sandy_coyote

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by sandy_coyote 1y ago
This is credible simply because this is how advertising works. Product placement, free products for celebs, modern life awash in images that make us desire things.
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by sandy_coyote 2y ago
I need to try out this line on my manager in stand-up later today.
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by sandy_coyote 2y ago
Reminds me of the movie In the Heat of the Night (1967). A black cop from Philadelphia winds up accused of murder in a small Mississippi town and tries to clear his name and catch the real killer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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by sandy_coyote 2y ago
Geof Darrow is one of my fav Moebius-influenced artists. Among his own projects, he created concept art for The Matrix. Example here, down a bit: https://www.vulture.com/2015/05/geof-darrow-shaolin-cowboy-z...
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by sandy_coyote 2y ago
The animation in the commercial reminds me of Reboot, the 90s cgi kids cartoon. I found the animation too uncanny to stomach.
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by sandy_coyote 2y ago
I read this book as a teen too! I picked it up at a garage sale after seeing the cool cover. I didn't expect it to be so readable. This is some classic Jack London-style adventure writing.
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by sandy_coyote 2y ago
Yes, it's garnered a ton of attention on the shadow fleet carting oil around. It's counterproductive for Russia to fund this kind of guerilla vandalism.
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by sandy_coyote 2y ago
But gestures at the approaching tsunami of AI-generated video content
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by sandy_coyote 2y ago
What's the reference here? I thought Pink Floyd at first.
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by sandy_coyote 2y ago
Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky - I left them all after deciding that doom scrolling through any infinite app makes me feel like I'm stewing in someone else's kettle of advertainment slop. I read HN only because the content doesn'
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by sandy_coyote 2y ago
I caught up with some science fiction this year. The Murderbot diaries books by Martha Wells - 6/10. Mixed on these. They're fun to read. The setting is cool and the worldbuilding is shallow but effective (i.e., don't read it
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by sandy_coyote 2y ago
This was wholesome. I thought it might feel transactional, but it doesn't. Thanks for posting it.
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by sandy_coyote 4y ago
Yes BUT it needs tuning. Splunk is complicated and takes continuous maintenance to optimize speed. I work as a Splunk integrator and here's what I often see: 1. Customer installs Splunk with a qualified Splunk or third-party architect
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by sandy_coyote 4y ago
This is a great example of how developer-centric the conversations are on this site. I get it -- hacker news, not woodworker news -- but next time I get frustrated with how it seems like the hacker news key to solve humanistic problems is t