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Sean Scott
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Your database is down because you didn't listen to me. I put databases in containers so I can cook, buy knives, run & give dogs the life they deserve. He/him. Backup≠Recovery. Dogs>People. Trans Rights=Human Rights.
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Same with All Quiet on the Western Front. Devastating.
YOU get a Letter of Marque, and YOU get a Letter of Marque, EVERYBODY GETS LETTERS OF MARQUE!
I've seen it mentioned multiple times in this thread and didn't realize how popular it is. Thanks for this!

I have auditory/gustial synesthesia and this movement is absolutely the most delicious music ever made. The bass and cello are like warm, thick chocolate.
I guess I've hit the "write your memoirs" stage of life.
Damn this thread is packed with wonderful films and music.
What's your favorite use of pre-existing classical music in a movie not directed by Stanley Kubrick?

Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.

Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien
Fair play, I saw the LA Philharmonic perform the soundtrack live for a screening of classic Looney Tunes at the Hollywood Bowl years ago.
Just thinking "Fast as a leopard" brings me to tears.
I forgot about that one. "Breaking Away" was life changing for me. The day after seeing it, I walked into my local bike shop and announced that I was going to be a bike racer. I was 13.

By 22 I was competing alongside Olympians; 5 years later, training partner for a bronze/silver medalist.
Gallipoli: Adagio in G Minor - Albinoni
The Fall: Symphony No. 7 in A Minor, Allegretto - Beethoven

Also both spectacular films.
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It's rarely a good sign when the people who are most sceptical about a technology are those who understand it the best.
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

@apache.be you rule 🖤
10 years ago I would have known exactly which news-of-the-week actor you were talking about, but today this could be anyone.
Apropos of nothing...

Columbia:
- District of
- University
- Sportswear
- The Gem of the Ocean

Colombia:
- South American nation whose president, Gustavo Petro, just schooled a global superpower.
Your MO gives you away as the perpetrator who broke into the Louvre and left the 140 carat jewels behind.
Sort of proves your strategy
FIFA: "Hold my corruption."
Infrastructure Week, Olympic Edition.
It's one banana, Michael. How much can it cost, $10?
I'm old enough to remember the outrage for Janet Reno's handling of the Fabian Gonzalez situation and the Waco raid. And before that, the repercussions of Ruby Ridge.
All Cybertrucks Are Bad
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LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.
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What you're getting from an LLM is a statistical approximation of what the answer would be to a statistical approximation of the question.

This is why prompt engineering is fake. The prompt (and any input data) is just a suggestion - and helps fool you into thinking that your question was answered.
The opposite of Midwest dudes wearing a parka and shorts because "my legs don't get cold."
Harvard MBAs, in touch with the heartland, tapping into America's love of wholesome potato crate racing. (Coming soon to ESPN)