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Comment Re: Same as it ever was (Score 1) 265

Your battery has way, WAY more miles than you're going to need. You can charge overnight on 110v to keep it topped up, but if you have a night when you can't charge, your battery will still have plenty of miles, and you'll catch up on charging over the course of a few nights or the weekend.

It's just not a big deal.

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Sony Boss Urges Theaters To Stop 30 Minutes of Trailers and Ads Before Movies (variety.com) 152

Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman urged theater owners to cut down the roughly 30 minutes of trailers and ads before movies. "Get off the ad crack," Rothman told the audience at CinemaCon this week. "Get rid of the endless advertising and substantially shorten the long pre-shows." Variety reports: He noted that frequent moviegoers now show up a half hour late to avoid all the spots (something that reserved seating has made easier than ever before). Rothman said that means many people "don't even see the trailers," which results in "enticements gone to waste." Rothman predicted that the 2026 box office, which has already benefitted from hits like "Super Mario Galaxy Movie" and "Project Hail Mary," will rebound in a big way. But he acknowledged that attendance still trails pre-pandemic levels.

Rothman has been a vociferous defender of the big screen, pushing studios to embrace longer windows so that movies will stay in cinemas longer. That was a theme that Rothman returned to at CinemaCon, pressing exhibitors to hold strong and agree not to show movies that quickly appear on streaming services or on-demand platforms. "Enforce longer windows," Rothman said. "Yes, even if that means you cannot play every film."

In addition to stumping for exhibition, Rothman has practically begged Hollywood to invest in new stories along with all the franchise fare. In a recent New York Times op-ed, for instance, Rothman, the longest-serving studio chief, wrote, "For all the success of films driven by existing intellectual property, originality is essential to movies. Neither movie theaters nor the art form itself can survive without at least some originality. After all, you can't make a sequel to nothing."

Comment If you want birds, stop killing the bugs (Score 2) 23

The decline in bird population is due to crowding and reduction of food sources. Birds are often insectivores. If you want more birds, stop directly killing the bugs, and stop creating mono-culture ecosystems which cannot support bugs (grass lawns).

Crowding is harder. Crowding birds together again reduces food sources, but also increases disease spread. Adding greenspaces would at lease help there. Drawing birds where you want them seems like exactly what not to do.

Comment Re:She? (Score 2) 50

That's just basic marketing psychology: By referring to it with gendered pronouns, its architects are trying to establish the most basic of interpersonal human connections so that readers/customers are softer on it. When a machine fucks up, it's directly identified as such while questions are put to the manufacturer/maintainer. When a human (or even animal) fucks up there could be an abundance of grace given to them, especially if its the first time for that mistake, and only in extreme cases would anyone bother to dig deeper. (In fact, I would put money on Andon specifically deciding on feminine over masculine as there are all sorts of studies/stories about the difference in customer/public perception to women vs men in the same role.)

It's the same playbook that techbros have been trying to run for this whole LLM racket which, FSM willing, will collapse almost as quickly as this experiment inevitably does when "she" is manipulated to donating the entire stock to a charity in exchange for PR credit.

Comment Re:Looks like panic to me (Score 2) 80

More like the total opposite, I'd say.

I can't imagine what's the business value of having ChatGPT doing a BloodNinja impression. It's not good for PR, it'd risk exclusion in serious environments, school and the like, it'd risk legal trouble, the list goes on. The potential for trouble far outweighs any possibly benefit, which is what? There's only downsides because it'd go wrong in some way sooner rather than later.

No, doubling down on serious, well paying uses and removing controversial ideas of little worth is exactly what looks like a clear, decent strategy here.

Comment Re: Well cult followers (Score 2) 338

Dude. When you have more electricity, you have cheaper electricity. And even now, it's cheaper for most deliveries to use electric vehicles, and not by a small margin. The reason they use gas now is that's what they own. Small operators don't know how much they'd save with electric and are fearful, and buy new gas trucks. Most larger operators are buying a mix of gas and electric, and will move, as we have more cheap electricity to almost completely electric fleets. Kneecapping wind farms only slows slightly the transition already underway.

Comment Don't believe you (Score 1) 329

This is pure passive aggressive grey beard Linux snobbery masquerading as thoughtful commentary

Apple is bsd Unix and has a complete set of Unix tools. Apple knows there customers needs probably better than any maker and you never were going to be one.

The whole point of this is it's inexpensive. Ic you desire more power it's not for you

Comment Huh? Korea has way better stuff than google maps (Score 3, Interesting) 14

Have these guys never been in a cab in Korea?

Korea way better maps software than google maps and has had it for years. Every single good-sized building in Seoul is laid out in 3D on the map, so you can identify it -- and you need that because you have to navigate to Jangmi Castle 11D, which is one of 13 building which all look basically alike in a cluster. The Korean navigation software is SWEET and makes you envious -- we could really use that stuff in the US.

I suspect Google will come in, offer their stuff, and then be mystified as to why nobody uses it except western visitors (of which yes, there are a good number).

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