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The Star Wars Extended Universe used to be massive. I bet if you just adapted some of the more popular novels they could continue making a lot of money. The problem is that in that case they'd be targeting the Star Wars fandom rather than throwing them under the bus to court as broad of an audience as possible.

The franchise just can't keep reinventing itself to target every demographic. They need to cater to existing fans.
Because people actually use Notepad and no one use Wordpad?
Mandalorian S1 was not the problem.

Rogue One was not the problem.

Andor was not the problem.

Everything else was.
Nope, but all the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack plane wings had to be replaced recently due to cracks and Concorde planes were retired due to cracks (micro-cracks, to be more precise). Aluminium does that a lot.
The impotent instinct to go after top management is silly. How management performs is between them and the shareholders. The only reason to fire management is if someone else could make the shareholders more money.

If you don't think it should be legal to lay people off, then make layoffs illegal. Doing it through some weird requirement to spite management is just going to result in bizarre distortive effects in their behavior.

I think stuff like this comes from a low level caveman jealousy instinct, where management is seen as a person to envy, while shareholders are ignored as some kind of far off impersonal force.
Wonder how that will work out for Southwest after this.
To me, D&D is the foundation of modern gaming. It has every aspect of history of gaming and the Human Condition wrapped within it.

Its a perfect hologram of our psyche. Chance, Skills, Identity, Idiology, Politics, Morality, Corruption, Evil, Good... all the sins and mythos and imaginations...

Its wonderful - and the world would not be the same without it and all its ilk.

I do wonder what Japanese equivalent may have predated or emerged in parallel? Or was their idea of a character sheet, skills etc already? Clearly their mythos was deep with spirits and magic etc (all cultures really) - just seeing if specifically they had incorporated this into games already?
I'm old enough to remember, that on the announcement of the initial contract (which by the way was advertised as 100k cars), Tesla shares jumped ~25% in the following 2 weeks.

And a week after that, Elon started selling Tesla shares.
There are many EV noobs who haven't driven yet, and their first try might be a rent car.
I’ve known several people whose surname was Van<something> who simply went by “Van”.

They were all older gents, but it’s not outside the realm of plausibility that “Van” could be what van Sabben was called. :)
There’s been loads of work in this area (differentiable simulators) in JAX. I think Google/Deepmind are porting mujoco to JAX (https://mujoco.readthedocs.io/en/stable/mjx.html), and for fluid dynamics or deformable bodies there are research projects like https://github.com/google/jax-cfd and https://daxbench.github.io/.
I don't think that - I am speaking generally.
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seems like a bit of blame game to me -- i doubt its the merger, its just the evolution of business as we have it today. having people in charge whose top priority is financial efficiency will destroy any org (looking at you too universities). i think the end result will be fragmentation as the rest of us flee.
I don't assume. I believe everyone must be given a chance to make an informed choice, so every time those preachers of the left hand try to fool the naive folk, I feel it's my duty to give them a more complete picture. And if they still choose to jump off a cliff, then well, it's their right.
Neither should every other Google employee.
In retrospect maybe they should have based the MAX on the 757. It's more or less a stretched 737 with longer landing gear. Sounds perfect for installing those enormous engines.
Sure, but she also did ET, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, The Sixth Sense, Twister, War of the Worlds, Back to the Future, Lincoln, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Gremlins, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Seabiscuit, Shindler's List, The Color Purple, The Goonies, The Land Before Time and much more.
One of the largest AI training datasets is about to get bigger, better
Beaver methane does not drive warming. Not even a little.
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Wouldn't there be a concern for his wider family?
Also with any lawsuit you aim high and meet somewhere in the middle. Even if eBay won’t be liable for damages they may just settle this outside of court to get rid of it.
Can I upgrade an old MacBook Pro 2015 from Mojave to a newer macOS, and then run a virtualized Mojave in order to keep using iTunes, while also being able to use newer browser versions etc.?

