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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I remain unconvinced they're (the whole LLM/"Attention Is All You Need" industry) even barking up the right tree to build anything usefully-close to "AGI".
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
GDP (or equivalent) gains. Ricardo only says big aggregate number go up (with a bunch of caveats). Not for whom within that aggregate. It can (hypothetically) be one person seeing huge gains while every single other person loses a little
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Yeah nothing about home install solar + battery soundly beating utility power prices even paying retail rates for equipment and labor for years on end, as prices on the equipment falls year after year, while utility power prices keep goin
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Hell, last I checked PHP is still king of the server-side Web scripting languages, as far as real-world speed. Like, fast enough that you've gotta be pretty careful in Java or Go or whatever, or you'll end up slower than PHP. The
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Planning for a shorter trip but running into trouble that stretches it to 10 years seems like almost the ideal outcome. The full Odysseus experience. Minus starting it with ten other years away at war, I guess.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
A lot of flat earthers shifted over to Qanon. [EDIT] Which is unsurprising since the whole flat earth deal requires some sort of vast lizard-person conspiracy or whatever, and that's the kind of thing Qanon is, too.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> And while that may seem a far cry from the alt-right stuff he eschews The podcast If Books Could Kill manages to stumble on a fair amount of overlap between "power of positive thinking" / "The Secret" crap, a
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I’m excited about lower prices from Chinese brands. The hikes in car prices in the US over the last decade or so have priced me out of new cars entirely, and I just about get sick even looking at used car prices these days. Need some price
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Trump tried to nominate the CEO of accuweather to run NOAA his first term, but was blocked. That CEO has lobbied to get Congress to limit the services NOAA provides so it doesn’t “compete” with companies like accuweather. https:/&#x2F
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I take this as a signal they think there’s no way the other two are going to raise theirs again, and are maybe worried one of those will downgrade another step in the near future while Moody’s rating is still high, which might look bad for
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Kind of like a "musician's musician"—ones whose names come up often in interviews with famous musicians, and often have covers of their songs by more-famous artists become very popular, but are largely out of the limelight, a
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Yeah, I remember going as a kid (the Saturn V and "rocket garden" are what stuck with me and how I realized I'd been there before) and thinking it was great, but going again a couple years ago it was a huge let-down. So muc
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Yeah, kind of what Lower Decks (the show, and for that matter also the episode "Lower Decks") is to Star Trek, but not comedy. Andor is indeed the closest I know of to that, though you see little touches of similar things in s
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
They built the lobby around the SR-71. It's friggin' cool.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
FWIW I find it to be a much better museum than the more-famous one in Huntsville, AL. That one's badly run-down and is about 50% some kind of gross defense contractor permanent trade-show installation—though the blown-apart Saturn V
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
That one and The Last Wave are the ones from his remaining ~7 movies I've not seen, that I fully expect to be good. I know less of the reputation of the other five, but even if all of them are bad that'll leave him with an excel
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Gunfire is insanely loud. Even a little .22 is louder than the apparent volume of heavier rounds in most film and TV. It's one of those things people can have entirely the wrong idea about if their only exposure to it is media. You s
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
1) God damn that movie is so good. 2) I think part of why it stands out so much is that there are incredibly few excellently-made age of sail war films. A few of the black & white and early color era ones are pretty good ( The Sea Hawk
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
If you rename them, you can re-create the whole library with auto scan, which is nice. Do you mean you let it auto-scan the wrong id, go find that wrong movie in your library, then manually provide an e.g. IMDb id, for every one?
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
It’s for the (far) superior UX and having some things on it that either practically or literally cannot be purchased legitimately.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Cost-per-minute and total minutes delivered being key metrics for their production folks would have a similar effect, and is kinda the same thing (how many minutes of viewing will be experienced by someone who watches the show you made for
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
You do have to follow the naming scheme, though 95% of the time I don’t need to touch the names of tv show episodes, just stick them in the correct folders. The exceptions are mostly anime and shows I could only find on internet archive, as
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I just got an old used workstation that can’t transcode for shit, bumped the ram up and filled it with disks, then made sure my client devices can all handle whatever I throw at them (appleTV) so I never need to transcode.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
If it’s just you watching on your laptop, true. Add family and a decent home theater and there are reasons to set up Jellyfin and use torrents.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Mandalorian benefitted a lot from being far more episodic, though of course it also had some longer plot lines. Most shows that try to make their main thing the prestige TV “big damn plot” just aren’t very good at it. Episodic’s easier to g
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> I have made a mistake radiologists call 'satisfaction of search'. Ah, now I have a name for it. When I've chased a bug and fixed a problem I found that would cause the observed problem behavior, but haven't yet prov
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I do think the cost thing is a factor. You've got 30 seconds you shot that, when the editor sits down to put it all together, definitely needs to be trimmed. But if you do that, it's 30 fewer seconds of "content". Your b
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Eh... it's extremely flabby , like most of these franchise-tied TV series (all the Marvel ones have the same problem, both the Netflix and Disney ones, though the Netflix ones are far worse about it). Tons of scenes where I want to ye
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
My dad grew up with hand-pump well water, an outhouse, a four-room house his dad built on cinderblocks that was too small for both the girls and the boys so the boys slept in the barn (and I think maybe they had a dirt-floor house at first,
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Kinda. I dunno, I had a job and went to a cheap college.

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