The Playlist dropped their list of the Top 100 films of the Decade which I quite like because it gives a lot of room to international movies that deserve the attention.
That's just a hydraulic valve body, and the squiggly part is literally just a manifold, it's like super basic electrical circuit layout if you look a little closer. A solenoid valve somewhere opens, and allows pressurised hydraulic oil to flow to servo pistons that clamp clutch packs which change the gear. Basically just a handful of logic gates cast into aluminium instead of soldered together out of transistors.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Yeah, but I also I remember a case study from my Management courses at uni.
It went something like Mercades or Rolls Royce or Astin Martin or some other prestige European car manufacturer had not wanted to put Automatic transmissions into their cars while they were still new tech and had waited for the engineering to mature. Then once they started getting reliable and efficient and (most importantly) a selling point, they went around and surveyed all the other manufacturers for the most reliable and popular - which turned out to be Chevy or GM or some other Detroit motors corp.
They licenced the transmission and built it from the patent documents to the peak of European engineering and precision - and it seized. They built it again - and it seized. They kept trying to get it to work for months before they eventually had to fly over one of the American engineers. They sat him down and told him how they had built it exactly according to plan and with micrometer tolerances and he looked at them in disbelief and said 'what?'.
He took them down to the shop, took their immaculate transimmision, and just started filing bits and pieces off, grinding down gears, generally just repeatedly trying to find out what did and didn't work and then attacking those bits with gusto. The end product was nowhere near the designed patent blueprints - but it worked.
I remember this because that course was 1998, about 2 months before Armageddon came out, so when I saw the movie I was like 'oh, someone lifted that same story'.
And Harry Stamper is also totally the kind of American Detroit-motors guy to put close-enough good-enough measurements in his patent filing that it would provide legal protections and yet still not describe an actual working instrument.
There's a similar tale told about integrated circuits. A large American firm needed a shitload of ICs made for a new product and their normal US supplier couldn't ramp up to meet demand, so they tried Japan.
Being big dumb smug Americans, of course they insisted on a quality tolerance that they thought was impossible, no more than three out of every ten thousand ICs to be faulty.
The Japanese, being obviously vastly superior at everything ever because this story totally wasn't made up by the world's first weeaboo, presented the Americans with a large box, and a small envelope.
The Americans were confused, and asked what the deal was.
The Japanese replied "Box contains ten thousand working chips, envelope contains three non-working chips."
That's just a hydraulic valve body, and the squiggly part is literally just a manifold, it's like super basic electrical circuit layout if you look a little closer. A solenoid valve somewhere opens, and allows pressurised hydraulic oil to flow to servo pistons that clamp clutch packs which change the gear. Basically just a handful of logic gates cast into aluminium instead of soldered together out of transistors.
Wes Ball, formerly set to direct the Mouse Guard adaptation before Disney scuttled it, has been tapped by Disney to direct the next Planet of the Apes movie.
I would have preferred Mouse Guard, but the PotA movies managed to be the most consistently surprising and quality trilogy of the decade and I will take some more, sure.
The Playlist dropped their list of the Top 100 films of the Decade which I quite like because it gives a lot of room to international movies that deserve the attention.
Excellent #1, we stan
I jumped to the end, saw Scott Pilgrim, and nodded, but then saw it was just an honorable mention
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I dunno. Maybe it’s just me but I’d like some distance from the previous trilogy. The previous one played out so well that I’m hard pressed in wanting another so soon
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That's just a hydraulic valve body, and the squiggly part is literally just a manifold, it's like super basic electrical circuit layout if you look a little closer. A solenoid valve somewhere opens, and allows pressurised hydraulic oil to flow to servo pistons that clamp clutch packs which change the gear. Basically just a handful of logic gates cast into aluminium instead of soldered together out of transistors.
So like he said magic.
I love that computers are basically rocks that we've tricked into pretending to think.
I went to see Chomsky in conversation with Wallace Shawn in the lead up to the 2016 fiasco election and am absolutely kicking myself for not asking for his input on meme culture
That's just a hydraulic valve body, and the squiggly part is literally just a manifold, it's like super basic electrical circuit layout if you look a little closer. A solenoid valve somewhere opens, and allows pressurised hydraulic oil to flow to servo pistons that clamp clutch packs which change the gear. Basically just a handful of logic gates cast into aluminium instead of soldered together out of transistors.
So like he said magic.
I love that computers are basically rocks that we've tricked into pretending to think.
barring the existence of souls, brains are not really any different, just made of proteins instead of minerals.
