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>1. Pacing. It feels slow. This might blow your mind: The movie is only 2 hours. The sequel is about 45 minutes longer. I think this criticism is, frankly, invalid. Plenty of art/indie films get positive points for being contemplative, but this is a detractor from Blade Runner for some reason. Pineapple Express has the exact same run time, Sex and the City 2 is longer.

Pacing has nothing to do with movie runtime. A movie can be 3 hours with incredible pacing. Additionally a movie CAN be both contemplative and have great pacing. In the group of movies that have pretty bad pacing, Blade runner is one of the front runners.

That being said, many people have the ability to ignore pacing many people can't. Personally for me I can ignore pacing, but I very much notice it's absence and a movie is actually worse off without good pacing. Blade runner to me is therefore a good movie despite horrible pacing.

>2. Story and dialog. The movie is hard to understand the first time you watch it if you aren't hearing every word of dialog and processing it. I think this is the most valid criticism, but, again, it's supposed to be a good thing for a movie to challenge you to think, to take in context clues, rather than spoon-feeding you how you should feel like it's a summer blockbuster Marvel movie.

This is debatable. There's a sort of catharsis involved with solving a puzzle and deriving solutions from information not given explicitly. But if a movie delivers information too obscure not everyone can fully solve the puzzle and for those that don't the movie is raw shit. Seriously. If someone can't figure it out, then the movie is effectively horrible to THOSE people.

A movie is not suppose to be a puzzle. It's just suppose to feel like one. A movie should provide the right amount of foreshadowing, hints, expose, and explanation such that the audience FEELS like they are solving a puzzle. Movies that are actual puzzles are sort of snobbish as they are deliberately targeting puzzle solvers, not a general audience.

Blade runner to me is unintentionally a puzzle. It wasn't Ridley's scotts intention to make the thematic elements of the movie so hard to parse.

>3. The ending. It's not much of one, there isn't a big payoff anywhere. This type of ending is somehow totally fine for art/indie films but "not okay" here. Personally, I think we're supposed to feel like being a Blade Runner is a bit pointless. The ending is unsatisfying on purpose, just like the endings in Disco Elysium.

I thought disco elysium was more satisfying. It had better pacing which made the ending have a better payoff. Inception is also a movie with a ambiguose ending but PEOPLE loved it.

The problem with Blade runner is not really the ambiguous ending. It's because the pacing that built to the pay off was really bad and the thematic elements are hard for a general audience to parse so throwing an ending that's ambiguous on top of all of that just makes everything seem much worse.
What if instead of presuming whether the children will hate their lives, we let them grow up to a certain age, say age 9, and then ask them if they hate their lives? If they say yes, kill them, if they say no, let them live. There is no moral difference between this solution and abortion if the fetus is a baby. If the fetus is not a baby then there is a moral difference though, so... I guess the real question is whether or not the fetus is a baby.

My point is, any open-minded debate about abortion will always return to this question. As long as pro-abortion people ignore this question, they are talking past the pro-lifers and will never understand us.
Since everyone is mentioning experience, I have administered from 1 to a dozen linux servers since 1994.

df, mount, dmesg are basic ones for someone who uses a command prompt.

fdisk and friends are for the ones who added a disk after installation

The rest is for those who had a problem and found a solution on askununtu.com or serverfault. Or are actually advanced.

I think there is a big difference between the users who work on the command line and those with a GUI. I do not even know what GUIs are used, except that I heard the names gnome and kde. Troubleshooting those would be a real challenge for me as they are very complex software.

Same for the sound. I recently had to attach a small loundspeaker to a rpi. Oh god, what an experience to make it make a sound. All this with nearly 30 years of Linux.

So experience is very relative, you may know how to write an inode table from scratch and google basic stuff you do not use.
Pay them more.
Secure Enclave should remain inaccessible, even to Apple.

Bootloader should be doable once you can run unprivileged arbitrary code, but some support could be offered as well, like they do with the M series Macs
>Police also only use semiautomatic weapons, because they don't have access to automatic weapons.

