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Location: Niger / West Africa
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Email: aye@smiletondi.me
I've only watched the first episode so far, and... I'm not very impressed.

The narrative is really awful - it feels like the characters are reading verbatim from a book, rather than reciting a screenplay adaption. The acting and behaviour of characters is very wooden, stiff, amateurish and unrealistic - maybe that's just what happens when actors have to recite such "formal" narrative, or maybe it's the actors' ability. The narrative and acting are totally unconvincing.

Thus far, the set, lighting CGI have been pretty disappointing too - I don't really understand why everything has to look like it's straight out of a cartoon, with eye-popping saturation levels. Or why all the CGI looks too "smooth" and strangely lit to look authentic. Or why so many of the buildings etc just look so... improbable.

All the characters look like they just came out of a salon - obviously brand new, pristine clothing, make up absolutely plastered on with a trowel, not a hair out of place etc. It looks very silly, and adds to the overall amateurish vibe.

And what on earth was that nonsense with the elves all standing in formation, perfectly upright and perfectly still, on the deck of a small boat sailing across an ocean?!

Overall, I felt like I was watching a theatre play, rather than a TV series. I think I read Amazon spent half a billion dollars on it, which is true sounds basically fraudulent.

I also want to add that I've been using IMDB for something like 20 years, and have rated over 1,000 movies and TV shows - what Amazon have done here is totally destroy my trust in IMDB ratings :(
I'm not sure "long sentences" is what the GP meant.
For me it had nothing to do with attention... if you let me read my books quietly in class while you're wasting my time with a lecture I can absorb in two minutes at home, we don't have a problem. I'll show up and pass your test.

Most of my teachers understood this and got out of my way. The ones who didn't understand caused me no end of problems in their attempts to force me to conform to expectations I never signed off on. I was the smartest (read: just the most motivated) kid at most of the schools I went to and also among the most frequently written up, punished or suspended.

I had a reputation for getting sent to the office at least once every two weeks, inevitably due to some form of "willful disobedience", which was just me refusing to buckle to any perceived narcissism or institutional coercion foisted upon me. Authority figures either hated that they could not control me, or warmly accepted that if they just left me alone I would pass their stupid tests with flying colors.

It wasn't until my last two years of high school, when I was homeless and attending on my own cognizance, that teachers finally backed the fuck off and realized what they were dealing with. Except a single teacher. My transcripts were illegally altered by a teacher who felt that she had to "win" against me, and ultimately caused me 10 years of economic hardship after high school. I passed every class, had the highest test scores. and she still found a way to rob me of the multiple full-ride scholarship opportunities I had received for several engineering colleges, just to put a boot down on my face one last time on my way out. This was substantial enough to sue the school department over, but when you're homeless and your parents are drug addicts, you don't get these opportunities.

This is what an under-stimulated individual with no support structure looks like. And I felt the concerted institutional effort every single step of the way to push me down and grind me into submission, to teach me I was a criminal for thinking for myself. I have a much more tolerant view of many forms of criminal behavior because of this experience and that is no accident.
The sanctions were spearheaded by europe, the US followed, initially reluctantly (Biden wanted some symbolic sanctions like freezing a few bank accounts and banning a handful of people from travel). It is european countries (and EU countries), that Putin claims are in Russia' sphere of influence (Baltic states, Poland, czech republic, etc). That stated nostalgia for lost power was easy to dismiss until 2022 (and I dismissed it). But the Ukraine invasion made it clear they cannot be dismissed anymore and if Ukraine becomes a military success for Russia, the next provocations and aggressions will target EU countries.

So no, this is not something imposed by the US, it is a policy initiated by europe, for europe's benefit, and with the support of the US.
Do we need spoilers here?
Didn't know that was Gandalf.

