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by masswerk 3y ago
True Lies is a 1994 release. On what assumptions do you base the idea that the theatrical release cut has been already lost and that there is only "raw film plate footage, without any of the post production work"? True Lies was pr
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by masswerk 3y ago
The real and dramatic issue with True Lies is that the original high-resolution negative is available and that there's also a recent 4K-scan. In other words, why should I run your comment through GTP to summarize it and then expand it
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by masswerk 3y ago
> The anecdotal evidence of the single case of the wheel falling off I don't find particularly damning. Well, similar stories pretty much killed the British car industry.
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I noticed this, as well. AI-generated code? (It's hard to imagine a human setting up that code and forgetting about the very thing they are attempting to demonstrate.)
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Only, if you can provide a proof for the train not being a printer or that it cant be used as such. /s
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Given that ELIZA doesn't really work outside its supposed social setup, which makes some of its behavior acceptable and/or intelligible, it would be hard to believe that anyone would have been actually fooled by this. (Still, the
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by masswerk 3y ago
Regarding the closing statement: I think, a major, now mostly forgotten influence were CD-ROMs and an ambition to match those.
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by masswerk 3y ago
Maybe, the GIF contains a text comment and Grammarly not only accesses this, but also alters it (for whatever reason), thus overwriting the file in a way in memory that offsets in the GIF file or its in-memory representation are violated?
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by masswerk 3y ago
I can confirm that – as of writing – Safari/Mac supports this feature and that Firefox does not.
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by masswerk 3y ago
My problem here is, rather, what does "Sweep" even mean? (I'm not an an Outlook user.) I can imagine some housekeeping or clean-up task, but there must be a more precise concept and wording for this, for sure.
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by masswerk 3y ago
I can second this: While I do know that kind of box as depicted, I've never owned one and I have never used one. (However, plenty of rectangular cardboard boxes.) It's a very cultural thing and it really stresses you imagination,
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by masswerk 3y ago
I think, MS Office products provide superb usability for those who make and/or influence these decisions: those who are installing the software. The enduser isn't really in that loop.
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I guess, you cant substitute experience by technical description (quite obviously).
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Mind that CRTs had a viewing distance, much like the subject point in classic painting. E.g., at this distance, dithering tended to blend into a solid tint on common consumer CRTs. (The granularity of a shadow mask is generally smaller than
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by masswerk 3y ago
So, where are the common social (minimum) standards? Regarding Greece, mind that Greece debt was totally covered by German restitution obligations, which is also why banks (among them prominently German banks) rushed to propose credits to G
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Regarding the Maastricht Treaty: Mind that there had been also a plan for a social union as a flanking policy to appease the left, which has never become a reality. Maastricht had been perceived as a major intervention in favour of a more n
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by masswerk 3y ago
Came to say the same. Another example: While H. was (at least at times) wearing glasses, I don't think there's a single photo or film recording showing him with glasses.
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This is definitely the same recording. (However, I think there's also another snipped of H.'s private voice, recorded at the "Berghof".)
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Mind that planned economy was not a Marxist institution or invention, rather, it was a carbon copy of the economic system of the (conservative) Germany empire in WW1, which had shown some impressive production rates. (In fact, these have ne
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by masswerk 3y ago
Opposing origin narrative: The prewar, Christian "Paneuropa" movement. (There's even an obscure arguement over the matter, whether the 12 golden stars emblem on blue background is an emblem of Mother Mary or not.) Please do n
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by masswerk 3y ago
Hum, the governments of the member states convene in the European Council, actually. (The Commission is more like a civil servants organisation, second rank to this and in delicate balance with the European Parliament.)
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Archived: https://archive.ph/VKkYa
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For most of the time, the Commission seemed to be a reasonable (as in "voice of reason") counterweight to regional governments and their insanities. Having said that, the EU appears to be wearing off in weird directions, lately…
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In positive law, it's literally "nothing exists outside the constitution". So, if the constitution is an unknown quantity, there is no rule of law. Now, if there is a constitution, but it is not to be known, it may be a posit
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This generally applies to executive documents. I fail to see how the same could apply to a constitution. (E.g., one might imagine a secret section that nullifies the publicly visible constitution in its entirety and substitutes it by a secr
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What may be relevant in this context is the observation that models ultimately converge on their dataset: > trained on the same dataset for long enough, pretty much every model with enough weights and training time converges to the same
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I think, the believe in what is essentially people flocking around certain "condensation particles" of information as those opinions and biases being actually produced by those (mis)informations is much like the belief in spontane
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Speaking of feedback loops, I thought it may be appropriate to post this on HN… Alternative URL: https://archive.ph/7PGMJ
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Google, Are You Sure No Country in Africa Starts with a 'K'?(theatlantic.com)
2 points by masswerk 3y ago|4 comments
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Hum, BSD is still very much around.

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