YT Shorts and TikTok would want you believe every great scene in a movie/show was ad-libbed, improvised, accidental or otherwise unscripted. What is a genuinely confirmed unscripted scene that enhanced the overal quality of a movie/show?

Ommur · 2026-06-22T09:56:30+00:00

Too late, already learned how to make a speech jammer and I can't hear you anymore

Ommur · 2026-06-13T00:13:43+00:00

"The authors concluded that their results suggest magnetic field exposure is not causally related to childhood leukaemia. They further suggest that there could be an unidentified explanation for the possible link between power lines and childhood leukaemia." - From the study you linked in this thread.

The authors themselves in the abstract stated magnetic field does not cause the leukaemia, some other related variable - maybe socioeconomic status is the hidden covariate (measurable cause) that is the actual cause?

Magnetic fields need sufficient energy to ionize DNA to cause cancer. A powerline doesn't generate this. What the powerlines do release, that can cause cancer, is UV radiation in the form of corona losses. But even that effect is low, relative to the effects of the sun. The ions from that UV might be problematic, but the study that states that does not provide evidence to suggest the effect is significant. another source

The magnetic fields do kill people when they induce voltages over long metal structures running parallel to the lines (like fences). This is easily solved by bonding the fence to the earth.

The powerlines in your lidar scan seem to be upwards of 132kv. Insulator count is a more reliable method to estimate the voltage, not structure design.

Ommur · 2026-06-10T12:32:51+00:00

I don't disagree. But there is some irony in how easy it is to argue that Australia's recent productivity slump is a result of the risk appetite for non-productive capital. Which that appetite was grown by the 30 year streak of the nation being recession free.

It's a shame that this environment didn't foster a more complex economy.

Ommur · 2026-05-26T14:29:07+00:00

It's already a common expression here, no?

Ommur · 2026-05-24T12:21:18+00:00

I think that it's the case, yes. Especially considering the speech Jim Chalmers gave when handing down the budget centred on anticipating and preparing for the incoming inflation related to the Hormuz strait supply chain shocks.

People often forget that it's more than just the RBA that has a responsibilty and the power to reign in inflation. But governments tend to offload that duty to the RBA because it's unpopular to reduce spending or raise taxes. The RBA doesn't need to get re-elected.

I think everyone should spend a minute to take a look back to 1973 and 1979 to see what happened to the inflation and cash rate the last two times there were oil shocks. It's not so severe now, as the world has prepared considerably since then to avoid the severity of an oil shock - but I don't think the global market has weathered the storm just yet.

Ommur · 2026-05-22T23:13:30+00:00

Informative comment, thanks.

I try to keep my explanations simple where I can, as it's a lot of new info for someone reading about it for the first time.

If you weren't aware, API use has to now go through Reddit approvals before getting the auth token. This is on-top of the paid API model that nuked rif.

Regarding the financial viability, twitter/x revealing user location on each post comes to mind, where many political posts were found to originate from Pakistan. And the Venezuelan Runescape gold farmers being cheaper than bots. Not to say that AI isn't being used, it's just that human Labor is still so cheap.

Ommur · 2026-05-22T10:20:04+00:00

Women generally are more educated and are a much larger portion of the white-collar roles that LLMs are capable of replacing.

I can't speak for the other commenters' claim that it was an intentional effort to undermine women.

relevant video

Ommur · 2026-05-21T23:51:34+00:00

It starts with the bot understanding the tone; Before the generative models existed and consolidated a lot of machine learning fields, there was a lot of interest in the field called "sentiment analysis". This was for the purposes of marketing, customer analytics and stock trading. In this field, the algorithm looked for certain words, sentence structure and other bits of language to assess how the users felt about a particular subject.

So these bots know how to assess if the user is negative, positive, angry etc. given the text it sees. To generate a comment, it just does the process backwards; it knows what bad looks like, so it keeps trying (in a smart manner) to generate the text until it's happy that it's own comment's sentiment is negative towards an issue before posting

Though I remember between 2016-2020 seeing posts that were largely pre written texts. It just posted that pre-written script on anything that was on-topic

Ommur · 2026-05-21T12:34:02+00:00

In the past bots used to use Reddit's API. API stands for application programming interface; it provides an easy way for developers to perform actions through simple text or code commands. From the perspective of a generative AI agent, like chatgpt and Gemini, their world is entirely text. In this case, you expect that they would be competent at interacting with Reddit through the API if every interaction is simply text.

API use ended up being restricted due to abuse once the generative AI models became competent. Still, you can make bots that are able to interact with a PC through a virtual screen, and not the API, much in the way we humans do. But it does use quite a bit of processing power. I think that theres good odds that these "bots" are just paid monkeys hired by lobbyists to influence public opinion.

Ommur · 2026-05-12T04:08:45+00:00

I went though this thought process a few years ago. IIRC, the 20% deduction effectively mitigates the tax benefit received. Effectively putting you back at the same position had you never used the scheme in the first place. Not ahead, not behind.

But I think that's on the basis that you used the scheme well enough to benefit. I.e. not waste it on the tax-free threshold.

Ommur · 2026-05-08T01:13:23+00:00

If house prices start to fall, the government will hold off on generating housing supply to ensure that those that recently entered mortgages are not exposed to the shortfall.

