The star is occulted by a small asteroid in our solar system. For something in the Betelgeuse system to occult the star, it would have to be about the same size as the star.
We detect the presence of planets in other systems when they pass between us and the star, marginally decreasing the brightness.
Black Mirror is a scifi anthology show and season 1 episode 1 is an extremely off putting and non representative episode where a politician is blackmailed into live streaming themselves fucking a pig. The show was later acquired by Netflix and it is in their best interest to make sure that isn't the first episode of the show people see.
Black Mirror is a scifi anthology show and season 1 episode 1 is an extremely off putting and non representative episode where a politician is blackmailed into live streaming themselves fucking a pig. The show was later acquired by Netflix and it is in their best interest to make sure that isn't the first episode of the show people see.
Isn’t it funny that they decided that, of all episodes, was the one that crossed some sort of line decency. The episode was entirely on-brand, but I can see how someone might watch that one episode and be turned off.
The themes and ideas presented presented in later episodes left me far more shocked and moved. “San Junipero” and “Smithereens” were incredibly moving for me personally, while other episodes were absolutely fascinating because they took some aspects of our society and humanity and took them to their logical extreme.
The most shocking part of all is how true to reality most episodes are. What set S01E01 apart was it didn’t rely on sci-fi to tell its story, which is the only way in which it isn’t on brand.
I would argue that it could be off-putting (it's probably one of the harder episodes to watch) but I don't see how it's not representative of the rest of the show.
Art isn't all pretty landscapes and pictures of boats (though those are nice too); sometimes it's challenging and though provoking and that episode is certainly one I remember. I've often said "Children of Men" is the best movie I'll never watch again, and while I wouldn't go so far as that on Black Mirror episode 1, I won't be watching it again either.
You stated the concept well. Brazil [1985] is the best movie I'll never watch again. It has just become too close to reality within my lifetime and is not so funny anymore. It used to be hilarious.
I'd say I'm a big fan of Gilliam's look/style and "Brazil" definitely epitomizes that. I didn't see it until sometime in the last decade, so it's hard to imagine that it was ever a comedy really, though Bob Hoskin's performance was certainly amusing and memorable.
Upon reflection, "12 Monkeys" is another movie that was thought-provoking but will probably not get another play-through from me (well done Gilliam?). Perhaps as you suggest, reality has just become a bit too much and I'll just put "The Sound of Music" on on repeat from here on out, or whatever the cinematic equivalent of paintings of boats and pretty landscapes may be.
That’s interesting. I’ve only seen two episodes, and this was one of them. This was largely what put me off the show. I’m not opposed to shock, but the episode was just so blunt and gross for grossness’ sake. Maybe I should check out other episodes.
This is lewd, but is clearly an attempt at immature humor. There's no human misery, (at least for the participants -- the voters may feel differently) no blackmail, and no obscene livestreaming of the act. (thank god) I'm certainly not defending something this disgusting, but it's still quite different than what was portrayed on the show.
Weird for me to see the responses here. It was one of the only episodes I really liked since it seemed a lot more plausible. Also was kind of funny especially since Cameron may well have fucked a pig in his day.
I live in a one car household and it's been perfectly fine, including our yearly roadtrip driving up and around places like Banff in Canada and down the coast to San Francisco. And that's not a Tesla either, it's just with a cheap Chevy Bolt I got for 25k.
I do all my large code reviews in IntelliJ. Seems like it's an exact match of what this guy wants? Diff view + full view + fully featured IDE for all his navigation, verification and search needs
What the author wants (and I do too) is a normal, full fledged editor that highlights the code under review. Bonus points for easy commenting.
You can sort of do it with IntelliJ with git blame annotations but it’s clunky. I don’t really care about the author’s commits; I care about the entire set of changes or the changes since my last review.
You can also sort of do it with IntelliJ’s pull request mode but it’s also clunky since it’s not a “real” editor and you lose highlighting if you jump to the source code.
The Scandinavian social safety net is excellent and I think the positive effects of that are apparent. People can take larger risks than they can in the US, but still nowhere near as large as they could with UBI
Also very high taxes to pay for it. Very productive granted, but also taxed at a commensurate rate. Plus Norway now has a bottomless pit of oil money keeping it afloat for the foreseeable future.
This reminds me: some years ago, someone noticed that some translation engine, maybe Google's (vague enough for you?) advertised a whole lot of obscure languages but didn't work all that well for some of them: if you translated from English to whatever and back, you'd get mostly gibberish with a lot of oddly Biblical turns of phrase embedded in it.
I got to thinking about that, and I came up with a theory: Machine translation of course requires a corpus of texts that exist in at least two languages, a Rosetta Stone. The Bible is the most translated book on Earth. For tiny or dying languages, the kind with some thousands of speakers at most, the Bible may be the only written work that's ever been translated into or out of that language. So the Bible is their entire training corpus, and it's not enough.
I spent a summer in Papua New Guinea in 1999 where I had the opportunity to meet one of these folks. He was a british man, from Yorkshire, who through force of believe made first contact with the tribe in the 1970s. His first job was to chop down the forest to make a runway, from which he could bring food from the sky which secured his position with the tribe. From there he developed a writing system for their language so they could read the bible, he'd recently finished the New Testement and was starting on the Old Testement. Sometime after the runway he'd brought over his wife who'd essentially built a british farm house with crockery in the jungle and they'd had 4 or 5 kids who mostly flew for the Missionary Airforce. Talk about a lifelong dedication!
The most fascinating thing about the place was that later the whole area had been designated a special scientific survey protection region. They protected the environment by scientists bringing money to do research to pay the locals (kind of like eco tourism protection for areas that aren't very safe for tourists). These folks were mostly hardcore evolutionary biologists rather than creationists like the missionaries, so there were older folks living in the village who in their life had gone through the history of western philosophy: they grew up with animast beliefs, converted to christianity as teenagers and now are experts on evolution. Conversations with them about the nature of existence remain some of the most inspiring and interesting in my life, I recorded a bunch and keep meaning to transcribe off cassette tape sometime.
Just a massive pity that they rarely thought of writing down any of the original stories or histories from the culture's they were pushing Christianity onto.
