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by riffraff 2mo ago
I literally watched this a couple days ago. James Earl Grey (Jack Ryan"s boss in the movie) is gone too.
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by riffraff 2mo ago
I love that movie and I loved Tim Curry in it. If you see it next to the Rocky Horror Picture Show (edit: and as pennywise in IT!) it really displays how wide the interpreting skill of the actor were.
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by riffraff 2mo ago
FYI, threads does not have fediverse interop for European users. As in, if you use threads and are in Europe, you have no option to enable mastodon to read threads replies.
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by riffraff 2mo ago
> This gives time to prepare and implement (unlike EU border controls mess...) The Entry/Exit System was supposed to start in 2024[0], it was delayed to 2025, then it was delayed to 2026. They also changed from a full turn on to an
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by riffraff 2mo ago
I was going to say that it seems the equivalent of the "Belgium does not exist" meme (ante litteram) from a few decades ago.
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by riffraff 2mo ago
Dan Brown didn't copy Eco, he lifted most of the stuff from The Templar Revelation[0] (and he explicitly cites that). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Templar_Revelation
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by riffraff 2mo ago
my mis-intepretation is as good as yours, but IIRC their specific conspiracy wasn't real to begin with, but it _becomes_ real. That was the genius bit of the book, IMVHO.
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by riffraff 2mo ago
I think TFA does not make this very clear, but it really depends on what "tourist site" is. In the past nobody went to London to take a picture of a phone booth, but you did take a picture of a phone booth anyway. You'd go to
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by riffraff 2mo ago
I remember the '80s and people showing you projector slides of their vacations, or picture albums. In the 00s, I recall a friend who made videos of his vacations to make this faster and more bearable :) Social media is problematic but
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by riffraff 2mo ago
Less than I expected? I was in Japan with my family last year and I deeply enjoyed taking pictures of people queued up to take "that perfect instagramnable picture": a person alone in the torii gate, with a hundred people in a lin
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by riffraff 2mo ago
Initially there were no private repos for free users at all, it was a selling point for bitbucket that they offered that.
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Seoul to cover all sidewalks with shade by 2028 to combat heat waves(en.yna.co.kr)
7 points by riffraff 2mo ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 2mo ago
This will not be known by most people, the intent is to change what an LLM will answer when you ask certain questions. A friend of mine noted the other day that chatgot will answer "yes" to the question of whether Israel is commit
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by riffraff 2mo ago
Keep them alive, love them, and don't stress too much. It's very hard to do better than that, but that is plenty.
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by riffraff 2mo ago
I think it's described as a "greenish purple" in some of the books.
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by riffraff 2mo ago
Ultraviolet is prnamed that because of the Latin meaning of ultra as "beyond", as it's "beyond violet" in the spectrum, same as infrared is "below red". This would be "sideways green" perhaps :)
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by riffraff 2mo ago
Many times I have asked my Hungarian wife whether a sound is "a" or "a with an accent" (A vs Á), but they are different letters in Hungarian, not just variations of one as they are in Italian. We made a mess with "a
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by riffraff 2mo ago
Ah, I regularly used to read cleaning product labels on the toilet, hello fellow human!
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by riffraff 2mo ago
Wonderful, and even misses a lot of things! Glass windows that let light in but not cold and rain. Smokeless cooking. Mattresses that don't need to be fluffed up. We're accustomed to so, so many things. Toilets!
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by riffraff 2mo ago
I would say "never actually finished", but I think this is quite true.
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by riffraff 2mo ago
I am a Strange Loop is basically GEB but written properly instead of being a random collation of ideas. Unrusprisingly, since many years went by. But I still love the quirkiness of GEB (Also, he has other books between the two, I deeply enj
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by riffraff 2mo ago
I had the same thought. "We need to control the model to protect you from evil robots, except it's fine if the evil robots are not competing with our business" is hilariously hypocritical.
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by riffraff 2mo ago
I think they care about the reasoning traces and such being used for training, not the effectively final output.
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by riffraff 2mo ago
The book "not the end of the world" by Hanna Ritchie makes a neat point that humans have never lived in what we would call a sustainable way, but it's possible for this generation to be the first one that does.
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by riffraff 2mo ago
> Pre-Trump, anti-vaxxers were notorious left-wing granola types so, exactly RFK's type :)
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by riffraff 2mo ago
How many door to door salesman do you encounter? Where do you live, if you can share? I haven't seen one in decades, and even then it was usually some pamphlets or books to support a cause or the other. On the phone (Italy), OTOH, I us
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by riffraff 2mo ago
It is my hope that increased connectivity and options to study, work, and interact with other people from anywhere will partially revert this trend, but honestly, it seems inevitable. Part of my family hails from a small Mountain Village wh
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by riffraff 2mo ago
> A true social protocol should work like email. Any machine on the network should be able to talk it to any other machine You may find littlefedi interesting https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@stefano/blog/20
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Harry Potter almost derailed a major UK interconnector project(rechargenews.com)
3 points by riffraff 2mo ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 2mo ago
Brexit came out of a many years campaign to steer up hate against the EU. Boris Johnson famously said that was his job as a journalist. And of course, out of the middle class crisis in the 21st century. You have the same discontent outside

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