bus_factor

joined 2 years ago
[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Not handing them money and weapons to continue their genocide is meddling in their affairs?

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Holy shit, I never even heard of that, and the poster gives me an idea why. Was this by request from his grandkids or something?

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 17 points 10 hours ago

You seem to be suffering from imposter syndrome. Step 1 is to understand that we're all just winging it.

Are you getting the job done? Plenty of people you perceive as smarter than you are not getting the job done.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Most functional War of the Worlds merch.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 142 points 20 hours ago (15 children)

Sean Connery turned down both Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and Morpheus in The Matrix because he didn't understand the scripts. He turned down Dumbledore in Harry Potter because it was too fantastical. Then he tried a reverse approach where he accepted the next role he didn't understand, because clearly that was where the money was at. So he accepted Allan Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a movie which flopped hard. Then he ragequit the industry and retired.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Any jargon is like that. If I'd prattle on about Linux to my parents, they'd have a very similar reaction.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's admittedly been a while since last time I saw it, but I never mentioned chess. The suggestion to play chess in the screenshot is a callback to when the computer tries to suggest playing chess instead of global thermonuclear war earlier in the movie. The computer did not apply tic tac toe learnings to chess, and I never claimed it did.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You should! Actually a pretty accurate depiction of hacking. He spends weeks war dialing every phone number in the range in order to hack the computer.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I think you can buy a horse steak in most western countries, although most regular grocery stores don't carry it. You'd need to go to a butcher or a higher end store.

I bought a cut of horse steak in Norway around 2005. I haven't really looked for it since, so I don't know if they stopped selling it. It's often mixed into sausages as well, but labeled in a less obvious way.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I don't know if we're doing spoilers for 40+ year old movies, but

spoilerIsn't this really its conclusion after being told to play tic tac toe against itself? Then it learned from that and applied it to its global thermonuclear war simulations.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The tentacles of an octopus are usually not attached neatly in a row. Some of them will be behind the other legs.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

About half your post is dedicated to your various anxieties and moral qualms. I'm not saying those aren't justified, but they seem to be affecting you negatively based on your description. A therapist should be able to help you work on that part, and then hopefully the rest becomes more manageable?

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