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gwill··on After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer
I actually liked it better than Fury Road. I think I didn't reflect enough during Fury Road to try and understand the world. I dismissed it as kinda silly and figured i should just suspend disbelief, but Furiosa does a bit more handholding and gives all the background and depth Fury Road hints toward. Rewatching Fury Road after Furiosa helped me appreciate it more.

Watching at home is such a diminished experience compared to a theater.

gwill··on Study finds that 52% of ChatGPT answers to programming questions are wrong
something could be flawed but still arguably correct. the headline is fine. i wouldn't buy a calculator or read documentation that is 48% correct.
gwill··on Directed energy weapon replaces million-dollar missiles at 13 cents a shot
it's the headline of the article we're discussing
gwill··on Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)
i'm curious how the OM-1 MK2 gets around this to achieve 8.5 stops.

https://explore.omsystem.com/us/en/om-1-mark-ii

gwill··on Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios
They already broke that promise back in january with 1,900 layoffs

https://www.polygon.com/24065269/ftc-microsoft-activision-de...

gwill··on Every map of China is wrong
i use reader mode in firefox/safari/orion.
gwill··on Bing climbs to 13% of search engine market share in the US
google is the result of ruthless growth. i want someone focused on a quality product and experience for users.
gwill··on US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
they charge debit, so it's basically an atm withdrawal at point of sale.
gwill··on When do we stop finding new music?
i think defining what "new" means would help clarity this. perhaps what you said is true with new mainstream music from large labels, but none of that applies to "new" music that i listen to, at least that i'm aware of.
gwill··on When do we stop finding new music?
i feel like a majority of people don't seek out "new" music, so i see how you apply that to the music industry as a marketing concept. with whatever app, if you get people listening to more new stuff, you can get them engaged longer etc.

however, i've sought new music since i was young. its something i share with my father who would purposely grab new records or cassette based on trivial things (title, art, price..) and then listen to the album several times. i love exploring different cultures and music is a great reflection of that. at the same time, i often go back to the old and well worn music i grew up with, and even that my parents or their parents grew up with. i think there's a lot of beauty out there and it's a shame to shun something new because you feel it falls within an industries agenda.

gwill··on Cindy Lee might be the future of music
I'm in my early thirties and grew up in the midwest, so i feel that plays a bit into my music tastes but Petey has been my favorite artist lately. both of his albums are fantastic front to back, but i'd start with USA.
gwill··on Scale of the Universe
>If a question cannot be answered, there's no point in asking it I think.

how can you prove a question cannot be answered?

gwill··on Tesla releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results
probably in response to the content of the article.
gwill··on Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves mental illness
unless they're already at a healthy weight or the diet is crap.
gwill··on Self-driving semi-trucks are coming to America's highways
what do you mean by "biggest career"?
gwill··on Nobody Wants to Buy the Future: Why Science Fiction Literature Is Vanishing
I'm an odd one and didn't enjoy Project Hail Mary. If you're like me I'd recommend Blindsight by Peter Watts
gwill··on Nobody Wants to Buy the Future: Why Science Fiction Literature Is Vanishing
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkazgy/peru-aliens-illegal-m...
gwill··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
the bullet points at the top of the article say they asked for 40-50 years and that his defense said 6.5 years.
gwill··on Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)
i won't have time to read this until later, but here's a post by him on it: https://scottaaronson.blog/?cat=33
gwill··on List of countries that prohibit camouflage clothing
funnily enough, every person i saw getting stopped by police and having their bag checked was wearing camo. it isn't illegal by any means but at least anecdotally it seems like police will profile you. have you noticed that too?
gwill··on Weather Planning for Eclipse Day
maybe they have more of a desire now than they did in the past, or maybe they are finally in a place in life where they're able to.
gwill··on If gravity isn't a force, then why does it "need" a boson?
i hope you've found cloudynights.com for any telescope related discussions.
gwill··on Waffle House's Magic Marker System
also the medium on which the message is "written" is the plate that the order will be served on and elements that accompany the order. super efficient.
gwill··on Uber and Lyft leave Minneapolis over $15 minimum wage
in the US it's normal to refer to uber/lyft as ride share apps. with ride share apps, the driver supplies their own, personal, vehicle.

taxi services in the US have yet to roll out any type of for hailing rides afaik and have a fleet of vehicles with their own livery.

gwill··on Lyft, Uber to leave Minneapolis after city council forces higher driver pay
I haven't heard of any of them.
gwill··on Apple Sports
I misunderstood you, sorry. I thought you meant that the ad copy was prominent in mentioning betting odds. I haven't ran the app, so I can't speak to that.
gwill··on Apple Sports
I didn't find it prominent and had to read pretty far down to find out that it's only betting odds being displayed. I find betting odds useful to know expectations going into a game. You can turn the betting odds off as well.
gwill··on Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons – Tim Sweeney
i think the biggest is you can run them offline. kind of the whole point of having a service worker.
gwill··on How to keep engineers out of meeting hell
i'll add that there you can avoid making people mad at you by communicating why you’re cancelling. you don't need to be mean, just explain that your contribution wont be valuable and the task your working on has higher priority etc.
gwill··on PWAs wont replace native iOS apps
fyi if you pull down in the middle of any home screen a global search shows up. i just keep one screen of my most used apps then search for all the others
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