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- Comment on papa I need the borger 1 week ago:
oh no
- Comment on "Mickey 17" releases digitally on March 25 — only 18 days after its theatrical debut 1 week ago:
It’s a pretty good film, worth a watch if it’s the kind of thing you’re into
- Comment on 🐴 :) 1 week ago:
No
- Comment on Good evening I choose being well informed. 2 weeks ago:
Also, whilst we’re on the subject, cement lube is not safe for cement toys
- Comment on There is no method to this madness 2 weeks ago:
I really should go and get checked, eh?
- Comment on Ultra Gullible 3 weeks ago:
They did those starter sku users dirty
But yeah this was Microsoft’s strategy for a while (and may still be): they attempted to push small business users to their server products for running servers by limiting the ram and core counts on the non-server skus.
- Comment on Why are entertainers paid so much? 3 weeks ago:
Firstly it’s a fraction of a percent of the pool of people working as entertainers that get paid anything close to a comfortable salary—many don’t even make it a few years and make basically nothing before they change careers.
The successful ones get paid a load basically because the people that invest in funding TV shows & films know that you can generally multiply your investment by attaching a household name to the project. Now this is for several reasons, firstly a household name will generally actually be a good actor. Secondly, people recognising a member of your cast means they’re generally more likely to watch it. Finally, there’s the effect on the rest of the casting—some studios might take the opportunity to push the compensation of the “no-name” actors down because they have an opportunity to work with a star, others might go the other way and use the first star in negotiations to get additional starts signed on to the project.
So essentially, the big projects make a lot of money, and executives attribute a significant part of that generated value to having the big star involved.
There’s also the negotiation factor on long running shows, main characters end up in good negotiation positions for more money if a show is successful and their character isn’t easy to kill off. This is also why Netflix tries to cancel stuff before the 3rd season—that’s about the point who holds the power in negotiations shifts away from the studio.
Tl;dr capitalism
- Comment on Would you rather be trapped in Groundhog Day or the Truman show? 3 weeks ago:
This brings me some more questions tbh
Like how is he remembering the previous loop?
What of him gets sent back?
His brain? His whole body? His thoughts are a product of the chemical and physical state of his brain and body, so gotta be his body to some extent
In the film he’s shown learning not just knowledge but new skills requiring dexterity you assume he doesn’t already possess
Could he work out in the gym and have the physical benefits in the next loop?
I’m starting to think the film might have a couple of plot holes
- Comment on Would you rather be trapped in Groundhog Day or the Truman show? 3 weeks ago:
Groundhog Day
Infinite time to do hobbies and no lasting consequences to my actions? Where do I sign up!
Also I viscerally hate the idea of being watched 24/7 so the Truman show would be probably my worst nightmare
- Comment on I give my money to hard working entrepreneurs 3 weeks ago:
I was going to say that Affinity, DxO and DaVinci are right there as free/non-subscription options.
But yeah, going open source is even better, though sometimes a bit of a workflow shift if you’re already used to something like lightroom and you go for darktable, for example. There’s also Rawtherapee for photos but I never tried that one.
I hear kdenlive is a very capable NLE, though I don’t do much video work myself, so I’ve not used it.
InDesign has never struck me as doing much different than any other DTP software, of which there’re plenty of open source options, scribus gets cited a lot
Inkscape has always been pretty decent for vector stuff
Audition has never been much more than a fancy audacity
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 4 weeks ago:
Well I’m very excited to see the injection of life this hopefully gives c&c modding
I wonder how many of the old guard are still around, I’m glad the cncnet project is still going strong
- Comment on The Wipeout-like racer BallisticNG gets Steam Deck Verified 4 weeks ago:
Wait this game has been around for 7 years and I’m just now finding out about it?!
- Comment on Just Need To Hover A Mouse Over It 4 weeks ago:
Well what do you think happens when goths reproduce?
- Comment on Just Need To Hover A Mouse Over It 4 weeks ago:
Goth kids need clothing too, jeez
- Comment on ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ has the MCU’s lowest Cinemascore ever 4 weeks ago:
I was gonna ask what happened to that godawful Thor film I had the misfortune of catching
I’m impressed they’ve managed to surpass that
- Comment on Murica 4 weeks ago:
You had me curious so I just went on Facebook marketplace and searched “bike”
The first screen of results was all bikes under £100
You realise you don’t need to buy a carbon fiber Tour de France bike to get around a town, right?
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 4 weeks ago:
I remember thinking Netscape was way cooler than IE based purely on the throbber animation
- Comment on wyd in this situation 4 weeks ago:
What monster red phones this
- Comment on Are conservatives mad about trans people or they just mad they get walk around out of the closet while they have to leave the white sheets at home? 4 weeks ago:
Truly and harrowingly sadly:
Conservative voters hate trans people simply because they’re told to
Conservative politicians tell their voters to hate trans people because it distracts the voters whilst the politician robs them (of their rights, their potential or simply their actual fucking money)
It’s currently trans people because the previous victim roster of gay dudes and middle eastern people just isn’t cutting it any more.
- Comment on Washington DC to be renamed to St Donaldsburg 5 weeks ago:
How long before he rolls a couple of those big ugly dictator headshot carpets down the side of the building
I think we’re in non-zero probability now
- Comment on nuked from orbit 5 weeks ago:
One is the actual disembowelment one is the ritual IIRC
- Comment on nuked from orbit 5 weeks ago:
One is part of the other
- Comment on Anon wants to be a singer 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s more for the kind of people that do a couple of musical shows a day
I’ve lost my voice from singing as part of the crowd at a music gig before, I can totally imagine that being a problem that professional singers need to mitigate
- Comment on Anon wants to be a singer 5 weeks ago:
A pretty dull one really:
Some singers use throat sprays to reduce irritation
- Comment on The IT Crowd: Jen has been transported 5 weeks ago:
Are you watching it from a legitimate source? You could probably send an email if so, and have them fix it—most streaming services are at least trying to not alternate deaf audience members these days.
If you’re watching a less than legitimate copy, get on opensubtitles and find some better ones, you probably just ended up with a bad fansub in this case.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
The statement “this [guy] thinks the government uses SQL” demonstrates a complete and total lack of knowledge as to what SQL even is. Every government on the planet makes extensive and well documented use of it.
The initial statement I believe is down to a combination of the above and also the lack of domain knowledge around social security. The primary key on the social security table would be a composite key of both the SSN and a date of birth—duplicates are expected of just parts of the key.
If he knew the domain, he would know this isn’t an issue. If he knew the technology he would be able to see the constraint and following investigation, reach the conclusion that it’s not an issue.
The man continues to be a malignant moron
- Comment on To whomever invented LED bus advertisements: I despise you. 1 month ago:
I mean, I don’t think an advert needs to be illuminated at all, frankly
- Comment on I wish I could stop 1 month ago:
No one deserves your immediate attention at the drop off a message
We need to re-normalise asynchronous communication
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 1 month ago:
Well it is the i, owned and published by the daily mail
- Comment on [Discussion] Should Twitter links be banned from lemmy.world? 2 months ago:
Yes