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Most of VFX's problem isn't technology. If you read the post, its not really mentioned.

No the main problem is indecision.

As other people have pointed out, virtual sets require a solid and stable vision of what the story and look of the movie is going to be, before filming starts.

Some film makers work like this. For example medium to high budget TV shows between 2010-2018 (before marvel basically.) Notably also chris noland.

There are numerous examples of poor planning/indecision: the two poorer modern james bonds (quantum and spectre) both started shooting before the script was fixed. So loads had to be made up in editing.

Another example is this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfVu52tZxd0 "the sand room" from prince of persia. This was designed, scripted and executed by one of the VFX houses, because the producers realised that they had no way to link the two halves of the film.

This example here: https://clash-of-the-titans.fandom.com/wiki/Deities?file=Zeu...

In Clash of the titans (2010) they spent loads of money making mount olympus with a real set. Hired all the old masters. after filming, the producers were like "Nah, I don't like that, lets make it like google maps". So the set was removed (I'm not sure if it was digitally done or a reshoot).

Then Hades's cloak was a pain because the producers first wanted smoke. Then ink, then smokey ink.

As alluded to in the post, the producers can get away with this because the contract is to do as many revisions until its done. There is little to no cost hit to the producers of the film to fiddle, be indecisive or back track.
It is a large assumption that "their nuclear will be there in the future" with so many plants being down for unplanned maintenance as cracks were detected in important parts. It is not clear when and if the full capacity of their current plants will be available again and currently France is still struggling with building the Flammaville reactor. Being late many years and way over budget, it doesn't look like France will be able to even maintain their current nuclear capacity going forward. And they are late in a good renewable strategy.
I don't think the gap between an amateur and an artist or business owner is the love for their work.

The gap is the ability to generate something of value to others to the point at which you can sustain your efforts without needing to subsidise it like a hobby.
I'm 40. I'm not sure if I have to try harder to learn. I was never bright in the first place.

I'm way more motivated to learn now. I only really watch Netflix etc on Friday and Saturday nights. Other evenings I try to get an hour to myself to do self learning. (Difficult with a child,!)

My main problem is I prefer learning programming related things not directly related to my programming job.
Currently doing a course on network programming in c (I don't have a com sci degree).

What I really want is to learn maths to the point we're I can do a bit of calculus.

Just listened to John carmack on lex Fridman podcast. Very inspiring. He's switched in to AI research , never seems to stop teaching himself. (Though he has the advantage of being genius).
> Multiverse of Madness has to be one of my favourite marvel films of late

I’m curious why you think that. I thought it was one of the most boring Marvel films in the franchise, and I’m surprised I was able to stay awake for the entire thing. On the other hand, its twin, "Everything Everywhere All at Once", had me deeply engrossed and interested.
a mars city is still worth the investment.
it is easier to build a city on mars than to solve all the problems on earth.
The article doesn't say video is the main purpose (or even necessary).

I agree with you, having a common 'thing' to focus on together is great. I absolutely HATE video calls as well, but I can sit in a discord call for hours if there is something to focus on. Playing a game with someone, or people watching a video together, etc.
Absolutely. BMW, for example, have built really heavy EV SUVs and then slapped on huge batteries in order to get the 300+ mile range people expect. Miles per kWh is the metric cars should be optimising for, not just absolute range.
Or, we judge one of a kind art in comparison with other qualities of our times.
Using ad hoc metaphysical concepts to justify objectivity in aesthetics is discarding the implications of the society.
A piece of art can't have value in emptiness, it needs a context.
Trains travel much faster and air resistance scales quadratic. But otoh, being able to travel at faster speeds obviously is a major advantage for a train. Now, if we could just combine the two and have enough bike slots on a train, that would be amazing.
Twitch Flags Let’s Play of ‘Project Zomboid’ over Copyright of Police Siren
I've wondered about the same thing; if it suddenly became cheap to send stuff to Mars, where's all the infrastructure we'd supposedly be sending? Is it being developed right now, or has it been a distant goal for so long that nobody yet has the attitude that it's time to start packing our things?

I think, though, that if it's actually happening it might not be happening in a very public way. I mean, it's not exactly in the news every time someone develops a new space suit or a new air lock or a more efficient CO2 removal system. And a lot of the equipment sent to mars will probably just be boring industrial equipment, tools, construction materials, storage tanks, electrical cable, pipes, and so on, some of the same or only slightly modified from what's available at any hardware store. A few things will be highly specialized for the Martian environment, such as vehicles. Some things will be redesigned for no other reason than to reduce the mass so we can send more stuff cheaper.