It's pedantic but while regular officers don't deploy full-auto weapons, police departments certainly have them.
I agree with backticks/code block being the solution. They also do for mermaid, so this would be consistent
> I live by the rule that if it’s important, the sender will follow up.

This is a silly rule. Maybe the sender will reach out to a competitor.
The entire point of life appointments is to remove partisanship from judicial decisions. If the judges were up for election, their performance would most certainly suffer.

For example, look at the Federal Reserve. They are supposed to be independent from politics, but their head is appointed by the president every X years, and so they naturally make the decisions that guarantee them reelection and not the decisions which would maximize economic stability/utility.
If you believe abortion isn’t about consequence free sex I encourage to listen to this interview with a conservative intellectual about conservative philosophy generally and abortion and sex specifically. For her there is a bold bright line connecting the two https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

TL;DR: abortion enables casual sex, casual sex is bad for society and women specifically, therefore being pro-life is being pro-woman.
This depends on who is in need of the other person more.
> the right sees it as openly hostile to them

This seems surprising given how much I associate all the "support our troops" rhetoric with the right. And actual military funding, although that's more a function of campaign contributions from defense contractors and otherwise unprofitable states.
Brian Eno had these "Oblique Strategy" cards with pithy sayings printed on them. He would famously refer to the card deck when in need of inspiration. My favourite card says "Honor thy Error as a hidden intention."

Paleoanthologist is one of the best Freudian slips I've seen in a while. GO WITH IT!
Long live EXEC 8.
For me, it depends on the IP/NDA asks. The heavier the burden, then you need a machine managed by some enterprise IT controls.

Smalls shops that are contract based or with no IP assignment, then I'd prefer to use my own hardware. This is how I intend to run my company as I intend to no IP beyond open source contributor agreement.
This is partly the reason why I would never use anything besides VMs or baremetal I provision myself. I'd rather have scaling problems I can solve by provisioning more hardware than billing problems because I fudged the setup. Yes, AWS might be good refunding "oopsies" but when trying to bootstrap a business I have better things to do than recover from heart palpitations.
Sure every person has all kinds of biases. The point of being a good researcher is to try and put those aside.

Should we also only accept reproducibility studies from women on papers by men? Should we need to hear from Chinese or European researchers before American research is considered valid? Must we also take into account the race, ethnicity, and religion of all authors as well? What if a conservative and liberal publish research together, is their research bias free by definition? What mixture of political biases get to reproduce such research in a way you consider free from bias?

I’m sorry the entire idea just seems untenable.
Here's a proper human translation of the same essay: https://www.salon.com/2011/02/23/last_ringbearer_explanation...

Note how he discusses plate tectonics and Tolkein's ignorance, having forgotten (or never realized) that plate tectonics was not taken seriously in Tolkein's time.
My god, that code is horrid. I remember seeing code like that as a kid. Not being able to recognize any of the tokens was a huge turn-off for getting into Windows development.
AR-15s are dirt cheap to manufacture, super modular and customizable, and are really just all around great guns. There's a reason they're so popular.
We're talking about epidemiology though. Their papers routinely contain major, grievous errors that anyone can spot in five minutes. There might well be subtle errors too but it doesn't matter when the field is overrun with papers that are quite obviously invalid on their face to any outsider, yet none of the insiders care.

The primary COVID model that triggered lockdowns was full of programming errors. It had never been peer reviewed, and its prediction of deaths varied by 80,000 depending on whether you engaged a data loading optimization or not. It gave totally different results depending on available CPU features! There were no tests and the results had never been validated against anything. Outsiders pointed out these problems, and the team didn't care, nor did anyone else in the field of epidemiology.

That's just one example of many. Epidemiology is kinda like the phrenology of our era (one of quite a few). It's not built on a firm scientific foundation.
And the music!!! Vangelis' (RIP) soundtrack is incredible.
Babies survive outside the womb prior to 20 weeks. That will continue to go down as technology progresses. What does cost have to do with whether someone is a person?
Renting is not always just an intermediate step to being too poor to buy a home, it can be a freeing experience to not have the hassle of a home.

