ringwraithfish
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- Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. 1 year ago:
Having students bike the final mile sounds a lot like Theranos saying they could do all these amazing blood tests on their new, futuristic machine, only to find out that they're still doing most of them the way all labs did them
- Comment on Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO 1 year ago:
That's the core of the trial though, right? That through these deals and other things Google does to stay dominant, they stifle the market for competition. Ie Edge, Chrome, and every other Chromium-based browser pushes Google to the end users and FF pushes some unfamiliar search platform, then there's an uphill, arguably unfair, battle for it to gain enough market share to be sustainable.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I legitimately don't 😂
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I enjoyed Ahsoka mainly because it built on the more fringe themes from Clone Wars and Rebels (the witches) and continued the Rebels character's stories. I agree though that the choreography was pretty stilted. Maybe it's a side effect of filming in the infinity stages they've been doing most of these shows in... lower budget, or maybe less room for standard camera angles, who knows.
I had to Google Ad Astra, that's how little it had an impact on me, lol. I remember seeing it in theaters, and the moon cowboy chase, but that's about it.
- Comment on Don’t be a lurker, post and comment! 1 year ago:
Tendi has a main account that's all emojis an alt where she's a masterful troll and manages to end all online arguments with the other side crying in shame.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I tried to listen to the audiobooks after watching the show. You're definitely right, the show knocked it out of the park.
I like that they ended it, but hope we get to see the story pick back up somewhere in the future. So many plot lines to continue exploring.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I'm like that a lot too with anything in space, but Star Wars clicked for me when someone reminded me it was fantasy in space, not science fiction. Ahsoka really leaned hard into the fantasy and keeping that in mind helped me with suspension of disbelief.
In other words, Star Wars technology is so different and advanced, we might as well consider it magic and not question when it goes against our normal understanding of physics.
- Comment on Giving Generations an R rating 1 year ago:
My favorite recurring joke on Lower Decks is the Tamarian crewmember's response to random situations
- Comment on Archer | S14 Finale Event - Into The Cold | FX 1 year ago:
I watch/listen to Archer when I'm going to sleep. The coma seasons grew on me. A lot of great recurring jokes and references.
I will say this last season was absolutely the best of the post coma seasons. I don't know if Adam Reed was more engaged since it was the last season (he had stepped back after the coma seasons) or if they just took more time to refine the episodes and jokes, but it just felt like everything clicked. Kind of made me sad it was the last season, but great that we're getting a special finale!
- Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible 1 year ago:
Twitter's definition of state-affiliated:
How state-affiliated media accounts are defined
State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their prominent staff may be labeled. We will also add labels to posts that share links to state-affiliated media websites.
Conspiracy theories aside, AFAIK there's no evidence that any level of the US government exercises control over NPR.
- Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible 1 year ago:
How is it state affiliated?
- Comment on If Only 1 year ago:
It used to be good. They went downhill at some point in the last 5-10 years. Their bread sticks always taste like store bought now and they got rid of my favorite meal (the steak gorgonzola Alfredo).
- Comment on Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately 1 year ago:
Ackshually!
- Comment on Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately 1 year ago:
Pisses me off that CEOs never get fired for their bullshit and get to "retire" or "resign" like they didn't just make the most boneheaded decision that severely hurt the company.
There really needs to be some organizational structure where the CEOs have the power to make the decisions they make, but the employees have the power to punish and fire them when they do shit like this. No golden parachutes for them!
- Comment on Reason #72151 why I don't tolerate Neelix hate 1 year ago:
Adam Savage has a very similar story meeting Robin Williams on the set of Bicentennial Man and getting a essentially a private show from him for a few minutes. Robin Williams was an amazing human being, flaws and all.
- Comment on Google kills Jamboard 1 year ago:
I deployed a few of these. They were 10 years behind the curve. The monitor weighed as much as a flat panel from 15 years ago, the stand was fucking HUGE making it hard to move. The camera and microphone were an afterthought and not worth using (the mic would pick up every little touch on the Jamboard). The entire thing felt like it was built for design first rather than function
- Comment on Anything Else Is A Waste Of Material 1 year ago:
THANKS DODGE!
- Comment on Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him 1 year ago:
And people turn their heads, move their eyes across their windshield, change focus to look ahead or closer, look in their mirrors, listen for sounds (emergency vehicles, car honks, etc), are able to do things like look through gaps and other car windows to adjust to partial obstructions.
The fact that he doesn't realize you need a multitude of sensors to do even a little bit of what a human can do tells you all you need to know about Elon's so called brilliance.
- Comment on Unity will quietly waive fees if developers switch to its ad monetisation 1 year ago:
Yup. Do something so absurd to generate the rage, then apologize and announce your true intentions under the guise of a compromise.
- Comment on Next Time You Watch A Film, Think About The Props 1 year ago:
Adam Savage's Tested Youtube channel is doing a series of videos right now on background props (any and all types of paper products, fake money, grocery items, etc). Apparently, up until recently, 1 company - Earl Hayes Press - has been responsible for production of these process for every major film for the past 100 years. The videos are really interesting if you're into that kind of stuff.
Here's the first video in the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TS6x8dK2u0
- Comment on Review of Subspace Rhapsody 1 year ago:
Musical episodes always take me out of the immersion of the show because I'm always trying to figure out who's actually a good singer and who was severely auto tuned to compensate.
I will say that overall I enjoyed the episode. The Klingons had me rolling, and I really liked the psuedo-science explanation for why everyone one was singing.
- Comment on ‘Futurama’ Review: New Episodes on Hulu Are Fun Fan Service, but Not Much More (And That’s OK) 1 year ago:
I watched it last night. You hit the nail on the head - it was just like the first episode after the other reboots. Not a bad thing, and I enjoyed it. Still felt like Futurama and the writers continue to respect the continuity of previous seasons, which is something I always appreciate.