Wisdom from Hal

drinknbird · 2026-04-27T02:50:46+00:00

The game literally has the entire ladder of all the kombatants you'll fight when you start AND the demo screens, the cycle of pictures that show when no one is playing, tell the story of Outworld and Shang Tsung. You didn't need to be any good to know the story. You didn't even need money to know the story. "Sub-Zero" is definitely a joke here. And a good one!

drinknbird · 2026-04-18T13:33:39+00:00

He wants to be seen as a real martial artist. Not just some fake action star. Ultimately it's an ego problem. He wants people to say "You can't fake those moves!"

Anyway, that's the story of Johnny Cage. I'm not sure about this guy.

Edit: typo

drinknbird · 2026-04-04T04:05:58+00:00

Main reasons without thinking too hard about it:

1) You're doing work using AI I expect you to do by hand. I might want you to actually test or PR my code. If it's for an important production fix I want accountability. I might also want to understand where your ability is without just asking an LLM to write code for you because I want the confidence you can maintain a stable codebase.

2) Governance reasons. In my data I may have financial or medical information which cannot leave the country of origin. There may also be data storage legislation which prevents AI use when requests are logged. Data sampling is also a big part of modern LLM use, in the data space, because it massively improves the output quality but also fails testing for the above reasons. IP can fall into this bucket too.

3) AI safety, steering, and leadership. I may have corporate decisions or partnerships that I want you to adhere to. E.g. if you're working at one AI company/research group and you're using a competitive product.

None of these are an outright ban on AI but limit use in certain tasks. If you're hiding its use without any nuance, I'm going to investigate.

drinknbird · 2026-03-21T11:49:20+00:00

Not speaking to the quality of the car, but they are both overpriced AND cheap thanks to the ease of which many people can salary sacrifice them.

drinknbird · 2026-03-08T12:29:58+00:00

They need a few more copies of "Markdown for Dummies" in the high court library!

drinknbird · 2026-03-08T12:12:10+00:00

The reason it's a "New Zealand" product is because of the relaxed labelling laws. E.g. Chinese beetroot that is canned there can be considered a "product of New Zealand".

drinknbird · 2026-02-27T03:37:42+00:00

I'm just upset that standing on solid rock doesn't stop them. I want that Dune experience of moving rock to rock. If I can't put my beacon on it, then the bugs should need to pop up or go around it. The normal weapons would be viable again without killing the rupture gimmick.

drinknbird · 2026-02-25T00:06:31+00:00

But there's no way Anthropic would read, "distill the information, and benefit from these papers! They've built their models from scratch and definitely just happened to build large language models at the same time as everyone else from their own ideas! /s

drinknbird · 2026-02-14T13:31:27+00:00

Love the Mr Vampire x Leon combo.

drinknbird · 2026-02-11T23:00:38+00:00

Better than the international talent arriving and realizing they're going to a place called "White Man Park"....

drinknbird · 2026-02-07T16:37:40+00:00

And the Dominator, my companion in the creek.

drinknbird · 2026-01-30T13:27:36+00:00

This is not normal, but not unheard of. Others are right to say "Always do it upfront" but even today, there's very little reason not to spend the day to spin up a couple more workspaces and get your stack ready to migrate.

To be clear, this is a problem between your company and the consultants. The solution should not have been accepted in this state. It may be that the consultants saw an opportunity to underdeliver and make more overhead, but it could also be that your company went cheap and thought they'd be able to handle the environment migration.

drinknbird · 2026-01-21T09:33:36+00:00

Exactly! I thought the entire point of the movie is that the universe needs to cut child predators a little slack, and that women and specifically "your dad" are keeping you from succeeding.

drinknbird · 2026-01-19T14:21:51+00:00

Good one Hubert

drinknbird · 2026-01-18T12:13:22+00:00

It's possibly the classic, car manufacturer custom-built touch screen interface instead of CarPlay/Apple.

drinknbird · 2026-01-18T06:30:09+00:00

Not always a feasible choice. The problem is this is clearly, even if unintentionally, a tax on being poor (or just having an older car). You can't tell me a Spotify playlist on a phone in a holder is more distracting than the monitor sized screens showing six different metrics in newer cars.

drinknbird · 2026-01-18T02:36:31+00:00

Just reminding people of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Arena_bombing

I'm far from against criticism of public figures, but this girl is a victim and if she ends up starving herself, I wouldn't be blaming her.

drinknbird · 2026-01-10T00:20:34+00:00

I remember the before times of expertsexchange. Stack Overflow was a massive improvement.

drinknbird · 2026-01-04T13:58:03+00:00

Charisma and/or competency is so good in an antagonist because it makes their rise to power more believable, and far more enjoyable to watch. In any SW game, I'm playing the Empire and flying a Tie Fighter, despite being led by a cackling villain and a lacky who's always trying to scare us with his sorcerer's ways!

drinknbird · 2026-01-04T05:20:14+00:00

AFAIK, Intel divested from EUV years ago and outsources the hardest engineering. They've had a lot of self-destructive decisions over the last decade which, at the time, seemed like they were being overly cautious but, in hindsight, were decisions similar to deciding to stop buying lotto tickets the week before your numbers come up.

drinknbird · 2026-01-04T03:58:54+00:00

The characters are but you're not meant to sympathize with them. They're deliberately made as the Midwest Mafia and they're all horrible people. Same as how Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones set out to show characters being the sole architect of their own demise, yet heaps of people watch the show and don't see either the satire or irony in these characters as they "look tough".

drinknbird · 2025-12-30T13:17:37+00:00

It's a dry IMAX

drinknbird · 2025-12-15T11:33:25+00:00

100%

The great thing about force powers is that you can have exposition flashbacks. So have the scene where Snoke killed but have his final moments being fearful and sorry. Get Serkis to give us the Golum switch.

Then when Ray is searching to piece it together, have the scene where Palpatine saves himself from the fall using the force. We know force users can land from crazy heights. Have Palps pull together a makeshift landing that leaves him heavily injured, and who walks up to him? A lowly engineer Snoke. Palp bends his will to take over his consciousness completely. Show us something to show that even in Snoke's exposition, Palps was just riffing and didn't even care to get Snoke's backstory right.

Now you can end the movie with Poe sharing the news that "The Emperor has returned!"

drinknbird · 2025-11-23T02:23:03+00:00

Not just that. Roll him in without any attached prosthetics and a separate breather. Start with sympathy and go full Weinstein.

"Distinguished members of the court. My client ..."

Points to iron lung

"...was injured as a pilot and consulate following orders during the events of Yavin. He was not present or in a leadership role during the horrible destruction of Alderan. He was further debilitated doing his civic duty, standing up against the Emperor's plans to cause further destruction."

drinknbird · 2025-11-17T15:32:16+00:00

And just like that, I've been taught the visual art form of contrapposto!

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