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by thrwwXZTYE 9mo ago
Human contact is more scarce than ever, it's not fungible with podcasts or audiobooks, and most people are starving. I've backpacked/hitchiked through Ireland few years back. It was easy to catch a ride, even easier to find s
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by thrwwXZTYE 9mo ago
I've looked at the stats, and it's: - 45 flights per recon consumer quadcopter drone before it's lost - 69 flights per heavy bomber drone before it's lost They switch the batteries before each flight anyway, so even batt
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by thrwwXZTYE 9mo ago
Also you really don't need 1000s of cycles in military drones, so maybe some more "crazy" chemistries can be used. If the drone can fly 10 times it's probably good enough.
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by thrwwXZTYE 10mo ago
The funny thing is that when you have one big customer (a country) - you get good prices. When you have 30 insurance companies, 10000 companies buying insurance policies and millions of individuals - you get shit prices. That's why the
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by thrwwXZTYE 11mo ago
I am a narcissist. I haven't been diagnosed (yet), but I certainly recognize the traits and patterns, and I'm in therapy for it. > People with NPD don’t go and get help, they just run around ruining other peoples lives. This is
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by thrwwXZTYE 11mo ago
Narcissism is a spectrum; everybody's a little narcissistic, and it changes over time. All kids are VERY narcissistic early on, most grow out of it as they experience unconditional love from their parents and are allowed to be their au
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by thrwwXZTYE 11mo ago
You don't usually realize that's why you're the way you are until much later. At first it might feel like "these people don't like me cause of how much better I am than them", or "these people don't l
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by thrwwXZTYE 1y ago
I always wanted to program games. I programmed games as a hobby. When I graduated university there were no gamedev jobs in my region, so I went to work at Boring B2B java company. After a while I moved to a bigger city and I started having
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by thrwwXZTYE 1y ago
There was an article on hackernews a few years back (before LLMs took over) about jobs that could be replaced by a sign saying "$default_result" 99% of the time. Like being a cancer diagnostician. Or an inspector at a border cross
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by thrwwXZTYE 1y ago
IQ is just CPU power. There's no CPU that can't be wasted by bad code.
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by thrwwXZTYE 1y ago
Significant part of what separates 99.9th (or even 90th) from 99.999th percentile is ego management. In particular IQ is not associated with better life outcomes after you have "enough", and that "enough" isn't Mens
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by thrwwXZTYE 1y ago
There's no lesson. It's hard. Your brain will search for the silver bullet to skip the boring self-improvement work and feel good NOW. It'll likely detach your current self from your past self (I was bad, I discovered this, n
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by thrwwXZTYE 1y ago
This syndrome is called "eternal child" (puer aeternus) in psychology. You were destined to great things. You were exceptional as a child, you learnt to associate your great potential with all the good in yourself, you built your
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by thrwwXZTYE 1y ago
I kinda heard lots of whispers when I was very young (like 6-7) and now I'm 40 and haven't had any such problems. I blamed it on the drugs I got prescripted for sleeping (I had bad allergy and was scratching myself to the point of
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by thrwwXZTYE 2y ago
They also colonized Finns, Balts, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, etc.
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by thrwwXZTYE 2y ago
I think presenting the philosophy you disagree with as leading to murdering innocent people is bad writing.
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by thrwwXZTYE 2y ago
This is a long discussion, if you want to have it I have LOTS of thoughts about it. But short answer is - Russians absolutely have separation between colonizers and colonized. To this day. In modern Russia the usual word to describe immigra
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by thrwwXZTYE 2y ago
Piłsudski said in early 20th century that "in Russia even anarchists are imperialists" and he was basically right. And remains so to this day. Russia managed to somehow do imperialism/colonialism and get away with it without
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by thrwwXZTYE 2y ago
Well the problem from my POV is that that exact empire he defended was persecuting millions of people, banning their languages, sending their people to forced labour camps, exterminating native people in Siberia, and keeping about 90% of th
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by thrwwXZTYE 2y ago
Slavery was banned first in 1807 by British Empire.
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by thrwwXZTYE 2y ago
Western philosophy at the time ended slavery, serfdom and challanged religion and god-given right to rule. All of which Dostoyevsky tried to defend. Don't get me wrong - early western democracies weren't perfect or even close. But
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by thrwwXZTYE 2y ago
Crime and Punishment, obviously. But he was a russian empire/orthodoxy apologist through and through, except for a brief period early on (which earned him the gulag).
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by thrwwXZTYE 2y ago
It's not diet. It's genes and stress.
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by thrwwXZTYE 2y ago
It's pretty obvious to me that asthma and colitis ulcerosa are stress-related. I had asthma for as long as I remember. I'm allergic to pollen and dust, but one of the triggers is high stress situations as well. I started having sy
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by thrwwXZTYE 3y ago
I was bullied at primary school (when I was 7-15). Mostly because I was very sickly, also because I was a nerd. I managed to "overcome" my social anxiety at high school and both high school and university were pretty good experien
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by thrwwXZTYE 3y ago
> He was an Anti-Fascist, but wanted to prevent a war with the Fascists That's rich :) For all intents and purposes you're supporting it, you just like to support it while feeling morally superior.
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by thrwwXZTYE 5y ago
I am in a similar situation, mostly because I procrastinate. I get distracted every time there's even a small hurdle and do almost no work in the regular working hours (8:00-16:00). Then when the deadline for the task is close I log in