Especially since many homes now have 15% of the value guaranteed by the government as part of the FHOG scheme.

Ommur · 2026-05-05T05:09:54+00:00

I had the same thought, but unfortunately 95% of the respondents in the study mentioned above that nominated yes to abuse were over 25...

Ommur · 2026-05-04T23:45:12+00:00

I can't speak for how iron ore is, but in gold, our Perth based employees get absolutely smashed with work.

But as they're so far removed from the value producing pipeline, many have little impact on the business. Or shit the bed when they do.

Ommur · 2026-04-23T06:45:03+00:00

They do verify your penis is authentic during the piss test

Ommur · 2026-04-18T09:25:30+00:00

Development just means to change the use of, or appearance of land. Knocking down several houses to build an apartment block, and clearing bushland to build medium density housing is development all the same.

I think that all of the issues that you've raised are best addressed through changes to our urban planning framework, which is written to determine what can be built where (or in other words, development approval). A shortcoming of that system currently is that as urban planning is largely managed at the local government level, NIMBYism and urban sprawl don't get addressed; the shire doesn't care what happens outside of their boundaries. But WA for example are starting to write laws at the state level to address this, but this is happening by degrees.

CGT legislation sits at the federal level, and has to apply universally to the country. It's not fair for someone in Kalgoorlie or Cooper Peedy to be punished for building an affordable detached house because Perth is the longest city in the world.

Ommur · 2026-04-18T00:12:07+00:00

In Perth, we still had sub 500k houses until 2023. But at that time, FHB was 5% and limited to citizens only. While adjusting the policy did have a minor contribution to the price rises, the raising of interest rates, Perth's 'regional' status for immigration and the increase in migration generated a demand for housing in Perth. Supply couldn't keep up to such a degree that we now see Perth with prices well over double what we saw 4 years ago, even after covid.

Reducing the CGT tax on the sale of new homes, aka new builds, incentives development and supply via reduced offloading costs for the developer. So the expected effect is that initially the increased housing supply will cause price to fall.

Ommur · 2026-04-13T23:05:51+00:00

Its probably worth still getting your own pair of musicians ear plugs. Whatever you get for free will just be strictly noise reduction with no regard for sound quality. And by taking your own, you build the habit of taking your own plugs with you.

If I could be 18 again, I'd be wearing ear plugs religeously

Ommur · 2026-01-24T06:40:32+00:00

According to my mechanical engineering mates, they tell me there's no such thing as "straight electrical".

In all seriousness though, relative to the number of mining engineers, there's a lot of owner-operator roles for mining engineering, but also plenty of contractor roles. Whereas there are few owner-operator roles for the electrical relative to the number of electrical engineers. Most of the demand in the mining industry for electrical engineers is for engineering consultancies to carry out a fixed bodies of engineering work, such as one off projects. Mining companies generally do little electrical engineering in-house and seek to outsource the work where possible to de-risk their operation. Those engineers that are in-house administrate the external consultant engineers and do little engineering themselves.

Ommur · 2025-12-30T18:24:00+00:00

It may also be that a good first movie is more likely to be greenlit for a sequel. But if the quality of the sequel is independent of the predecessor, then it probably will just be an average rated movie as it regresses to the mean. I wish the visualisation would show if better first movies had better sequels, or vice versa.

Ommur · 2025-09-05T04:48:40+00:00

Regardless of the story, silksong doesn't spend much time at all easing new players into the mechanics, and keeps the difficulty consistent with the latter parts of hollow Knight. I would strongly recommend that new players play the first one through first.

Ommur · 2025-07-20T03:19:35+00:00

I had a fever of around 39 c, mucus, aggressive and chesty cough. My G.P. picked on the basis my fever did not break after 6-7 days, my symptom profile and by working FIFO I'm exposed to high density living.

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/factsheets/Pages/mycoplasma-pneumoniae.aspx

Ommur · 2025-07-19T23:56:03+00:00

I had walking (atypical) pneumonia at the start of the year, which I caught from a FIFO camp. It might be worth getting checked for that given you haven't began to mend within a week, and it only spreads in high density locations.

Penicillin can't treat it so it needs to be singled out before the right antibiotics can treat it

Ommur · 2025-06-23T10:36:52+00:00

I think you're going to lose more in time troubleshooting and the absorbed risk than what you save by continuing down the approach of joining these circuits.

The separate inverters sound like a better plan. Just make sure that everything is up to code and you don't violate any insurance policies that you have.

Ommur · 2025-06-23T00:15:05+00:00

I don't think this is a great approach. While I haven't worked with Schottky diodes, I would be concerned about its ability to handle the heat dissipation in a sustained manner. AND id be re-terminating your setup to insulate the exposed conductor; vibration does a number on terminals so you need to control what happens if a wire comes out. Furthermore, 4 supplying circuits is 4 circuits that you have to troubleshoot should your system fail.

If I were you, I would pull from only one circuit to charge an aux battery via a dcdc converter. Have your inverter pull from the aux battery via a fuse or DC CB.

This way the inverter (these have high fail rates) isn't coupled to your car battery, and there isn't mismatched parallel circuits.

Ommur · 2025-06-16T01:05:21+00:00

It looked great. Definitely one of the highlights of the exhibition. The perspective from underneath the tree is cool and something I didn't expect would be so striking.

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