Aside from that I agree, so far TRoP has been close to or better than expected. I'm not sure what people expected here but at any rate it's too early. You would't want to judge LotR based only on the initial chapter either.
RIP. The man has just solved mass SSL problem for internet, before that, things are just so tedious.
Funny I never noticed, thanks for clearing that up.
> I don't really see why the worker should let the employer extract additional value out of them for no benefit, especially if they do fulfill the terms of the contract set to them.

I agree with this. My contention is that workers are not fullfulling the terms of their contract. I'm not defending the contracts themselves, or saying it makes sense for an employer to require butts in seats for 40 hrs, but I also can't sympathize with people that violate the agreement they entered into.

You're defending "mouse jiggling". That is a deception. Why would they feel the need to fake work if their contract allows them to not work?
I'm wondering how comprehensive the research is that says it's just those 3 vendors and ~7 devices. Given that it's more than one vendor, it feels like a pattern that's a common mistake or design compromise. I wouldn't be surprised if the impact is broader than expected.
That's not how it works.

Yes, RT scores are binary, but that's not the same as saying that "rotten" means 1/10 and "fresh" means 10/10.
> if it isn't germain to the story and that making all audiences feel more accepted and therefore happier is a laudable goal.

why not come up with new stories then, instead of trying to make them fit in something written decades if not centuries ago?

> Nothing woke about greater non white representation.

the World is full of non white mythology, I would love to see something inspired by African.mythologies for example.

why they keep using white (western to be precise) mythology to represent non western cultures?

It's like making a new Rambo movie were everything is the same except Rambo is Vietnamese.
> exist only in your imagination and in fairy tales.

I'm afraid, this argument is both wrong (maybe you just haven't been lucky with people around you), and inapplicable (the talk is imaginarium).
The quasi-Xenophobes are well and truly out of their closet.
Perhaps just personal websites that are not legible will have to die...
Although I do have to admit, this page had a very GeoCities vibe to it. Needs a few more animated GIFs, though.
Open market operations constitute a push operation.
This is not how ML works. You don't need real child abuse material in your training set to make a model capable of creating CSAM. All you need is depictions of any children and any sexual content.
> My understanding is also that these discussions of "money" ignore things like investments or non-liquid assets, which I think is another big source of fuzziness.

It definitely is. When central banks think of the money supply, they take into account different aggregate which are sorted by liquidity.
It appears observation, speculation, and dissent is not tolerated here. Linus himself says his perfectionism contributed to the delay of the project. Perfectionism is a symptom, not a character flaw, and not who Linus is. It never stands alone and predicts other symptoms. Another commenter who was already aware confirmed my suspicions. If Linus happened to not be aware, then it is possible this thread may have enlightened him to seek corrective treatment. Compassion is more important than noses getting bent out of shape, and frankly, thin skin is a tell-tale symptom of psychological disorder. Sticks and stones.

Your comment is a straw man, as that is not at all what I've argued, which is simply, beyond fraud, personality probably contributed to the project's untimely delay.
In France if you're let go during the probation period you're entitled to unemployment (if you have accrued the rights).
I guess that's a far different perspective from my own. I don't want the annoying inconvenience of needing to get a new phone and install software all over again, restore my backups etc.

Why would I want to waste that time, to what end? To catch a thief who is probably just hard out for money? That seems like an awful lot of time and effort just to be vindictive
IMDb deleted their message boards several years ago because "trolls" were giving movies bad reviews.[1]

1. https://www.thewrap.com/imdb-shut-troll-infested-message-boa...
There's no mismatch between being a party drug and helping people psychologically [1]. The only people who think so are the same kind of sad, dull people who were upset at the Finnish prime minister dancing - and since MDMA turned out to be an awesome party drug they had to ban it and punish the ones who had fun.