If so, how would I do this?
Southwest and Ryanair were the airlines that demanded a 737 and said if Boeing didn't make one, they were going to switch to Airbus. It's just all kind of a clusterfuck.
Why is everything "real" about writing code, when one of the standards is making users happy? Users presumably are not simply enthralled by your GitHub repos and might like to have interpersonal interaction about what the software is intended to do for their real contexts... And writing code writing code writing code is not obviously the way to satisfy that.
> Where I work people get “unpersoned”

Knowing this can happen to me at any time, I make sure that I'm already connected outside of work with anyone I care to know beyond our time with our temporarily-mutual employment.
Here is a paper from this group:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06875
Oh man. To me this plywood stuff seems like it might be marginally more durable than 2x4 and sheetrock, or maybe not (worse ventilation etc). So to me it seems like they have just reinvented the American "balloon" construction system, but overengineered, and probably at much greater expense.
> Are we sure that he's ... not chilling somewhere in Florida under a different name?

I don't see how punishing him further accomplishes anything.

source:Floridian
> There are countless hobby text editors and libraries that handle literally all of this.

The thing is, there really aren't. Certainly not that I would characterize as a "hobby" text editor.
> that's not exceedingly popular outside North America

You definitely don't mean Europe so I guess that is just code for China? It is true these days that movies have to do well in the world's second biggest market, but there is a lot of box office skim combined with fraud and low ticket prices that don't make the market that lucrative.
If you work at google, you don't get to backup or take your @google.com emails home.

Are you saying you typically take your company email domain emails (IE, "me@work.com") away after you leave a company?

I worked at Google for over a decade, I'm pretty familiar with their policies and throughout silicon valley.
Ruined or not, Boeing is too big to fail.

No way in the world will airlines, or the US government, accept a world where Airbus is the only company able to sell you a passenger airliner. Nor would they accept a word where the alternative to Airbus was Comac.
I'd rather pay taxes on $4000 than $0.40
I think Star Wars was fumbled, but she also produced/exec-produced ET, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, The Sixth Sense, Twister, War of the Worlds, Back to the Future, Lincoln, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Gremlins, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Seabiscuit, Shindler's List, The Color Purple, The Goonies, The Land Before Time and much more.

I don't think you can have a track record like that and be bad. There's something else going on.

This is a post about Pixar, and you're calling for Kathleen Kennedy (who has nothing to do with Pixar) to be fired? You may not like them, but the Star Wars projects she produced made a ton of money. The layoffs aren't because of her.
Funny, I just tried to rent a Model 3 from Hertz today, and I was “upgraded” to a Corolla (which they made me pay $33 extra for), even though I was guaranteed a Tesla online.

Why? Because I’m not yet 25.

Of course, the website let me book it even after I entered my age. Really horrible user experience and customer service.
> Amazon was never at "peak". They paid second lowest after Amazon,

looks like a typo. did you mean something else?
How do you control for biases here? Of course companies who haven't needed to do layoffs are stronger than businesses who did need to.
Agree with this. For me, being able to tweak Quake (when it came out) was massive. You could poke around in QuakeC, make a funny model / map etc. The fact that customisability extended to it's two sequels was even better.

To a lesser extent, even being able to modify pretty much any game mechanic via the pull-down Console was amazing too. A great entryway to programming for the young enthusiast!

Always was a wonderful advantage to owning a PC over a console. That, and the accompanying utilities you could combine with the game, to create new graphics, sounds etc.
> ..I’d have to memorize two separate codes — one for the main entrance and another for my apartment door — which seems unlikely since I lost the ability to memorize any seven-digit numbers when I bought my first cell phone 23 years ago.

Since when this became an insurmountable task?
I absolutely will, thanks for the recommendation!
Kathleen Kennedy might as well be the boogeyman with how she's uselessly vilified.

So you think Disney way overpaid?

She's not great, but mark my words, firing her will not improve the quality of Star Wars content.

