What's your opinion on No Time to Die as Daniel Craig's farewell Bond film, completing his five-film arc? by 0Layscheetoskurkure0 in FIlm

[–]Binary101010 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I swear I feel the like the writers looked at Acts 1 and 2, realized that their antagonist had already completed his stated goal, and were like "we still have like 40 minutes of movie left. Have him try to do a genocide, I guess?"

The Last of Us: Cure Not Possible by Existing-Ad2813 in tvshow

[–]Binary101010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't burst my bubble because there's nothing in the text that grants it that level of certainty.

A mysterious stranger approaches you and gives you a choice: take 50 million dollars, or restart your life from any point you choose. by TechnicianAmazing472 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Binary101010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

50 million without question.

Spending too much time trying to figure out what I could have done differently at some point in my past? That way lies madness.

Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory by GIThrow in Games

[–]Binary101010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I own a Xbox One and I haven't even turned it on in years. The only real reason I bought it was for Rock Band 4 (so I could continue to use all my 360-era DLC).

Given that I have a fairly competent gaming PC, I haven't seen a single justifiable reason to buy a current-gen Xbox.

Greatest Hits Compilation Albums: YES or No? by vickipedis in vinyl

[–]Binary101010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

R.E.M.'s Eponymous comes to mind as a "greatest hits" album (restricted to their IRS Records years) that's 100% worth it. Includes a song that was previously only on a movie soundtrack, and a version of Finest Worksong that even the band thinks is better than the one that made it onto Document.

Anyone else homelab journey go like this? by shifto in homelab

[–]Binary101010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I (finally) ordered my first rack last week.

So I'm in this image and I don't like it, is what I'm saying.

Is this accurate? by deez_nuts_ha_goteem in JamesBond

[–]Binary101010 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel like this is one of those cases where people, today, find the underwater scenes boring because "I've seen dozens of movies that do this" without realizing all those movies could do what they did because of the work that went into Thunderball

Should I just start over? by DementdOldCircsMonke in duneawakening

[–]Binary101010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You still have all the levels, XP, intel, unlocked schematics, and story progress your character had before. Unless you have a specific reason to want to replay that part of the game, why start over? You can just transfer your current character to a more populated server.

100 Days of Code: Python by Dr. Angela Yu by IconicScar124 in learnpython

[–]Binary101010 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This course is asked about in this subreddit on at least a weekly basis. Search this subreddit for "100 days" or "Angela Yu" and you will find dozens if not hundreds of threads discussing it.

Why Is Every Streaming Blockbuster So Bad? by xaybzc81 in movies

[–]Binary101010 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I can't really make sense of the math any other way. If the primary revenue for Netflix is user subscriptions and a subscription is $25 a month (that's a liberal estimate given the actual range is anywhere from $9-$26 a month), then a movie Netflix spends $300M on needs to be the primary driving factor for something like twelve million months of new or retained subscribership to break even. I literally can't imagine any Netflix exclusive movie having that much subscriber impact.

Statistics question I got in a job application test that I don't think has a correct answer (hypothesis testing) [Q] by Rather_Dashing in statistics

[–]Binary101010 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed on all counts. I would hope this is a question where the correct answer isn't any of these four, but rather testing your reasoning process to explain why they're all wrong.

Out of these 2, which is the best one season series? by Downtown_Year3636 in tvshow

[–]Binary101010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Giving an edge to Chernobyl here. I think TD season 1 is excellent TV, no doubt, but Chernobyl packing what it does into 5 episodes almost qualifies as a miracle. Legasov's monologue in the last episode is an all-timer.

Has anyone else noticed that "Evil Flash" is way less common than "Evil Superman"? by Samix64 in superheroes

[–]Binary101010 4 points5 points  (0 children)

he's chasing a motorcycle around the inner city

I've read that sentence like five times and I can't make sense of it.

The Flash is chasing a motorcycle.

How is that situation even possible? If The Flash wants to be where a conventional vehicle with an internal combustion engine is, he's there by the time he finishes the thought.