That's just a hydraulic valve body, and the squiggly part is literally just a manifold, it's like super basic electrical circuit layout if you look a little closer. A solenoid valve somewhere opens, and allows pressurised hydraulic oil to flow to servo pistons that clamp clutch packs which change the gear. Basically just a handful of logic gates cast into aluminium instead of soldered together out of transistors.
So like he said magic.
I love that computers are basically rocks that we've tricked into pretending to think.
The version I've heard goes a little further:
"We have tamed the lightning, and used it to teach sand to think."
The Playlist dropped their list of the Top 100 films of the Decade which I quite like because it gives a lot of room to international movies that deserve the attention.
More than any other of these lists, this one reminded me of lots of movies I wanted to see, but forgot about completely. Probably precisely because of its inclusion of so many international films.
Also, fuck yeah Burning. It’s great to see a bunch of other people here love it as well.
I went through that list and have only seen two of those movies and I just feel like the biggest shlub ever. (Though there's 2 or 3 movies there I've been meaning to watch and just haven't gotten around to yet.)
One fun thing about getting screeners is learning about movies I'd never fuckin' heard of, like this flick called The Aeronauts. It's about competitive balloonists in the 1800s, I guess?
Which, fine, cool, whatever. But it cost $80 million to make. You can get 80 mil to watch fops gallavant around in hot air baskets, but the biggest budget a native-fronted movie has ever gotten was 2 million for Smoke Signals in 1998.
One fun thing about getting screeners is learning about movies I'd never fuckin' heard of, like this flick called The Aeronauts. It's about competitive balloonists in the 1800s, I guess?
Which, fine, cool, whatever. But it cost $80 million to make. You can get 80 mil to watch fops gallavant around in hot air baskets, but the biggest budget a native-fronted movie has ever gotten was 2 million for Smoke Signals in 1998.
Grumble grumble grumble
the Music Box in Chicago is screening that movie in 70mm this week
I went and saw Marriage Story there last week and it was the only trailer in front of it and you could feel the entire room go "but why"
I was sold on Ransom being involved from his very first scene, not because he was a monumental asshole, but because of the dogs.
People will lie, cheat and obfuscate, but dogs are pure. I'm almost entirely sure that literally the only character in the entire movie who the dogs barked at/around was Ransom. As it turns out when the dogs were barking while Linda was trying to sleep, Ransom hadn't even entered the grounds that time, but it still meant he came back after an argument which caused him to peace out of the party, and told absolutely no-one about it ever. I'd be interested to watch again and see if the dogs were barking in the background at any point in the various characters' re-tellings of the evening.
As soon as Marta told her story that the grandmother said something like "Back again so soon Ransom" after Marta had climbed down from the trellis, I was fully sold that Ransom was somehow responsible for the death.
Then it was even more solidified when he heard Marta's entire story, and said not to confess, because in my mind the only way he would do that is if he didn't want her story investigated.
As soon as the first of Harlan's kids said they wanted Marta at the funeral, but were outvoted I was very suspicious of the families' feelings towards her, regardless of what they said to her. I felt like that was something which just didn't happen. Someone who spent basically every day with the deceased's for the deceased's last several years of life gets an invite to the funeral. Pointe finale, especially if one of the kids actually wanted her there. As soon as a second of Harlan's kids said they also wanted her at the funeral but was outvoted my feeling was pretty solid "wow, this family fucking hates Marta and they always have".
I had watched Ford vs. Ferrari last week or the week before, and it was a bit of a downer because
the assholes win
, but it was really nice to have this film where each and every asshole gets some amount of comeuppance, while the good people, essentially only Marta, Blanc, and the two police officers, get some positive outcome.
It was weird seeing Captain America being an asshole, but I had seen that before in Scott Pilgrim so it wasn't too jarring. It was very uncomfortable seeing Riki Lindhome of Garfunkel and Oates being a monumental asshole though.
I would be more amused by this 'threat' if I didn't know he would do the same thing regardless, because Netflix will give him the money to turn in just about anything.
I would be more amused by this 'threat' if I didn't know he would do the same thing regardless, because Netflix will give him the money to go on vacation with a bunch of his friends.
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I think
It might be a joke
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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I've had to sit through the trailer of Uncut Gems twice now for movies I've recently gone to, and it was a tedious experience each time. I can't imagine a scenario where I'm interested in watching the whole damn movie.
Adam Sandler has never told a joke that involved any nuance at all, so, no, I don't read it as a joke.