The stupid Vespa scooter stuff in the Boba Fett series? Hers. Lots of the stupid stuff in Disney Star Wars is hers. The early Jedi stuff in the comics no one liked? Instigated by her.

Star Wars itself is stretched out.

Basically, KK put it on the rack!
Isn't there rules to keep politics off of HN?
I guess you could further insult me or provide your own napkin math.

Sure, let's say the summer months bump the Texas electric bill to $167/month (8$100 + 4$300). The previous model was assuming free electricity. My quick search is revealing that using differential pricing in Texas, the difference from the normal rate (~$.16) and the low rate (~$.08) saves ~$.08/kwh. Assuming you could perfectly offset all usage onto the cheap rate, that would yield a monthly savings of $83.5. Which yields a $10000/$83.5 = 120 month or 10 year payback period.

Then again, we forgot to right size the battery system. This site[0] claims an AC is going to use 16kwh/8 hours. A Tesla Powerwall is 13.5kwh. If you want the battery to fully cover your AC needs alone, you will need at least one additional battery system.

Naturally, we are missing out on maintenance, opportunity costs, grid connection fees, potential rebates, etc, but I think we have indeed landed on a more nuanced model.

[0] https://learnmetrics.com/how-much-electricity-kwh-do-air-con...
The crux is that all crimes have a list of elements which must be proven before the whole thing is a crime, or tort. Breaking this one down hypothetically using California’s Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress law, the plaintiff must prove that someone did something outrageous, that the defendant intended to cause emotional distress, that there was emotional distress, and that the emotional distress was from the defendants actions. So each of those individual things must be alleged, and proven with evidence. This is why they always allege things like being terrorized rather than not stating the obvious, because they wouldn’t be successful because they didn’t meet all the elements of the crime, or tort.

Note in the California law, it can be less than intentional (meaning, wanted and intended for the distress to happen) and can be as low as recklessly did something that they should have known would have caused distress, a lower bar than “intentional” for this particular element.

https://www.justia.com/trials-litigation/docs/caci/1600/1600...
I am absolutely for decoupling healthcare from employment (via universal care), and for mandated severance.

However, there's a reason that so many - I'll pick on Germany here - German tech leaders move to the US. When firing employees becomes too hard, hiring is risky, giving people broad latitude is risky, and compensation suffers because high comp is risky.

If you're a very capable software engineer, it's better to be in the US. If you're a not-very-effective one, it's better to be in a place that will make getting rid of you much harder for the business.
Outstanding post. Thank you to share.

Page 5, paragraph 12: <<Defendant Wymer’s employment was terminated by eBay, and Chief Executive Officer Defendant Wenig departed eBay with a $57 million severance package.>> Yikes.

If the defendants lose, do you have any idea how large the settlement might be?
Things someone who has never built a company says.
I would guess about 23 years ago for this person
Very nice work Philip.

It’s so satisfying, I wish I knew an easy way to explain why.
Fair points.

The graph extension for Postgres is interesting.

As for a pure graph db options like TypeDB seem to be a bit different than the historical alternatives.
I thought Elemental and Turning Red were very well done story wise (Romeo/Juliet, teen angst), they are worth multiple watches on Disney+. Encanto (Disney, but not Pixar) was brilliant, it is too bad it didn't get the theater release it deserved because of COVID.

I get not being in the audience for a film. I felt like that about all the Star Wars prequels, and I spent my pre-10s on the original trilogy. I couldn't tell you what is wrong about sequels, even if they were done well I probably wouldn't be in the audience for them anymore.
Hey, chatgpt, write me a dropbox script, that mimics dropbox. Nono, this library does not have this function. No, this is also useless. What are you suggesting, aaaah, get me out of here.
Agreed. And while I oppose it, a CBDC would be more likely than Bitcoin.
I don't. This is very much the pot calling the kettle black. Of the cloud providers, Google has the least pleasant business tactics. I would do business with AWS gladly, with Azure, but never with Google.

