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khrbrt
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Even better: allow theaters to charge different prices to different movies. It's ridiculous that a big budget action movie with A-list cast costs the same to watch as a cheap indie film.

Smaller movies could get a huge boost if they cost less to see than the big franchise releases, and the difference in filled vs empty seats would really add up.
khrbrt
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
They're going extinct by habitat loss from climate change.
khrbrt
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
A fun application of this is hooking mushrooms up to synthesizers for groovy beats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbP2DgDp890

Their channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BionicandtheWires

> We connect bionic arms to fungi and plants so they can play music and be creative. Our art explores new ways of thinking about the natural world.

>All life creates bio-electrical signals. Our equipment converts them into signals that control the bionic arms. Recent research suggests that fungi and plants exhibit surprising levels of intelligence, including decision-making, learning, memory and the ability to respond to sounds waves.
khrbrt
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Has it? I recently tried to organize a little AoE2 LAN party but we got stuck because the DE was too heavy for our old computers and the HD Edition was no longer for sale on Steam.

(Apologies if this was answered in the video, I'll watch it later tonight)
khrbrt
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
Dunno, but I like the Chinese Doomscroll substack for a daily glimpse into what they're talking about. https://substack.com/@weibo
khrbrt
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
We've had protectionist tariffs for the auto industry for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
khrbrt
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
Meanwhile China is building it's own giant telescopes: https://www.science.org/content/article/china-quietly-prepar...

And will soon launch their own version of Hubble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuntian

Deeply embarrassing as a US citizen.
khrbrt
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
This is the first I've heard of "direct-join union"s. DuckDuckGo only brings up variations of this article, or the pages to join individual, employer specific unions.

Where can I learn more about this type of union? Is there one for US IT workers?
khrbrt
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
None of those cases are "generative" AI.
khrbrt
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
Combining engineering teams of very similar products will inevitably lead to consolidation. The key leaders of these teams will leave. The open source projects will starve. No customers will start a new project with these products when it's obvious they won't exist in a few years. Red Hat just lost all of its advantage in selling services for existing customers if these products now belong to a different company.
khrbrt
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
They've existed for years

https://www.fastcompany.com/90651242/how-the-drivers-coopera...

https://www.wired.com/story/gig-economy-worker-owned-apps/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drivers_Cooperative
khrbrt
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
A club I'm active with posts everything to Meetup and Facebook. Meetup is the "official" source of truth for posting events and photos and limited chats related to the events themselves ("Where are we parking?" type questions). Facebook for social chat and announcing "unofficial" hangouts/parties.