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My wife hasn't updated her Twitter app on her phone since Elon took over which has a bunch of effects like not even seeing the bought blue check marks. We were surprised yesterday to find that she was able to use it all day without hitting the rate limiter, which seemed insane - that they'd implement it as a client side check instead of server side. Just saw this today though If you can bypass it with an alternate client then it is indeed client end, which is just baffling. But so is coding the client to loop until it gets a success exit code then making it require login which prevents that same page from getting a success and DDOSing yourself. At this point I'm wondering if the staff are trying to undermine his changes in a deniable way.

I think the theory I liked the most (behind he was doing it to help Jules) is that the fob is tied to a monitoring system for server compute utilization/power consumption. When we first saw it, it was flashing red and he didn't take immediate action. The AR for someone going out to clean presumably uses a lot of juice even just for the small area visible from the silo sensor. As soon as she crests the top of the hill the complexity of the AR goes up enormously which red lines the server cluster and instead of an alert (blinking fob) it's an alarm (solid red light on the fob) and he has to shut it down before it takes the entire system down. This would explain him turning it off without there being any concern for Jules behind it.

1st - Them having an exchange with his character saying "but here you are" was a wonderful (potentially accidental) call back to "but here I stand" from Jorah to Viserys. 2nd - Their medical knowledge is terrible if the staff that run the fertility treatment and nursery don't know the importance of folate, so this fits lol. I thought him turning it off was implied by the editing but I've seen plenty of people that didn't get that vibe at all, so very much only an implication at most - not confirmed. I believe she wasn't moving when it turned off though so doesn't really fit it being out of range.

He's just tweeting his stream of consciousness as he emerges from a 6 month trance on the floor of his office and decides to see if any of his children will talk to him. I was talking to a friend last night as we're watching the tour de France and wondered how much it costs to run, so looked it up and the upper estimate from 2019 was $150m. It's a 3 week race involving 176 riders, dozens of support vehicles, very highly trained motorcyclists, camera operators, helicopters, flights between locations when it jumps across France etc. And Elon could run 293 of them out of his own pocket and still be just short of spending as much as he did buying Twitter. The scope of wealth just defies the ability to genuinely comprehend. He could spend money on the most extravagant shit ever and never even notice that he's spending, but instead he's sleeping in his office running a company into the ground.

I was under the impression from Reddit that we're only 1/2-2/3 of the way through the first book? Which probably makes more sense why the multiple silos came up so late in the season? By 'objective' I just meant a view of the outside that wasn't from the Silo sensor or Jules' helmet feed, I haven't re-watched to verify but I saw someone say that you could see a number of bodies as the aerial shot zoomed out at the end. But yeah, either all the previous cleaners had tried to walk a different direction or they just chose to only show a few.

I'm not a lawyer but surely fabricating an interaction for the sake of giving you standing to challenge a law should at least be perjury at the point it's revealed you made the whole thing up? The case still standing because no one at any of those courts actually verified the claim used for standing is shit, but surely lying to the court is lying to the court?

I'm genuinely stunned at how fucking stupid this is. I thought he was an idiot, but I at least thought he had a basic understanding of the platform. Twitter relies on a high volume of low "value" content, any power user has a ton of posts in their feed that they aren't interested in and your job as a business is to get them to keep scrolling past that stuff and seeing your ads. This is going to get them to stop looking at your app completely and even if they don't you're literally limiting the ads they can see to 800/n per day (where n the ratio of regular tweets to ads. Even with a ratio so high it actually pisses people off, like 1 ad to 3 regular tweets that's only 200 ads a day before the platform won't let you see anything.

I just woke up to this confirmation of it being exactly what my speculation suggested it would be, but the numbers that I used (thinking they were absurdly low) are actually 72 times higher than what he initially implement. AND the interval is ridiculously long, even x tweets an hour is too long for what Twitter is meant to be, but a day? Yeah that's actually killing the platform. I assume that after failure to pay the bill their compute resources are being heavily throttled and this is all it can manage without falling over, but falling over would probably be less alienating to users than functionally disabling it's entire point.

It's probably only allowing you a certain amount of feed refreshes/individual tweet views or something else like that for a given interval and you're exceeding that. Something like "you can only load 30 tweets per minute". It's obviously a new limitation, probably to prop up failing infrastructure - it's not just you getting it.

On the subject of selective denial of service, health care is a separate issue right? I think I remember Desantis passing a law to explicitly allow this to be done by doctors etc as well in his flurry of evil, so I assume thats still got a couple of years of working its way up before SCOTUS rules that doctors can just let gay people die in the ER?

It doesn't really inspire confidence that this can get all the way through the system, past the supreme court without a single person doing basic fact checking like actually speaking to the person alleged to have started it all. For a case with major impact on human rights and the rule of law for 330 million people. Just yolo those rulings I guess.

