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13 hours ago, Nuke said:
people are giving away their pandemic surplus
How foolish. When the market is down, you've got to stock up!
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How resistant is a GCNR against various lateral forces from maneuvering? I'm wondering whether it would even survive combat action without the fissioning vortex burning through the wall.
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8 hours ago, AlamoVampire said:
Why am i being forced into watching ads in a default game program in windows?
Because a subscription-only Windows is only planned for 12, and you still have to be scalped somehow.
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2 hours ago, Gargamel said:
That seems a bit harsh, Jodi Whitaker is an excellent actress,
(a) which is why I specified "across the board";
(b) I doubt the excellence is ever all-around, and a shoddy casting process can easily overlook competency gaps for "name power" (I imagine being bad at writing further compromises your ability to detect a poor fit for the role - or to notice that no-one can play your shoddy script well). The Wiki quotes Chibnal as saying that Whitaker was his first pick, and that even without any context also sounds like a rather bad sign.
I am fully cognizant of the fact that acting quality can swing quite violently between individual productions as a result. But I'm also rather bitter that perfectly fine people are being shoved into roles they have no business handling, sometimes due to quite immutable characteristics, and too often it doesn't even seem to be about making bank or personal interest. Is there a miscasting conspiracy these days?
SpoilerI'm sorry for picking on a person's height, but who in hell thought a Sarah Connor who needs a triple Scully box for such a shot to work was a good idea?
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2 hours ago, darthgently said:
If it has a larger single centered headlight the resemblance would be spot on
It would be too far up.
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1 hour ago, darthgently said:
They frakked up the number one rule of passenger vehicle design:
Every road vehicle has a "face" with an "expression". Don't frakk it up.
Why, it's so bad it's hilarious!
To be fair, it's not a production design. The doors from a Lada kinda give it away.
To me, the proportions are suspiciously like an electric locomotive.
Another joker's already christened it Lada Hippo.
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On 12/11/2023 at 11:11 PM, boriz said:
The Doctor is, always has been, and always will be, a flawed, cantankerous, arrogant, sometimes condescending, but loveable middle aged white male grandfather figure (sometimes in a younger body where acting skill allows), with a '1000 year stare'.
...which wouldn't have been a hard blocker for a female Thirteenth, but it would've required a conscious and incredible effort across the whole board to make it work. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be the acting and directing capacity across all of Greater Hollywood* to pull this off, heck, we're at a point where there's only one actress (Emily Blunt) who can pull off a serious action girl type that isn't a character-less sociopath. A character of such complexity as the Early Revival-era Doctor is simply beyond existing capabilities.
Across the whole industry, the politics seem to be gasoline poured onto a preexisting dumpster fire of somewhat inexplicable decline in quality and cognitive empathy.
Spoiler*term deliberately chosen to make Brits cringe, but Americanization may also be a significant factor
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Today's subject of giggling throughout the RuNet: photographs of MAMI's electric car testbed
"Memorable design: ✓"
"Guys, where am I? Guys... is it still the 31st? Guys, why is my head spinning?"
"Optimus, are you sure we're on the right planet?"
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14 hours ago, kerbiloid said:
According to the video, the yellow stone is secondary to the Greenland plume.
According to the maps I see, the Greenland plume is minor/offshoot to the larger Iceland/mid-Atlantic plume.
The problem is, is there even a plume? I dug beyond surface-level publications, and it seems that there are two rival explanations, likely varying on a case-by-case basis, for intra-plate volcanism. Besides plumes, there's also plate tectonics, as in the crust simply tearing up enough to admit magma to the surface. And Iceland is a rather stark example of that in action, being a 24 mln years old mini-continent, so is there even a plume involved? Other plate-related factors include the slowly melting fragments of subducted plates, but there seems to be no consensus how deep they sink.
There's also a curious lack of (known) plumes beneath Eurasia (even though the African plate is AFAIK just as, if not more, thick and stable, as the Eurasian plate).
The asymmetry seems to correspond to the mysterious large low-shear-velocity provinces, which, depending on who you ask, are superplumes fueled by slabs of ancient (750+ MYO) oceanic crust, or the remnants of Theia.
I'm getting the distinct impression we know painfully little about deep geological processes.
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1 hour ago, DDE said:
Arctica-M №2, launch successful.
Got visual
and Fregat sep
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Arctica-M №2, launch successful.
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Hello, I'm not Roland Emmerich but I'm looking for an apocalypse.
