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  • That was a great start to a series and to the story. I'm guessing it will be a divisive choice but cutting to Dunk taking a shit mid GoT theme was a brilliant choice. Made it clear from the start what the tone of the show is.

    Also the master of games was great, I don't know if we'll see much of that character again but he really owned the scene.

    I thought the first episode would end with the Egg reveal. I figured that might be their big "Ah ha" moment that got people talking. I like the choice to end where it did, just letting Dunk and Egg be Knight and Squire and nothing more for the evening.

    I like how they're handling Dunk not being knighted. Just Dunk saying something, cut to when that thing happened, but curiously not actually saying it happened.

  • I'm also not sure how you watch Better Call Saul without having seen Breaking Bad. It's like watching Wicked having never seen The Wizard of Oz. Sure, you can do it, but a number of scenes, especially in the final season, don't really make sense of you don't know Saul's story from Breaking Bad.

  • Also if you're going to watch Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, while not a TV show, the El Camino film is worth watching as well. It's a nice Breaking Bad epilogue that we didn't need, but is well done and worth your time.

  • Phone call someone and during the split screen physically jump into their side of the call.

  • The movie itself is excellent. However there is one horrible almost meme like scene where dalmatians run into a fancy party and kill Cruella's mother. If you ignore that scene, it's a great movie.

  • In contrast, Linux won’t stop you if you try to use a command that deletes every file on your PC (“sudo rm -rf /”).

    Actually AFAIK it will stop that specific command nowadays. I don't have a VM handy to test, but without the "--no-preserve-root" flag it should give an error.

    (Don't actually run that command on a machine you care about, I'm only 80% confident.)

  • Why won't Apple and Google pull it?

    Google will pull it as soon as Apple does, they're a follower not a leader.

  • Like smothering a loved one with a pillow.

  • You also get to salute the spaghetti as it lowers itself into the pot.

  • While not a credited writer on the final film, the film was produced by and the first draft was written by Seth MacFarlane, who is a huge Trekkie.

  • Nothing new AFAIK, but hearing the actors for Dunk and Egg talk about their characters really gives me a sense that they know who they're playing.

  • That's why I find it important to look at both critic and user reviews. If they agree, they're probably right. If they disagree things get interesting.

    If critics liked it, but audiences disliked it, it's probably technically good but boring. If critics disliked it, but audiences liked it, it's probably kinda bad but exciting.

    Both are also affected by social media, especially user scores, so if "the Internet" hates/loves something if can be unfairly inflated/deflated.

    New, but not brand new, films also usually have a more accurate score. I enjoyed The Godfather, so I would rate it positively, but if I didn't like it I'm probably not rating it at all. I saw it X years ago and unless it was absolutely terrible or I have a vivid memory of disliking it, I'm just going to ignore it.

  • The one in the bathroom or any sink?

  • Mirrors!

  • It's possibly from people trying to help, but don't understand AI hallucinations.

    For example a Wikipedia article might say, "John Smith spent a year Oxford University before moving to London.[Citation Needed]" So the article already contains information, but lacks proper citation.

    Someone comes along and says, "Ah ha! AI can solve this and asks AI, 'Did John Smith spend a year at Oxford before moving to London, please provide citations.' and the AI returns, "Yes of course he did according to the book 'John Smith: Biography of a Man' ISBN 123456789"

    So someone adds that as a citation and now Wikipedia has been improved.

    Or... has it? The ISBN 123456789 is invalid. No book could possibly have that number. If the ISBN is invalid, then the book is also likely invalid, and the citation is also invalid.

    So the satisfaction was someone who couldn't previously help Wikipedia, now thinking they can help Wikipedia. At face value that's a good thing, someone who wants to help Wikipedia. The problem is that they think they're helping, but they're actually harming.

  • Genuine question, has your opinion changed now that the singer has died? In no way, shape or form is the person who sang the music benefiting in any way from you listening to it.

    People often say to separate the art from the artist. In an acting role I kinda get it, because an actor is playing a different character. For music, it's kinda the same. The music is its own thing separate from the person. Maybe?

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  • Based on the junk emails I get the same is true of most places. The number of random emails I get in my birthday month or birthday week from random companies that somehow have my birthday, they just want you to come in.

  • No six months to a year is probably about right. They'll have enough data by then to say "most people don't turn it off" because realistically most people will use the default, which is on.

    Twenty years from now Firefox will be in a new controversy that we can't even begin to guess.

    Plus, while I can't predict when the AI bubble will pop, whatever they add in the next year will be removed within the next five years. AI isn't like browser tabs, or extensions, stuff that will always be a great idea, it's just the current fad.