With WFH especially now you can work in various parts of the city or move all over the world and at most be tied down to a place for about a year.

Homeowners also never talk about things like paying tens of thousands of dollars when a pipe burst or the roof needs repairing.
> But almost nobody regrets it.

It's worth noting how taboo it is to admit that you hate your children, and thus how vastly under-reported this attitude ends up being.

> I don't know anyone that wishes they hadn't let their children be born, no matter how harsh their circumstances.

I, in contrast, know several children who wish they hadn't been forced to grow up in abject poverty with an absentee parent who has no time or energy for them because of how much they have to work.

Perhaps it's selfishness on the parent's part.
Scheme on the Erlang VM
I would not have asked that question simply because I'd assume everyone was smart enough to give the right answer, even if they don't believe it. I would never have expected your boss's answer.
Billion dollar businesses violate the law regularly. Flagrantly.
There isn't the work on the market for any of those and from my experience of working with on their contracts, they will all be tuped existing staff.

As an aside I still have a zero-day for ICL mainframes running Gerorge that's decades old now and taking to my grave.
To expand on this OP, I've done the AWS-full-stack approach in a mid-sized startup. Modern Serverless problems require modern serverless solutions. That ecosystem is simply not as developed as "traditional" web-server CI/CD. Here are some things that you will eventually need to optimize for.

- After crossing a certain threshold in scaling needs, Lambda costs more than regular EC2 on ELB

- Lambda cold-start times can be a deal-breaker when users first visit your website. If you contact AWS they will tell you to setup a simple cron job that keep lambdas "warm". But AWS provides no visibility in what's warm or cold, or which endpoints link to which lambdas.

- Dealing with Cloudwatch logs of various lambda runs (IMHO) is objectively a bad dev experience. Query insights is getting better, but is still a pain to work with.

- To reduce deployment and development times, you'll eventually want to deep-dive into lambda layers. Modern problems modern solutions.

- One lambda calling and awaiting another lambda is not a supported first-class use-case. There's no API that allows you to get the status of a lambda run. There's a hack around this where you use AWS Step-Functions. Modern problems modern solutions.

We're still on AWS full-stack "serverless" for our webserver and realtime stream processor. At the time I didn't know what I was getting my company into. I wish I just made a Flask webserver instead.
I use bypass-paywalls-clean addon and I'm forced to use Firefox Nightly and deal with all its weird bugs (it's nightly so that's expected) because of this.

Things have improved quite a bit though. They finally fixed that stupid scrolling bug that cuts off a part of the page below the nav bar. That finally got me off Kiwi Browser.

Eagerly waiting for all add-ons to be allowed in stable.
Using AWS for sideprojects is a great way to make sure you have AWS skills the next time you interview, assuming you aren't using it at work.
Exactly this. Good luck identifying the actual problem a startup addresses from their website. Most of the websites are deliberately diffuse for prospecting purposes.
… and rampantly introducing the IO monad only to remove it once the culprit is found.
> Not conceiving children is clearly not the same as killing them after conception.

I don't think anyone is advocating killing children.

Aborting a fetus, sure, but a fetus isn't a child any more than an acorn is an oak tree.
If you sent a personal friend 2 twitter DMs, then 2 emails, and then 3 text messages and they don't reply, I don't think they are a friend. My inbox gets pounded as well but if a personal friend emails I skip all the other emails and reply to that one first.
Azure doesn’t support spending limits on all subscription types though.

https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/offer-details/
If I publish a stored proc as an API, it leaves me free (within reason) to alter the actual SQL supporting it. Like modern API design, as long as you don't remove functionality, then change it as required.
Oh God this is where I'm at now. A series of questionable decisions over the past 7 years have now solidified our codebase into a horrible set of patterns that make even adding a single new database column that we need to feed to the frontend a Herculean task. It's so demotivating.
Take the ego, judgment, and “how things should be” out of it. This is about how to effectively get results as the sender. And it works.