Inspired by
One, what region today is the one most likely to become an extinction-level igneous province? Is it even possible to tell?
Two, how quickly would the catastrophe occur? Grasping onto the most recent LIP, the Columbia River group, a 500 km lava flow, is said to have occurred in less than a week, indicating rather remarkable output. What would the global timeline be, then?
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TL:DR The Earth was already experiencing volcanic winters (up to -10°C global anomaly) and choking on toxic fumes before the asteroid offed the dinosaurs
Recurring volcanic winters during the latest Cretaceous: Sulfur and fluorine budgets of Deccan Traps lavas
QuoteTwo events share the stage as main drivers of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction-Deccan Traps volcanism, and an asteroid impact recorded by the Chicxulub crater. We contribute to refining knowledge of the volcanic stressor by providing sulfur and fluorine budgets of Deccan lavas from the Western Ghats (India), which straddle the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Volcanic fluorine budgets were variable (400 to 3000 parts per million) and probably sufficient to affect the environment, albeit only regionally. The highest sulfur budgets (up to 1800 parts per million) are recorded in Deccan lavas emplaced just prior (within 0.1 million years) to the extinction interval, whereas later basalts are generally sulfur-poor (up to 750 parts per million). Independent evidence suggests the Deccan flood basalts erupted in high-flux pulses. Our data suggest that volcanic sulfur degassing from such activity could have caused repeated short-lived global drops in temperature, stressing the ecosystems long before the bolide impact delivered its final blow at the end of the Cretaceous.
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Idea for an anti-littering sign
Spoiler
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15 hours ago, Kerbart said:
offshoring to countries where they can pay $5/day
And that's where you stumble across the real problem. Potential automation has to compete with the real and immediate solution* of bringing in cheap bodies, physically or remotely; LLMs and the like have managed to squeeze in because they're pure software, they're relatively versatile, and they scale up with enormous ease. A piece of physical automation is unlikely to have any of those properties.
* there are questions whether the cheapness of immigrant labor persists over time, or whether it's more of a received wisdom among the managerial class who don't bother to check the actual math. It is also important to watch out for cases where the difference in wages is the result of lack of tax and quasi-tax payments per worker through either widespread lawbreaking, or abused or even deliberate administrative preferences - because this just means the business is using taxpayers to get subsidized labor. There are even wilder schemes where these mechanisms drive and inflate an entire industry, e.g. the Russian housing construction sector...
...I'll shut up now.
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37 minutes ago, Kerbart said:
"The future would brings us robots doing repetitive and physical work, freeing us up for creative work and recreation"
"Instead we have tons of people doing menial tasks in a gig economy and robots writing poetry. Something went wrong"
Yes and no. This "poetry" is still very much limited, menial and repetitive. All of the practical application of GPTs I've heard of are for repetitive mental tasks. Outside of that, it's just a toy.
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TIL how the Maus ended up with a 75 mm co-axial... at the time they were focusing on the 150 mm gun, someone wanted an anti-infantry secondary turret.
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3 hours ago, kerbiloid said:
But now it knows, that to make the infiltration successful, the terminators should copy the look of popular actors and actresses.
And in the process, it becomes the plaything of agents and studios, except for the occasional dumb slip-up.
An acceptable outcome.
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8 hours ago, LHACK4142 said:
Also, yewtu.be
Interesting. Wondering if I should take note of it in case the much-touted Youtube block happens.
When a company supports video streaming in your country with no way to get revenue from it from two years, it's really difficult to deflect questions about its motives... that said, this means I am one of the reasons you're watching this many ads!
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On 12/14/2023 at 3:28 PM, kerbiloid said:
Looks too contrast right now. A Winter Glau is required this season.
Camouflage, huh?
Spoiler
(there's a more common variant with the T-1000, but this one's a deeper reference)
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37 minutes ago, BA-Forums said:
I have a submission for doorways: doorways look like hatches.
Looks familiar enough
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17 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:
There is no problems with AI, while the terminators look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The problems will begin when they will be looking like Lance Henriksen from the original plot.
And once they look like Summer Glau, you know you've lost.
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TFW you end up as the Secret Santa to your own subordinate, a pathological Potterhead (who wore a Slytherin pin to a client's office)
Spoiler
and read the Silmarillion...
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The Monument to the Conquerors of Space
was erected the proper rocket way
Thread to discuss negative things in a very general way, just see where it goes y'know?
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