Remember when on Interstellar there's this whole prologue about the collapse of the US, the dismantling of NASA and the family getting on an argument with the school because the official stance now is that the moon landing never happened and mankind never went to space (despite there being still people alive who went there)?
So, anyway, life imitates art …
This is a myth, and my heart aches for this show might have contributed to it. We have detailed maps of all the ocean floor, with more or less the same variance as our dry surface maps. We have been to most of the more interesting, extreme and dramatic parts of the depths. Hell, there are oceanographic channels that live stream from deep under on the regular. Sure, there are surely still some things we haven't found, thousands of sunk ships too small to know exactly where they ended up in, or natural phenomenon we probably haven't documented yet. But, on the grand scale of science, we know the ocean floor rather well.
Shout out to EVNautilus.
Here's a neat podcast that talks about this specific myth.
If AI wants to do my job for me, it has to do it as good or better than me. Faster but worse won't do, and I don't have time or patience to craft a carefully detailed prompt to fine tune its output. Specially if, in that same time, I could've get the job done to my standards. I also disagree with the definition of digital chores, doing those chores is sometimes active part of my process. I can't make decisions or have a strategic understanding of the problems without actively engaging in the analysis process, an AI summary is useless when I want depth instead of speed.
Yeah, now not even computer engineers can find anything via web search.
Your ape's first anthropogenic climate disaster.
The story might be apocryphal, but bakers indeed do use cookies to test proportions of ingredients. You're not going to waste a whole pound of flour just to see the effect of more or less butter in a particular recipe. You do a little bit and bake them in cookie proportions. Specially when you have to make several hundred pounds of cake at a time, you can't afford to err on the measurements, and you do need to know variations in the flour.
Random sampling flour batches. And you'd think I'm joking. But no, this is exactly how we invented cookies. Cookies were baker's experimental tool to test their flour and, by ovserving the cookie, predict what they needed to change in their bread recipes to produce the exact result they wanted.
If you know the factors that affect the flour, you can control said factors, thus predict your results based on such factors, more or less a measurable margin of error. Ergo, baking is precisely an exact science.
They explicitly said they only make games out of interesting new tech or gameplay mechanics. Then, they polish it with QoL and riffing ideas with said concepts (usually version 2). They don't continue unless they have enough new fun things worth to fill an entire game. They mention each of half-life's things. They experimented with blob physics and ice physics for HL3 but finally decided it wasn't enough to fill an entire game. The blobs returned as Portal 2 liquids, as the portal gun already added enough variety and fun things to do with it. So they made that instead.
They don't care all that much about storytelling or resolving cliffhangers, unless they come from some gameplay. Telling a story is never the driving force in their games. Gameplay is.
It's free…uh…you just have to…uh…yeah. Just have to sign in with your X account …hmm…uh…we made a button that auto logs in inside X and …uh. You can use it without X, yes…uh…sniff…it's just a once a year subscription. And uh…it will be ready by 2025 tax filing season. You just input your SSN number. Factually…it really is already written…I wrote the alpha version…but we are…we have to wait until January. But…uh…we'll solve the auto filing by then…we just have to access all your personal data from the NSA… I'm personally whipping the unpaid intern that is writing it…and then…and then we just migrate it to the X DB. I'm thinking Q1 2026.
Oh, look. Another soulless and devoid of emotion live action cashgrab that somehow has CGI that looks worse than the original animation.
Because animation is for children, eww.
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Hollywood is creatively bankrupt.
This video is a mirror of the YT channel. It is clickbait. On YT not only it works, it is mandatory. The Linux Experiment is that kind of channel, where the host has some interesting things to say once in a while, but is a poor communicator. He still thinks he has to abuse superlatives and be radically sensationalist just to get eyes on the video and earn an audience. I have watched a couple of videos of him but it was tiring hearing him speak idiocy upfront then try to add nuance to said idiocy. It is annoying and the worst kind of content.