We all have this choice of principle versus effectiveness. If you would like to go with the strategy of thinking the receiver is self-centered, and you should have to only send one email, then good luck. In today’s world you will not have as effective a reply conversion rate as someone else who sends three emails.

I know this is controversial, so everyone is free to attempt the first strategy.
>the greatest economic collapse the US has ever known?

Jpow: Hold my beer.
Plex is not open source and spies on you.
That’s my point. And it shouldn’t be hard. A stress loop should heat and require constant recharge, enough to significantly reduce battery life. A few years worth of regular use in a few weeks of stress testing should be pretty easy do.
At least for Django, it handles creating client side views, client routing, etc. You can of course use a different frontend, but that's included by default. See also its wonderful admin interface.
The post seems to claim that there is no drawbacks others approach with the 0 bytes of js, and link to a blog post [1] that absolutely tells nothing how to properly manage back/front state and rendering consistency between the rendering and the «islands» on the client.

[1] https://jasonformat.com/islands-architecture
Their excuse at that point typically becomes "crime"
Arm Unveils Next-Gen Flagship Core: Cortex-X3
If the difficulty of the LC questions were calibrated for the role, I'd agree. But the times I've run into LC it was rarely the "easy" questions. Instead I've seen LC questions thrown at me that would take someone already familiar with the solution a couple hours to implement, but I'm going into it cold and am given 30 minutes with someone watching me. Or worse, I've seen LC questions that were once the basis for someone's CS PHD. It might have taken Dijkstra 20 minutes to come up with the algorithm he is most famous, but you're not interviewing Edsger Dijkstra here.
I liked the idea of The Last Ringbearer, but I found the writing pretty awful, like something written by a teenager for an English assignment.

> Mordor then made its second mistake ... although, as it always is with strategic decisions, that could only be judged post factum: had the move worked, as it had every chance of doing, it would no doubt have been recorded as brilliant.

> That was when the Mirror first made a difference; imagine a contemporary fast-moving war in which one side has the advantage of spy satellites.

https://archive.org/details/TheLastRingbearerSecondEdition
Link 3 you cited says that saturated fats should be consumed in moderation. You claim:

> There's nothing intrinsically wrong with consuming fat, especially saturated fats - they're completely different from carbohydrates and sugars, which you don't want to be consuming large quantities of.

The implication, when you say you shouldn’t eat large quantities of sugar+carbs, and that that is totally different from saturated fat, is that you should eat large quantities of saturated fat.

That is an opinion. I don’t contest the existence of facts, what I contest is the selective usage of facts to dress up your opinion as a fact. It is your opinion that high quantities of saturated fat are desirable, but most research I’ve seen says that the emphasis should be on Whole Foods and unsaturated fats, with some saturated fat tolerated to achieve that. This is actually supported by the research you cited later on.

The underlying science of cholesterol doesn’t seem to be seriously under question, but using that to say high quantities of saturated fat is healthy is fact skips many important steps and cheapens the meaning of “fact”.
You should:

1. Create an email subfolder hierarchy.
2. Automate a categorization of messages to said folders

Now you have a much more managable set of email backlogs. Spend some time getting to "0 unread" in all important categories (and in "uncategorized") - and then you can live like a king _keeping_ those subfolders at 0 unread.
Lido Voters Reject Limiting Growth in Key Move for Eth2 – The Defiant
So you agree you resorted to personal attacks? Personal attacks entertain you?
This gives the impression that Quick Sort is awful and Counting Sort should be used instead. What a weird conclusion.
"If you want to connect to famous and busy people, you should keep trying N number of times".

"I am too important and you should pester me until I reply because did I mention I am important?"

Yeah, very profound insights, lol.
I feel like once a day there is always a cautionary tale from some absolute dumbass getting reamed by AWS.
You seem to have a very specific view of pacing: faster is better. To me that feels very limiting.

But, as with all things art, I think there's no way to enjoy or feel about it. I feel a lot differently but that doesn't mean I'm right.
Wow! This is cool stuff.

