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by xsmasher 4y ago
DiCaprio managed to make the jump despite always looking young for his age; Holland could get there. He won't look young forever. Making the jump from "teen hearthrob" is hard; Depp made it but Richard Grieco and the whole ca
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You can't use the terms interchangeably. An "Executive producer" credit may be applied to lots of people who are not the showrunner. >This credit is given to the showrunner, or the head writer, and is sometimes also given
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It's not "underdeveloped" to have emotions, or to be sad when someone you relate to dies. I used to think it was dumb that people cried when John Lennon Died; then when Elliott Smith died I "got it." I think it&#x27
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by xsmasher 4y ago
From the lawsuit: > for many years, consumers have reported tens of millions of dollars annually in fraud-induced money transfers processed by Walmart employees. [...] Walmart is well aware that telemarketing and other mass marketing fra
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You'd be surprised how targeted these scams can be. A friend's mother got an email from her synagogue, with the rabbi's name and everything, asking her to buy some gift cards to surprise some other (named) officials.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Someone called the daughter (a Walmart employee) on the phone and convinced her they were an "auditor" for Walmart. They convinced the daughter to take cash (from the register? from the safe?) to another store and almost convinced
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I love it when an actor has to play at being a bad actor. It really highlights their craft. Harrison Ford is a great actor, Deckard is not. It's Deckard that is failing to be convincing in that scene, not Ford.
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Chroma keying was nontrivial at the time. Once you are processing the shot it is now an "effects shot" and you've got a budget to stick to. Interestingly enough, the screens in the film 2001 were all flat - because they were
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> Corporate morality rarely extends beyond its value as PR. Once the financial cost of doing the right thing exceeds the PR value, it's probable that the financial considerations will prevail. Money interprets ethics as damage and r
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I enjoy a lot of literature. I've just fallen out of love with Ulysses; The more I understood the more I felt the author was just trying to show off. Clearly it's not worthless or we wouldn't be talking about it a hundred yea
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I wouldn't feel bad. I listened to the audiobook five times - a yearly pilgrimage to try and "get it." I loved the language and the cleverness from the start; and I understood more of the story each time. BUT I no longer feel
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No, it's a reference to "dependency hell" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell Large parts of the book don't make sense if you don't have the right cultural information "instal
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Fans of J.S.G. Boggs used to try to collect both hand-drawn bills he made AND the item he bought with the bill. I see an opportunity here to collect both the NFT and the egg of the chicken in the picture.
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> “And don't succumb too much to the spell of these cases. I have seen many other fragments of the cross, in other churches. If all were genuine, our Lord's torment could not have been on a couple of planks nailed together, but
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Don't click the blue arrow (I know the site directions say you should.) Load the site, then use your arrow keys and space bar. Worked for me in Chrome and Safari.
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Imageoptim is my go-to tool for crushing PNGs. It strips metadata and then tries multiple methods in combination to get the smallest possible file. If I am OK with reduced quality then I will run PNGyu first to reduce it from 32 bits per pi
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15% on the "gain" - on the difference between the price you paid and the price when you sold. What a hassle to track.
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Anyone have a suggestion for a JS/TS based framework where you manipulate the DOM by ID instead of generating HTML? I work on a small custom site that has a particular workflow - a HTML/CSS guru creates the very-custom pages (no t
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by xsmasher 4y ago
Yes - redefining "fish" is similar to "#DEFINE ONE = 0.99" It's a landmine for future developers who want to parachute in, understand what is happening, make a fix, and jetpack out again.
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I know how numbers work in JS but not python or Rust. It was interesting to me.
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It is still incredibly popular judging by the amount of "cigarillo" packaging littering in my neighborhood; and based on this joke from "Atlanta" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNXN7jbY7Qk
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> Those icons were actually called Resin Identification Code or RIC, which actually have nothing to do with recycling "have nothing to do with recycling" is too strong a statement; knowing what type of plastic it is helps with
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>This is way beyond what a high schooler needs for getting started in life. Yes, but high school is your last chance to get it into everyone's heads.
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Tax brackets / progressive taxation in general. The "don't take a raise, you'll actually make less" factoid is way too common.
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If open-sourcing the algo allows bots to game the system then it has value to the bot wranglers; if the feed becomes full of garbage that gradually destroys Twitter's value.
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That's Tesla trying to absolve themselves of any blame. It has nothing to do with getting the Tesla owner's insurance to pay. Their insurance says "driver wasn't driving, not covered." Meaning the Tesla owner is sti
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by xsmasher 5y ago
From one of the linked papers, it does both - generate from scratch (zero-shot), and edit existing template images. > While our model can render a wide variety of text prompts zero-shot, it can can have difficulty producing realistic im
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From that c64 article yesterday - > The cost of developing the Commodore 64: No one knows. “I had no formal budget accountability,” said Winterble, “other than Jack [Tramiel] watching me. Jack said that budgets were a license to steal.”
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What kind of items? Redbubble lets you upload designs for t-shirts, phone cases, etc, and make them available in their web storefront. You only get a small slice of the sale price, but it's very easy to get your designs "out into
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Beacuse you can expose functionality to non-programmers and let them go HAM with the components you have created. I'm constantly amazed at what artists and animators and producers can do themselves if given half the chance. Plenty of p

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