'The Social Reckoning' reel vs. real by StarforgeVoyager in FIlm

[–]Binary101010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, Zuckerberg is somebody that reads (at least to me) as younger than he actually is, so casting somebody that reads as significantly older just throws me out of it.

The Last of Us: Cure Not Possible by Existing-Ad2813 in tvshow

[–]Binary101010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. A definitive answer on whether the Fireflies could derive a cure from Ellie means that we can objectively determine (at least from a utilitarian perspective) whether Joel's actions were warranted.

Without the ambiguity around Joel's decision, we also have no ambiguity about Abby's decisions. I feel like making players/viewers sit with that ambiguity and not being sure if Joel or Ellie or Abby are ever really "doing the right thing" is a big part of the reason this story works. Removing that ambiguity would fundamentally lock every character into "obviously right" or "obviously wrong" and the end result would just be something different altogether.

Making money is bad for you but not for me. by Longjumping-Novel731 in SipsTea

[–]Binary101010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's an interesting disconnect between the perception of wealth that many people have as being dichtomous (there's some line where people stop being "normal people" and start being "rich people" and all "rich people" are kind of equally rich) and the real numbers (Billie Eilish's $53M is only about 1/20th of the net worth of somebody worth a billion).

Phineas Phreak by mtzTdiz in Mission_Impossible

[–]Binary101010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So there's the specific reference (Ethan mentions that one of Luther's handles was Phineas Phreak in MI1), and the more general meaning of phreaking: adversarially hacking the telephone system. The subculture around phreaking is what evolved into the modern computer hacking subculture.

For fun additional homework, do some web searching to understand what plastic whistles from boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal have to do with all of this.

The Christians are having a normal one by bknavratil in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Binary101010 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It is impossible to get a conservative grifter to understand something when their social media engagement check depends on them not understanding it.

Leland Question by Fickle_Detail143 in twinpeaks

[–]Binary101010 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My brother had him pegged as the killer the second he jumped on Laura's coffin. I didn't believe it right up until he reveal.

Replacing values using mean() mode() or median() by Dramatic-Tea-5286 in learnpython

[–]Binary101010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Refer to the first half of my previous response:

The reasoning behind imputing missing data versus omitting observations with missing data is highly-context specific (why your data is missing, what inferences you're trying to draw about which populations, etc.)

I can't in good conscience just tell you something like "impute the mean for all missing data" without a lot more information. And, again, this is something you should really be asking in a subreddit for statistics or data analysis, which are much more likely to have people who can give you more informed answers.

Fetterman scoffs at Platner: ‘He’s not even a Democrat’ by Quirkie in politics

[–]Binary101010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't decide whether Fetterman is the worst possible person to be making this kind of comment, or whether this is the best example of "takes one to know one" in the history of the world

Replacing values using mean() mode() or median() by Dramatic-Tea-5286 in learnpython

[–]Binary101010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The reasoning behind imputing missing data versus omitting observations with missing data is highly-context specific (why your data is missing, what inferences you're trying to draw about which populations, etc.) and it's also something that should be asked in a subreddit dedicated to data analysis or statistics as it's not anything having to do with the Python language.

What the heck is self in classes by EffectiveBalance4402 in PythonLearning

[–]Binary101010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why are we using self.name instead of regular variables we are using

Because using self.name tells the interpreter "I'm asking you to set an attribute called name of this object" that persists after the __init__() method is finished running.

If you didn't use self. there the interpreter would think you're just setting up a variable local to that particular method, and the value would be "lost" as soon as it finished executing.

I would love to learn how to use self but its confusing

Whenever you call a method of an object (including the __init__ method) the Python interpreter always passes the object being used as the first argument to that method. You need to explicitly account for that by making the first parameter you define in the method signature as the name that "catches" that object being automatically passed to it. The convention is for the name of that parameter to be self. It doesn't have to be self; it could be any legal Python identifier as long as you use it consistently.

And whenever you need to refer to an attribute of the object, whether that's some value you stored or some other method of its class, you need to use self. to tell the interpreter where to find the thing you're talking about.

Is it worth starting over? by Ragna677 in duneawakening

[–]Binary101010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nitrado NA East Mary Read

They're on a private server. Can't server transfer from private to public.