AI but still seems relevant. (HTTP) http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/smart-questions.html https://archive.p
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Your oversimplification bakes in too many assumptions. The relative financial cost to the enemy is almost irrelevant if they are much wealthier than you are. What matters most is the intangible military value of the item. In too many situat
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> accountable to a spouse that forces you to grow up a bit Having children forces you, and ~10% of married people don't have kids. In New Zealand, about 50% of kids are born to the unmarried. As you say, correlation and causation ar
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Great link. Sounded suss to me. Could easily have been a bullshit taxi driver, or a social outrage story. I should have tried to validate before repeating, sorry.
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> they indeed plan to base it on the wet bulb temperature WBGT != wet bulb : There's some nasty confusing terms here - and the Grauniad has also got the link wrong - their reporting has not just gotten more biased it has gotten much
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> Electricity Bill Surcharge "Fuel surcharge" on flights. Which should be illegal: the cost of hedging fuel cost risk should be included in any ticket price. A friend said that Uber was charging a fuel surcharge here in New Zea
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I've learnt to be paranoid: marriage can be a scam.
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Aside: Carbon-13 has one more neutron than Carbon-12, so the unpaired neutron gives it a magnetic moment which is what is used for C13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-
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The classic PE monetization strategy is to take an intangible asset and mine it: The one we all see is buying a quality brandname and mining it into oblivion. Plus various accountancy tricks to move the gold into the PE coffers. In your exa

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