[1] For me, for example, I didn't have any major traumas before I tried MDMA (so therapy would have been pointless), but I were really shy. MDMA at a party setting helped me realize deeply that there's no reason for being scared of talking and connecting with people.
Let’s make a movie about Jesus where he is blond and blue eyed. Oh wait.
I played the hell out of a game that only had 4 colors. 'Pyromaniac' and the filename was pyroman.exe (It looked a lot like sleuth, the first game on the list). You had to go through buildings trailing a burning fuse that you couldn't let catch you, and also there were cans of gas that would explode across several walls. Higher levels required quite a bit of strategy, intentionally starting fires so they would burn out by the time you needed to go through the area, strategic placing of gas cans etc.

Make it to the final level you get to burn down the Kremlin. Good times.

Please don't tell the parole board, I'm still doing 8 to 20 for arson.
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This false equivalency is honestly revolting.

Anyways, Putin is, hopefully, not mad enough to step into nuclear territory. We'll see how he fares when he's cornered in (when Ukraine's counteroffensives get too serious to hide from the Russian public and he has to mobilise to hope to win, or back down.
+1

Geotastic is the best alternative I know about.
Big Pharma has more money to make from psychedelics than from suppressing them. They're already selling ketamine and ketamine-adjacent drugs for depression.
Colorblind casting is the right approach to theatre, I firmly agree with this. The world might not be ready for Raisin in the Sun to be translated to Vietnamese and performed entirely by Vietnamese people, I say go for it.

This works so well because theatre is a practice. Any play, even if it's performed once by one company (surely the mode for plays) is of the ages. Merry is black in your stage adaptation of the Fellowship, you say? Of course he is, everyone knew Isaac was going to get that role, he's a natural for it.

Cinema is a product, not a practice or a process. Like it or not, it makes a single, definitive statement about a story. It's fair to dislike it when those choices differ dramatically from those made by the author, including in matters of appearance.

If you think rabid fans won't be put off by 'trivial' things like an eye color mismatch, think again. You singling out skin color is your special pleading, reflecting your interests. I reject it. It is one of many aspects of casting in film which differs from the stage, for good reason.
That's the most pretentious thing I've read in some time.
I'm very happy to declare that my personal website is alive and kicking. It went on coma a few times. Now, I have revived it and is alive. It is 20+ years old.

Please visit at https://brajeshwar.com
Do you really go around talking about "the IP"? Then you're in a far smaller, far weirder minority than Tolkien fans.
Windows 95! Apparently the band didn't even know about it, the record label approved it https://genius.com/a/weezer-had-no-idea-the-music-video-for-...
> Okay this is a genuine question but why are the G7 not backing down when clearly their populations are the ones suffering?

The G7 includes the EU as a non enumerated member. The EU, which does not include Ukraine but does include the Baltics and some Nordic states which fear for their own safety. Not to mention how intertwined the G7’s interests are with NATO.

There is a really derpy “if you ignore all the killing that’s happening in this war, it would totally make financial sense to end the sanctions” vibe to some of these comments. The people who are at risk have a say as well.
Try the glossary for more information. For example here is some help on the downhillcost:

https://github.com/poutnikl/Brouter-profiles/wiki/Glossary#d
NASA – Artemis I – Liquid Hydrogen Flow to Core Stage Resumes
Unfortunately that's really how Tolkien's mythology tends to work. White skin is associated with purity, darker skin with corruption and evil (or at least, between the two, "civilized" and "uncivilized".)

It's a trope that's carried on into sci-fi (particularly Star Trek, where the more animalistic or violent races also tend to be darker - see the Klingons who get portrayed as darker-skinned and more aggressive with each iteration) and related high-fantasy properties like D&D.
Guy obviously hasn't caught up on the exploits of Wowbanger the infinitely prolonged.
You've just described life of a typical apple user :)
>western society

Ah, yes, because Eastern countries like South Korea or Japan are not obsessed with achievement and tainted by heavy doses of burnout.
Critics are the experts.

A fanatic, while crazy, has skin in the game. Their time and money.

I'll take a fanatics POV over an experts everyday of the week and Sundays too.
GM offers to buy out Buick dealers that don't want to invest in EVs
I thought the Buick brand was dead. Zombie?

