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

simianwords · 21 hours ago

What’s an equivalent movie in contemporary times? Not pretentious, sincere and relies on dialogue and story telling?

I kind of hated movies like Manchester By The Sea, American Sniper, Banshees of Insherin.

They all feel not so sincere to me. There’s something about them - a technique where audience exposition is deliberately toned down to such an extent that it’s just scene after scene with no soul.

rwmj · 18 hours ago

A good, meditative film with a long arc of time and a bit of prison is Ash is the Purest White (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7298400/)

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

haunter · 20 hours ago

Watch japanese films. Or just generally don't watch american films

Kore-eda Hirokazu: Still Walking (2008), Monster (2023), Shoplifters (2018)

Hamaguchi Ryusuke: Drive My Car (2021), Evil Does Not Exist (2023)

A Story of Yonosuke (2013) from Okita Shuichi

Memories of Matsuko (2006) from Nakashima Tetsuya

Departures (2008) from Takita Yojiro

Perfect Days (2023) from Wim Wenders. Even though he is not japanese it's a very japanese film

but there are lot more

rwmj · 20 hours ago

You can't mention Kore-eda without mentioning After Life (1998), surely? (Confusingly called Wonderful Life in Japanese, and also I don't mean the Gervais series.)

There's a recent US "remake"/homage which I haven't dared to watch.

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

underdeserver · 3 days ago

Anthropic's version is in Rust though, so at least a little different.

rwmj · 3 days ago

It's not really important in latent space / conceptually.

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

rwmj · 3 days ago

The interesting thing here is what's this code worth (in money terms)? I would say it's worth only the cost of recreation, apparently $20,000, and not very much more. Perhaps you can add a bit for the time taken to prompt it. Anyone who can afford that can use the same prompt to generate another C compiler, and another one and another one.

GCC and Clang are worth much much more because they are battle-tested compilers that we understand and know work, even in a multitude of corner cases, over decades.

In future there's going to be lots and lots of basically worthless code, generated and regenerated over and over again. What will distinguish code that provides value? It's going to be code - however it was created, could be AI or human - that has actually been used and maintained in production for a long time, with a community or company behind it, bugs being triaged and fixed and so on.

rwmj commented on When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown rachelbythebay.com/w/2026... · Posted by u/zdw

baxtr · 4 days ago

Anyone know how she come up with the word or why she chose it?

rwmj · 4 days ago

Maybe from JWZ? https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/clown-computing.png

rwmj commented on 221 Cannon is Not For Sale fredbenenson.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mecredis

emptybits · 5 days ago

1. Author lost me at his first sentence: "Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life." I am careful and aware of this possibility, but AFAIK I have not experienced this, nor have "most people" I know. o_O Crazy times.

2. I don't even understand how a title transfer could happen without verifying ownership. Is the title system in the USA decentralized or that much different than elsewhere? i.e. Torrens-style

rwmj · 5 days ago

I also wondered why someone would own an empty lot in another town for years on end and neither build on it nor sell it.

rwmj commented on 221 Cannon is Not For Sale fredbenenson.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mecredis

rwmj · 5 days ago

Somewhat common in the UK as well, example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-63392... (It took him 4 years to recover possession https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygv79n8x1o)

Here you can register with the Land Registry and they will email you if any enquiries or attempted sales happen on your property: https://www.gov.uk/protect-land-property-from-fraud

rwmj commented on Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem bicameral-ai.com/blog/int... · Posted by u/jinhkuan

pseudosavant · 6 days ago

Hard to take it serious when it opens with this note: `48% of AI-generated code contains security vulnerabilities (Apiiro, 2024`?

Really? 2024? That was forever ago in LLM coding. Before tool calling, reasoning, and larger context windows.

It is like saying YouTube couldn’t exist because too many people were still on dial up.

rwmj · 6 days ago

https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-mi...

rwmj commented on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/zdw

weinzierl · 7 days ago

These dongles used to be ubiquitous and they broke all the time.

As a young intern, I arrived early one morning to find the PCB layout software (PADS PowerPCB) on our "design PC" wasn’t working. (I use quotes because it was just the beefiest machine we had, naturally our boss’s PC, which he kindly shared)

Obviously the dongle. I tried unplugging and replugging it, with and without the printer daisy-chained. Nothing.

So I begrudgingly asked my colleague who’d just arrived. He looked at the dongle, looked at me, looked at the dongle again, and started laughing.

Turns out our Boss had stayed late the previous night processing customer complaints. One customer had sent back a "broken" dongle for the product we were selling. Boss tested it on his PC, found it worked fine, and mailed it back on his way home.

Except he didn’t send our dongle back. He had sent my PowerPCB dongle. More fun was had when the rest of the team and finally our boss arrived. Luckily he took it with good humor.

rwmj · 7 days ago

I remember when I worked in an electronics lab one of our EEs built several "dongle buses", a parallel port "bus" that you could plug up to about half a dozen dongles in, and it was frequently fully populated on the machines we used for CAD and PCB layout. An early version of PADS (PADS2000?) was one of the applications we used.