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pilaf commented on Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction techcrunch.com/2025/07/16... · Posted by u/boulos

pilaf · a month ago

This is tangential, but I recommend Katsushiro Otomo's (of Akira fame) dystopian take on large-scale automated construction, the short movie Construction Cancellation Order, part of an anthology known in the west as Neo Tokyo[1], released in 1987 (Akira was released in 1988).

I won't link to it here, but it seems someone uploaded it to archive.org (most likely illegally).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Tokyo_(film)

pilaf commented on Million Times Million susam.net/million-times-m... · Posted by u/susam

mattigames · 2 months ago

It's only "mistakenly" until it becomes the norm, which as another Spanish speaking person, I bet that will be the case no long in the future.

pilaf · 2 months ago

Yeah, I too think that's likely the direction we're heading, and I'd be fine with either option as long as it was consistently used, this transitional phase is just painful.

pilaf commented on Million Times Million susam.net/million-times-m... · Posted by u/susam

pilaf · 2 months ago

Spanish uses the long scale, but lately I've been noticing people mistakenly using the short scale in Spanish more and more, likely due to the influence of English and the internet, sometimes even in news articles and other "professional" publications. You may see someone speaking of "un trillón de dólares" (a trillion dollars), which while it makes sense in English when speaking of federal budgets or the market cap of FAANG, in long scale that's more than the world's entire money supply.

It's especially annoying because it creates ambiguity and renders the *illón-words fairly useless.

pilaf commented on Studio Ghibli marks 40 years, but future looks uncertain japantimes.co.jp/culture/... · Posted by u/gslin

christophilus · 2 months ago

Wasn't Totoro a kids movie? I loved that movie.

pilaf · 2 months ago

I think GP meant "his kid's movies", as in movies directed by Goro Miyazaki, the son of Hayao Miyazaki.

pilaf commented on Photographs of 19th Century Japan cosmographia.substack.com... · Posted by u/merothwell

voidUpdate · 5 months ago

As stated in TFA, the pictures were originally black and white and were colourised at the time. I cant find a record of who colourised them or when, but it sems to me like they were colourised shortly after by the original photographer, and as such the colours would be reasonably accurate. You can see lightness and texture changes that would imply to me that there were changes in the material at the time of the picture being taken, even if it was colourised incorrectly

pilaf · 5 months ago

There are several other colorized versions of that same photo online, all with very different color choices, so I wouldn't be too sure about the accuracy of TFA's version:

https://www.meijishowa.com/photography/6451/190102-0009-pp-b...

https://sekiei.nichibun.ac.jp/KSA/en/detail/?gid=G0203359

https://www.album-online.com/detail/en/NDAzZGUwMA/two-buddhi...

There's also more information about the exact version from the article here [1], although it doesn't clarify whether the photographer and the person who colorized it are separate people.

1: https://sova.si.edu/record/fsa.a1999.35/ref484

pilaf commented on Photographs of 19th Century Japan cosmographia.substack.com... · Posted by u/merothwell

voidUpdate · 5 months ago

What surprised me the most is the picture of the Buddhist Monks. I've always associated them with those orange robes, but the patchwork of bright colours almost makes me think of a kids show host. Is this something that has evolved over time, or is it like a rank thing? Apologies for my ignorance

pilaf · 5 months ago

These photos look colorized. Likely not the original colors of those robes.

pilaf commented on Two near lifesize sculptures found during excavations of Pompeii tomb theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/fpierfed

pilaf · 5 months ago

Was I not paying attention before or has the rate of new discoveries in Pompeii gone up drastically in recent years?

pilaf commented on A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks' pewresearch.org/decoded/2... · Posted by u/cpeterso

doubletwoyou · 5 months ago

really? i thought that was a latin problem (sic)

doesn’t spanish have sí? or is it something like portuguese where the verb conjugated to an affirmation is preferred over something like sí?

pilaf · 5 months ago

OP meant that "yes" is not a word in Spanish. The word "sí" is indeed the affirmative and it's used mostly the same as yes in English.

pilaf commented on Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar reuters.com/lifestyle/flo... · Posted by u/boguscoder

pier25 · 6 months ago

Weren't Blender working on a more efficient cycles renderer?

pilaf · 6 months ago

You're probably referring to Cycles X [1], which if I'm not mistaken has already been released.

It will never be on-par with Eevee's performance though as they are fundamentally different approaches to rendering: Cycles is a physically-based path-tracing engine, while Eevee uses rasterization through OpenGL.

1: https://code.blender.org/2021/04/cycles-x/

pilaf commented on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/pentagrama

Joel_Mckay · 6 months ago

Iceweasel has been around for sometime:

https://github.com/adonais

https://sourceforge.net/projects/libportable/files/Iceweasel...

Forks can be healthy for a number of reasons =3

pilaf · 6 months ago

Oh, I thought IceWeasel had been renamed to IceCat, but the repo you linked to has recent activity and calls it IceWeasel, now I'm a bit confused. Glad to see it's active though.