Wikipedia says he's 58-59. A hypothesis: What if he still has the ego (we all have egos) and wants, needs, to contribute, but he's noticed that he's not as incredibly smart as 20, 30 years ago...
Your opinion reminds me of the narrative about cheaters in the speedrunning community. The cheaters say they cheat not because they feel superior, but because they feel “they could achieve good results if they put in the time”. They feel entitled to cheating.
Man, looking forward to hear the phrase of "out of abundance of caution". What a fucking stupid overdose of caution and CYA.
Would an actual bomber actually name their device "Bomb"? Chances are, not.
Is the broadcast a "bomb threat"? If so, does it disappear if the device is switched off?
And if the continued broadcast is perceived to be an active threat, and it persisted even after they turned around, at what point do you say "Well, we haven't joined MH-17, might as well do another 180 and resume our flight"?
If the device was named "turn around or bomb", I'd be more convinced we have a situation.
Someone should make a list of all these weird overreactions. Didn't they turn one flight around because a passenger found something scribbled in Arabic script inside the inflight magazine (I think a previous passenger had written out a prayer)? And another one because there was an abandoned mobile phone that had presumably dropped out of someone's pocket?
The part about begging for money to continue making Fitzcarraldo fascinated me, I wonder what artistic vision was actually driving him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeUKZtYug3w
I looked up videos on YouTube about this topic, but the few that I clicked were AI slop with the prompt of something like "Generate a video from the contents of this article, use clip art videos and English male narration".
I was curious to see it in action, obviously it's not on YouTube yet (it's a pre-order, which makes me think vaporware), but here's a review of a similar thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU7UrhrpWGI
I suppose with the continued enshittification of air travel, jackets like this will be more common, and the sight of passengers with bulky clothing at airports will no longer be strange.
I was travelling the last few weeks, and wearing a jacket in an airport in warmer countries would make me look very out of place.
I used to read every bit of text I see, e.g. on Instagram captions or comments. LLM-generated text has allowed me to drop this habit, because my brain now sees all the "It's not X, it's Y" and assume AI and stop reading...
I'm still addicted to the candy that is Instagram reels, lots of them now have descriptions that basically summarize what is being played (as if people are blind), instead of adding details, out there someone's farming TikTok for content and reposting them on Instagram. And so the attention economy keeps on chugging.
And the genius move was to upset him without an exit strategy?
If your mom's life was in the hands of some thug, going in trying to beat him up, and then failing to win, pissing him off, is not a clever move...
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." - Sun Tzu, Art of War
Maybe Trump's follow-up to the Art of the Deal should be "The New Art of War". (Although I just realize now that the title of that book most likely because "Art of War" was a very popular book for business strategy in the 80's.
Isn't it just great how a decision made by some genius in Microsoft decades ago caused so much confusion and mess. Even on Windows 11 the default is to hide extensions, because, geez, wouldn't want to confuse people with change after decades of it being like that.
Although, was the hiding something that the Mac introduced?
The idea of the last part of the filename (after the period) determining what program is launched to handle the file is odd anyway...
I wonder if the Windows spyware infrastructure measures what % of people turn off extension hiding..
> The idea of the last part of the filename (after the period) determining what program is launched to handle the file is odd anyway...
I challenge you to suggest a better solution - the best that Linux came up with is a giant database of all magic numbers known to God and praying that something matches... sometimes it does, and sometimes it even matches the correct program.
But relying on them to tell the OS what type a file is, or allowing them to change the extension, isn't good either. lena.jpg doesn't become lena.pdf by changing the last 3 letters of the filename..
It gets really complicated when you get into overlapping file types, like with ISOBMFF. An .mp4 can also, simultaneously, be a valid .3gp because those are profiles of ISOBMFF. On the other extreme, JPEG is secretly two different incompatible formats (JFIF and Exif), and a video file with a different codec in the same container, or even a different track layout, might as well be a different format.
Some file formats, eg png, require a particular file header in order to be considered valid. This is true regardless of your operating system, be it windows or linux. If that is hidden information, then it is hidden regardless of which operating system you're on. On windows, if I have a png named .doc, then there is absolutely no way to determine that it is a valid png and could be opened with my image viewer with standard tools. On linux it will recommend you open the file with an image viewer regardless of the file extension. That seems to me like significantly less hidden information.
> On windows, if I have a png named .doc, then there is absolutely no way to determine that it is a valid png
And that's a good thing. Imagine receiving a file called "very_funny_cat.png" and Linux realizing that while it's not a valid PNG image, it is a valid ELF executable.
The sane option would be to change the file explorer to have a column/field of "What type of file we've detected it is". We already do this for directories. Nowadays we just rely on naming convention that the last 3 letters of the name identifies correctly what the file format is.
Right, linux should instead go by the normal extension for an elf, which is no extension... instead this problem is solved by prompting the user if they want to execute the program.
The mac started out without using extensions at all, the type was embedded in the metadata. That's still possible now, but it's largely derived from extensions first. I believe Finder shows all extensions by default. It certainly does in details mode.
That really is a superior way of doing things too. Or at least it would have been if that metadata were transferred with the file itself in all protocols.
Wikipedia says he's 58-59. A hypothesis: What if he still has the ego (we all have egos) and wants, needs, to contribute, but he's noticed that he's not as incredibly smart as 20, 30 years ago...
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