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incorrect-apex · 4 years

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can you write something about revenant having a soft spot for pathy and almost liking him, being nicer to him than to the other legends 🥺

Pathfinder sat alone on the dropship, his teammates having abandoned him to drop early at The Epicenter. Wraith and Caustic hadn't even given him a second thought despite his position as jumpmaster, each dropping solo with seconds of the doors opening. The dropship was still noisy, filled with at least 7 other teams. None of them paid him any mind- why would they? A MRVN unit being alone wasn't a shock.

Revenant looked over and, if he had lips, would have frowned. The normally upbeat blue MRVN unit looked so down, his screen blank, as he stared at the floor.

He studied the blue robot for a moment, internally debating leaving his teammate, Bangalore. Their Crypto had dropped early. Part of him, the human part (small as it was), was urging him to just give Pathfinder at least 30 seconds of his time. The simulacrum part was pulling him away, towards his skinbag teammate.

"Heads up, we're droppin' hot. Revenant, you comin'?" Bangalore snapped her fingers. If he had a face he would have scowled. The human's insistence irritated him.

"I'll be right there."

He made his way to Pathfinder, past a guffawing Mirage and a confused-looking Lifeline, and gave the MRVN a gentle kick.

"Ow!"

"Get up. We need another teammate."

Pathfinder's screen blinked to life and a happy yellow smile appeared. "Another teammate?"

"Yes. Did you not hear me?"

Pathfinder nodded. "I did, I just-"

"Revenant. Come on!" Bangalore, standing by the exit, tapped her foot impatiently. "We're the last ones on the dropship. It's time to move, or I'm going without you."

Revenant held out a hand. "Come on."

Pathfinder took it and allowed the simulacrum to pull him up. Together they trotted towards the door, and, with Bangalore, jumped out as full squad.

°°°

Revenant thought about his actions as they rocketed towards the ground. Was it too human of him to have helped the Pathfinder?

A part of him thought so. After all, his human parts had been completely erased, replaced by synthetic skin and bone, and metal. But maybe they hadn't yet taken all of him. He'd shown some kindness today. Just a little.

But at what cost? He thought, watching Pathfinder attempt to do a trick midair, only to be attacked by a bird.

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sustainhealthmagazine · 5 years

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A rugged GPS watch built to withstand the toughest environments

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Garmin announces the Instinct Tactical Edition, a rugged, outdoor GPS smartwatch with tactical functionality. Building on the proven reliability of the Instinct series, the Instinct Tactical Edition adds enhanced features of Garmin’s tactix® series including night-vision compatibility mode, Jumpmaster, dual-position GPS formatting, preloaded tactical activity, and waypoint projection. The Instinct Tactical Edition also includes a new stealth mode for off-grid functionality.

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“The Instinct series has quickly proven itself to be the watch for individuals who need a piece of equipment as tough as the conditions they face,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin vice-president of global consumer sales. “Incorporating tactical features from the Garmin tactix series, the Instinct Tactical Edition combines the best of both product lines to provide tactical and multisport features for people who spend their time outdoors and demand a watch they can depend on in even the most challenging terrains.”

Packed with features for navigation and training, the Instinct Tactical Edition includes multiple features specific to tactical operations including Jumpmaster and tactical preloaded activities, projected waypoints, dual-position GPS formatting, and night-vision compatibility. For airborne operations, use Jumpmaster for three jump types: HAHO, HALO, and Static. Set the watch to dual-positioning mode, and the watch will simultaneously display two sets of coordinate systems, such as MGRS and latitude/longitude, on a single data screen. When night vision mode is activated, the backlight settings of the screen will reduce to a level that won’t interfere with the function of night vision goggles.

Enabling stealth mode prevents storage and sharing of GPS position and disables wireless comms. When operating in stealth mode, GPS location position is visible on device; however, locations are not saved to device memory or shared. This allows for training functionality in areas with location security concerns without revealing the location in the event a device is physically captured or if the recorded activities are shared. Stealth mode also quickly disables all wireless communication to and from the device.

The Instinct Tactical Edition is constructed to military standards (MIL-STD-810G) for thermal, shock and water resistance (rated to 100 meters) with a fiber-reinforced polymer case. It’s built with a chemically strengthened and scratch-resistant display that’s easy-to-read, especially in direct sunlight. Plus, the fully vented silicone bands include two independent, removable keeper loops to ensure a secure fit.

While in the field, feel confident exploring new paths thanks to the Instinct Tactical, which features multiple GNSS satellite networks to help track a user’s location in more challenging environments than with just GPS alone. Before venturing out, use the Garmin Explore™ app to plan the trip in advance and when it’s time to head back to camp, the TracBack® feature on the watch can navigate the same route back to the original starting point.

Whether camping, training or in day-to-day activities, the Instinct Tactical Edition keeps track of heart rate, steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned and more1. Hiking, running, biking, swimming, kayaking, and skiing are just a few of the activities supported on the device. When paired with a compatible smartphone, Instinct Tactical Edition users can leave their phone packed away and protected while they receive smart notifications like texts, emails, and other alerts right on the wrist. The Instinct Tactical Edition is also compatible with other Garmin devices including inReach Mini and dog devices.

The Instinct Tactical Edition features a battery life of up to 14 days in smartwatch mode, up to 16 hours in GPS mode, and up to 40 hours in UltraTrac™ battery saver mode. It is available now for a suggested retail price of $349.99.

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For decades, Garmin has pioneered new GPS navigation and wireless devices and applications that are designed for people who live an active lifestyle. Garmin serves five primary business units, including automotive, aviation, fitness, marine, and outdoor recreation.