I wonder if there are any large-scale coordinated projects to figure out what exactly is needed for a minimum viable settlement, or if it's all kind of ad-hoc with a bunch of private companies and universities working on projects more-or-less at random with no organization? Or if everyone is kind of just sitting on their thumbs waiting for someone to take charge and/or start giving out grants and making purchases?
But isn’t 2020 important to include because it shows a variance in observations outside of the rest of the sample? Ie it’s important to know how things react “in reverse”. But totally need to acknowledge exogenous restraints for that year.
op means terraform in a sustainable way.
i argue that we are good at making things liveable but not sustainable. i would not be surprised if the exploitation of resources will continue galactically and we should do so to carry the light of consciousness :-)
I can’t say enough good things about The Mandalorian. Seriously first rate all around.
...or excessive radiation, or multibillion dollar resupply missions, or...
In harry potter, the actors were chosen at age ~8 (ish, young what ever it was)

This meant that in the middle movies, they went through puberty. My generation of VFX people cut their teeth doing puberty based acne removal. Both harry and ron had pretty bad zits, and because continuity is kind, the needed to be removed.

Meryl Streep in MamaMia had "digital makeup" applied by one bloke working the night shift.
I upgraded my Prusa clone to Klipper a little while ago and am loving it: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/07/09/1230
It should be common knowledge that this is an intended outcome of a permanent money system, it is going to collapse one day and all you can do is delay it.
I have the same fear. And more I read about the macro outlook it looks more grim.

Consider this situation - inflation is now what at 8%. That means the prices were up by 8% than last year. If it stays this high, federal reserve will raise rates but how high can the rates go? Turns out every 1% rate raise causes almost 33billion debt payment by US Treasury since US at this point has close to 33 trillion debt and growing.

A rate raise by 5% means around 150 billion for just the debt payment alone. This is obviously unsustainable as the Treasury doesn’t get more income unless it substantially raises taxes.

If we somehow come out of this situation, the debt will continue to rise since the US has a balloning social security spending and it’s only going to get worse due to more and more aging population.

So our generation (GenZ and millennials) are kind of screwed. I can’t see how we get out of this.
Reviving my ancient 3D printer with Klipper
This sounds like there are rational and obligatory prerequisites that should make movie enyoable for every viewer, and if viewer still doesn't like the movie, then he is wrong. And not like enyoment from art is depending on personal taste, situation and state of mind.

Also, there is cinema outside blockbusters, but popcorn doesn't go well with whatever independent cinema is going to haunt the viewer.
In previous articles, it was said the update was held up and prevented Telegram from releasing a feature that would revolutionize chat...

> He claims that the update is “about to revolutionize how people express themselves in messaging”

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/11/23301864/telegram-founder...

Not so revolutionary in my opinion. Good way to spin an update delay to get some articles written about themselves though.
Yeah right? I never get it when people talk about "the establishment".

Just as if some shadow organisation is behind everything someone doesn't like.

The world is changing, people. Like it or not.
Imagen – Google's answer to DALL-E
We are good at making things liveable.
We are not good at making things sustainable.

It makes no sense to only invest in one of these ventures.
It makes a big difference to be working for yourself, rather than someone else

Statements like this, and the whole article basically, make me wonder - since I'm apparently an outlier because none of this is really true for me - whether this originates from people doing jobs they don't really like and/or working for companies which have questionable work ethics and/or working for companies which are mostly about profit not product. I don't really feel any difference in motivation for the payed jobs I do and the contributions to OSS and the personal side projects. And to some extent: the hobbies I have, the non-software things I build. I just want to get creative and do the best thing possible. Sometimes that gets skewed somewhat due to certain requirements, and that happens more for payed jobs, but that doesn't change my motivation.
Do I really have to download 400GB of Blockchain to not get blamed for "not your keys not your crypto" just to buy rice or pasta?
Thanks for the reply.
Indeed I heard there was criticism of his Easter Island case in Collapse, but not that all the examples were wrong.
Who decided and why to cancel the British satellite launch program? Who decided and why to insert Russian/Ukraine rocket engines in the U.S. satellite launch program despite the proven track record of U.S. firms behind the Saturn-V and Shuttle?
Georgia, which gives one of the biggest subsidies in the US isn't overly democrat. I don't think its a partisan issue really, it just reflects the state of worker/employer relations I suspect.
Absolutely, but it's the output of the human (or AI) that plagiarizes that might be ethically wrong or illegal when used in certain ways, not the human (or AI) reading the input documents in the first place.
>In what way were they demolished? Cars allow for urban sprawl. People now have homes in places where they rely on cars to get to work.

Highway construction demolished a lot of neighbourhoods in cities. In the U.S, the demolished neighborhoods were also disproportionately low-income and majority non-white neighborhoods.

