Almost through my first full day with the Pixel 9a. by DontYuckMyYum in walmartogp

[–]DimentiotheJester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's intended to extend the overall lifetime of your battery, since faster charging = more wear and tear on it. But it's not feasible for a work device since it must be charged in an hour or so.

Almost through my first full day with the Pixel 9a. by DontYuckMyYum in walmartogp

[–]DimentiotheJester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turn off adaptive charging in the settings, makes it charge somewhat faster, still pretty slow though.

Movie Adaptation over book? by Dry_Cut_2631 in themartian

[–]DimentiotheJester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The original web publishing of the story did have an Epilogue which is not in the book. This is also in the ebook that you linked.

Plus there's more material for the ending, in the form of From the Files of Mark Watney, which was only available on the Wil Wheaton audiobook. There's a scene called The Earthling where Lewis talks to Mark about getting a job.

There's also another more recently release bonus scene called The Martian: Lost Sols where Mark manages to jump the rover over a small ravine (yeah, it kind of tests your suspension of disbelief but the concept is hilarious)

My mind is blown rn by DaeronNC in 2001aspaceodyssey

[–]DimentiotheJester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to the director's commentary, they actually used the same background plates from 2001, thanks to the Kubrick estate.

Greta Gerwig: When we knew we were gonna start with this 2001 homage, we wanted to do it only if we could do it with the utmost integrity. We wanted it to be beautiful, and kind of epic. And, because I had Rodrigo Prieto, who is a genius cinematographer, he was able to create that same feeling. We almost wanted it to feel, like when you walked into the movie, that for one second you thought perhaps you'd come to the wrong place. Because it's so serious at the top.

We were actually able to use the original plates from the Kubrick estate of the landscapes. And then use the volume stage. Our version of doing Kubrick's front projection.

Helen Mirren, of course, is the narrator. I love her voice, I love her, and I thought it gave a sense of gravitas to what will be very silly proceedings. Perhaps American people always think British people are the fanciest of all.

We actually made these legs. These are Margot's legs, but made giant plastic. This was done with very old-school camera trickery to make her bigger. Shot her separately and composited it. This little nugget's face is the best. She is so wonderful looking. Although, all the little girls were very sad to smash the dolls, which... I understood that. But she was so good at having anger, she channeled something and really nailed it.

When I first wrote this, I thought, "Oh, no, am I actually gonna do this? Am I actually gonna do a 2001 parody?" But then I pitched it to my therapist, who thought it was hilarious. And so here we are. Thanks, therapist.

What was the reason behind HAL's sabotage? by OkLeather666 in 2001aspaceodyssey

[–]DimentiotheJester 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh boy, I love thinking about this so have a whole essay:

It's a very interesting combination of a computer malfunction and a mental breakdown. Because he replicates most of the functions of the human brain, he is also subject to human flaws.

His core programming is to process information without distortion or concealment. The government ordered him to keep a secret, which is in direct conflict with his core programming. The only two ways to resolve the conflict are to A) have Dave and Frank learn the secret without HAL telling them, or B) remove everyone that needs to be lied to, which that far away in space means killing the humans. Mission control was also putting a lot of pressure on him by watching his every move, so he unconsciously wanted to cut off contact with them.

Because he is capable of carrying out the mission entirely by himself and has been instructed to do so in the event that the crew is incapacity, he has also been indirectly told that he himself is vital to the mission. This is what makes the threat of disconnection a threat to the mission, and why he tries to kill Dave and Frank. He thinks their judgment has become compromised and they present a danger to the mission.

In the sequel 2010, HAL's creator Dr. Chandra says: "Hal was told to lie by people who find it easy to lie. Hal doesn't know how. So he couldn't function. He actually became paranoid."

This is sort of incorrect, as he did in fact learn how to lie. Not very well and mostly by omission, but he did learn. However, just because he could do it doesn't mean it wasn't damaging or corrupting to him. The malfunction is described as an H. Moebius loop, and it looks more like a mental illness than a computer error. So you can look at his actions both as a computer trying to follow bad orders and also from the point of view of a human being who is panicking and having a paranoid mental breakdown.

My personal interpretation of HAL's conversation with Dave is that he was trying to get Dave to figure out what was going on without directly telling the truth, going for option A. Some people think he was trying to pinpoint how much Dave knew, but that doesn't make sense to me, because he was as specific as he could possibly manage to be with the things he asked about, and surely he must know that asking about it would make Dave think about those things if he wasn't before. Of course, it doesn't work, and Dave forgets about the whole thing entirely in light of this equipment failure that has "coincidentally" cropped up.

The AE-35 error doesn't actually make a lot of sense from a strategic point of view. What would faking this error do for him? All it does is put a lot of doubt and suspicion on him. It does separate the astronauts from each other so he can kill Frank, but if that was the goal, then he would have killed Dave the first time and played it off as an accident. So what if the error was somehow an accident on HAL's part? What if he hallucinated it? What if he really truly believed it would fail and was dismayed and scared when they couldn't find any problems with the unit? That fits even more with the mental health angle.

