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> I'm not really sure that contemporary CGI will really age as well. Because today the film is subordinate to the CGI. In the early days, as is apparent in this oral history, CGI u…

Tolerance is all the author is entitled to and the rest is on them to figure out. Expecting compatibility is ignorant.

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Sneakers are fashion, and Allbirds underestimated how quickly trends shift. They made other mistakes, but none more fatal than selling a product that still looks like 2016.

> usb-c is too unstable Would you share more? I've never had an issue with a USB-C cable. Helps to buy well constructed ones with legit specs.

LaserDiscs are not quite a digital medium. The video is an FM analog signal (composite). Digital PCM audio was introduced about half a decade into the format's life.

> How were they able to achieve such perfect recreation from monkey Because the macaque study didn't decode faces from fMRI. They first used fMRI to locate the face patches, then u…

> That turns out to be a profitable business though. He does not disappoint. Also, not buying the watch industry parable.

Digital video editing was slow to gain adoption, but digital video mastering (i.e. video transfers) was pretty much standard for home video by the early 90s. Telecine setups (even …

Granted it's often easy to tell on your own, but when I'm uncertain I use GPTZero's Chrome extension for this. Eventually I'll stop doing that and assume most of what I read outsid…

And in all manner of regulated industries. People simply cannot resist throwing anything and everything at the magic text machine. A company can control its IT assets, but if the c…

> Was there ever good coffee in NYC? Before all the third-wave shops came along? D'Amico, Sahadi's, Porto Rico, Zabar's, Gillies, and that's about it. You'd have to have been a cof…

Like the MegaProcessor? [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNa9bQRPMB8

And perhaps peak atompunk too when used as RAM. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube

You’re doing it again. You’re taking a descriptive proxy he used and treating it as dispositive evidence of motive, instead of engaging the underlying claim about what happens when…

DHH’s argument was about rapid demographic change and loss of a majority culture, grounded (rightly or wrongly) in concerns about social cohesion. An argument you can disagree with…

Had Redford passed some 30 years ago, your remarks would have been true. By the early 2000s, Sundance became nothing more than a marketplace for a formulaic film type (quirky drame…

This is an ad, and what it sidesteps is that human training/understanding requires much more than feeding concepts and texts into a black box.

Do any SOC2 Type II auditors truly audit the businesses they’re making an attestation for? Like do they go onsite, physically and virtually, to probe and determine what’s true? Typ…

> Were studios really that reckless with their properties? The first two seasons of Monty Python’s Flying Circus were almost erased because the BBC wanted to reuse the broadcast ta…

The money shot! I did not realize sewer cleaning required so much onsite IT. Are those rack units running computational fluid dynamics models to figure out how to unclog elaborate …

I guess there aren’t any cats in the Ak Saray.

Perhaps you should.

Funny you say that because flipping through a few videos on the site just now, I came across one of a young child (say 2yo) playing nude in the pool. I reported it, of course.