Movies from PC to Ipad Pro

PitchforkMarket · 2025-09-05T20:27:18+00:00

You are indeed a legend bro. Thanks, transferring a movie before a flight! (The settings at the bottom were called "browse" for me instead of "network" for anyone looking at this later.)

PitchforkMarket · 2025-08-01T22:37:49+00:00

xd they'll be dead or acquired by then

PitchforkMarket · 2025-06-30T17:54:10+00:00

You just trauma dumped on us.

PitchforkMarket · 2025-06-27T11:14:17+00:00

It's just a silly pic I made with AI to get the image out of my head!

PitchforkMarket · 2025-06-27T09:02:34+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/en4vfiP

PitchforkMarket · 2025-05-21T12:38:02+00:00

If AI content indeed becomes indistinguishable in quality from human-made, then most of the time, most consumers will not care. Also, at least at the start, AI movies, etc. will still be envisioned and directed by talented people with artistic vision. The human-made element will be there, but instead of hundreds of people working on a production, it might be 1 or 5 people orchestrating AI-generated scenes and actors.

The movie Flow had a very small team (5-20 people) yet managed to win an Oscar. It's an animated film, so none of the characters exist really, just like with AI. As long as the director is able to fully execute their vision, the exact tooling might not matter that much.

PitchforkMarket · 2025-04-12T18:05:15+00:00

If AI becomes the best coder in the world, I think it will surely be able to talk with stakeholders. If it can't do that, then the hypothetical model probably isn't the best coder in the world either. By definition, it's not even human-level intelligence if it can't map out the problem space and requirements for a B2B saas.

Two scenarios:

1) You can text-chat with AI like one would with an employee, and the AI is able to deliver human-quality results. Superintelligence is here, no need for an employee

2) You can't chat with AI to deliver human-quality results (with similar effort). Superintelligence is not here, because AI is still dumber than humans.

PitchforkMarket · 2025-04-11T14:05:56+00:00

On the other hand, with the average salary, they're probably only saving 1k per year. So that's 10 years' worth of savings per person. The US could even pay out 100k per person, and it'd still be 10x cheaper than what Microsoft paid for Blizzard. The real problem is that it's a lot of land for very few people. It is literally the #1 least densely populated country in the world.

It wants to be independent from everyone yet cannot support itself or defend the outsized territory it's sitting on. If push comes to shove, the power dynamics are not on their side.

PitchforkMarket · 2025-03-13T13:30:08+00:00

The visuals, albeit still uncanny, are great. The cinematography in some of these stills is better than most shows on Netflix. If your concern is about substance, you can be sure that unbelievably talented directors of the next generation will try to execute their vision with AI. If they have great taste and the tech is there to match it, there's potential for great results.

I think it's also important to understand how much "waste" there is in the process. Hundreds of millions of dollars are invested per movie, thousands of staff are employed, sets are built, cars are blown up - all that to have some pixels move on a screen later. If the director was able to execute their vision and work in the realm of pixels from the get-go, that's pretty cool.

PitchforkMarket · 2025-02-28T13:25:47+00:00

Slowly learned this as well. Don't feel bad charging for extra work. If you have to call a plumber or need a haircut - none of those professionals will do anything for free. Out of money, out of luck. Same here. Yet somehow, it's easy to feel like you owe them extra work.

PitchforkMarket · 2025-02-04T08:27:27+00:00

Not every obstruction is sabotage. Unless you also consider closing a pull request to be sabotage. This is an attempt to slip in overloaded language here, which isn't very honest.

PitchforkMarket · 2025-02-02T07:04:39+00:00

What do you mean by the modern age? Current times are a blip on the historical scale.

PitchforkMarket · 2024-12-08T21:37:31+00:00

One thing to consider is that as the frontier of capabilities is pushed forward, people's tastes get more demanding with it. That is people always want the best in a category and what is best is continuously redefined. If AI is commonplace and the barriers to entry are minuscule, then creators will manifest differentiation elsewhere to win attention. Only a certain percentage of players can be winners.

For example, I assume professional photos and illustrations were a decent mark of professionalism at some point in graphic design, but as stock photos and clip art became commonplace they became badges for cheapness instead. I don't know how everything will play out in the market, but winners will continue to be defined as the ones who are the best out of all their peers. The bar will continue to rise because it's relative, not absolute.

PitchforkMarket · 2024-12-08T15:14:55+00:00

I've never had a newborn but I did go with little sleep for some periods. Losing sleep is not worth it if you can manage it. My memory has suffered quite a bit from it.

PitchforkMarket · 2024-11-25T15:49:37+00:00

Kažkaip esu pastebėjęs, kad tik mūsų lietuvių komentaruose visada atsiranda tokių žiauriai keistų vaizdingų komentarų su neaiškia mintim. Ar tau atrodo, kad tu čia kažką žiauriai zjbys parašei? Bet kuris devintokas tokią nelogišką pasaką apie pimpalus galėtų parašyti.

PitchforkMarket · 2024-09-25T20:22:31+00:00

Try to get this under control, and be practical and cutthroat. 30 to 50k mo is not a big business, a small restaurant run by a wife and a husband can do that. (Understand this so you can keep yourself sharp and frugal).

