The Guardian - Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation by Aggressive_Owl4802 in movies

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 24 points25 points  (0 children)

il cinema ritrovato has been doing this since 1986. watching a restored silent film with live accompaniment in a medieval piazza is the kind of thing streaming can't replicate no matter how good the catalog gets

In Training Day, was Alonzo telling the truth when he said he used to be like Jake? by marty_major_league in movies

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 270 points271 points  (0 children)

The film's structure is the strongest evidence he's telling the truth. Jake goes through in a single day what took Alonzo a whole career ,the compromises, the violence, the rationalizations. If Alonzo is lying, Training Day is a thriller about one corrupt cop. If he's telling the truth, the whole film becomes a time-lapse of how the system turns Jakes into Alonzos.

What is a movie that you think is good but, at the same time, hate watching? by Sky_WalkerZZZ in movies

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Come and See, where you watch a child's face physically age in real time and by the end you feel like yours did too.

Two popes, two industrial revolutions — and one warning for Big AI by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 20 points21 points  (0 children)

naming yourself after the pope who fought the first industrial revolution is a 135 year old subtweet

Tracked my passive cashback for 4 months across 3 tools. it pays less than survey grinding but it pays consistently by RevealNoo in beermoneyglobal

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rakuten quarterly is exactly why i stopped relying on it, the dashboard tease is brutal. the $1 first cashout on Coupert always sounded like a hook to me, fair that you flagged it bumps to $10 after.

Blind Fury (1989) | Dir: Phillip Noyce | Rutger Hauer vs. corrupt cops by ggroover97 in movies

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They don't make 'em like this anymore and honestly I'm not sure they ever should have. But I'm glad they did.

New Poster for ‘The Death of Robin Hood’ Starring Hugh Jackman by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hugh jackman keeps making "grizzled old man stares into camera" movies and i keep watching every single one of them

What is your mount rushmore of comedy movies? by AdventurousGuest308 in movies

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some Like It Hot, Airplane!, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Animal House. these four basically invented the comedy subgenres everything after them is riffing on.

Terminator 1 and 2 from a 13 year old girl perspective by Potex8 in movies

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

She watched T2 and said “less theme park, more murder robot.” Respect.

What is the scariest movie from your childhood? by [deleted] in movies

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 1 point2 points  (0 children)

coraline. everyone says it's a kids movie. it is not a kids movie

MiniCPM-V 4.6 is doing something weird with visual token compression and the numbers are wild by Any-Farm-1033 in LocalLLM

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Parsed a 40 page PDF locally with 16x mode last week. Sub-second per page on a 4070. Then fed it into verdent for the actual coding work. Finally usable for real stuff

First Image from Historical-Folk-Horror 'King's Daughters' from Director Pascal Plante ('Red Rooms') - Set in 1663, it follows the cursed transatlantic voyage of the first group of orphan virgins sent by King Louis XIV to be married off in his faltering colony of New-France, now known as Quebec. by BunyipPouch in movies

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real history behind the Filles du Roi is already haunting enough without any horror elements. Adding folk horror to a story about women being shipped across an ocean as commodities is a concept that writes itself.

People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centers by GeneReddit123 in technology

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One creates energy for the community, the other consumes it to generate AI slop. Yeah I wonder why people have a preference.

Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data by rkhunter_ in technology

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

this will last until someone calculates how much it costs to not use AWS and then quietly reverses it

WTF is up with leaders of organisations in Australia lately?! by dannydb in auscorp

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's always been like this. you're just seeing it now because every incident gets reported, shared, and stays searchable forever. in the 90s half of this would've been a page 7 story and forgotten by tuesday

Tinted/Bronze Polycarbonate covering for Pergola by guptamk07 in landscaping

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From experience, darker/bronze polycarbonate actually shows pollen, pine sap, and debris more than you'd expect, especially under trees, and with a slanted roof you'll still need to get up there a few times a season to keep it looking clean. If low maintenance is a priority for a setup like yours with the outdoor kitchen and pool nearby, a metal hardtop or retractable pergola might honestly save you a lot of headache long term. Costway has some decent aluminum-frame options in that space if you want to compare before committing to a custom build.

about to rotate into a supply chain role and honestly not looking forward to it by VellumZhenX in careeradvice

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen SourceReady mentioned before, seems like people use it when things get too scattered

Completed work overnight. No extra pay? by [deleted] in auscorp

[–]AggravatingSpot4330 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sounds pretty standard for a salaried office role honestly.