Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de), page 9

Foundation has all of the interesting concepts from the books, and adds a few of its own, also very interesting. The storytelling model is also very interesting. The world-building and epic plotline is captivating.

But the visuals, by Seldon's beard, the visuals. Every scene is like a painting, not the kind of painting that has broad strokes, but the kind where every little bit has an obsessive level of detail and little surprises.

I'm watching it for story now, and may go back and watch it again, slower, just to admire the spectacle of every scene.

I saw Christina Chong in her first or one of her first TV appearances just the other day, in her Dr Who episode. Now I'm looking at her latest.

What is one of the first things she says in this episode? "Always start with the doctor."

Coincidence? 😇

We've watched the rebooted Jumanji movie before, but barely remembered it. Now we watched it again.

Hey, that's Karen Gillan! We know her now, from several seasons of Dr. Who! Here she's Ruby Roundhouse and The Rock is Doctor Xander Bravestone.

Halfway into the movie, the main antagonist:

"Hello, Doctor."

Hmmmmm. 🙃

omg all my favorite shows are spawning new seasons all at once

#FoundationS3
#StrangeNewWorldsS3
already in the middle of #ResidentAlienS4

It is a good thing that I am going on leave soon. There is so much good stuff out there, and that's not even counting my existing to-watch list.

@chu In the office I hear so many Cantonese sentences that are barely Cantonese, haha.

"Ngo share screen bei lei sin, jihau ngo wui post, lei hoyi copy-paste a." 🤣

Even things that aren't technical terms, things that have definitely had Chinese words for two millennia, and even I would know the native Cantonese words: "ngo hou surprised wo!"

@mdreid @liztai @Uair @ZDL

@ansgarscherp Fully agree. We, the Information Retrieval Research Journal, continued Springer's Information Retrieval as a diamond open access journal, run by some of its former editorial board members and its original founders. @lpag

We watched Superman.

I went in expecting very little. Is it possible in the, what, third movie reboot (?) to tell a fresh and interesting story about the alien boy scout?

Apparently! Gunn and his writers pulled it off! Just the right amount of familiar, just the right amount of stirring the pot.

None of the 90s grimdark, but also not too much of the camp (but also not too little!). Very human, very grounded, but also very heroic. Excellent surprise twist that sets the launchpad for further stories and character development!

Great score, great visuals, great conflict, great pacing, great and interesting pick of rogues and heroes gallery.

Clark, Lois and Lex casting: Excellent. Chemistry, charisma, conviction.

Gardner and Terrific casting: Are you kidding me, what the heck, off the charts. Amazing. Pure joy.

#superman #GunnSuperman #Superman2025

When Springer renames a journal from Information Retrieval to something like "Discover Computing"; it sucks! Now it looks like our article with @lpag and Iacopo Vagliano appeared in there. And I don't even know what "Discover Computing" is, nor does my AI-companion believe it is a thing.

Springer stop doing this. Your journal just lost its impact factor. It is 0.

Not everyone is doing it, maybe even most aren't, but I feel like HK English has more of the "double <digit>" idiom than other English I've been exposed to.

I don't know where it comes from, if certain schools are teaching it or what. I'm just noting that "double five" has more syllables that "five five" and "one double five eight" at least for me takes more mental effort to receive and understand than "one five five eight".

And that's not even mentioning "double eighteen", what's up with that. 🤣

A lot of phones and laptops can't really run without a battery pack. And you wouldn't want to, because cables are a bit unreliable and you don't want power to blink out, terminate whatever you had running and potentially corrupt a partition just because someone lightly bumped the cable.

But running a permanently connected device with a four-hour battery full of rare materials and wearing that down for no reason is pretty wasteful.

Is anyone making capacitor packs for this purpose? With just enough energy store for five minutes of power and a graceful shutdown?

@float13 Used to live and drive in Sweden:

Yes, big 2-lane roundabouts were the first to be built in the 80s to enhance flow on big traffic arteries. In the 90s and onward more and more small 1-lane roundabouts were built to enhance flow on smaller roads and streets.

@futurebird

those who cheer armageddon or "accelerationism":

so you're happy to see your grandchildren die?

the essential conceit with such people is they have main character syndrome

they believe they will survive

the reality is:

cut your toe, oops sepsis

or they have a cache of gold: dude with a gun gets that

or they have a bunker: you mean your head of security has a bunker

or they believe in their holy purity: their judgment of themselves can be quite flawed, sometimes cringe level

I have noted before that "Please take advice" is a piece of life wisdom dispensed by HK ATMs every time you withdraw money.

(the "advice" is refers to is the withdrawal receipt)

Now I realized it even has wisdom printed on the machine itself: "Please take notes", often a good idea.

(it means the bank notes)