*sigh* i guess it’s time for this again…

Kill James Bond Highlights: “The horrific implications of Cars 2 (part 5)” (the Popemobile bit)

Edit: There’s a real good comment by youtube user CleverCrumbish on one of the highlights:

So, the thing about Cars 2 right.

In Cars the plot of the film revolves very tightly around the idea that the way people live in the modern age (and particularly the way they transport themselves) is incentivised to progress and develop toward alienating those people from communities that live in and on the places they move through and that those changes are causing suffering as adherents to or prisoners of the old ways of doing things are left behind and underserved. Because this is a theme explained through the parallels between motor racing and the older rural automotive landscape, that is, because most of the metaphor the film is using concerns the automobile, it makes sense to simplify the framing for a children’s cartoon and make all the characters cars.

In Cars 2 every character is a car for absolutely no fucking reason whatsoever except that they were in the first movie and it would be weird to change it now.

maybe because it’s not true, at least if what the ex-head writer said on bsky is to be believed.

serious answer: they don’t know how to prompt. not that knowing how to prompt makes it look better, but it can at least make it look different. like how google used to give you more specific results if you formulated the query in a certain way.

the main author.

that’s the headless version

but pop os is just the cosmic flavour of ubuntu so isn’t kubuntu technically already kpop os?

the big one for me is tagged filesystems. they exist on other oses but beos embraced them fully, and haiku does the same.

“music” is no longer a directory, but a view of your filesystem that shows everything tagged “music”. you want everything from an artist, or a year, or a genre? just create that directory and they’re in there.

that just feels dangerous…

whoof.

conversational style interviews can go wrong quickly though; i recently interviewed for a position where the conversation turned into the interviewer explaining how he’d connected everything in his rv to home assistant. i’m not really into home automation but the communication bit was at least interesting until he dropped that he’d let claude do everything and he didn’t actually care how it worked.

yeah the swedish name for carbonated drinks is literally kolsyrad, “carbonic acid-ed”.

the more co2 we put in the atmosphere, the more carbonated the oceans will become

man, what i wouldn’t give for mind truck powers.

that or a finger goes flying. leftie scissors (well, rightie scissors for me) are so damn easy to hurt yourself with.

man if i have to hear about “hydration” one mare time…

that’s exactly why i always prefer doing conversation-style interviews rather than quizzing people. knowledge is fine, but you only really get opinions by actually using tools.

when i last did interviews we didn’t do live coding, but chatted to applicants about things they liked about their preferred language (this was a consultancy position). people who actually like to program tend to have loads of opinions. juniors moreso. the less engaged people were with those questions, the worse the solution the their take-home task tended to be.

a friend of mine interviewed a candidate who apparently visibly froze after every question, like it was a quiz. turns out they were being fed answers from people off-screen and those people hadn’t expected casual conversation. they were found out when they forgot to mute.

turning a data structure into a string is usually called like “marshal” or “render” or “dump” or something, “stringify” doesn’t really imply anything except something about the json being turned into a string. for all i know it could be replacing all the values with toString’ed versions.

you’re a few layers too high up then. i work mostly in ble and lora networks. json is waaay to verbose.

only on the web.

…she’s holding the scissors with her left hand. sinister is latin for left.