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by oliyoung 5y ago
> sinks a movie franchise out of spite? it's not spite. She didn't "sink" it because she was spiteful, she wanted to say something about the films and her work and chose to deconstruct the act of making a sequel to a
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by oliyoung 5y ago
Plenty of people. Part of the act of creation can be it's destruction https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/14/banksy-...
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by oliyoung 5y ago
> they'd have paid exactly what they want to. sorry, yeah I agree, this is a better way of saying that
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by oliyoung 5y ago
You might be right, "forced" might be the wrong word. WB's been in pre-production on a new Matrix for years now, and maybe she saw the opportunity to use it.
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by oliyoung 5y ago
tldr, Resurrections is to Matrix what Last Jedi was to Star Wars. You're either in or you're out on it. ---- I think people have fallen into two camps, and it depends how you saw the first film. I loved Matrix, not for the wire-fu
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by oliyoung 5y ago
> I honestly cannot tell if Lana Wachowski hates the Matrix or not. The movies and the production of them? Yes. The concept and story? No. > Did she honestly ruin it on purpose? Yes. I think she did.
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by oliyoung 5y ago
You know that game where you put a table-tennis ball under plastic cups and slide them around and you have to guess where the ball ends up? That.
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by oliyoung 5y ago
> This movie had to be a troll. Not so much a "troll", but there's a scene in the first act that literally lays out the entire premise of the production and the creator's feelings about feeling forced to do it. There
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by oliyoung 5y ago
> How much did HBO pay for the streaming rights? They wouldn't -have paid- anything, HBO is owned by Warner too edit: ...they wouldn't have to have paid anything..
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by oliyoung 5y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, he made the "mistake" of MIT licensing his work.
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by oliyoung 5y ago
Not a recruiter, but recruiting. _Why_ you're leaving your last position is a really good indicator of a lot of things * Are you leaving for money? if so, will you leave us for more money? * Are you leaving because you don't feel
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by oliyoung 5y ago
its also surprisingly easy, much easier than you'd expect
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by oliyoung 5y ago
> My first impression was that it _didn't_ work because the process closed in my terminal so quickly. We switched to an esbuild/vite/rollup stack mid year and had the same experience, it's black magic compared to web
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by oliyoung 5y ago
There's payment gateways before Stripe and there are payment gateways since. Huge congrats, to say you've had an impact is an understatement.
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by oliyoung 5y ago
"Hey, thanks for reaching out, I'm not interested in new opportunities right now" There. Copy. Paste. Done
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by oliyoung 5y ago
> I live in a city, and Apple/Google Pay definitely does not work anywhere near everywhere (even after more businesses went contactless due to COVID). I wouldn't think of leaving home without physical credit cards. This isn&#x2
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by oliyoung 5y ago
Work for an Australian company, have those words in our core values. It's normal.
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by oliyoung 5y ago
> It's unclear (and to be determined) if covid fits that description 700,000 people have died in the United States 18 months, 4.5 million world wide. Like, what else needs to happen for this pandemic to meet that description?
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by oliyoung 5y ago
2023? Australia's might be finished by then
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by oliyoung 5y ago
you're right, on every point
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by oliyoung 5y ago
Basecamp gave it a shake
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by oliyoung 5y ago
depends on your definition of "better"
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by oliyoung 5y ago
It's not about the code (most juniors code better than me) but become senior is thinking _beyond_ code, thinking about mentoring and supporting co-workers, how your work impacts the business' greater goals and strategies, how you
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by oliyoung 5y ago
1993? but honestly, we've ALWAYS had these issues, you should've been there when we had to support IE on Mac
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by oliyoung 5y ago
" track down where I left it in my house, using some kind of local wireless transmission" it does exactly that https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/ipha779f0c10/io...
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by oliyoung 6y ago
I hope, and can see, Epic just making this free (it's pretty cheap now, but it'd make sense to encourage more model development). Which is hugely exciting because this is phenomenal tech and in the hands of potentially everyone, c
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by oliyoung 6y ago
Agreed, and for further reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by oliyoung 6y ago
5x5 was, and still is, the most important exercise plan I've ever done. Both of them (SS & 5x5) are simple, clear and effective. https://outlift.com/starting-strength-vs-stronglifts-5x5/
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by oliyoung 6y ago
It's hard to explain just how alien "I prefer not having my health insurance tied to one source of income" sounds to the rest of the world, the idea that those two things are co-dependent is wild and scary. It's an insur
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by oliyoung 6y ago
his influence on a whole generation of developers was priceless

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