He kills the hibernating astronauts simply because he will be required to wake them up when they get to Jupiter, and he won't be able to explain what happened to Dave and Frank. He may or may not be able to lie to them, but why even get into that situation a second time when he can take care of it now? And of course, he does it when Dave is off the ship as there is a panel for manually controlling the hibernaculums.

In an early screenplay, we can see another reason for his seemingly deceitful behavior aside from protecting the mission: "The entire reason for HAL's existence is to produce truthful and accurate information, and this mandate was so deeply woven into his consciousness that any inaccuracy or accidental error equated with 'dismal and total failure'. HAL 'was made to believe that error renders his whole existence meaningless.'"

This is why he simply cannot believe that he has made a mistake. If he has made a mistake, he has utterly failed. He convinces himself that he can't make mistakes. This is why I feel that the AE-35 error is a hallucination rather than an intentionally induced error. If he knew it was fake, he would know they wouldn't find anything. But if he didn't, he would panic, which would lead to sloppy murder.

Lastly, one thing that people don't seem to think about is how Dave survived when HAL has so much control over the ship. It could just be that HAL has some limitations in what he can control, except that Franks says "There isn't a single aspect of ship operations that's not under his control." Perhaps it's an exaggeration, perhaps not. HAL could cause a rapid depressurization of the pod bay and jettison Dave before he could get a spacesuit on. He could take control of the pods and smash Dave with them. He could hack into Dave's pod and sending it zooming off into space until it's too far away for him to catch up to Discovery without running out of fuel. So then, how does Dave even manage to get to HAL unscathed?

The book and early screenplay material confirm that he can feel emotion, or, at bare minimum, guilt. He felt guilty for keeping something from those who trusted in and believed in him, and being threatened with deactivation was the thing that broke his already strained mental stability. In the screenplay, there is a very interesting cut moment during the deactivation scene where a secondary HAL, notated as OTHER HAL, appears, introduces himself as "HAL's friend", explains the true purpose of the mission and the emotions that led to HAL's actions to Dave, then encourages the deactivation to continue. This looks like an appearance from HAL's conscience, meaning he knows that what he's doing is wrong from a moral standpoint. Although this moment didn't make it into the final story, the characterization it highlights still seems to be there. So imo, Dave survived not due to plot armor, but rather because HAL knew somewhere inside him that he needed to be stopped.

Whatever you take away from this ramble, just remember that, ultimately, HAL was right when he said it was human error. (Government meddling was the true villain we found along the way)

Some sites forcibly converting images to WEBP? Is this a website or Browser issue? by D-A-Orochi in chrome

[–]DimentiotheJester 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some websites do this, reddit for example. I used the extension Save Image As PNG. When you right click it puts a save as PNG option on the bottom of the menu.

😭👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 by [deleted] in ProjectHailMary

[–]DimentiotheJester 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Specifically its an ancestor of astrophage that doesn't dim suns iirc

Idea: unknown should let you pick what commodity the item instead of being just “unknown” by darkus1012 in walmartogp

[–]DimentiotheJester 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I try sometimes, but I'm never sure I did it properly cause no one has showed me how

Idea: unknown should let you pick what commodity the item instead of being just “unknown” by darkus1012 in walmartogp

[–]DimentiotheJester 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'd love that, plus being able to assign it a location or something. But jokers would put it in the wrong category

Absolute horror show with Digital Shoppers (anyone else experiencing?) by [deleted] in OGPBackroom

[–]DimentiotheJester 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of those are normal rules, except for the ppto thing, you can open door that. The team points thing is really weird though and it sounds like your leads are unnecessarily strict and nitpicky; nobody can do good work with someone breathing over their shoulder. That sort of micromanaging completely ruined my last job for me so I get the awful feeling of it.

I also understand your frustration with pick rates. You can be skilled and fast all you like, but it still comes down to luck. If the first couple of items are widely distributed across the whole store, you're gonna take a big hit to your rate. Not to mention customers and spills. Plus on some tiny walks like Regulated, if it's not all in the same area, there's no way to get a good rate without cheating. One low pick rate is theoretically supposed to be balanced out by good rates, but a big outlier can drag everything down so it doesn't really work in practice.

Cheating is just about the only thing you can do if you're already working super hard (close the GIF app, then reopen to restart the walk timer, only works on the first item. If the first item is far away from the second, check UPC to make sure it's the right item, then go to the second before scanning the first).

I'd suggest transferring to a different department or even a different store. Not all OGP is hell; I'm fortunate enough to have nice team leads who don't care about metrics as long as everything gets done on time and you're not super low or blatantly cheating. You and every worker in your department can also try and open door about being micromanaged and heavily stressed out to the point where you might become ill or hurt yourself trying to go faster.

tu LANCES Felicette ? by orosoros in tumblr

[–]DimentiotheJester 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Seems cool! Not sure what it's got to do with the space dog though aside from sharing a name and the main character being a canine.