Honest question: how can you make your mark on a product that is already perfect? At some point, software goes from meeting the needs of its customers to meeting the needs of the egos in charge.

Almost a whole day and still not hacked. Hm.

Very related to the premise of Job Simulator, where AI feels bad for bored humans so creates a museum where they can experience work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-iMlQIGH8Y

The way CEOs blindly follow trends and lie compulsively, they’d be perfectly replaced by LLMs.

If you’re polite about it, you’re being more gracious than they are being. I think maybe something like, “Yes, I can see where that would be a very helpful skill to have.” And maybe it would be a helpful skill to have, and even a further maybe would be that maybe it would even be worth learning!

The synergy goes so far beyond the music & the visuals. Every person working on those films poured their hearts and souls into it; it had to be a childhood dream to be able to realize that world.

Let me introduce you to Inception Cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLDSE7RHvno

Kor-ah, Mah-tah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah.

Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Yood-hah, Kor-ah.

Kor-ah, Syahd-ho. Rah-tah-mah, Daan-yah. Kor-ah, Kee-lah, Daan-yah. Nyo-hah, Kee-lah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Syahd-ho, Kee-la, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Kor-ah, Daa-nyah. Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah.

Kor-ah, Daa-nyah. Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Nyo-hah, Kee-lah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Syahd-ho, Kee-la, Daan-yah, Rah-tah-mah.

Kor-ah!

Fragment of an old Welsh poem translated into Sanskrit–how could you miss? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_of_the_Fates

I looked and found a probably AI page that conflated every study that looked at “writing by hand” with “cursive.” Honestly, the most stupid shit. Cursive is just a form of handwriting with a cult following.

One example is a strong A-Pillar on a car–the metal post to the left and right of the windshield. Most manufacturers meet the standard by making it really beefy and wide. It protects the driver from collision but makes collision more likely by obstructing the driver’s vision.

Car safety standards in the US are actively hostile to anyone outside a car.

a pedestrian what now

I want to upvote this or downvote it but I’m not sure how you mean it.

There are some American safety requirements that are based on protecting the safety of the driver at the expense of everything else that cheaper vehicles might not meet.

Who watches Batman to see Batman? He is a drearily boring character. The villains are the ones I watch.

Adam West and Michael Keaton are the only good Batmen, and they lean towards a self-aware comedy completely drained out of the Nolan’s trilology. I can’t really fault Bale.

Yes, Williams is the guy that brought leitmotifs to movies (or at least the one everyone’s heard of).

There was a YouTube criticism of Marvel Super Hero movies that was basically going around asking people to hum themes from favorite movies, almost always John Williams: Star Wars, Jurassaic Park, Indiana Jones… then he´d ask people to sing people from a Marvel movie, ANY Marvel movie, and people who just mumble incoherently that they couldn’t think of anything. All those characters, all those movies, and not a single damn theme identifiable with any of character or movie, just a bunch of music generically recycled for Action or Sad or Bemused. Biggest missed opportunity in music history.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs)

There’s also some good commentary about how themes that had definite meanings in the original trilogy got recycled and reused until they meant nothing specific. I think Luke’s theme in the swamp became Generic Music for Using the Force.

Sounds plausible.

Basic knowledge is knowing when to cite your sources.

I don’t know that cursive has demonstrated benefits, but writing by hand does improve learning, as does reading on paper.

Cursive has a weird cult following. As someone who likes the idea of cursive, it took quite a bit of effort to give up on it. It’s only theoretically faster, and it does so at the expense of legibility. I can’t read my own writing at speed, and I can´t read Charles Darwin’s either.

I started taking up Gregg shorthand to solve this problem. Faster and more legible, even without abbreviations.

Interesting the divide here between who think soundtrack is orchestral music composed for the movie and others who think its a bunch of pop songs the director liked.

Rufus Wainwright has an Agnus Dei, if you’re into this kind of thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0KzSuq9ZPg

Y’all might like some Klezmer, too, like Barcelona Gipsy something or other.

It’s entirely subjective and one generation’s “basic knowledge” may be someone else’s “useless esoterica.”

For instance, old people jerk themselves a lot about writing cursive and driving stickshift (and winning WW2 somehow???) but don’t know how to put their phones on silent.

On the other hand, people are forgetting how to read and how to learn, and I’d say that’s basic knowledge… so, case-by-case.