Implementation.

Came here for this, past times this topic floated up (over and over...) people point out the heavy-handed mixing (let's make viewer think OH BOY LOUD ACTION) and the increased script/director tendency for mumbling.

Not sure if there we had an article with stats on mumbling. Maybe. Remarks about more scenes/shows drifting towards moody, gloomy, brooding, or just good old edgy grimdark. Numbers for that I think we had a piece on, showing recent decades leaning more negatively in tone. Could just be "dystopia sells" but you'd still wanna spare a ponder for why.

Anyway the batman-speak is unintelligible. Makes me question what they're teaching in acting/cinema schools now. I'm young but I'd still rather have a "stuffy" vincent/lee that can actually command the fucking stage, yes.

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My intuition helps me diagnose problems rapidly. I can skip unlikely scenarios. These odds are not just universal, but influenced by present data. eg. Someone calling about a bad sink is 95% likely not having power issues. Finding data that they don't have a Smart Sink changes those odds to 99.9% likely not having power issues.

There's a post or two down here crowing about that 0.1% where it WAS still a power issue. In the example I end up spending MORE time exhausting plumbing possibilities before finally investigating power, but 99.9% of the time skipping power investigation is the superior choice and is undeniably the superior "gamble".

I'm not a contractor but the principle applies to many fields. Apparently science and even math. Every prediction must be checked, but PICKING predictions is a role intuition plays, per headline.

So it's about as bloaty as usual - 99% waste, a hundred times bigger than it needs to be.

I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills.

To hear from a human, not a corporate sock puppet. My idle snark isn't fully clear, so I want to mention that includes blogs, streamers, podcasts, influencers, etc which either have a direct hand up their ass or an indirect one that's innocently born of their favored flavor.

That last bit applies to john everyman, yes, but the idea is you source several of those and even out skew from one guy's pet favorite towards things that genuinely warrant collective favoritism.

Reddit has plenty of drivel (c'mon, not discord level) especially in the bigger boards, but it's a popular source for human voices. "Perspectives", per TFS. Some people are fine with the era of official, sponsored, and (soon) automated circulations. Some yearn for the empirical findings of their actual peers.

Math, no.

But many things can achieve Good Enough, architects and engineers technically do math but anything in the meatspace is an approximation, a corner is 89.999 degrees.

The chinese room will probably never know actual chinese, but at some point (hopefully) it will become good enough that for our intents and purposes it doesn't matter, "it might as well know".

Some applications may achieve sufficient "nines" in the near future (images) some may take decades or centuries, some may never quite suffice.

Note that this isn't a binary condition either, "good enough" isn't some distinct threshold, what really happens is a decrease in friction and time/people required (disregard babble about net job creation).

Unfortunately what i just previously said means tragedy of the commons/race to the bottom bullshit, imagine phone voice menus for customer support and apply it to every corner that can possibly be cut. We already suffer plenty of tediums in the name of "make the client do it" and they're not all just for commoners.

Maybe it gets better with time, but that form of "good" comes MUCH later than "good enough [to save a buck] let's do it".

I imagine part of the loophole is that you pay $5 and always get at least some tiny nothing ("not gambling") with a 1% chance of the gold mushroom whatever. I believe it's how baseball cards/etc get to do it.

But I was under the impression JP had passed some gacha laws, a fair while back, which in addition to outlawing TFA's "undisclosed odds" (perhaps only for certain conditions) had some weird bits like "You cannot grant rewards piecemeal", ie. the reward cannot be a useless goldmushroom "piece". Which is trivially circumvented by making them functional yet dwarfed by the diamondmushroom made by collecting four.

These circumventions will likely continue for a while. It's just too easy. The only thing holding them back is studios playing chicken with each other, toeing the line from negative media attention (see Star Wars Battlefront fiasco) and seeing how far they can go before igniting the masses. They use the highest pressure tactics ("dark patterns", etc) they can and put kids in the crosshairs. Gambling or not, currently-legal or not, it was only a matter of time before the chicken play resulted in lockdown efforts. Which themselves will be skirted, eventually settling on solved-enough with studios toeing the new line.

That point is years away, I'm sure.

We already had a round of myriad fixes in the last article, I'm almost certain the contract (which quickly makes this no longer a Hardware Problem) will demand users fill out surveys and install some phone app and other cancer. With the $1000 fee on the line.

Yes, that was my immediate response.

"Hey, I want a movie starring my photoreal avatar and Marilyn Monroe's photoreal avatar. I want it to be a rom-com because I've had a rough day"

Great, is it going to be at all compelling? Movies struggle to do that now.

So we are at stage two? https://xkcd.com/2677/

Seems like all the more reason for us to be attracted to the wider DVD selection that isn't victim to balkanization.

In fact, I wonder if the superior breadth is an uncomfortable truth that Netflix would rather not be measured against.

Or, looking at it from another angle, it's the "let's find ways to force more people into OUR streaming service" consumer-suffers song of the last decade, except with a slight "it's internal" twist.

Live by just-in-time, die by just-in-time.

"Commercial" ventures are out of the loop when the AM/FM broadcast simply goes out blind.

Streaming/Mobile/Digital/Satellite is negotiated. They are in the loop. To "authenticate", to track, whatever.

They're just "modernizing" the same as everything else - phoning home and keeping control in their hands, not yours.