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I read both of these in the last year and they're both phenomenal. I'm working my way through the classics, there's a reason they've survived centuries.

Actually, I listened to a dramatization of The Three Musketeers and I was struck by how _funny_ it is. The 4-way duel at the beginning is hilarious and Aramis' and Porthos' respective romantic escapades give great comic relief to what is otherwise an action packed adventure.

The Count of Monte Cristo is an investment, and the middle third drags, but it's necessary to set up the final third, which is so rewarding for the reader. It's the best tale of revenge and redemption I've ever read.

We're getting into the 1930s now - the sound era and the start of the Golden Age. Here's some recommendations.

The Divorcee - Norma Shearer won best actress for this performance of a sophisticated woman. She evens the score after her husband has a brief affair, and as this is pre-Hays code, she isn't punished for it.

Hell's Angels - produced by Howard Hughes, is worth watching for the dogfighting stunts alone. 4 people died filming them.

Holiday - Inferior to the later Hepburn/Grant remake, but still a solid rendition of the play.

L'age d'Or - Luis Buñuel's surrealist showcase

Animal Crackers - the Marx brothers, it's still funny

You want to suck air through the filters rather than blow into them. For one, this keeps the fans cleaner but also it's more efficient, reducing turbulence inside the box.

https://old.reddit.com/r/crboxes/ is a good resource if you're looking to make your own. There's been a general shift from large box fans to PC fans because their performance/noise ratio is better.

There's certainly something to novelty wearing off with time but I don't think that diminishes historical work. When I listen to Abbott and Costello perform "Who's on First?" (c. 1938) - it's still funny. It's not intrinsically less funny because I've heard it and things it inspired many times over.

It's also in how you watch things. I sometimes catch old films in the theatre and the room is filled with laughter. I was belly laughing to The Palm Beach Story (Sturges, 1942). Heck, I've been to see Shakespeare where everyone's laughing.

Check out the 24h chart on https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7456/Who-will-win-t...

The roughly 50-45 Trump-Biden favor briefly flipped to 48-50 but now looks to be reverting to the mean.

Their own video showing this interface is awkward as hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MirzFk_DSiI

Speech is not an optimal interface (in most cases). The AI just rambles along and there's so much time wasted waiting for it to get to the point.

"Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise"[0] isn't bad either.

[0]https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

I wonder what kind of pain is involved with maintaining every new feature release with bug and compatibility fixes forever*.

Unfortunately, your local farm raised meat might still go to that big slaughterhouse. It's expensive for small farmers to run their own on-site USDA inspected slaughterhouse. Also, the chickens you eat are still likely suffering for much of their lives even if raised on a local farm. The best thing that could happen to broiler chickens is for them to go extinct.

Disney use Unreal Engine for their dynamic greenscreen LED wall which they film The Mandalorian and others against. That's got to be at least as important as Fortnite characters.

Tesla absolutely refuses for some reason.

That reason might be the $10/mo they get people to pay for live traffic, satellite maps, and access to music streaming.

They also do this thing at the top of their product page [0] where they say 11,000 lbs towing capacity, 340 mi. range (estimated), 2.6 sec 0-60 mph (with leadout). But they aren't selling a truck with those exact specs. The AWD has a 340 mi. range (est.) and a 4.1 0-60 and the Cyberbeast has a 320 mi. range (est.) and a 2.6 0-60 mph (with leadout). They pick the best attribute from each to highlight on the top of their product page. Note that they also advertise one model's 0-60 with leadout and one without so the difference between them looks more substantial than it is.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck

One of the stills [0] shows a Tilta Nucleus-M focus/zoom wheel [1], see it in use on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx5s0M-_ib4

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2023/10/behind-the-sce...

[1] https://tilta.com/shop/nucleus-m-fiz-unit/

I am sad about unnecessary suffering of the animals I eat as well

Then stop eating them.

It's not moral when all public good is sacrificed for familial benefit.

Yea but they only have the TdF and a smattering of the French races (Paris-Roubaix, etc.), if you want to watch cycling year round it's not sufficient. As an American, I think the only way to watch everything is with a VPN and GCN+ or maybe Eurosport.

There’s all kinds of funky geo restrictions for the tdf and a bunch of other races. The rights are a mess. In the US you need to use a vpn to watch the tdf on GCN+.

He'll be counting the votes.

It's wild they still have the original design on their pre-order website. They know that what you order will not look anything like that thing on https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck - how are they able to advertise it as such?

It's not whether they're alive but if they can suffer.

Imagine wearing this fucking thing at your daughter's birthday party just so you can "re-live" it later.

I love `ps axufww` so much and ah fuck to having learned it that way. It's the first thing I run on a server when logging in. It tells you so much about the system. That, `w` and a `dmesg -T` will go 90% of the way to diagnosing most system issues.

The GiveWell Top Charities Fund directed $104M of donated funds to improve global health and fight poverty in 2022 [0]. This is effective altruism.

[0] https://www.givewell.org/top-charities-fund

I use the "snooze" feature in gmail for this. When I get an email confirming a subscription, I snooze it for 29 days or however long so I get the same email in my inbox before expiration which reminds me to unsubscribe.

I never knew horses went extinct in North America. Apparently we don't really understand why either. Fascinating.

I believe this is the original talk from treefort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo8xUsYo8IE

How many rich people were foreclosed upon? The poor always feel the real brunt of any unfavorable economic conditions. The rich will stay rich and likely become even richer because they can take advantage of the recovery.

I assume they're often stolen due to the perceived shame/stigma of buying them.

I put some Shakespeare into the test on their main page and it was surprisingly good at times. Hearing an AI emote "Out, out, brief candle!" makes me feel strange. This has to replace voice actors in gaming at least. You could change the text as needed and perhaps just add some hints to get the emotion you want.

I'd argue hydraulic disk brakes are easier to maintain. They automatically adjust as your pads wear down and won't have any potential problems with the cables corroding, wearing, sticking, etc.