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by hondo77 2y ago
Scale, I imagine. Orchards are big . How many robot waterers would you need when you have to spend time at each individual tree (or groups of trees) to water it/them? How far is it to the nearest refill? Put another way, drip is massi
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by hondo77 2y ago
So, if their margins are zero (or negative) then there's no profit so nothing to tax so no additional costs, right? Or am I missing something?
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by hondo77 2y ago
VFX supervisor, exec producer, and story by, but not director of Rogue One: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748528/reference/
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by hondo77 2y ago
Apparently Disney is playing the long game.
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by hondo77 2y ago
The film Waking Sleeping Beauty touches on this a bit.
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by hondo77 2y ago
Keeping a 1966 Ford Galaxy running on a cold day could be challenging. You could warm it up for a while but at some point you'd need to get moving and the pumping to get it moving would start. Then came stop lights--couldn't keep
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by hondo77 3y ago
It's not that they forgot how the multiplane worked. They understood it...in theory. However, they were quirky beasts and it was knowledge of those quirks that was lost. Like getting an old car to run--most people these days don't
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by hondo77 3y ago
Agreed. However, IMO Go's designers have good taste. That's hard to quantify but you know it when you see it and I see it in Go. Not so much in most other languages. Again, IMO.
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by hondo77 3y ago
Yeah, the best thing about hiring people "fresh out of college" (or whatever the equivalent is today) is that they see things with fresh eyes and want to change everything. The worst thing about hiring people fresh out of college
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by hondo77 3y ago
Yeah, I was at a company when we were on top of the world. For a few years we could do no wrong but even when we hit our peak, behind the scenes it was chaos (and we assumed "the other guys" actually knew what they were doing whil
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by hondo77 3y ago
> It's possible that dating apps could try to find similar solutions. Think like a Carfax for daters! Or a rating system, which is Airbnb's solution to this kind of information problem. Amazon Women on the Moon figured this o
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by hondo77 3y ago
What? That image looks just like Bigfoot!
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by hondo77 3y ago
> It’s like complaining your driving instructor’s car can’t be used to dig a trench without extensive modification. It's more the other way around: learning to drive on a trench digger. Then you find out that what you really need on
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by hondo77 3y ago
> It's probably mostly me It's not.
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by hondo77 3y ago
Then the deluxe versions. Then the 24-bit remasters. Then the flattened remixes (which are actually pretty nice). Etc.
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by hondo77 3y ago
Yep. Rock's dominant days were numbered when MTV decided to go all-in on rap at a time that rock was still outselling it. I thought it was a smart move because it was clear that that was the way things were heading, anyway. Grunge didn
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by hondo77 3y ago
> I remember when CD's came out and started to displace vinyl. We were told the high price of the CD would come down to the price of vinyl. Records were about $8 or so at the time, CD's double that. Yeah, no, that never happene
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Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during Covid(politico.eu)
28 points by hondo77 3y ago|28 comments
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by hondo77 3y ago
A couple of gems here: > The States felt like an old place, weirdly older than Europe, a place where, for all its breathless movement, time seemed to have stopped. There was too much of everything: rules, work, wealth, poverty, guns, art
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by hondo77 3y ago
Even though Rock Around the Clock was released two months before That's All Right was recorded?
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by hondo77 3y ago
[2018]
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by hondo77 3y ago
Why would they pay cash instead of getting big loans for multiple properties at a favorable rate?
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by hondo77 3y ago
> Many complex moves (especially dancing) are filmed in video first, then the movement is traced over by hand. If the "animator" is a hack.
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by hondo77 3y ago
It became one a few jobs ago. Company kept saying they were working on being able to support Macs. Regime change and I straight up asked the new CTO about getting a MacBook on my desk. He blabbed something about needing to make a business c
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by hondo77 3y ago
Oh, it's not a "tricky fair use case" at all. They'll end up having to pay to whoever licenses these things fees at some point for using dialogue from scripts (not a transformative use of copyrighted material at all ) a
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by hondo77 3y ago
I don't remember anyone claiming they understood it when they were "done".
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by hondo77 3y ago
> Is this legal? YES- it is totally legal for phones and devices to listen to you. That's because consumers usually give consent when accepting terms and conditions of software updates or app downloads. facepalm
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by hondo77 3y ago
> The US is planning on buying 100 of them instead of the 21 B-2... The Air Force wanted to buy over 100 B-2 but Congress said "no". We'll see what happens this round.
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by hondo77 3y ago
Sometimes life isn't efficient.
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by hondo77 3y ago
Yes, I have. That's why I switched over to a foldable shopping cart. Cutting-edge 20th century technology for today's modern problems.

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