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[–] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think you responded to the wrong comment. I said nothing about the quality of the film industry's output, only that it is going to be replaced.

[–] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

No, generative AI is. Why get props, lighting, actors, etc. when you can just not and say you did at a language model connected to a video generation model?

[–] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

You forgot Bernie. He was a Trump favorite.

[–] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Moissanite is a nonporous stone, so it doesn't get cloudy. It can get dirty on the surface like a diamond, but you can just rinse it off. On the other hand, a diamond will turn cloudy if it is in a house fire, while moissanite will not.

Naturally occurring moissanite is extremely rare, while naturally occurring diamond not so much. A geologist might judge you for wearing something that isn't real moissanite but a knockoff with a lower refractive index.

[–] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This article isn't in The New York Times.

[–] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If the pole is entering the portal at the rate of 60 miles per hour, it must exit the portal at the same rate. After a minute, 1 mile of pole has entered the portal, and 1 mile has exited it. If it exits more slowly than it enters, where is the missing part of the pole?

[–] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

No, we wouldn't be, Mr. Negative Karma Throwaway. A recession is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. The US had exactly two in Q1 2022 and Q2 2022 before going back to positive growth. The US had a much larger recession in Q1 and Q2 2020 before a big recovery in Q3 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/188185/percent-change-from-preceding-period-in-real-gdp-in-the-us/

[–] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

This is already about to pass in California. https://legiscan.com/CA/bill/SB478/2023

The FTC is going to write a rule similar to what local governments have given themselves power to regulate. The article gave some examples, but it is not exhaustive.

[–] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Metric is a product of the French Revolution, as well as decimal currency like cents. Some decimalization from the French Revolution didn't catch on widely, like gradians for measuring angles or decimal minutes, hours, and weeks. The imperial units were standardized by various monarchies (hence the name).

[–] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been doing cryptography since 2000. I'm just not dumb enough to think that decentralized trustless ledgers have any practical use. 🤣🤣🤣

It’s not true.

I'm glad you finally came to that conclusion. This means you should use a centralized ledger, and you've been wasting your time. Perhaps in another few years, you'll figure out that a centralized authority has to determine who gets a vote to cast and give up your blockchain voting pipe dream as well. 🤣🤣🤣

It’s being talked about in regards to land deeds that can survive changes in power structures and authority.

The people who talk about that are idiots. Changes in power structure and authority can say that one chain is no longer is in force, replacing it with another chain or a centralized ledger if they have any brains. 🤣🤣🥳🥳

[–] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It isn't. It's planning to make ad blockers use a crippled API like the one Safari has had for years now, but the timeline for that still hasn't been decided. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/migrating/mv2-sunset/

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