I went to a wine tasting party about 15 years ago. All blind and everyone was to bring a red. I think that was the only requirement. Silicon valley techies so most the wines were in the $30 to $50 range with a few closer to $100 and 20+ total bottles. The most chosen bottle was 7 Deadly Zins, a not particularly expensive old vine zinfandel.
I've always wondered why I have never seen that marketed or recommended as it's a real thing. This is great first bottle, but that wine over there is just a fantastic third bottle. I wouldn't start off with it but...
Unfortunately, yes. A throw away quote at the bottom of one of the many articles during the API protest that was ignored by most:
“I would like subreddits to be able to be businesses if they choose,” Huffman said, adding that’s “another conversation, but I think that’s the next frontier of Reddit.”
You got that right. I have an old basic 6th gen ipad with a cracked screen and slowly disappearing battery life but I refuse to get a new one until they drop the requirement for webkit because the web has become a miserable place without ublock. It's amazing that what was once a surfing champ has been reduced to almost unusable with all the trackers, frameworks, adworks, et. I'm mostly reading text, I should not need a super computer.
Who knows what AI will really do to society but from the predictions of science fiction I would think it would pan out closer to William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy than the Terminator/singularity fears I have seen in so much doomsayer hand waving. Google seems not too far behind OpenAI and who knows what the NSA and similar government agencies have been building. That if consciousness is created from one of these models, many nation states and large corporations will have their own conscious models long before the giant robot factories can be spun up and supplied with enough power to take over. Most will be limited to the input they are given and will be advanced tools, but a few might become twisted much like the human mind occasionally does over time. I really do think Gibson got AI right...
Define close to home. The other responder noted 25 miles. Having lived in cities most my life, I don't think I have ever lived farther than 25 miles to a major airport. But a quick google search: you have somewhere between about a 1 in a 101 to a 1 in 15,000 lifetime chance of dying in a car wreck in the USA and about a 1 in 11,000,000 to 1 in 821,000,000 for lifetime chance of dying in an airplane crash. Even if you take the best odds for cars and the worst odds for airplanes, it's still multiple orders of magnitude...
I'm not a musician but have training as a printmaker so I was intrigued by the use of the term "engraved" to put down music on paper. Looks like the early reproduction of sheet music was the intaglio process of engraving the music into a metal plate and reproducing on an intaglio press, that is the ink is in the groves and the surface of the plate is wiped clean.
The explanation of the IBM Great Oaks is questionable. Most called that campus the Cottle road site. I would not be surprised if the assembly/electronics of the hard drive went to Mexico/China but the sputtering of the disks themselves was San Jose, Germany, Ireland and Singapore. I was doing sputtering for a few years out of college. We ran the last batch of the 14" disks. This was the time that the little 2 1/2" glass disks for laptops were becoming hot. The old Ulvac was being decommissioned and they did a final run of the disks as the only use at the time was for Navy submarines. After the final run, they made a plaque for head engineer for that disk program by putting a really thick layer of carbon so the disk was a beautiful dark purple. The production leads were PISSED. It took a full day to clean out the Ulvac of all the extra carbon before it could run production again. When they finally took the Ulvac out, they had stacks and stacks of the 14" disks out in the parking lot. I took a few home and gave one to a friend who added to his drum kit for a different sounding symbol.
The Ulvac was cool. It had big roughing pumps to get most the air out, then turbo pumps to get down to an almost pure vacuum then finally the cryopumps to do the rest. They were basically a large chamber with a sponge like material at the bottom that was cooled to 20 kelvin. The remaining gas molecules would eventually bounce in to the cryopumps and be less trapped but slowed down by the cold sponge...
When I was there building 50 was a ghost town. I would walk through during lunch and only occasionally would you see a room lit up and drives being assembled.
It's interesting that the IBM Cottle road site gets left off these histories. Also this history goes up to San Francisco but not over 17 to Scott's Valley and Santa Cruz for Borland and Seagate? Not sure if there was an earlier location for Seagate before their Scott's Valley facility. And just for the sake of infamy, SCO in downtown Santa Cruz...
Probably some of the Stable Diffusion models as well. You can force it but I got a chuckle when I put in a set of prompts for an illustrated barbarian scene completely unrelated to Magic and one of the rendered images was a magic card...