Is this part of a plan to shrink footprint or transition to DTC?
I guess anything is possible, but sometimes it's just the most obvious thing: they don't fully trust their employees and want to make sure they're not getting ripped off.

You could always ask them. That is unless you're not confident they know you work part time ;P
I feel like I’m on Reddit reading these comments.
NES Programming with 6502 Assembly
I very much agree. Ironically the only relevant 3rd option who truly felt like they were trying to innovate was Microsoft+Nokia (the real Nokia) with Windows Phone.

But failures to market and encourage adoption, and perhaps staining it with the “windows” brand, just led it down the path of being forgotten about by developers and so it withered and died.
> Do we need spoilers here?

Sincerely sorry. And yet...

> Didn't know that was Gandalf.

My point, exactly.
I'm not an open-source maintainer but isn't the best bet your current users?

Ask developers (mailing list/README in version control/message on startup etc) to see if they or their company can sponsor. And make it easy for them to give money.
Oh well that means a broken water system is a good look for the capital of a state!
People moan about it because they and their governments haven't understood the consequences of their votes and actions. They wanted to have their cake and eat it too.

It doesn't help that elections are also just popularity contests and charades of endless lies and empty promises. Your average voter is far too I'll equipped to make informed judgements on complex issues making them easy to influence through fear mongering by groups with vested interests in seeing the results they want.

Everything is fucked.
> Elves are almost eugenetically born all the same

Elves are fictive and have a long literary history--mostly publicized by white Europeans. Originally, they were described as evil creatures who infected people with diseases. Tolkien stepped into the folklore at a particular time and place and offered his interpretation. Sticking to a tradition in which they're all genetically similar--and white--is also just an interpretation. My point is that there's no elf manual that everyone needs to stick to.

You point out a good detail with Pinocchio. But again, Collodi offered his interpretation of a folk tale. In Collodi's text [1], the fish that swallowed Pinocchio is described as "Pesce-cane grosso come una casa di cinque piani e con un treno della strada ferrata in bocca" -- "huge shark [technically 'dog-fish'] like a five-story house and train on a railroad in its mouth." It was subsequent interpretations, like Disney's first version, that portrayed the fish as a whale.

So I don't think it's woke, or too liberal or whatever, to portray elves as different skin colors. We shouldn't keep them white just to avoid pissing off certain audiences.

1: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52484/52484-h/52484-h.htm
It seems like GP has about $528.

I wouldnt want to pay a fee only advisor but this is actually cheaper than vanguard or fidelity until you get $2k or something.
Wow, it's like we watched two different shows!

While the style of the characters clothing is there, it all looks brand new, totally pristine. Just like the characters themselves, all of whom are plastered with impeccable make up. I found it looked silly and amateurish.

On the narrative, I found it overly formal, like it was being recited word for word from Shakespeare or something - it doesn't feel at all like a screenplay, more like actors reading from a book. And I think this impacts terribly on the acting, which I found to be wooden, stiff and unrealistic.
All in one solutions always look super nice when they first come out, as they can shortcut to just implement all the best practices that most people do right now and look very clean by omitting all the weird edge cases. But give it a couple of years, and you are stuck with a slow moving monolith. That jetbrains fleet - a year after the announcement - is still in closed beta shows that they aren't really setup to move quickly.

But from a business perspective this seems like a good move. There is no competition for such a complete package? Email seems to be missing though. And even if your software is closed source, what if you want to open source parts of it for exposure and talent acquisition?
Their implementation is not necessarily slow. In the past there have been many implementations where using subnormals did not cause any speed penalty.

The real disadvantage appears to be that a fast implementation is likely to be more expensive, i.e. it requires more complex circuits, thus a greater chip area. Most designers of recent CPUs or GPUs appear to be much more concerned with obtaining a greater speed and a minimum chip area than with obtaining adequate numeric accuracy, because most buyers are influenced by speed benchmark results and know little or nothing about the accuracy required by their computations.

