cheese_van

9 ms·

61.
by cheese_van 3y ago
A less dystopian avenue would be if the background actor to license his avatar per use. That is, the actor retains choice, just licenses his likeness for one movie only, and only for the movies the actor wants to be in. I can't imagin
62.
by cheese_van 3y ago
If my own worth to my employer is sufficiently opaque to require me to defend my position, this suggests they have insufficient data to evaluate me - and if my worth is not obvious to them, then I guess it's time to go. What else does
63.
by cheese_van 3y ago
With all due respect for julian37, I suggest caution. I might amend "quite pungent" to "good God what the hell" and "deep flavor" to "tastes like it smells." Perhaps I am betraying my American lack o
64.
by cheese_van 3y ago
There's a certain lack of predictability for users, both viewers and content creators, that may be disquieting for both. And advertisers being unable to reach non-logged viewers diminishes return. I would also expect the growing dist
65.
by cheese_van 3y ago
Seems, now that they have demonstrated the theory, brilliantly intuitive. A beautifully simple criteria. Beautiful if true.
66.
by cheese_van 3y ago
I thought the opening credits were visually interesting but uneven in artistic quality. And when I understood it was AI generated, I thought that loosely tied in with the subject matter. I am not a professional artist however. I do belie
67.
Artists Are Mad About Marvel’s ‘Secret Invasion’ AI-Generated Opening Credits(forbes.com)
1 points by cheese_van 3y ago|2 comments
68.
by cheese_van 3y ago
Not fake but rather breaking news. Bavarian State Office for the Care of Monuments official press release was yesterday, the 14th: https://www.blfd.bayern.de/mam/blfd/presse/pi_bronzezeitlich... But what a b
69.
by cheese_van 3y ago
>Also in the former East Germany, where FKK (naturism) was encouraged at the time Yes, in East Germany. There were political nuances to that. FKK very much proclaimed "we are free here in East Germany," much like the no speed
70.
by cheese_van 3y ago
During my freshman year in North Chicago we swam nude. That was 1970. There was no controversy among the students about it, and I don't recall any adult discussion about propriety. There was a very large concentration of military de
71.
by cheese_van 3y ago
> How do you address the concerns of users who feel that Reddit has become increasingly profit-driven and less focused on community engagement? Had he a modicum of awareness regarding the question, he would have also addressed the commun
72.
by cheese_van 3y ago
> British understatement gets me in trouble when communicating with americans. In the British to American dictionary, 'I would prefer not' becomes 'I wont'. It seems quite a few of the Americans you speak to haven&#x2
73.
by cheese_van 3y ago
I've worked with Peter. Ages ago, archeologists would join their country's diplomatic service for the chance to be paid to travel and live in far corners and dig. Peter joined the Foreign Service to bird, for much the same reason
74.
by cheese_van 3y ago
Nor was I able to log in with Firefox w/linux. I suppose I could have used Chrome but the failure gave me an excuse just to end my subscription. I honestly didn't view HBO that much so I guess I'm up a few bucks. But it do
75.
by cheese_van 3y ago
Another problem, one that I experienced as I was new and unschooled: It was a long run to the antenna and I left too much slack before the transmission equipment. I just bunched the slack into a jumble and then hooked it up. Of course th
76.
by cheese_van 3y ago
Absent a clear explanation of how the presumed alternate currencies can be used without convertibility, the article seems like a shallow polemic with no useful argument beyond, "The US wouldn't like that."
77.
by cheese_van 3y ago
It is complicated. I was working in a state psychiatric ward during university, and the ward psychiatrist had noted in the patient's chart that after meeting the patient's mother, he suspected a genetic etiology of the patient&#x
78.
by cheese_van 3y ago
Curiously, it's not even a requirement to join the US State Department's Foreign Service to conduct diplomacy. Just pass the test. Although certain support positions within the Foreign Service do require a degree, "core&quot
79.
by cheese_van 3y ago
Playing up the "huge pile of money" angle may be wholly fictional. Or not. A much more responsible description is that a trade is very likely to provide independence and a fairly stable work-life, albeit hardworking. Perhaps an
80.
by cheese_van 3y ago
My guess would be that using Roman numerals was an attempt to "elevate" the product beyond its working class entertainment origins. Talkies were shown in venues where less sophisticated people frequented and the industry needed to
81.
by cheese_van 4y ago
5-7 things in a list might be daunting. I've found that setting the bar much lower is a great help. I worked in an office that responded to world events. So the inbox just grew. My working response was to, before setting out for wo
82.
by cheese_van 4y ago
Not much information here sadly, just an abstract that barely whets the appetite. That's ok, I suppose, but the cited paper's link, Optimal Transport Reconstruction of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, requires a subscription to read
83.
by cheese_van 4y ago
>More likely he didn't trust democracy Democracy during Junger's time was not a sure thing. For many, compared to what the Soviets were espousing, it seemed ideologically inferior and its flaws, at the time, were painful. Unt
84.
by cheese_van 4y ago
The discoveries come from inferring,and calculating, from those laws, what is possible. What do those laws really mean? If the law is true, then it follows that this other thing must be also be true because the law expressly says it is tr
85.
by cheese_van 4y ago
Remember though, these spices were not carried by, say one trader, from origin to destination. The trade occurred along known routes that were relatively fixed, so trading communities grew. It was there that you got the goods - not at the
86.
by cheese_van 4y ago
Poor trust in Germany of American intent has been ongoing for some time. The US has done much to repair it, although the quiet diplomacy has been more effective than the public diplomacy. The preservation of this trust, despite what consp
87.
by cheese_van 4y ago
Thanks for this recommendation. Its interest reminds me that HN is one of the better sites to browse, and the occasional, seemingly off-topic (non-tech) discussions can be pleasurable. I'm perversely delighted that determined criminal
88.
by cheese_van 4y ago
Yes, I experienced this. About every year and a half, my company instructed each office to layoff a certain number. Low performers were targeted. If an office didn't have low performers, good performers were let go, and only the ver
89.
by cheese_van 4y ago
Around 1993. An overseas government office, high ranking guy,light-years beyond my rank, brilliant in his political field, complains he's lost data, AGAIN, furiously summons me to make amends about the deplorable system of which I am
90.
by cheese_van 4y ago
Happened to me. The key for one car worked on another car of the same model. Nice elderly lady at work asks us to take out her car at lunch to diagnose a noise. We found her '73 Buick Skylark in the multi-story car-park and went to l

More ›