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Stranger in a Strange land: "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
Does this mean a newer version of this will be out in a few months?
We need more stand up comedians as presenters
- Always take into consideration mental health cost. Your commute, your work, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Debt in this area is unpredictable and therefore dangerous in the long run.
- No one has it figured out. Youth will always be wasted by the youth.
Good luck.
On practise: I don't recall who or which podcast I heard this from but even professional comedians practise a lot. There was a metric of practising minimum an hour for every minute of your speech/act. It's not all about brute memorization, its the fine tuning of little things that make the delivery amazing.
On fear: Even the best still get butterflies. Public speaking is said to be very counterintuitive to our survival instincts since you expose a lot about yourself to a large group of people. Practise lets you manage that fear and fosters more confidence.
I think you'll learn a lot about speaking, and entertainment in general and will gain appreciation for good presentations.
Finally, you'll realize you won't reach out to everyone in your audience. In an average technical presentation, if 25% of my audience felt the content was too complicated, 25% too easy, but 50% just right, then I've succeeded.
Best of luck!
*Edit: typo
High Flight
By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.Keep adding to it. You're gonna for sure write bad code thats going to be trashed, but keep working at it. The whole project might even be trashed but such is the expense of a creative.
Code, ship, fail(or succeed!), repeat.
Which shop did you use to print the PCBs and how much did each of them cost?
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Psychology and this whole milsim thing aside, some of the tech driving the airsoft/paintball 'guns' reflect their country of origin.
In asia, access to HPA/co2 tanks isn't has widespread as North america, hence a lot of the gas guns are powered via common consumer sources like propane and duster gas.
Airsoft guns that use a MCU (most built on top of MOSFET units) has only recently appeared in airsoft, while pretty much every electronic paintball gun has been the case since the 90's (mostly due to solenoid control), which is also a huge factor to the design.