Moreover, the subnormals are an optional feature of the floating-point standard, the alternative to using subnormals is to enable the underflow exception. However, an overwhelming majority of the programmers are too lazy to enable and handle overflow exceptions, much less to enable and handle underflow exceptions.

Unlike using either underflow exceptions or subnormals, the use of flush-to-zero and denormals-are-zero is acceptable only in the programs where computation errors do not matter at all, such as games.
and where the different ?species? not working together is intentionally meant to be introspective about perspective.
Not sure, but I have a friend who has plenty of experience with psychedelics, and he just had his first session of psychedelic therapy with ketamine (done by a medical professional trained to do it). After the session he said it was very different to anything he had done before and that he felt he made a ton of progress.

My guess is that the intention that you set before “the trip”, really impacts the experience and hence the results. As well as having a professional guide/sitter that knows how to guide you and create a therapeutic setting.
By translating the origin from Italian into English another crowd is reached, and movie adaptations often differ from books. In this case, casting was chosen to be diverse at the expense of a detail barely anyone cares about. Whether such behavior is -all things considered- a win or loss depends on if such choice hugely hampers the popularity. IOW, vote with your wallet.
Don't panic! That's how education works. I don't use every tool in my shop every day, but when I need them, I know I can dust off the manual and figure them back out.

College was just your first stepping stone of hopefully a very long and interesting journey. It might have been special to you, but there's no need to take it along.
May you share those memories with others for many years to come. Wishing you both excellent health and peace.
Tax loss harvesting are just realizing those losses earlier. You would have eventually gotten them anyway so if you’re investing in the long term then it doesn’t matter much.
> People love Gandalf, Aragorn, Galadriel, Legolas etc. and want to see more of them.

> People don't give a crap if any new story is "faithful".

These two statements contradict. The net effect of it not being faithful, is that it doesn't feel like the Aragorn, Legolas, Galadriel etc. you knew. The casual fans will notice too, just a little later and maybe less consciously than the more dedicated fans.
You are not shielding the country. By printing money to pay for high energy cost, you maintain demand high when there is scarcity (instead of letting the demand adjust, people using heating as little as they can, companies finding substitute for gas, etc), that's a recipe for making the problem worse.
Sure, but that's "only" useful warnings/errors of that kind that are useful for any language, rather than footguns that work on first approximation and then don't ($*, unquoted $@, unquoted $var, stuff like that). A zsh LSP would be nice as well.
> And yet, that did not cause the business to pay the current employees less, or downstaff, did it?

> After all, if the financial implication did not involve cutting costs down just to survive, then it is not comparable to an individual, who literally has to spend less money and cut out existing costs just to survive.

I’m not sure you understand. It still costs the company.

It was the employees decision to leave because he decided he didn’t want to do the work he was hired to do.

Should the company say “oh no problem we will just pay you because we have some money in the bank right at this very moment in time”?
Workflow: ZFS snapshot-ed file versions to tar and git archives with httm
A New Culprit in Air Pollution: Reactions Triggered by Human Skin
In Amsterdam NL a backend engineer could expect 80-100 euros/hr. > 100 is also possible, but you may get into specialization territory.
> 192,000 is not "virtually no one."

Yes it is, when compared to the total number of registered Mastodon users as I have mentioned from the start with "virtually" meaning 'nearly', 'almost', 'more or less', 'close to'. My use of the word could not get any more accurate and clearer.

192,000 of 3,000,000 is around 6.4%, where that is closer to 0 than 94% is, meaning that approximately 2,808,000 users are still not using it regularly after registration and after 6 years of existence, it has struggled with that ever since.

You can try to deny it. But the numbers don't lie.
N900 was also the first phone with a full on browser capable of running any site. Other phones then were not able to run full JS. Also the resolution was higher than other phones.