matmatmatmat's comments

On: Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague

[matmatmatmat]

Some more examples: Saving Private Ryan, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Deer Hunter.

Personally, I would also include Schindler's List.

[card_zero → matmatmatmat]

I suggest Grave of the Fireflies, which is entirely about children slowly starving to death.

[insane_dreamer → matmatmatmat]

Saving Private Ryan, while it does give a particularly realistic view of storming Omaha Beach, and some other scenes, is also generally heroic -- the "good guys save their buddy from the bad guys" -- which serves to glorify war, giving it a "higher purpose".

[croes → matmatmatmat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_(film)

[royal__ → matmatmatmat]

The Thin Red Line

On: The National EUV Accelerator comes to Albany

[matmatmatmat]

I can't speak to most of what they do, but they seem to be at the forefront of quantum computing.

On: Sketchy financials send Supermicro auditors running for the hills

[matmatmatmat]

I've wondered this, too. I think the market must just not be big enough to support other players?

On: Next gen 3D metal printing

[matmatmatmat]

Roselle St (where Fabric8 Labs has their office) is the most innovative street in San Diego. I don't know what it is about that particular street, but a ton of great companies have come out of there.

[midnightclubbed → matmatmatmat]

Not a street I was aware of, but it's located between the Qualcomm and General Atomics campuses and a stones throw from UCSD. Also has great freeway and rail (commuter) access and modern research focussed buildings for lease.

On: Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity

[matmatmatmat]

Yes, labor is the killer cost of these installations, IME. Labor can easily be 50% or more of the total cost.

On: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2024

[matmatmatmat]

This uncertainty should be accounted for in the confidence intervals of their stats.

On: Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python

[matmatmatmat]

Bokeh has support for WebGL. We had to switch away from Vega/Altair when a project hit around 50,000 data points in a plot, but under ~5,000 data points Vega/Altair was still good.

On: High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98

[matmatmatmat]

It's actually even worse in SDG&E territory. A kWh costs around 32 cents, but "transmission" and "distribution" are again twice that. The end result is about $1.00 / kWh.

[thinkerswell → matmatmatmat]

I’m convinced SDGE is the most hated company in the country. The southeast is so much cheaper for electricity.

On: Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications

[matmatmatmat]

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu [1]

[1] https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/23785/what-did-r...

On: A Nouveau graphics driver update

[matmatmatmat]

Well, I look forward to benefiting from this nice work when the next Debian Stable release comes around.