Google should have made the same announcement without the snarky mean-spirited bitterness.
I am thinking the next frontier could be at the intersection of consumer tech and biology.
The scale is small compared to the area available in some places.

Example: a planned 8 GWh pumped hydro facility in Ely, Nevada. It's tiny compared to the landscape around it.

https://www.whitepinepumpedstorage.com/
Once again the workers pay the price for bad leadership while the leadership largely continues to simply collect large paychecks for that bad execution. It's no different to the layoffs for Google Assistant. Do you think the average IC determines the outcome of Pixar (or Google) projects?

Disney's content strategy has generally been abysmal. Milking Star Wars IP with content that varies between mid and bad for the most part. Marvel really fell off post-Avengers. Pixar once made some of the great movies period, animated or otherwise.

Creative ventures can't be reduced to a formula. Corporate America seeks to cut costs and reduce their business plan to a formula.

How many times do people need to see this before they develop class consciousness?
Why would that deter people if they aren’t directly paying for it? You think it would force companies to police it themselves? I think jail time makes sense, and for them to be directly sued and the company to a lesser degree, pretty much what happened here.
let's start over. You might like civboot.org
West Point Bridge Designer maybe? That was such a good educational tool.
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To break even at the box office, you need to make at least 2.5x your production budget (so $500M for Lightyear). It's very unlikely that they were able to close the gap with streaming - the movie lost a ton of money.

The 2.5x multiple is because the production budget doesn't include marketing costs (which can easily be as high as the production budget) as well as the fact that they only get a percentage of the box office (the movie theaters need to live too). This is especially true for the non US box office, where the percentage going back to the studio is lower than in the US
It’s been less than a year since the release of GPT-4, which seems to have been what prompted that claim. Even if the claim is true, many employers might not know it or believe it yet. Also, it would take time for employers to adapt their workflows to replace human engineers with LLMs.

Anectodal evidence from another field impacted by LLMs—translation—suggests that work is starting to dry up for many freelancers, especially those who work remotely. Translators who work within companies or other large organizations and whose work involves more human interaction seem to be holding on to their jobs—for the time being at least.
> there'd be no excuse to block roads, throw paint around though, and earn attention and social media cred, though

No, there wouldn’t be the oil excuse, there would be something else that riles people up to create chaos
Just watch the credits to see how much human labor goes into animation.
Pretty easy to sit there and add nothing to the discussion from whatever armchair you're sitting in, isn't it?
The implication is that if you are sad there are more associated tells than just your mouth. Imagine a clown doing a mock sad face and exaggerating sadness by frowning.

I've always felt this was a forced contrivance and never that anyone literally thought frowning had anything to do with smiling.
Good. The less my attention is worth, the less companies will do to steal my attention away from me.
I think they may have been commenting a bit more about the incentive structure and that any "prestigious researcher" or institution typically got there via questionable ethics, etc.
I'd be less unhappy about these if they were shells for FPGA-based boards, instead of ARM-based ones.
Why would you allege that what @aspos says is factually false? Perhaps this happened before their policy was updated, or perhaps the person working there didn't know (or was a jerk).
Because: https://youtu.be/cZk4Yu42g0I?si=ZF24qPo-4uhcqtmd
> weird 1950's mob loan shark tactics

How long have you hung around with sales and marketing folks?

Most of them are reasonable, but in a role where you rapidly switch companies and are comped heavily on closed sales... the outliers are really out there.
If I showed my fist to Mike Tyson, he's pretty likely to guess that I would fail miserably if I tried to follow through, and I'd be the one who ended up getting punched...and he'd be right. It's not crazy for the legal system to take that into account.
Well yes and no. Let's steer around the usual car analogy:

I own a drill driver that delivers enough torque that it could cause a nasty wrist injury. Most of the time all is fine.

===== feel free to ignore this waffle =====

Screws will generally cam out first, when it is miss-applied - ie the driver jumps out of the screw and probably destroys the tracks in the screw head. You eventually learn the correct torque and speed settings etc. Drilling - hammer or not (conc/brick or wood/plastic), speed etc. Again, you eventually learn how to drill efficiently.

