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Re:Stop-motion movie Wildwood is a staggering masterpiece
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @03:14AM (#50229085)
3d printing a sequence of computer animated models and photographing them stretches the definition of "practical stop motion" as I understand it to mean. This is quite apart from the issue of using post-production CGI.
Re:Stop-motion movie Wildwood is a staggering masterpiece
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:19PM (#50227643)
A "stop-motion movie" that makes heavy use of CGI---what's the point?
Re:The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:08PM (#50091065)
There is now an opportunity for them to do it again by providing an easily understandable proof which isn't broken up into a large number of cases.
Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:07PM (#49689690)
>Sounds more like brute forcing than intelligence
Do you have a criterion that distinguishes between whatever you mean by those two respective terms?
Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:56AM (#49245394)
Article could have profited by adopting a neutral tone instead of attempting to be comedic. Surely information on historical sizes has not been lost. As for the candy bar market: the ideal outcome for the consumer would be if a single candy bar ended up being a reasonable portion size, priced proportionately to cost to produce.
Re:Mario Meets Pareto
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @09:52AM (#49196735)
I am the complete opposite of that. My attention wanes when someone fails to get to the point, instead dwelling in irrelevant details which are not intrinsically interesting. Have to muster the motivation to concentrate in such circumstances, and doing so is not enjoyable.
Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No Agenda has ...
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:49PM (#49016263)
There does not seem to be a documented close lineal connection between August Dvorak and composer Antonín Dvořák, although it would be reasonable to suppose some relation exists.
Re:"Disk Not Ejected Properly": What It Means
on Friday July 17, 2026 @08:27PM (#48953851)
Less interoperability leads to more lock-in in their view. Poor implementations facilitate this. Making the user lose data or be uncertain about losing data is just icing on the cake.
Re:Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Conc...
on Sunday July 12, 2026 @12:59AM (#48878402)
Poorly conceived thesis; if the concepts differ, then they are different concepts.
Re:'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
on Sunday May 31, 2026 @08:48PM (#48351435)
The new Star Wars movie grossed $81.6 million at its debut last weekend, for comparison.
Re:Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
on Saturday May 23, 2026 @03:50AM (#48245668)
>Amazon said it had supported the devices for 14 years or more and could not keep doing so indefinitely. "Technology has come a long way in that time," said a spokesperson.
Wasn't the original concept of the Kindle that it shouldn't need to be replaced by newer models?
Re:Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100)
on Friday May 01, 2026 @07:00AM (#47973308)
The problem with using a physical terminal for everyday computing in 2026 is that there is no model that provides a happy medium between sufficient bandwidth for a snappy experience while in use, and a cool retro feeling. Newer models one might have seen very recently, for example in a library, and older ones will feel sluggish.
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0
on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:48AM (#47859147)
That's why I want it; their motives for doing it, should they decide to, would presumably be different.
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0
on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @11:46PM (#47858697)
I hope they will consider releasing DALL-E 2 publicly, now that there has been so much progress since it was unveiled. It had a really nice vibe to it, so worth preserving.
Re:All elementary functions from a single binary operator
on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:19AM (#47747888)
This is neat, but could someone explain the significance or practical (or even theoretical) utility of it?
Re:They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:42PM (#47694459)
The concept of "meat" presupposes the existence of carnivores, so it's hard to see how the realization in the story could ever have been surprising.
Re:Apple Introduces iPhone 17e
on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:02PM (#47227858)
Keeping the "notch" so long after an alternative was released is a gesture of contempt towards their consumers.
Re:Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs s...
on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:07PM (#46516981)
Have they announced any price from which to adjust? If not, then it would be unnecessary for them to announce the adjustment.
Re:Terrence Malick's Disciples
on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:01PM (#46369987)
"Disciples", but seemingly without back and forth feedback from the "teacher". Many happy to ride on the coattails of his reputation, though. This particular style might also be attractive to new film-makers because it allows them to dispense with learning the basics of traditional film language.
Re:Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:24AM (#46309488)
Apples to oranges.
Re:Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Leibniz
on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @02:09AM (#45808200)
Should have just quoted what Hooke said... not sure what we're supposed to take away from this.
Re:TextEdit and the relief of simple software
on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:59PM (#45699011)
>The best way to reclaim our digital experiences, though, might be to stick with the likes of TextEdit, software that is unable to do anything except follow our commands.
Man, if he only knew...
Re:What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
on Thursday October 23, 2025 @04:20PM (#45686553)
This situation persists: for instance, try to write to an external disk formatted with NTFS using the GUI tools alone. Baffling why Apple doesn't simply obtain a license in order to gain this capability. Big unnecessary inconvenience, primarily for their own users.
Re:Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)
on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @06:17AM (#45273943)
Anyone wondering what might have prompted his evident change of attitude after already having engaged in a "correspondence" with Mosley should note that this letter was written during Ralph Schoenman's infamous tenure as Russell's secretary.
Re:Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?
on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @10:52PM (#44655321)
Re:Scanned Piano Rolls Database
on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:11AM (#44589880)
An interesting prospective project for a technically minded musician would be would be to find an automated way to "correct" the surviving corpus of Welte-Mignon[1] recordings. They were designed to capture the small nuances of performances (such as dynamics), and a large number of historically important musicians made recorded performances in this medium before the era of sound recording. In my strongly-held opinion, the rolls were marked in an uneven and imprecise way, making direct playback on anything but the original recording apparatus inaccurate. A common trait of modern renderings of these rolls as sound recordings (as found on CD or on Youtube) is an unevenness of tempo and a seeming lack of synchronization of voices (really piano keys). However, the mechanical quirks and imprecision in the recording apparatus must be regular enough to allow for a more accurate version of the performances to be reconstructed, without relying on unduly many aesthetic assumptions.
Re:TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's...
on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:55PM (#44450500)
None of the examples shown in the video are passable hoaxes. They are all obvious burlesque-style parodies, albeit made in bad taste. They all also have clear and prominent hallmarks of AI generation. Anyone fooled by these has got bigger, prior problems than any potential belief instilled by these videos.
Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @07:55PM (#44409178)
I assumed the article would be about orchestral musicians (for whom there is a high, and increasing skill threshold) or session musicians (whose work is increasingly being replaced by computer synthesis). Instead, we get a very long narrative about a rapper who is still struggling to "make it" as a recording artist. In the era of sound recordings (which began well over a century ago) there is little incentive for the consumer to choose one with middling appeal over the most popular options. This makes the task of becoming a star, but on a small scale, a difficult one. Instead, a prospective "middle-class musician" must find a niche of some kind, perhaps by focusing on the local market. For example, a busker could potentially make more (than his cited $250k in recording revenue) over a period of 9 years with sufficient dedication.
Re:YouTuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand
on Sunday June 08, 2025 @08:54PM (#44220520)
>NES
No, I meant, if you want to provide video games, just provide whatever is current and popular. Also, they should research whether there is actually a need for this. One suspects that such a thing already exists.
Re:YouTuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand
on Sunday June 08, 2025 @04:54PM (#44219440)
On the building a Commodore game room for sick kids charity idea: one thing they wouldn't have is nostalgia for the 1980s home computers. Just get them Nintendos.