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So the _only_ way to use this is by loading the file from their domain? There is no download or package install? Absolutely no recommended mechanism for hosting it yourself?

This is a security nightmare.

when someone calls a statement "x-ist," they're also implicitly saying that this is the end of the discussion

Aaand thats when I stopped reading. You're not being censored, Paul, you're being rightfully told you're an asshole and refusing to take it to heart.

The problem is that there aren't a whole lot of new movie theaters being constructed any more, certainly not any large enough to host a full size 70mm IMAX screen (which is significantly larger than the screens used for 4k digital).

Regal and AMC absorbed or drove out all the smaller companies, and the margins aren't good enough for new companies to enter the market. You need a dozen screens to diversify against poor performing films. A dozen projectors is a pretty significant cost investment for a new company. That was the case before COVID decimated the industry, and now its even worse.

Back when I worked in cinema we would occasionally get lenticular movie posters. The cost varies by how many they print as a batch, but you're looking at about $10-20 a piece.

This analogy has layers that OP probably doesn't recognize.

The film industry loves cgi because none of the digital vfx houses are unionized and they can treat the artists like crap. It severely devalued a ton of skilled labor around miniature and set design.

Now, after 20 years of hard swing into cgi, people are starting to recognize just how much better movies from the practical era looked, and there is a push back towards it. Project Hail Mary was predominantly practical effects, for example. Stop motion animation is coming back, and theres a push back into hand cell animation.

Lindsey Graham was a huge closet case, well known for frequenting male sex workers. He earned the name Lady G among the DC SW scene.

https://carolinacourier.substack.com/p/senator-lindsey-graha...

As well as blood transfusions, Johnson follows a strict daily routine that includes monitoring his body fat, heart rate variability, blood, stool samples, and the number of erections he has per night. Every day he also takes two dozen medicines at 5 a.m

This man is not mentally well...

Guess they ran out of employees to fire

Same, I'd smash it like it was offering me a million dollars. I cannot think of a single positive thing that has come out of the AI boom. It has been a net negative for all of society.

The same way subcontractors make money, they take a cut of the building cost. VC invests a billion on a five year contract, you take a million as your salary for those five years and use the rest to pay for construction and initial operating costs. If the data center isn't profitable, oh well, you got paid 5 million all the same. If it is profitable, well thats just a bonus.

The collection of the data is not whats of concern here. The issue is the use of the data in legal proceedings. Flock can gather all they want, but police accessing it and using it as evidence is where it rubs against the constitution.

Investors, thats what is driving it. AI is the only thing venture capital has cared about since 2022, so the people who earn fortunes from sucking on the VC teat are following the money. It doesn't matter if the data centers are worthless in five years, they will have extracted wealth from building them.

I was laid off in Q3 24. I knew it was coming because I had already been forced to take two weeks off from burnout when my brain just lost the ability to reason about code any more, so realistically it was a blessing. I decided that I wasn't going to even think about programming for at least a year, simply to let my brain heal.

It worked, I feel much better and started working on my own projects again, but now I feel like that gif from Community when Troy walks in with pizzas and the apartment is on fire. The state of the entire computing industry is strongly making me second guess if I want to continue in this career.

My wife and I are in a good enough place financially that I don't need to work for a long while, but... I dunno. There has to be a pretty significant course correction before I'm willing to enter those trenches again.

The sad thing is, this is the second time that my career of choice has evaporated out from under me (I was a projectionist in the 2000s). I don't know where I'm going to go from here.

I know the ACLU is involved, but for crying out loud, the very first thing they should have done after the first visit was call a lawyer, before he even got on a plane to come home.

It already is a plutocracy

How long can you hemorrhage billions of dollars with no return.

Five years, judging by how long it took them to give up on metaverse

My mind immediately went to that one shot near the beginning of Tron where the cubicles stretch off into the distance of the building.

That was 1982

Stop trying to use technology to solve social problems

Exactly. Things were so good in the 90s that people were bored with it. We had an entire subgenre of film centered around the monotony of being middle class.

Outside of computing, Y2K was extremely hyped. We were entering the future!

You mean the 80s?

Every time I read about this I find myself asking what the little people are doing, and articles never answer it.

Might as well ask "Does bacon make candy taste better?"

It depends on what you're putting it in!

Alternatively, you could try to keep HP from killing the TouchPad

They did before consumer safety regulations went into affect

it's quite difficult to become a CEO

It literally just requires filing an LLC or Corporation. There are several SaaS companies that will do it for you.

Perhaps its because a good chunk of us looked at wtf is going on in tech right now and said "nah, I think I'll go be a farmer now."

Did they think nobody would notice? At some point somebody was bound to rip on open, or at least stick it in a CT scanner

Oh wow, it uses normal css, how delightful! https://github.com/vorpus/performativeUI/blob/main/src/style...

COMET was so far ahead of its time. Sierra Online used it for their webchat in 1995 and it was absolutely the best webchat out there for years

Nothing says "I care about the earth" like a giant sheet of plastic.