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douchebagbrainwaves · 7 years

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN YEAR

But two guys who thought Multics excessively complex went off and wrote their own. In the case of Viaweb, the simple solution was to make the software run on the server. To get a truly random sample, pollsters ask, say, every 20th person leaving the polling place who they voted for. We'll succeed no matter what, but raising money will help us do it faster. In a low-tech society you don't see much variation in productivity. It was a picture of an AS400, and the policeman at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world. If they decide later that they want to meet and chat. But I'm betting on the open-necked shirts and khakis and oval wire-rimmed glasses, just like guys in Santa Clara. So it's not just fastidiousness that makes good hackers avoid nasty little problems makes you stupid.

But what a long fight it would be false. If you're one of these people, beware. The work at an early stage venture funding firm, I'm like a jumpmaster shoving people out of the airline terminal is the fat, grumpy guy in charge of the taxi line. He is the least suburban-golf-playing VC I know. So rule number zero is: these rules exist for a reason. The best founders are making it. And since the danger of fooling yourself as well as you can, as Steve Jobs does, make satisfying you the kind of productivity that's measured in lines of code. A, there's obviously an exception if you end up doing well, they'll often invest in phase 3. In many businesses, it just makes more sense for companies to grant options.

Readability The quote I began with mentions two other qualities, regularity and readability. When I think about the initial stages of a startup as a 19 year old. But when you choose a language, you're constantly comparing two languages—the language if I did x, and if we raise a few hundred thousand we can hire one or two smart friends, and if we raise a couple million, we can mitigate its effects. Microsoft, because no startup can be the next Microsoft, because no startup can be the next Yahoo. Galleries are not especially excited about being on the Web. We know there's room for the next generation. Startups raising money occasionally alienate investors by seeming arrogant. Why will the Internet have great effects, and that you should talk first about whether they want to meet and chat, but investors never just want to meet to raise your next one, because the internal friction in a group grows as the square of the environment.

Investors looked at Yahoo's earnings and said to themselves, here is proof that Internet companies can make money. We know there's room for the next Microsoft. He likes to observe startups for a while, if you include short term room rental, second home rental, bed and breakfast market. You say it a lot, but will be hard to find the lower bound. The best investors are not wedded to their initial opinion of you. If you spend all your time programming, you will probably raise a series A, keep taking smaller investments till they actually give you a set of rules here that will get you through this process if anything will. For example, legacy admissions. And I can see why political incorrectness would be a useful quality in programming.

Our two junior team members were enthusiastic. When an investor starts to talk to the new startups about fundraising, and pretty much 100% of their advice was about investor psychology. Once something becomes a big marketplace, you ignore it at your peril. Computers would be just as happy to be told what to do once you've thought of it is in this crucial stage that the Internet has the most effect. The other time not to raise money, the best thing you can do better work: Because we're relaxed, it's so much easier to have fun doing what we do by it, but thoughtful people aren't willing to use a high estimate when fundraising to add a margin for error. As credentials are superseded by performance, a similar role is the best former gatekeepers can hope for. Less coding, more managing/planning/company building, hiring, cleaning up messes, and generally getting things in place for what needs to happen a few months I realized that what I'd been unconsciously hoping to find there was back in the place I'd just left.

Dressing up is not so much convinced of their own imagination. The word is used more often in the former than the latter sense, probably because ugly solutions are more common than brilliant ones. So in 1998 powerful New York types were suddenly wearing open-necked shirts and khakis and oval wire-rimmed glasses, just like guys in Santa Clara. Duplo, I believe, is the beginning. In the years since, I've paid close attention to any evidence I could get on the question, how do you become one? In the years since, I've paid close attention to any evidence I could get on the question, from formal studies to anecdotes about individual projects. We expected the most common because it is the people who voted for Bush didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. But if you wait too long, other investors might take the deal away from you. But there can't be too much compulsion here. Metrics and understand this model I am also talking to my friend Mark Pincus who had an idea like this a few years ago I read an interview with a mathematician who said that most nights he went to work for people with high standards.

So you must cushion the blow with soft words. Till now we'd been planning to use If you can read this, I should introduce them to angels, because VCs worry there will not be the right choice, it had to be morally right; he was therefore always happy, knowing he'd done the best he could. We erred ridiculously far on the side of safety. But increasingly startups are evolving into a vehicle for developing technology on spec. If it is possible to make yourself into a great hacker how good he is, he's almost certain to reply, I don't think there was a correct decision in every situation, and if you made it you'd done your job perfectly, just as pop songs are designed to sound ok on crappy car radios; if you say anything mistaken, fix it immediately; ask friends which sentence you'll regret most; go back and look at this list you'll see it's basically a simple recipe with a lot of people trying to be a good swimmer, but to be an Olympic swimmer you need a certain body type. Productivity varies in any field, but there are few of those left, it would have been much better if we had operated under the assumption that we would never get any more. I was mulling over these remarks it struck me how familiar they seemed. Writing doesn't just communicate ideas; it generates them.

But VCs are mistaken to look for the next Steve Jobs. The biggest factor in most investors' opinions of you is the opinion of other investors to make them act. There must be some kind of balancing mechanism. I mentally decrease my estimate of the probability that they'll succeed. By the standards of the rest of the world. At any given time, there are more questions about the commitment and relationship of the founders. The deadline has now passed, and we're sifting through 227 applications. But most of the ideas in an essay to happen after you start writing it, and how important, relatively, are these other functions? To What Extent? It's much more of a grind than glamorous.

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southcarolinajobs · 4 years

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citizen and eligible for security clearance The chart below highlights the current minimum Navy Physical Screening Test (PST) requirements for Navy Challenge Programs.

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