VanTheBrand

JPEGXL literally is able to display images and colors that jpeg and png cannot (32-but floating point, layers, emission independent transparency, spot colors, built im depth maps). It’s not just about compression optimization. So for those use cases standard JPEG and PNG alone will never work. There are “updated” versions of JPEG that support some of these like HDR but those won’t work with any old browser either so back to the same issue.

Don’t think there was ever a time since Netflix started streaming where they only licensed global rights to shows. For their own originals they get global rights but the majority of their content is licensed and has always been slightly different in different territories.

Agree with the premise but about halfway through the writing becomes barely readable AI slop in style. Be honest did you yourself read this all the way through before posting?

Definitely has similar vibes

This is no longer the nerd or even normie consensus (if it ever was)

If you think he was significantly resourceful strapped making Empire and Jedi you are mistaken. At the time they were some of the most expensive films ever made.

all depends on how you define the terms

Optimus would have to work well enough in the near future for that not gonna happen

We should get rid of ramps and handicapped parking at grocery stores too. If it’s such a large market someone can start their own accessible grocery store…

If they have no value why are they being acquired and scanned?

It hadn’t been established yet in the EU. It would be a big deal if it went the other way in Europe so it being the same isn’t a nothing burger.

That’s not how that would work at all. The copyright of a derivative work has no effect on the existing copyright of an underlying work.

If you record yourself reading a book, you own the audio recording copyright but it would be a copyright violation to reproduce that copy without a license for the underlying rights.

In this situation:

If the AI generates the audio recording of a book, no one owns the copyright of the audio recording but it would still be a copyright violation to reproduce that copy without the underlying rights.

Yeah, Jane Street

Your information about ticket sales is out of date. This year is on track to outsell pre Covid years.

My first thought reading this was I wonder if Sony is planning to wind down or spin off Sony DADC, their commercial optical disc manufacturing subsidiary they’ve run since the dawn of the CD.

Sony DADC presses every PlayStation games but also has spent decades manufacturing CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, UHD Blu-rays, software, and other optical media for 3rd party customers across the entertainment and computer industry.

If PlayStation discs disappear in 2028, that removes one of the last massive, guaranteed sources of demand for optical disc production inside Sony. Even if the plants continue serving movies, music, and third-party clients for a while, it’s hard not to wonder if this announcement is also the beginning of the end for one of the last major end-to-end optical media manufacturers in the supply chain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Digital_Audio_Disc_Corpor...

https://www.sonydadc.com/productsandservices/manufacturing

The certificate was issued before the Nightmare Eclipse zero day thing started but I suppose it’s possible there are other certificates expiring around the same time that could be connected to the Nightmare deadline. Probably a coincidence though

Yeah if you have an actual really good idea for a certain kind of under analyzed data that could give you an edge but it would take too much effort or time to compile or analyze the data, an LLM has potential to make a viable strategy out of an otherwise correct but unuseful insight

But Japanese autoworkers are unionized and have been for a very long time? So there is an example of a unionized group producing a great product!

so there is no data or there are counter examples to the data? because you seem to have shifted to an entirely different assertion... Also to say the counter examples are countless is a pretty broad statement itself.

Most predictions about the Trump tariffs from Trump and the people railing against them have proven to be hugely incorrect in both directions. If anything this proves my point that these are complex systems that are hard to predict.

Except that’s not how it played out at all! Fast Food employment did not go down but wages did go up 11%.

Prices of food went up 1.5%, which covered half the wage increase, and the employers ate (pun intended) the other half of the cost.

Here is the study by UC Berkeley from this April

https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Effects...

An under appreciated part of a truckers job is being in the truck so someone doesn’t rob it.

The problem with US ports being slow isn’t the longshoremen or the lack of automation, it’s the ports themselves.

This has been studied and the main takeaway is that automated terminals are generally not more productive than conventional ones *once you control for things like terminal layout, cargo patterns, rail/truck integration, and geography.*

A lot of the “look at Rotterdam/Singapore/Shanghai” comparisons are misleading because those are purpose-built megaterminals with entirely different infrastructure and logistics networks.

US ports have different constraints (that have nothing to do with longshoremen) that make the specific automations more common in foreign ports less effective and sometimes counter effective here.

That’s not to say there aren’t automation improvements that could be made or Longshoremen labor is currently at some perfect optimal productivity equilibrium with automation, but it’s not a simple we need automation and they are in the way stopping it scenario.

Automation can certainly reduce some labor costs and improve yard density, but the idea that US ports are uniquely inefficient because dockworkers are manually moving containers around is mostly political rhetoric, not what the actual studies by people designing and running ports say.

Some reading: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/do-us-ports-need-more...

https://www.gao.gov/assets/d24106498.pdf

https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/container-...

But based on pure physics alone it seems obvious that moving single truckloads of cargo over several miles of muddy road would be more difficult (and expensive) than moving dozens of loads simultaneously by rail over a significantly longer distance? That’s like the point of trains. How is this an indictment of teamsters?

You may need to retake economics 101 perhaps if you think raising a wage floor has a single predictable outcome in every scenario, which seems to be what you are implying.

It puts varying pressures on other elements in a dynamic system in different ratios and with second order effects that can’t be fully predicted until you “run the experiment.”

he most certainly did not

As mentioned in this very encyclical, nuclear proliferation. (though we seem to be backsliding on this one...)

Yeah the current guidance from US copyright office is that if it were said to be solely authored by copilot it would not be eligible for copyright. If it were said to be solely authored by human A (who happened to use co-pilot) the elements and arrangement of it not generated by co-pilot would be copyrightable. I’m not sure the copyright office has released guidance on attempting to register AI as a co-author I assume the registration would be rejected but you’d be able to re-submit as sole Human author.

It’s certainly an assertion.

I would guess it’s significantly below 1%