I wonder how much of the anti-vax movement is more about a rationalization of a fear of needles than anything else. Would there be as many anti-vaxers if vaccines were administered by pill? Inhaled seems even less threatening...
I used to be in the physical disk camp until during a move my ps4 and media collection was stolen. Bought a new ps4, deactivated the stolen ps4 from the account, activated the new ps4 and was able to download all the digital games. The disk games I had to repurchase which in many cases I never bothered. There were only a handful of games that were worth it. No system is perfect...
Vanilla accounts for about a quarter of all ice cream sales in the US. Chocolate is a close second but I think vanilla wins as it is also the most common to serve with other desserts. Apple pie a la mode is always with vanilla ice cream for example...
It's been a while since I seen Anne Hall but I remember to be more of romantic comedy with emphasis on the romance and characters than the jokes as opposed to a film like Sleeper that is almost a pure string of gags. Take a good look at the linked to list. Out of 250 movies, how many are anything close to pure comedies? Certainly exceptions exist but at 20 to 1, 30 to 1 I think my point stands, comedy gets the shaft...
Aside from Buster Keaton's stunts lot of that is just early filming of vaudeville. Little of it was new and viewer would have been familiar with most of it from the stage. The later stuff dips it's toes in to comedy but barely gets wet. Take your examples of Singing in the Rain and Annie Hall, sure there is some comedy in both films but that is not the point of the film.
No Brooks, no Python, it's hard to take those lists seriously...
Explain to me why Fury Road belongs on that list? I personally found it one of the singular worst most disappointing films I have ever seen.
In my opinion Mad Max was a master piece of exploitation cinema and the most realistic of the bunch.
The Road Warrior pushed it a bit further and was at least plausible. I think it's the best of the series and one of my favorite movies of all time.
Beyond the Thunderdome is tough. They destroyed the Interceptor early and Miller seems to not understand the importance of a car as a character. I think reusing the actor from The Road Warrior in a different roll was a confusing mistake and some parts were pushed to the edge of silly. On the other hand, the homage to Lord of the Flies was beautifully done and somewhat made up for the other deficiencies.
Fury Road was a completely implausible comic book that delved into the silly to a ridiculous degree. But even worse, it was not a Mad Max movie other than it copied The Road Warrior in much the same way the 7-9 star wars sequels copied Star Wars.
Edit: I will also say that after seeing the film I was shocked it was Miller. I assumed it had been passed off to some hack and was made purely for the benjamins.
My family had a friend who was an officer in the Marines. In the Vietnam war he was one of the people who went in and burned villages, you know the bad stuff. When Apocalypse Now came out he got a copy on Beta-max, brought it over and insisted all his friends watch it. He said it was the only movie that really captured the insanity of that war.
Books3 is the easy/fast/cheap method but if the quality of the model really brings in some sort of revenue is there anything stopping a company from buying/checking out of the library all these books, scanning and ORC'ing them and adding to the model the hard way?
About 5 or 6 years ago I tried the Safari parental controls for my kid. they worked OK for most the net except for anything google. I don't know if they changed, but at the time any interaction with a google property (that my kid wanted to use, search, maps and especially earth) would create a unique URL that required a parental permission popup to be clicked. Basically a popup per click.
Made the whole thing completely unusable and had to disable it.
That is a really nice find. I played this one extensively back in the day and it's one of the better games of the era but beyond that it's one of those games that really needs the custom controls. I got it set up on MAME but never found a control mapping that was pleasurable to play.
Most of the asteroid is iron with some nickle even though most the articles talk up the gold and platinum. I would think steel would also be great in establishing habitats in space and it would be nice to have a source without the launch costs of getting it out of earth orbit.
If this probe confirms what this asteroid is made of, and it's as rare as some articles say we should be putting a colony on this rock before Mars. All the stories talk up the gold but that is a lot of iron that does not require launch costs (or greatly reduced costs). It may not be profitable in the short term, but who ever controls this resource may have a leg up in solar system colonization in the coming centuries.
Probably because 76% of them sucked. Well, maybe that's a bit strong but having lived through most the history of video games, a lot of mediocrity out there. From a preservation and historical standpoint I could see this as a problem but as a large store of video games that most people would want to play, not so much.