I was looking through the documentation for conditional logic, control flow, IF(), and the CASE...WHEN...THEN operator. It seems like the ternary operator is the single way to implement conditionality?

At https://prql-lang.org/book/examples/functions.html I found the example `func if_valid x`, which is then used in the `derive` expression `prices_adj | ret | if_valid`. This usage of `if_valid` at the end of the pipeline seems a bit awkward: if I want to do the whole calculation only if some condition is met, I'd like to write it at the front of the pipeline. Can I nest the `ret` function in the if-function like so?: `func ret_if_valid x -> is_valid_price ? (ret x) : null` Then I guess I'd have to do:

return_total = prices_adj | ret_if_valid

Next, can a string variable be used as part of a column name? It's something I needed recently in order to categorise values and use them to do a pivot. For example, I had to do:

SELECT CASE category WHEN 'a' THEN 'x' AS newCategory
...
SELECT SUM( if(newCategory = 'a', revenue, 0) ) AS aRevenue, ...

Ideally I'd like to do:

aggregate [
for x in ['a', 'b', 'c']:
(concat x 'Revenue') = sum ( [new_category == x] ? revenue : 0 ),
...]

i.e. I'd like to use x as part of the final column name. A pivot example would be great (or maybe you already have a PIVOT implementation in mind).

I'd be interested in contributing to this, guess I'll take a look at the code and any community chat you've set up!
Please take this the right way, but blaming your predecessors is not a productive mindset, nor is it really the topic of this post.
Yes. This is true. The theming was better than usual.

I distinctly remember the five cent mugs of root beer, an homage to the original Marriott store.
Logic gate breaks speed record
Fair—2FA for email is more important than ever.
Any tips for writing an effective email to people with your level of email volume?
Part of this is because it takes a lot of work to get a blade shaving sharp, especially hardened tool steel. However much effort you put into it initially, quadruple it. That's why professionals use machines to sharpen their tools.
I like blade runner, but I'm one of the people who finds the pacing horrible and I think most people in the general audience agree with me. Blade runner definitely is not blockbuster for this reason.

I sometimes meet people like you and the parent who actually like the pacing of BR and I totally get it. It's like reading a deep novel.

Though I wonder, are you guys able to empathize with why pacing is actually important to the general audience? Was something like Game of Thrones (probably one of the most masterfully paced pieces of cinema) just too "busy?"
Because all of the versions have the same problem regardless of tone. If the assumptions are in error and the OP had been leaving off the justifications suggested, they can reply and say so! (But, as it turns out, didn’t.)
Soldiers and sailors always got a lot of vaccines, and from what I've heard, many were more risky than the COVID vaccination. Perhaps the only new thing is the politically motivated fear-mongering causing would-be recruits to have doubts.
Many pro-life would say yes. The pro-life stance on IVF is to only fertilize as many eggs as you will bring to term.
Tea mugs are my favourite swag :)
You could try contract work. The contract house will handle finding the jobs and you could do short contracts as needed to earn enough to sustain you for a while while you build your own products.
That the Deno Company offers "Deno Deploy", which is a service quite similar to some of AWS's products like Lambda@Edge.
You could just as easily have a "standard" setup recursively calling itself, and scaling up multiple instances as a result. This isn't an issue due to serverless.

AWS will hopefully issue a refund.
worst advice yet
Pension Funds Plunge into Riskier Bets–Just as Markets Are Struggling
And not treating relationships as sets has costs of its own -- for example it breaks relational formula equivalences that could be used for query optimization.
The JS ecosystem seems a lot more hesitant to bundle features into frameworks à la Rails/Laravel & friends, but Redwood.js sounds like what you're looking for. The ORM it uses is Prisma, which works really well on its own too.

https://redwoodjs.com
https://www.prisma.io
The fact that the performance is so close between a database that requires NO SERVER and one that requires a dedicated server + ops management is a signal to me that all projects should start on SQLite unless there is a compelling reason not to.