Then you put something like a 50cm long 16mm auger bit in. An auger bit is basically a sharp edged corkscrew shaped drill bit that is designed to drill a fairly wide and very deep hole in wood. There are also paddle bits which are flat paddle shaped (quelle surprise) with a pointy part to start the hole and guide the main part of the tool. These generally are used for wider and shallower holes than augers.

So you stab your long auger into say a sleeper (150mm thick, hardwood). The sleeper is part of a wall. Friction soon becomes an issue - around 30cm down or earlier for slightly built people. If you know what you are doing, you position a leg in such a way that the handle of the drill/driver hits it (in the horizontal plane) and your wrist is safe.

===== /feel free to ignore this waffle =====

I generally find that <statement> followed by ... "you're doing it wrong" is unhelpful. Why not critique what is on offer instead of a put down with no working?
While I know many albums didn't get transferred to CD with great attention to detail in the 80s... they'd had to have gone out of their way to make the CD sound worse than cassette.
Anyone paying attention knew this was bound to happen. Don’t mess with international trade.

https://x.com/iainmartin1/status/1743222859529367562
I cut my teeth tweaking unit settings and then adding new units and buildings to Command & Conquer games with easy .ini tweaks.

I've long applauded the efforts of the JA2 1.13 devs and their drive to externalize basically every game parameter into xmls that can be edited rather than hardcoded inside the game's executable.

Tweakable software is the best!
MCAS it is correcting the design defect due to put larger motors. Without MCAS that aircraft do not meets the certification requirements for to fly.

This video is about bledend-wing designs, but it touches on the 737 MAX problem with illustrations,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59A8-rKRs-0&t=705s

at minute 11:45 , but it's also worth watching the part at 4:31 , where another illustration explains the forces at work in an aircraft, using a classic 737 as an example.

It is on a different subject but the whole video is very interesting.
I have no idea who is personally responsible, but the idea that you can only tell stories about boring Jedi with no personality and Tatooine is just a massive failure of imagination.

There's a whole rich universe of EU novels exploring a wide variety of stories. Timothy Zahn wrote an Ocean's Eleven heist story in "Scoundrels". Andor was universally praised, partly because it's doing something completely different. Even the currently ongoing High Republic books are pretty good and nothing like the movies. Star Wars is a whole science fiction galaxy, it's as big or small as a writer wants it to be.
Until Asahi is daily drivable, I am hoping to use Linux via a VM. Only problem is I haven't found a way to run a VM in exclusive fullscreen mode (or have GPU acceleration).

Ideally, I could run MacOS in some kind of headless mode and allocate all resources to the VM.

Apple please let me use Linux ffs.
Sanctions hinder international trade...
This type of language is used everywhere in the gaming hardware segment. I think it is kinda tacky, but it has to be working if the entire industry adopted it.
There’s a few things going on here. In a civil case, we are concerned with righting a wrong as much as we are with deterring future bad behavior. To attempt to undo damage, you need to know how much damage was done.

Additionally, some civil offenses do come with precomputed statutory damages, but it’s not possible to come up with such a number for every possible scenario. In the case where there isn’t a precomputed number available we fall back to computing a number after the offense happens based on the circumstances at hand.
I can see it with gas cars because they then have to have someone drive it to the nearest gas station and fill it up, which even for an airport with an on-site gas station probably would be at least 20 mins, possibly more.

But with an electric car, they just have to park it (which they have to do anyway) and plug it in (although I suppose if you left it near zero, it could mean they can't re-rent the car for some amount of time).
This criticism seems out of touch.

They are presenting a real world use case where retention and engagement is clearly the metric of interest. It's not even clear what "human evaluations" would even mean in this context.

Kudos to not falling into the benchmark / human eval trap, and just testing your theories directly at scale in a deployment setting.