Nobody wants to say it but some people are just capable of driving while a bit drunk. A drunk driver driving properly is just a driver.

I'm uncertain of my phone number, so I use tildes. As in 867~5309.

If I'm going to die on a hill, I'd rather it be a small hill that doesn't take to much effort to climb. At the very least it should be well paved so that the coroner's van can reach me.

You're supposed to use the word "leave".
As in "get fucked, leave happy".

Sure, but you can apply that to almost *every movie*. LOTR without Howard Shore is kinda dull. Jaws without the "dun un" does not clearly carry tension the same. Inception or the Nolan Batman films with the Zimmer score is kinda dull. Fact is SW does in fact have the JW soundtrack, you cannot just decouple them, if a director directs a shot he usually has some music in mind, if it didn't they would probably do the shot different.

Yes, Star Wars is basically a mash up of a spaghetti western, a Kurosawa film, 1920's serials with a smear of space opera over top. I mean that in in the best way possible tot eh OG trilogy, it all plays into the certain je ne sais quoi

Also Lucas is famously not a great writer, like you said in the OG trilogy he had a lot of assistance, also from his directing buddies as well as people like Irving Kershner who masterfully directed ESB.

Let's not levy this on the American's solely. Every country loves Star Wars, and Marvel movies and hell I am pretty sure China is primary reason we still get Transformers movies so "lowest common denominator" is a worldwide phenomenon.

Sure, except Blade Runner was 1982, 5 years after Episode 4 and 2 years after ESB. Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" also wan't until 1985 and let's be honest all of them reallt just pull influence from Metropolis.

The city size does speak to my point, everything in SW is small, like a western or a fantasy movie. Mos Eisley is a small town bar pretty much. Cloud City has what, a couple thousand people in it from what we see? Even in the prequels for all this huge scale we see the world still feels kinda empty (this is partly Lucas's whole directing paradigm) But again, none of this matter if the parts all work as a whole.

I wouldn't say most people are bots, just most expressions by people are robotic. Awareness isn't cheap, and nature's approach to dealing with that fact is more of a hack than a general solution.

No, you stopped after reading five words. Just long enough to realize I was contradicting you. Which I guess is proof in your mind that someone has nothing to say.

The word resonance is not a weasel word. It's not mysterious. There are very specific phenomena involved. If you didn't understand what I meant, you could simply have asked. But instead you said that and bullhorned your complete indifference to the subject you're pontificating on.

Hi. Chief Engineer of a regional ISP with about 20k residential fiber customers, here.

Help me understand what "proper IPv6 implementation" means.

Common business model these days. We even do it on some of our networks.

Yup, that's how we handle it too- monthly fee in return for static.

That part is unusual. Any network utilizing CGNAT for its customers should offer routable IPv6. Shame on them.

So let me get this straight. If there were *real* carbon offset credits, that would in your view be *just as dishonest* as fraudulent ones?

Oh of course they are being tolerated. They're just mad that they're not treated as super special. NO ONE is banning Christians, and yet you will hear this being claimed over and over on televangelist channels. Jews are being tolerated. Israeli government though, is pissing off a lot of people, but that is NOT the same as Jews. There are Christian clubs on campus; of course they have to follow the rules. They may bitch that there's no mandatory morning prayer, but if there was one those prayers might not be Christian, and that pisses some people off.

Now, there may be some students who are very pissy about all this and demand no Christians, but that's not the same as the university leadership or policies. A university getting money from the federal government cannot discrimate based upon religion and keep getting that money.

But this is the big meme in Christian circles, that they're the most persecuted group that has ever existed, especially in Modern America they are persecuted even more than those who were fed to lions in Ancient Rome. Being a victim is a good political card to play.

The real market is investors. He's seeking a $6B valuation on x.ai, which is just nonsensical vs. what they're offering.

How is a flow chart...

You stopped after reading two word and ignored every other word in the post. *eyeroll*

Predicting words is just about resonance

The word "resonance" is a non-sequitur in that sentence. You might as well have written, "Predicting words is all about Australopithecus."

For me it's the Final Fantasy II trap.

As a kid, my first run through Final Fantasy II, I had gotten like halfway through when I hit a fairly difficult area, and I was getting tired of the fights, so rather than spending time leveling up and whatnot before going there, I just increasingly started making a habit of running away from enemies. And it worked great, I got further and further and further, really quickly. But my level correspondingly fell further and further behind what it should have been for the area, to the point where ultimately I could no longer beat the bosses and advance further.

Who should hire competent computer people? The problem isn't the computer people, it's the random users who regularly get hacked because NOBODY is immune.

The only thing you can be sure of is that people who proudly proclaim that they're too competent to be hacked, will be hacked.