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m463 commented on Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999) rogerebert.com/reviews/gr... · Posted by u/monero-xmr

smurda · 12 hours ago

This is one of my favorite movies, yet it won 0 Oscars (nominated for 7) and was a box office flop (cost $25M to make and box office proceeds were $28M). It only gained popularity after the theatres from the VHS rental market.

I firmly believe part of the initial commercial failure was because of the title. With something more descriptive like, "Escape from Shawshank" or just "Prison Break" people would have been more interested to see it.

m463 · 42 minutes ago

> With something more descriptive like, "Escape from Shawshank" or just "Prison Break" people would have been more interested to see it.

But maybe that would have killed the real market for people who wanted a deep subtle movie.

Despite its disappointing box-office returns ...

...It went on to become the top rented film of that year.

also

While finances for licensing the film for television are unknown, in 2014, current and former Warner Bros. executives confirmed that it was one of the highest-valued assets in the studio's $1.5 billion library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption

m463 commented on Why E cores make Apple silicon fast eclecticlight.co/2026/02/... · Posted by u/ingve

eviks · 5 hours ago

> The fact that an idle Mac has over 2,000 threads running in over 600 processes is good news, and the more of those that are run on the E cores, the faster our apps will be

This doesn't make sense in a rather fundamental way - there is no way to design a real computer where doing some useless work is better than doing no work, just think about energy consumption and battery life since this is laptops. Or that's just resources your current app can't use

Besides, they aren't that well engineered, bugs exist and last and come back, etc, so even when on average the impact isn't big, you can get a few photo analysis indexing going haywire for awhile and get stuck

m463 · an hour ago

I would say a good number of those processes/cores are something you don't want running. And you can't turn them off unless you can modify the boot partition to disable the launch configs.

sigh.

m463 commented on Stay Away from My Trash tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

m463 · 2 days ago

So one thing I wonder about -- copyright.

I remember lawsuits that said the products of AI can't be copyrighted. How does that affect projects?

m463 commented on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/modeless

ndesaulniers · 3 days ago

I spent a good part of my career (nearly a decade) at Google working on getting Clang to build the linux kernel. https://clangbuiltlinux.github.io/

This LLM did it in (checks notes):

> Over nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and $20,000 in API costs

It may build, but does it boot (was also a significant and distinct next milestone)? (Also, will it blend?). Looks like yes!

> The 100,000-line compiler can build a bootable Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V.

The next milestone is:

Is the generated code correct? The jury is still out on that one for production compilers. And then you have performance of generated code.

> The generated code is not very efficient. Even with all optimizations enabled, it outputs less efficient code than GCC with all optimizations disabled.

Still a really cool project!

m463 · 2 days ago

> getting Clang to build the linux kernel.

wonder if clang source is part of its model :)

m463 commented on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams kirkville.com/i-now-assum... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

speak_plainly · 2 days ago

Apple News and News+ represent everything wrong with modern Apple: a ham-fisted approach to simplicity that ignores the end user. It is their most mediocre service, jarringly jamming cheap clickbait next to serious journalism in a layout that makes no sense.

The technical execution is just as lazy. While some magazines are tailored, many are just flat, low-res PDFs that look terrible on the high-end Retina screens Apple sells. Worst of all, Apple had the leverage to revolutionize a struggling industry; instead, they settled for a half-baked aggregator.

It’s a toxic mix of Apple tropes that simply weren't thought through. The ads are the cherry on the cake.

m463 · 2 days ago

> a ham-fisted approach to simplicity that ignores the end user.

I think I agree. They have a broad selection of apps... that all end up being shallow.

Every once in a while there are decent things hidden though - I like apple translate. I also like adding "copy text from a graphical image" to the OS.

m463 commented on Child prodigies rarely become elite performers economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/i7l

FeteCommuniste · 4 days ago

> Around 90% of superstar adults had not been superstars as children, while only 10% of top-level kids had gone on to become exceptional adults (see chart 1). It is not just that exceptional performance in childhood did not predict exceptional performance as an adult. The two were actually negatively correlated, says Dr Güllich.

Even if "only" 10% of elite kids go on to become elite adults, 10% is orders of magnitude larger than the base percentage of adults who are elite athletes, musicians, etc. This doesn't sound "uncorrelated" to me so much as "not as strongly correlated as one might expect."

And describing something that happens 10% of the time as "rare" sounds a bit weird, like referring to left-handedness (also about 1 in 10) as rare.

m463 · 3 days ago

sort of reminds me of telling kids "You're smart!" vs "good work!"

success for #1 is because of something innate, while for #2 is hard work.

meanwhile failure for #1 has no clear path to success, but #2 is more effort.

m463 commented on Everyone Is Stealing TV theverge.com/streaming/87... · Posted by u/naves

nkrisc · 3 days ago

I too got tired of paying so much for TV so I canceled and just stopped watching it.

I find the attitude that one is entitled to entertainment media fascinating.

People like to say that it’s not stealing because there is no physical product the producer is being deprived of, which is factually true, but even so why are you entitled to it at no cost?

NFL games aren’t water or food.

m463 · 3 days ago

I think it's just a war with two sides. Media fighting for funds, consumers fighting for respect. Both feel entitled to some degree.

m463 commented on My bird has a pet hamster brooke.substack.com/p/my-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

m463 · 3 days ago

paywalled