It's mostly a business decision and I'm guessing they will try to push into new markets if they think they can get some traction. This may convince them that they can. I know that Akira convinced anime studios that there was a market outside Japan.
I disabled noise-cancelling on my headphones because I actually found it make the sound of my kid crying very uncomfortable.
I honestly think that noise-cancelling is a great idea for a technology, and is basically required from a marketing perspective, but not all that helpful in practice. Sound isolation isn't is sexy, but it works much better.
One of the reasons that these attempts to increase diversity are such a mess is because it is illegal to have a straightforward quota.
If these agencies could just have a policy like "Group X is %Y of the population. This agency must hire at least %Y/2 from group X", there would be no need to have these sneaky roundabout methods of increasing equity.
> I’m not sure if anyone could ever “get” one of his movies completely beyond the experience and the narrative.
The plots of his movies are often more concrete than people expect. I'm not saying a movie like Mulholland Drive is easy to follow, but it does have a legible plot. Feel free to read the wiki or something if you are not sure who some character is or what they are doing.
If you are just letting the experience wash over you, you may be missing some plot points that are not meant to be mysterious.
Obviously his movies are weird and not entirely legible, but don't assume everything in them is meant to be inscrutable.
I wasn’t implying that there was no narrative, just that his movies were so much more than just the narrative. And often things that seemed perplexing were just things he thought were interesting or beautiful so he put them there for no other reason.
That’s, in my opinion, where some of the intractability comes from: is this bug buzzing around a ceiling light meaningful to the plot or just something he saw one day and wanted others to experience as well. Every once in a while he’d give a tell, often unintentionally, while talking about something else. But most of the time he let things into the world without explanation.
All of the comments about how hard Mullholland Drive was to follow are making me wonder if I missed something. I watched it a couple of times when it was in the theater and enjoyed it, but I don't remember being all that confused. Certainly not like Twin Peaks confused. I guess now is as good a time as any to rewatch it.
in my experience, this is just a very individual thing, warying from person to person. i watch a lot of movies on my own, and when i watch movies with others, i'm sometimes very surprised how much troube some people have understanding a movie.
i mean, Inception is one of those movies which is a tiny bit more difficult to understand, but i've watched it with people who had zero clue what was going on.
enough trashing other people - i loved watching Memento, but i must confess that i should watch it again, as i didn't really understand the full story while watching it.
then there are movies like tenet which just feel complicated as a gimmick, reminding me of the rick&morty copypasta, "To Be Fair, You Have To Have a Very High IQ to Understand X"
in summary, some people are good with abstract thinking and understanding, others are not.
There is an entire cottage industry on Substack of people writing about Wokeness. It has been covered extensively and I do not feel like PG is adding anything new here.
IMO Freddie deBoer wrote the best definition of "Woke", something that many people fail to grasp.
Vanya thought that when you run them through the RNA folding software, it would give you these unusual straight rods which reminded him of Cleopatra's Needle (Obelisk, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra%27s_Needles). The name stuck around. Incidentally the name has some cool 2001: Space Odyssey monolith vibes to it, which I think has been fitting.
Doesn't a name like this risk sensationalizing the discovery? I mean it's interesting to me as a layperson, but "obelisks" in pop culture carry a lot of woo factor
They are decidedly not. They are marketed in inches of the diagonal (a supremely brain-dead decision, if you ask me), but they are engineered, manufactured, and even programmed only in SI units.
If you look at your display's EDID output, the diagonal doesn't even factor in; what you do have are vertical, horizontal, and per-pixel dimensions; all in millimetres. This is what all panel manufacturers (LG, AUO, Samsung, Innolux, BOE, TCL, and so on) do.
I wonder if this is actually the right move, or if the Chinese are just falling into the same trap as the Russians did with the Buran. The Buran was a clone of the shuttle, and the space shuttle was arguably a disaster.
> Again, this wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't so deeply embedded in Microsoft's culture. If you search for the term “Growth Mindset” on the Microsoft subreddit, you’ll find countless posts from people who have applied for jobs and internships asking for interview advice, and being told to demonstrate they have a growth mindset to the interviewer. Those who drink the Kool Aid in advance are, it seems, at an advantage.
This reminds me so much of the experience I had at an early stage start up. I didn't have a degree, and I needed the job, so I really made it clear I would buy in %100.
I am not sure I would want to join a 40+ year old company that still demands that level of commitment.
