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watching But I'm A Cheerleader and gotta say that even in the universe where conversion therapy worked I don't think it would work, as you can't eroticise heterosexuality to that degree without it becoming camp and that reads as gay, the only way to make homosexuality straight is to not care so much about it.
putting the camp in conversion camp, you could say.
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watching But I'm A Cheerleader and gotta say that even in the universe where conversion therapy worked I don't think it would work, as you can't eroticise heterosexuality to that degree without it becoming camp and that reads as gay, the only way to make homosexuality straight is to not care so much about it.
Russian logistics are still getting hammered and that must make it harder for them to advance, but I don't think it's enough to make their position collapse by itself, Ukraine still needs to actually attack on the ground and that remains challenging and expensive.
still, continuing the war makes less and less sense for Russia and more and more sense for Ukraine, which suggests that there won't be peace without a collapse of some sort.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 73 missiles — including eight Zirkon hypersonic cruise missiles, 33 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, 27 Kh-101 cruise missiles, and five Kalibr cruise missiles — and 656 Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas, Banderol, and Parodiya drones overnight. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed 11 Iskander-Ms, 26 Kh-101s, three Kalibrs, and 602 drones; that 30 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles, and 33 drones struck 38 locations; and that debris hit 15 locations.
these strikes are killing a few dozen people, which is awful but relatively small in the scheme of things, it's like a really expensive way of indicating mild displeasure, but to what end?
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Stories like this are funny, sure, but the correct lesson to take from the "our {junior developer, dog, LLM, senior developer, disgruntled accountant, rube goldberg machine} deleted our entire production database" is not that you shouldn't have had that {junior developer, dog, etc.} but that it should not have been possible for that to happen in the first place, your system architects were so incompetent they didn't set up access control.
Ideally you should use something like an Object Capability model, but even basic rules like "you require the Special Key that we only deploy on production systems to even access the production database" and "our git repository doesn't allow anyone to push anything that deletes history on main unless they have the CTO's ssh key" go a very long way towards preventing this from happening by accident.
If you are currently at a company where you could delete the production database without at least having to do something that involves typing "I am forcing this run right now without oversight and if it breaks anything I will get turbo-fired" you should find out who you can yell at about it.
(if your daily work requires typing "I am forcing this run right now without oversight and if it breaks anything I will get turbo-fired", this is the same problem. If you're writing scripts that inject "I am forcing this run right now without oversight and if it breaks anything I will get turbo-fired" into an automated process, maybe just look for a new job)
also if your system can't immediately restore the deleted data from backups! because even the best system will delete stuff sometimes.
it's interesting to watch this movie again thirty years later, I think Ebert nails it with:
The subtext of “Dave” resembles the messages of many of the Capra movies: If people in power only behaved sensibly and with good will, a lot of our problems would solve themselves. Of course, it’s not that simple. But watching “Dave,” there were moments when I found myself asking, why isn’t it?
the movie leans into the mystique of the Royal Presidency and the president as a larger than life figure who just needs to do the sensible thing and guarantee a job for every American -- the classic program in movies -- and of course it has a political corruption scandal that would be barely a footnote today.
oh yeah and it's Kevin Kline but it totally could have been Robin Williams, he says Robin Williams lines with a Robin Williams intonation, honestly it could have been Robin Williams in In & Out too.
terrifying thought that people might be permitted to live near transport infrastructure
The sweeping expansion would dramatically increase the total number of activity centres from 60 to 210, essentially turning almost every train station in Melbourne into a high-density housing zone.
sentences that make the homies come
It has already faced fierce backlash from some councils and residents’ groups, which have accused the government of a centralised power grab that erodes local communities’ say over high-rise developments.
sentences that make the homies weep tears of rage
terrifying thought that people might be permitted to live near transport infrastructure
The sweeping expansion would dramatically increase the total number of activity centres from 60 to 210, essentially turning almost every train station in Melbourne into a high-density housing zone.
sentences that make the homies come
terrifying thought that people might be permitted to live near transport infrastructure
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A mustache twirling villain has me suspended above a vat of bubbling green acid and he says if a thousand people don't unfollow me in the next 30 minutes he's dropping me in 😨😨😨
Just to make the logistics of this clearer - I dictated this and the above post to him after giving him the code to unlock my phone (which seemed prudent given the circumstances) and he typed them out and posted them. Also I'm wearing sensible jeans so there's no upskirt going on, but there are a few strategically placed rips so I'm also not like completely dowdy up here either.
Died btw. But it was mostly just setting up the bad guy's villainy - I wasn't the main character or anything - so it wasn't overly dramatic. The camera panned away before you could see anything too gory
yeah I don't trust the cutaway; when they reboot the series I know you'll be brought back as a revamped character whose backstory is that you survived the acid with nothing but some devilishly sexy scars but it turned you evil and you're a minor villain now
was talking with an electrician about data centers and it got me thinking, do we really need more than the equivalent of one Mac mini per person, in terms of total compute available?
even if you're compiling code or doing 3D stuff you're not doing it 24 hours a day, heck even most uses of AI are not continuous while sleeping, and if you have a laptop and a phone you're probably using less than 10% of the computing power available on your person.
was talking with an electrician about data centers and it got me thinking, do we really need more than the equivalent of one Mac mini per person, in terms of total compute available?
are people in movies still carrying their shopping in big paper bags? it’s funny how plastic bags were just too depressing to put on film.
Still? Over here all the stores have switched in the last few years from plastic bags to paper bags. Theoretically the goal is for everyone to bring their own reusable bags, but everyone just uses the provided paper bags instead.
life mirrors art!
it's interesting to watch this movie again thirty years later, I think Ebert nails it with:
The subtext of “Dave” resembles the messages of many of the Capra movies: If people in power only behaved sensibly and with good will, a lot of our problems would solve themselves. Of course, it’s not that simple. But watching “Dave,” there were moments when I found myself asking, why isn’t it?
the movie leans into the mystique of the Royal Presidency and the president as a larger than life figure who just needs to do the sensible thing and guarantee a job for every American -- the classic program in movies -- and of course it has a political corruption scandal that would be barely a footnote today.
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are people in movies still carrying their shopping in big paper bags? it’s funny how plastic bags were just too depressing to put on film.
I wrote back in 2015 that “the public stock markets are increasingly about capital return rather than capital raising”: The main thing that public companies do in the stock market is buy back stock, not sell it. “Equity retirements have been consistently greater than issuances,” said the Federal Reserve back in 2017, and since then net equity issuance by US companies — the amount of stock they sell to raise money, minus the amount they buy back — has remained consistently negative. Meta Platforms Inc., which has a market capitalization of $1.5 trillion, has sold a total of about $11.2 billion of stock in its history; it bought back about $23.6 billion of stock last year. Building a website doesn’t cost very much money, but if it’s the right website it generates a lot of money.
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