>I also have a theory that widespread WFH makes dense cities obsolete. Dense cities seem to originate from big money appearing somewhere and everyone building around it, eventually reaching the typical situation where the highest-paid can afford to live there and everyone else commutes in and out. If the housing, roads, or public transit are expanded, more people come and saturate them again, because the commute is worth the pay. (If it's just roads, such commutes are super polluting.) But when the execs and higher-paid workers don't need to be there in person, it dominoes. There's no extra money to be made providing physical goods/services in that area, and no incentive for such a forced commute or crammed living quarters. Physical laborers end up working locally, and more isolated, less dense, lower-income but lower-cost-of-living cities form.

This is only really true if work is the only reason someone would live in a dense city, and it's not. Cities are a thing because they allow for economies of scale in all things, be that culture, dating, transportation or otherwise.

This efficiency is somewhat obscured by a plethora of reasons right now - car-oriented infrastructure subsidised by people not utilizing that infrastructure is one of the higher ones on the list.
Not sure why they'd take issue with Telegram doing this, when Slack and Discord and probably others have been supporting animated emoji for years.

But that kinda is Apple's modus operandi. The left app store gatekeeper doesn't know what the right one approved or disapproved of last week, so you get smacked down seemingly randomly.
I used it for seven years or so before moving to Klipper, and then I started using Mainsail on the same hardware for the more direct integration: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/07/09/1230
This is actually supposed to happen. Our system looks nothing like the system of ancient Egypt which lasted thousands of years. Our system has always collapsed within a modern human livespan. There are always exceptions but ancient Egypt was no fluke
> I bet it’s cheaper to wreck 104 real cars than to pay a VFX team to do it.

This reminds me: you know that scene in Tenet where a Boeing goes into building? It was neither VFX nor a model. It was a full size, real Boeing. Nolan said it was cheaper.
Damn and I've just sold my printer! This looks great, we'll done!
My thesis is that economic frictions cause cases of homelessness that were theoretically avoidable. Their current social network isn't the only friction. Low IQ, mental health issues, no familiarity with COL or opportunities or people in other locations. These are other frictions. All the stuff that gets in the way of people making an optimal decision.
One of the important questions is where to put the line beyond which humans should be independent of their neighbors. E.g. what democracy is not able to touch.

Most people would reject the idea of a city voting what everyone's compulsory dinner will be. But when it comes to zoning and building codes, that's already grey area.
It... really depends on which bits of Europe you're talking about. The bits where corruption is endemic and the money never actually winds up going to help anyone? Sure, certain policies are floundering there. The state pension systems? Yeah, people are a bit miffed about mismanagement there.

But like... very few people sitting here arguing that e.g. a right to decent healthcare isn't a thing we want; that education shouldn't be accessible to as many people as possible; that we shouldn't provide public services such as libraries, parks, and sports centres for all; and in a bunch of places there's a general feeling that the pendulum swung way too far against welfare, in the bid to force people to work, that it's now not helpful for the people it was meant to help.

It appears the person you're replying to lives in Germany; so do I. The parties (e.g. the FDP) here which would like to tear down what Germany has built have a minority of the votes compared to those which have social democratic or broadly neutral policies.
Fatigue can be a symptom of a disease. Cancer, kidney disease, multiple sclerosis. Watch for other symptoms.
Yes indeed.

The fact that conservatives broadly have taken the position supporting of cars and car-oriented development is one of the most absurd things imaginable. Socialized inefficient infrastructure that was not even a thing a hundred years ago being considered a conservative policy, a real hoot.
ZFS is not the simplest solution to the problems that "ought to be solved", and the implementation can be rather annoying - lacking support for hardware configuration changes, using its own cache system sidestepping the one in the kernel, and generally not fitting in with normal filesystem paradigms. And that's not even addressing that incremental sends - a huge feature - was (is?) broken due to holebirth, making it unreliable.

btrfs kinda blew up, but it would be nice to have a good and simple reliable filesystem that actually fits in with the others. ZFS is what we're stuck with till then.
I've listened to all of his music. It's okay. I'm not really into thumping German pop music though.
I don't like the word "amateur" in this context - the semantic shift from its origins, and the baggage the word brings with it today makes it feel ... dismissive, insulting; easy to discount and ignore. Looking at the word's synonyms reinforces that feeling[1].

"Hobbyist", on the other hand, feels both knowledgeable and at the same time homely, unthreatening, to me (see synonyms[2]). I don't like talking about my JS library on GitHub[3] as a "side project" (a phrase I think many people would interpret as: "something that may one day make some good money"). Rather, I think about it as one of my hobbies, something I do because the work both fascinates and pleases me, allows me to experiment and push boundaries of what's possible to do with a 2d canvas element in the browser without the need to meet the demands and constraints of employers, clients, time, etc.

One of my other hobbies is writing poetry, which probably explains why I care too much about the meanings of words ...

