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They put their first satellite in orbit in 2012 confirmed by NORAD. This is not the first launch of a satellite, only a "spy satellite."

Honestly, feels like a concerted media effort to stoke panic about North Korea. Japan and South Korea acted like they didn't know was happening publicly (alarms etc) despite being informed of the launch publicly days before as reported in the media.

Diners refers to people who dine not the low end restaurants.

GPT4 absolutely does the same thing if you ask it to. Tell it to suggest approaches and discuss pros and cons and future pitfalls and it does, which makes sense because it is in part stack overflow.

No serious professional wants to use FCP in the first place.

This is how color workflows work in film and tv. I imagine the issue is his television (despite him blaming the stream and his follow-up Netflix anecdote). Netflix has delivery specs that specifically outline these issues and require you to go through a workflow that prevents them (though people make mistakes and QC misses things).

There's a whole German word for that color and noise you see: Eigengrau.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau

I'm a colorist working with Resolve professionaly on large projects for over a decade.

The pro editing world working on six, seven, and eight figure projects (I don't do studio blockbusters) is currently 75% premiere, 19% avid, 5% FCP hold outs (usually stubborn Oscar winning editors), and <1% Resolve. I've worked with one single editor cutting in Resolve in the past 18 months (approximately 200 projects ranging from global ad campaigns, to narrative tv and film, to major music videos).

The amateur and digital only world (YouTube) are the ones switching primarily because Resolve is cheap or free (depending on your needs). No one wants to subscribe to Adobe, Premiere crashes too much, Avid is too confusing for this audience (who don't need the professional workplace features), and the new FCP is a joke. Vegas was popular on the ultra low end for a while but it's just lacking too many features.

No one really cares about Resolve running Linux outside of ultra high end color suites and tech guys dabbling in video.

There are 0 hard numbers on profit margins and cost, just taking PR or best guesses at face value.

Most people tend to over estimate how talented the average non professional writer is and dramatically under estimate how good pro writers are. Writing is very hard. The issue is not coming up with ideas either, so don't think gptX streamlining the hard work (actual writing) will make much of a difference either.

Same is true for acting, photography, directing, etc.

I asked Bard for local restaurants and it listed ten. Two had the wrong type of food (saying it was Mexican instead of Italian for example), two were closed and had been so for years, and two were entirely made up. Only four were completely correct.

I asked it for information about a show and it summarized it correctly but then hallucinated the hosts as two entirely made up people with fake careers. It even linked websites to the show with the correct information but made up this false info.

It's even worse than Google search which is already middling.

In my experience it's usually more expensive and slower to do it that way.

Americans on average eat 400-700 more calories per day than in the 1970's. That explains it pretty well.

This is dramatically under selling the sophistication of the balloon. Zoom into the payload from the u2 shot and you'll see this is more akin to a floating radio tower than a simple commodity tv tuner turned sdr. The entire craft and payload are likely over a million dollars and as mentioned, the additional costs for the US destroying it are likely close to 0 if used en lieu of already mandatory training flight hours.

FCC explicitly bans "broadcasting" for amateur ham radio. Transmissions are intended to be direct conversations except for when calling for contact and some carve outs (emergencies, etc). Scheduled nets are the closest allowable thing.

Take it up with the FAA who explicitly allow it and believe to be safe.

Banking apps (not all but many), android auto, tap to pay. Those are three huge sacrifices for most people.

The big sell on bigscreen is you can watch the videos with friends (and their avatars) in the theater. It's a social experience first and a video player second.

I'm a colorist. It's dramatically cheaper to emulate than to capture on film. Not even close except for massive productions (tens of millions) where camera dept is a small line item.

Which is almost assuredly FAR more effective.

All of that is just the current photography fad. Sinna Nisseri is the poster boy of the look at the moment though he gets better performances out of his subjects.

A regular hot air balloon can cost 200-400k and this is substantially larger with more lift capability and had presumably expensive payload and propulsion. Worldview spent millions of dollars on a substantially smaller balloon that granted is capable of a few miles higher flight with less payload.

The balloon diameter was more like 40-60 meters.

The Mediterranean loves their huge population of stray dogs and cats.

The standard is 1g per kg but American lifters got confused and repeat it ad nauseum online until it became heterodox.

Fantastic game and extremely usable UI even on mobile. My biggest groupchat (which admittedly has a lot of photographers) has been playing all morning. 4196 is the score to beat!

They're just sliding smoothly for me unless I look at it without any focus as a disinterested viewer. I work on fixing moving pixels all day though so maybe I'm not an average subject.

It is in fact possible to communicate outside of email or other digitally recorded mediums.

Those upscalers never looks remotely correct to the trained eye beyond minor scaling increases, even with state of the art (I work in post production).

You haven't been to La Guardia recently. It's by far the nicest airport in the tristate and one of the better ones in the country after the remodel. JFK is the one new yorkers avoid now (or EWR if you don't live in Manhattan).

Maybe they just didn't want to deal with the poor QC and exaggerated range figures and needed another excuse to push them over the edge.