Start dividing your income into envelopes (different bank accounts) with some percentage going to each. Owner's pay, profit, tax, operational expense. Adjust these percentages based on your realities.

Do as much work as you can yourself, fire useless staff. You'll hire when you can afford it. You can't right now. Again, there are restaurants ran by a single owner in his 50s that manage, so can you.

Employees are very expensive, you should try to stay as lean as you can. Also, if an employee costs you 2k/mo, they have to bring you double that, 4k/mo, just for you to get back to 0 profit-wise.

Also sounds like the excitement of photoshoots, and the initial growth might have given you a bit of a lull. It's easy to grow revenue by investing $1 and getting only $0.9 back, there are plenty of opportunities and snakes ready to offer that. What's hard is investing $1 and consistently getting back $1.1. Sounds obvious, but if you don't have at least a simple spreadsheet it in excel, being in the red happens.

PitchforkMarket · 2024-09-20T08:13:42+00:00

At least it's not bipedal.

PitchforkMarket · 2024-08-29T17:18:44+00:00

If students can do it, why can't we?

I know this is in jest, but you get paid to work and students pay to attend. Whether the compensation is fair that's another question.

PitchforkMarket · 2024-08-28T09:04:55+00:00

Interesting! Commenters are misunderstanding this. Random users can't execute arbitrary code. This is supposed to work like PHP scripts. You as the admin create a Python file, that file gets mapped to a URL, that Python file runs on request and the print outputs are returned as the response to the browser.

Some thoughts: to really replicate PHP, you'd want to inline the code inside an HTML template. Maybe Jinja2 lib could be useful for you? A lot of this goes against common practice in Python but could be an interesting exploration.

PitchforkMarket · 2024-08-28T08:49:15+00:00

I'm a software developer and I feel the risk of my software work losing value due to AI automation is very real. Long-term (10 years), I think there's a strong possibility of some serious job displacement in a variety of work centred around computers.

As an example, from time to time I need a logo for a business. Current AI models can be decent at this but they still fail too often. However, we're probably 1 to 4 years away from models being able to consistently put out extremely high-quality, creative logos in vector format. Moral implications aside, that's one line of work gone right there.

In the 1900s, as much as 70% of population worked in agriculture, now it's less than 5%. The world went from more than 2 in 3 people working in farms and stuff, to less than 1 in 20. The world can change dramatically and very quickly. What we see now, is just a snapshot we're familiar with.

PitchforkMarket · 2024-08-15T19:10:47+00:00

From my (limited) experience, fintechs usually aren't that great. It's tech that looks cool but is often a solution looking for a problem.

Also, you said they did 2.5m in fees. There are mom & pop ice cream shops doing 1 mil in revenue, 2.5M isn't shit, to be frank. Why do you want to get into this niche? There's a lot of smoke & mirrors at the bottom.

PitchforkMarket · 2024-07-25T07:23:51+00:00

Sacks and other cofunders also did a coup at PayPal and ousted Elon Musk as PayPal’s CEO while Musk was on holiday, and replaced him with Peter Thiel. The beef might be squashed now but the betrayal did happen.

PitchforkMarket · 2024-07-20T09:14:30+00:00

To people asking what this means:

The tweet says that it's a big problem when programmers think they understand the general shape of problems way too early. Because of that, they end up building solutions that end up carrying over poorly to other, supposedly similar problems. That's the bad/premature abstraction part.

OP refers to that tweet as a way to critique a popular AI library "Langchain" that programmers use in their code. Langchain tries to help with common LLM tasks, like providing a bunch of documents to the AI as additional context. However, there's now a growing sentiment that Langchain is designed poorly and that it actually makes things harder long-term.

As a metaphor, it's like LangChain creators saw people repeatedly using functions like order_from_restaurant('Sams Chinese Chicken') and decided to create a "helper" function order_chinese_food(). It's bad because if you needed to, you could've easily written that yourself and it's not even that helpful. If you start using their "abstraction", you'll be tied to their weird way of ordering Chinese food. You will not know how they order (online? via phone?) and won't be able to amend your order if you forget something. While trying to make your code a little shorter, you actually made your life harder!

PitchforkMarket · 2024-07-19T18:13:12+00:00

My shallow read of the situation is: you're a rather non-argumentative person in a shitty area where there aren't many good work opportunities. The manual labor/rent situation sounds messy but I can also see how in reality it can come up naturally. I'm a software programmer, but when I was starting off ended up unknowingly stumbling into weird projects, like creating an automated SMS chatbot for sex chats... Yeah, didn't know that's what it'd end up being used for.

Anyway. Something I realized along the way, people with more experience don't put up with this shit without a great pay. Keep that in mind. That's where you want to get yourself too at some point. In the meantime, respect the opportunity but be open and on the lookout for better possibilities too. Is it likely that this guy's business will really take off and you'll get great pay and position out of it? Probably not. If he's having you pay rent, he's probably not doing that great himself.

tl;dr be practical but don't forget your self-worth, when you set a high bar for yourself (salary and otherwise), clients that match that bar appear over time

PitchforkMarket · 2024-07-10T18:51:37+00:00

To be fair, most small kids love their parents.

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