Bit of a tangent here but after seeing the possibility of the Zuckerberg v Musk fight happening in the Colosseum I realized Mark's face would oddly fit well on the uncanny ultra bald Feyd Rautha who we see in the arena in this trailer. I need an AI to make it so.

Do you mean in her view or the objective one? There are at least some in the objective view.

There's an intensity and the silences get quite drawn out in a way that I think would be useful at times in horror but it's not that sort of movie so there's no fear attached to it. I think I'd say it makes me feel like I'm being watched/aware of the intensity of being watched which is remarkably appropriate for contributing to what the movie is about lol.

Or even confusion at how George found it/figured it out. Agreed, it was a great performance from him.

*Snort* yeah that was meant to say diagetic. I even double checked the word then forgot to check my phone keyboard didn't decide I wanted something else. I'm not actually sure if I have seen that one before or if it has been referenced in other videos I've seen, but I'll certainly give it a watch. The main one I was remembering with the scene breakdown was this one. Shout out to this also being a phenomenal example of what is actually meant by observer and observed.

Once I was aware of it yeah. They actually replaced the traditional score with diabetic noises to fill the role of marking the tempo of the scene, the tap of hard shoes on floorboards, the pace of the dialogue etc. It's really nicely done.

I'm 60/40 on he actually doesn't know much more than the rest of the silo and is convinced it's all necessary/actually knows a lot and there was some other reason for why he turned off the fake landscape for Jules.

Yeah, I'm now wondering if the original society actually spanned all the silos and silo 18 cut itself off from the others which is why they needed to forget everything.

1st - I mean, and lets use this show as the specific so its clear rather than general, comments like "Rafe Judkins actually hates the WoT and is just using it to get an opportunity for his own writing". When you've got a pattern over many seasons of apparent contempt for the source material then that can become fair, but on a first season? I've seen plenty from him that makes it clear there is a lot in the story that he loves, it just might be very different to what many other people love. And I certainly thing there are plenty of grounds to say he was not entirely across the skill set needed by a showrunner in season 1, I hope he either fills those gaps with new hires or learnt a lot from s1. Criticizing dangerous filming is a whole different ballgame and entirely fair. 2nd - So what you're saying is the Australian government should buy one of his scores as a future investment, since that worked so well with Blue Poles 3rd - I think that's probably overstating it, really more just a graph of increasing appreciation over time lol. But youtube videos doing analysis sped that process up, and generally does for most things I watch them on haha. They give me enough to better understand what's being done and the skill involved, without actually knowing enough about the sausage is made that all I can see is the gross minced bits. There's one about a scene from Portrait of a Lady on fire (which actually doesn't have a score for almost the entire movie) about the subtle story telling through blocking/composition/shot selection* that really stuck with me, that's probably the best example of the process even though you were asking about scoring rather than visuals. *As I said, I get enough to appreciate it but not actually understand, no idea which of these terms is actually right for what was talked about lol

I hadn't considered multiple either until I saw others immediately assume the '18' on the hard drive and the (apparently) USB key stood for the 18th silo, and there are certainly more than 18. Holston is definitely dead. The glitching rock that Jules put his badge onto is actually his body

It's not a bad take to say you didn't enjoy anything, I try not to ever have a go at someone just for not enjoying it. The main one that really gets my back up is attributing malice or negligence on the part of the crew rather than a difference in taste or not being up to the challenge of the material. I don't remember the score at all which probably means I didn't find it particularly impressive either. The only one with any recall is enjoying the title sequence but even the music there didn't make the impression of a bunch of others. To take that on a tangent, the older I get the more impressed I am with the artistry involved in scoring/sound tracks whether it's for TV, movies or games. It's an inherently intertextual medium where so much of what you're doing relies on building on top of prior works using the existing associations as essentially another instrument. Was musing on this while watching the Silo season finale with that title sequence evoking Westworld (that I'm conscious of) and I assume several other recent works.

I was begging it not to end without us getting an objective view of the outside, this was exactly the right spot to end it. Props to people I saw who called the heat tape not being air tight, I'm going to keep hope alive for the decontamination cycle being a toxin rather than the atmosphere itself being toxic - both work as far as the tape providing protection from it. What is out the window is Bernard not being aware though. Although... I'm curious why he needed to deactivate the fake AR of a green earth before she got further, maybe he is unaware? In which case he's thought the atmosphere is genuinely toxic and now he's hopeful and deactivated it to ensure it didn't walk her off a cliff? I think I'd like that actually. I'm absolutely reading the book now lol. I can do a week of cliffhangers with source material available but I can't do a year. ETA: He totally doesn't know about the door at the bottom of the silo either. She just planted an idea in his head that's going to grow curiosity in him

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There's no vegetation on the rocky hills, could it just be Arrakis?