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by itisit 21d ago
Fine for bread, but I don't think most customers are interested in the artisanal aspects of business operations.
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by itisit 1mo ago
Oracular! Prolix! Sesquipedalian!
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by itisit 2mo ago
> I'm not really sure that contemporary CGI will really age as well. Because today the film is subordinate to the CGI. In the early days, as is apparent in this oral history, CGI usage was deliberate and each shot received unusual s
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by itisit 4mo ago
Tolerance is all the author is entitled to and the rest is on them to figure out. Expecting compatibility is ignorant.
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by itisit 6mo ago
Sneakers are fashion, and Allbirds underestimated how quickly trends shift. They made other mistakes, but none more fatal than selling a product that still looks like 2016.
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by itisit 6mo ago
> usb-c is too unstable Would you share more? I've never had an issue with a USB-C cable. Helps to buy well constructed ones with legit specs.
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by itisit 6mo ago
LaserDiscs are not quite a digital medium. The video is an FM analog signal (composite). Digital PCM audio was introduced about half a decade into the format's life.
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by itisit 7mo ago
> How were they able to achieve such perfect recreation from monkey Because the macaque study didn't decode faces from fMRI. They first used fMRI to locate the face patches, then used tungsten microelectrodes for single-unit electro
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by itisit 7mo ago
> That turns out to be a profitable business though. He does not disappoint. Also, not buying the watch industry parable.
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by itisit 7mo ago
Digital video editing was slow to gain adoption, but digital video mastering (i.e. video transfers) was pretty much standard for home video by the early 90s. Telecine setups (even analog) had smart controls, nothing I'd call 'barb
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by itisit 7mo ago
Granted it's often easy to tell on your own, but when I'm uncertain I use GPTZero's Chrome extension for this. Eventually I'll stop doing that and assume most of what I read outside of select trusted forums is genAI.
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Anthropic Is Close to Releasing Claude Sonnet 5, per Rumors(macobserver.com)
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by itisit 8mo ago
And in all manner of regulated industries. People simply cannot resist throwing anything and everything at the magic text machine. A company can control its IT assets, but if the content is displayable on a screen, rest assured users will j
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by itisit 8mo ago
> Was there ever good coffee in NYC? Before all the third-wave shops came along? D'Amico, Sahadi's, Porto Rico, Zabar's, Gillies, and that's about it. You'd have to have been a coffee buff to seek those places ou
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by itisit 8mo ago
Like the MegaProcessor? [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNa9bQRPMB8
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by itisit 8mo ago
And perhaps peak atompunk too when used as RAM. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
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by itisit 8mo ago
You’re doing it again. You’re taking a descriptive proxy he used and treating it as dispositive evidence of motive, instead of engaging the underlying claim about what happens when a historically dominant, locally rooted culture ceases to b
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by itisit 8mo ago
DHH’s argument was about rapid demographic change and loss of a majority culture, grounded (rightly or wrongly) in concerns about social cohesion. An argument you can disagree with, but not reduce to racial preference without distortion.
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by itisit 1y ago
Had Redford passed some 30 years ago, your remarks would have been true. By the early 2000s, Sundance became nothing more than a marketplace for a formulaic film type (quirky dramedies with offbeat characters) that big studios (a.k.a. Holly
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by itisit 1y ago
This is an ad, and what it sidesteps is that human training/understanding requires much more than feeding concepts and texts into a black box.
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by itisit 1y ago
Do any SOC2 Type II auditors truly audit the businesses they’re making an attestation for? Like do they go onsite, physically and virtually, to probe and determine what’s true? Typically the client of an assessor provides compliance evidenc
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by itisit 1y ago
> Were studios really that reckless with their properties? The first two seasons of Monty Python’s Flying Circus were almost erased because the BBC wanted to reuse the broadcast tapes. [0] [0] https://www.cracked.com/arti
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by itisit 2y ago
The money shot! I did not realize sewer cleaning required so much onsite IT. Are those rack units running computational fluid dynamics models to figure out how to unclog elaborate networks of pipes?
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by itisit 2y ago
I guess there aren’t any cats in the Ak Saray.
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by itisit 2y ago
Perhaps you should.
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by itisit 2y ago
Funny you say that because flipping through a few videos on the site just now, I came across one of a young child (say 2yo) playing nude in the pool. I reported it, of course.
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by itisit 2y ago
Yes, the recency illusion. Often exacerbated by those thinking prior generations were stupid for not knowing things they couldn’t rightly have known.
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by itisit 2y ago
And now sinking again. [0] [0] https://archinect.com/news/article/150417670/san-francisco-s...
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by itisit 2y ago
I strongly encourage you to pick up a copy of the book [0] this selection is from. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Fe... !
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by itisit 2y ago
Not to gloss over his accomplishments, but does anyone know how his mononym stuck? It’s one thing for an entertainer who’s marketed as such, but quite another for an academic.

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