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Excellent #1, we stan
Steam
That's just a hydraulic valve body, and the squiggly part is literally just a manifold, it's like super basic electrical circuit layout if you look a little closer. A solenoid valve somewhere opens, and allows pressurised hydraulic oil to flow to servo pistons that clamp clutch packs which change the gear. Basically just a handful of logic gates cast into aluminium instead of soldered together out of transistors.
There's a similar tale told about integrated circuits. A large American firm needed a shitload of ICs made for a new product and their normal US supplier couldn't ramp up to meet demand, so they tried Japan.
Being big dumb smug Americans, of course they insisted on a quality tolerance that they thought was impossible, no more than three out of every ten thousand ICs to be faulty.
The Japanese, being obviously vastly superior at everything ever because this story totally wasn't made up by the world's first weeaboo, presented the Americans with a large box, and a small envelope.
The Americans were confused, and asked what the deal was.
The Japanese replied "Box contains ten thousand working chips, envelope contains three non-working chips."
So like he said magic.
I would have preferred Mouse Guard, but the PotA movies managed to be the most consistently surprising and quality trilogy of the decade and I will take some more, sure.
I love that computers are basically rocks that we've tricked into pretending to think.
how many Marvel movies he's not in do you think William Hurt has seen
I only think he's seen ones he IS in because he probably went to the premieres, but he most definitely doesn't know how many he's in and which ones
la noche de las nerds
Steam
Which strikes me as the answer that requires the absolute least knowledge of the MCU.
https://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/11/08/marvel-studios-william-hurt-reflects-favorite-thing/
EDIT: Also probably the best answer in the long run.
barring the existence of souls, brains are not really any different, just made of proteins instead of minerals.
https://xkcd.com/505/
That comic in particular opened my eyes to what a computer really is.
The Yo, Frankenstein of our times
The version I've heard goes a little further:
"We have tamed the lightning, and used it to teach sand to think."
More than any other of these lists, this one reminded me of lots of movies I wanted to see, but forgot about completely. Probably precisely because of its inclusion of so many international films.
Also, fuck yeah Burning. It’s great to see a bunch of other people here love it as well.
Which, fine, cool, whatever. But it cost $80 million to make. You can get 80 mil to watch fops gallavant around in hot air baskets, but the biggest budget a native-fronted movie has ever gotten was 2 million for Smoke Signals in 1998.
Grumble grumble grumble
the Music Box in Chicago is screening that movie in 70mm this week
I went and saw Marriage Story there last week and it was the only trailer in front of it and you could feel the entire room go "but why"
It's good.
People will lie, cheat and obfuscate, but dogs are pure. I'm almost entirely sure that literally the only character in the entire movie who the dogs barked at/around was Ransom. As it turns out when the dogs were barking while Linda was trying to sleep, Ransom hadn't even entered the grounds that time, but it still meant he came back after an argument which caused him to peace out of the party, and told absolutely no-one about it ever. I'd be interested to watch again and see if the dogs were barking in the background at any point in the various characters' re-tellings of the evening.
As soon as Marta told her story that the grandmother said something like "Back again so soon Ransom" after Marta had climbed down from the trellis, I was fully sold that Ransom was somehow responsible for the death.
Then it was even more solidified when he heard Marta's entire story, and said not to confess, because in my mind the only way he would do that is if he didn't want her story investigated.
As soon as the first of Harlan's kids said they wanted Marta at the funeral, but were outvoted I was very suspicious of the families' feelings towards her, regardless of what they said to her. I felt like that was something which just didn't happen. Someone who spent basically every day with the deceased's for the deceased's last several years of life gets an invite to the funeral. Pointe finale, especially if one of the kids actually wanted her there. As soon as a second of Harlan's kids said they also wanted her at the funeral but was outvoted my feeling was pretty solid "wow, this family fucking hates Marta and they always have".
I had watched Ford vs. Ferrari last week or the week before, and it was a bit of a downer because
It was weird seeing Captain America being an asshole, but I had seen that before in Scott Pilgrim so it wasn't too jarring. It was very uncomfortable seeing Riki Lindhome of Garfunkel and Oates being a monumental asshole though.
now this, I can get into
Now I've heard everything!
I would be more amused by this 'threat' if I didn't know he would do the same thing regardless, because Netflix will give him the money to turn in just about anything.
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"Hey guys I swear if I don't win an Oscar for this movie I'm going to hire someone to force me to suck my own dick."
It might be a joke
The threat is that you'll mention movies to a casual acquaintance and they will spend 5 minutes of your life telling you about it.
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I take it you didn't own his 90s comedy albums