Fishburne was very diplomatic when asked for his opinion on the finished Matrix 4: “it was better than I expected, but not as good as I had hoped”.

Hugo weaving, the actor for Smith, didn’t appear in the film due to alleged scheduling conflicts, but I suspect he took a look at the script and noped out of it.

It’s a shame, it could’ve been good.

After looking at the list, I get the feeling that most stories if historical intrigue are PT Barnum style hoaxes. Life is much more boring than we were led to believe.

Two different shows

Which version of the series is better to watch? The American version or the Chinese version?

Oh, I see.

I just saw the subscription costs and the free tier as limited to 10 recipes. I didn’t realise the self hosted version was fully functional

I suppose, but what’s the worth of self hosting when the functionality is locked behind a subscription fee. If the company goes down you still lose the software.

Paprika recipe manager seems like an equivalent, and it’s not subscription based. Just a one time purchase per OS

Cell towers are not wifi, but I think I understand what you mean.

Those two examples you’ve given (asking the computer about the network and printer) don’t need ai (LLMs in this context) to exist. They need to be pre programmed absolute functions. Suggesting that these LLMs are a step towards that not only ignores that we already have voice assistants built into computers, but ignores the fact that LLM outputs are volatile and can’t be trusted.

Am from Australia. You are legally required to come to a full stop. You will fail your driving test if you don’t, and police can fine you if they catch you.

Except all reboots waste time retelling the very beginning of a characters development because they are banking on starting a franchise.

How many reboots are stories about the lead up to the character becoming the character? This sounds like we won’t even get to the “there can only be one” finale before the franchise is cancelled.

I see, my apologies.

I thought you were trying to say it was a realistic way for them to escape poverty when you said it was the only realistic way to escape poverty.

You’re missing my point I think.

Sure, a not insignificant number of sports stars have a background that’s considered lower class, but the number of people living below that poverty line that will become sports stars is so low I’m not even sure how many zeros go between 0.[…]1%

Even if all of those people were top class athletes, there’s only room in the sports world for a few hundred of them at most.

It’s not a realistic career path, it’s a lottery that requires high level athletic skill.

It doesn’t seem that realistic if you need to perform in the top 1% among all your poverty stricken competitors. There’s a finite number of places for successful athletes.

Hey, could be Tok’ra.

All good man,

I was just talking about your analogy using the English language, and how it seem like a false comparison. I wasn’t commenting on the Chinese. No need to be rude.

Regarding the paper analogy,

Paper is a material, not a discrete object. A sheet is an object, but is ambiguous until you quantify what is it a sheet of.

You could have a sheet of paper, or metal, or pasta.

A page would be a way to say a sheet of paper as an object.

Because now a phone is just a touchscreen with a processor behind it. It’s up to the software developers to bring the value, and they don’t dare change that because any deviation will prevent the next flappy bird from running on their hardware.

That’s the opposite of apropos of nothing…

There is also no valid reason (cost is not a valid reason) for why there would be a real bullet that fits in a real gun (the lead projectile part) anywhere on set.

There is a valid reason: you can get a realistic kick back from firing a real bullet compared to a blank. There is a safe way to do those kinds of stunts, but the accident here happened because things weren’t done safely.

You can crash a car by being unsafe; you wouldn’t get a bunch of people up in arms saying “There is also no valid reason (cost is not a valid reason) for why there would be a real car that fits in a real lane (the space between the white painted lines) anywhere on the road”