[1] - https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/amateur

[2] - https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/hobbyist

[3] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas
If you like the look & feel of Python, but not the ecosystem:

https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/book/scala-for-python-dev...

Sorry for that quite random comment, but SCNR.
Raise the head of your bed an inch or two. Sleep on your back. Gravity will help keep the acid where it belongs.
But energy efficiency is not the single goal and it shouldn't become it. The most energy efficient mode if transportation is to stay put. The most energy efficient form of living is a bunk in some barracks and so on and so forth. And some point we have to acknowledge that life is spending energy so why not on individual travel?
>On the other side, ZFS is an overly complicated behemoth, that wants direct access to the block device. Meanwhile `muxfs` works with any already existing file-system (local or remote) and just provides the checksums. So both serve different use-cases.

Na...it's not overly complicated for what it is, but yes it is a behemoth.

>that wants direct access to the block device.

Yes for high-performance "enterprise"-setup's it is preferable, but absolutely not needed.

> Meanwhile `muxfs` works with any already existing file-system (local or remote) and just provides the checksums.

That i think is the winning point here, just add bit-rot protection to ffs.
you know that writer block also happens in programming

never thought about calling it simply "writer block". spot on
> ... you should keep in mind that Mozart's music has been at or near the top of both the listening and performance repertoire since 1791

Why is that? Is that because it is objectively good, or is that because we *think* it's good because everyone tells us it's good?
>So to me it feels like those who use this as an opportunity to undermine EVs, aren't really helping.

My position is a general anti-car position, with a particular disdain for ICEs. See my other comments in the thread for my thinking on the way forward.
Searching "by:robinsoh e-ink patent" over the past year turns up numerous comments, mostly variants of "I've explained this before", but none with a link to the specific explanation you have in mind. If you happen to know of a reference, it's a courtesy to others to provide it directly.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

Do you mean this comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28465158
Meatless meat is nothing new
It is called a negative interest rate and it is the most despised kind of insurance because everyone thinks they are the grifter that will get ahead this time and a negative interest makes grifters pay for the damages they cause to society which means they stop grifting. By grifting I mean delaying the usage of the medium of exchange until the breaking point of the economic system to get concessions from it which is effectively a bribe by society to cease this collapse seeking behaviour.
'a bit'? Fertilizer production is energy intensive, plus a huge amount of land is given over to producing a relatively small proportion of the fuel mix.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/us-biofuel-manda...

If youre going to compare switch grass, why don't you compare that against the best scenario for EVs. No cobalt, lithium extracted from sea water, powered from a clean grid?
The switch grass is still going to require fertilising, maybe not as much, but if you're removing nutrients you have to replace them.
This is true. However, car-oriented development and car travel is inferior to alternative modes of transportation in essentially all other aspects as well, so this point does not run counter to these superior modes of transportation.
The need to actually have that offsite backup being online makes them rather unlikely. Like setting up your offsite in middle of desert and trying to make parts there yourself. Fun times...
Did you read the part about "feel a buzz"
I think we are; unless you can point out politicians/representatives whose individual contribution is so much better than what the average citizen would do. There are no strong politicians in europe (barring autocrats) or in the US (which was until recently led by a cartoonish bully and now by someone who is in obvious cognitive decline), and for decades, it is pollsters that run the show.

One issue is that current states have accumulated too much power . A second one is that individual rights need to be untouchable. But otherwise i think our current representative systems are just fertile grounds for corruption.
Looks like in this setup, people only join their office room when they're open to being interrupted:

"When you are online and able to be disturbed, you join your office, alone."
Well, we have defect reports in language specs too:
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/summary.htm
Interesting. What does that mean for the diffusion of contaminants? Does the boundary between these two regions act as a barrier for diffusion?
Definitely a coincidence. While the current polio outbreaks were caused by a badly mismanaged and failed vaccination campaign pushed by the WHO and the Bill Gates Foundation out of an arrogant sense that vaccines were magic, the vaccination campaign in question was the polio one in the third world that was attempting to eliminate polio and the problem actually predated Covid (there were articles about it back in 2019, it just took a while to reach western countries). The Covid lockdowns everywhere certainly didn't help though.

(The problem was that they wanted to eliminate polio, but the vaccine itself had become the main source of polio outbreaks and the polio variant causing them didn't exist in the wild anymore. The only purpose of that component of the vaccine was to protect against outbreaks caused by the same component of the vaccine. So all the experts and organisations involved in polio eradication decided that if they dropped that variant from the vaccine everywhere at the same time and did a little bit of targetted vaccinuation to mop up any remaining outbreaks they could finally eradicate it for real. There were a bunch of optimistic presentations and papers expositing on this. It failed badly.)
So you can build only few and only in specific geography. Thus pumped storage is mostly worthless for anything else than smoothing out dips in energy supply.