If normies understood that baby crying detection also requires everything-except-baby-crying detection, they would be up in arms about being spied upon... and here they are
Halo could be (peak) Game of Thrones level in the right hands, which means the right execs, producers and investors just as much as it does creatives.
Unfortunately, the right hands potentially no longer exist. The current generation seems largely unable to produce good things, with few exceptions (notably Andor)
The majority of GOT isn't hot naked sexy people or swords: it's conversations in rooms. Most good shows are conversations in rooms, which is why it's so surprising we've lost the ability to produce and write them.
Babylon 5 demonstrated that you can keep absolutely everything else crappy (effects, costumes, heck acting and even cinematography), so long as you're good at conversations in rooms.
I don't think you understand the appeal of Halo if you think it can be about people talking in rooms. Halo would have to be something far more complex, like Band of Brothers.
Exactly: it would have to be like Band of Brothers, or like Space: Above and Beyond from the 90s, but with a 2027 budget and effects. Or screw the effects: just good 2027 talking-in-rooms writing is nearly enough.
The Halo universe offers a lot to mine from, just like the Star Wars Universe did for Andor. It's just waiting for the chosen one writer to be allowed to do the job. Who's the J. Michael Straczynski or Tony Gilroy for the Halo universe?
I think Halo could successfully get the Andor treatment (intentional departure from the tone and scope of mainline entries) in the right hands, but so could pretty much anything, and such hands are hard to find.
Anything could be game of thrones (early seasons) if it well written. You don't really need any Halo rights if you have good writers and can make a good show. The point of having Halo rights is they let you produce a mid show but have an automatic audience.
It seems that way, but it's not that easy. Starcraft competitions are still on tv in South Korea 28 years later because they got the balance just right, and all the dirty little details of that universe.
In theory you can make any sci fi show about future humans and a couple other species going to war. Should be straightforward.
But getting the balance of that universe right in terms of little details is tricky: Halo has done the heavy lifting already.
> Starcraft competitions are still on tv in South Korea 28 years later because they got the balance just right, and all the dirty little details of that universe.
Are they? I thought after the pro league failed it's transition to SC2 and the GSL ended that it mostly went to streaming platforms.
Halo and Starcraft are both about the Terrans going to war with alien species.
Same old story, right?
But getting the balance of technologies, motivations (e.g. jihad-dynamics), and nitty-gritty details (e.g. the splinter factions) right is the trick: it's much easier to do wrong than to do right.
There's more to it: it's irrational to return a wallet to somebody you'll never meet/see/extract value from... but not doing that can injure your own self-image
Often doing "the right thing", in irrational circumstances, is nevertheless self-protective.
Otherwise you get friction in your social programming that you might never overcome.
You can also brag to people about how great you are because you returned a wallet and expected and/or received nothing in return. With the expectation of receiving social approval.
FWIW, you don't actually have to return the wallet to claim you returned the wallet. In fact, you don't even have to find one. The fact that lost wallets get returned makes me think telling people about it is not the motivation.
I think the way computers developed is kind of an interesting example of this in the real world. Babbage basically realized the idea of a modern computer, but tried to build a too-complicated 'supercomputer' (40 decimal digit precision!) because he didn't know how incredibly useful a much simpler, more limited computer could be. We had to wait another 75 years and spend an incredible amount of money to develop relay and vacuum-tube supercomputers, before realizing that the idea could be scaled down, and something like a PDP-8 / PLC / microcontroller was incredibly useful for industrial control and, with sufficient cleverness, even do a lot of scientific computing.
I think if you went back in time you could pay some power loom engineers to build you a pretty decent 4-8 bit microcontroller operating at 1-5 Hz (comparable to power looms at the time) and computer-controlled textiles would have paid for the computer revolution 75-100 years ahead of time.
Even after Babbage's failure to introduce us to the information age, there were a fair amount of competing approaches to how to build a computer. In a different world, a non-Von-Neumann architecture was selected.
Something like the original computers, Eniac etc, were actually generally useful. It was useful to very large enterprises that previously relied on an army of human "computers" but it was useful for them so it stimulated refinements like the PDP-8.
I think if you went back in time you could pay some power loom engineers to build you a pretty decent 4-8 bit microcontroller operating at 1-5 Hz (comparable to power looms at the time) and computer-controlled textiles would have paid for the computer revolution 75-100 years ahead of time.
Would it? You have to remember that the further you go back in time, the cheaper labor is relative to machinery. In the 19th century, you could pay a person for a multitude of customizations and so the market for custom cloth might not have been what you imagined.
There was an incredible amount of investment into high-speed programmable power looms, and there were a number of innovations (later rediscovered by computer architects) targeted at 'card-saving techniques' to reduce the labor required to card-punch the designs, and to reduce the down-time of the looms. 'Double Data Rate' card readers (with a design interleaved on two chains running at half frequency), SIMD-style one-reader/many-loom setups, 'cross-border' looms that switched between two separate card loops just like a 'branch' instruction, machines to copy chains of punch cards.
What you're saying might have been true in the 18th century or earlier, but things were highly mechanized by the 19th century, and there was a lot of motivation to keep the big expensive looms highly utilized and amortize investment in punch card sets across lots of production runs.
There's a plausible version where no matter what weird detours and dead-ends a human society takes on the tech tree, as long as there continue to be wars every few generations, the needed progress keeps getting made and the dead-ends or even just over-reaches get pruned afterward.
You can go down the wrong rabbit holes for a long while in peace-time (e.g. string theory), but war-time is a crucible for correct ideas.
I agree with you, though my own motivation is not centered on war, but (a long tail of) existential risks facing humanity, mostly centered around collective action problems.
I love this. My personal completely unsupported theory is we’re cognitively capable of conceiving of less than 1% of what’s true/accurate about the universe, and cognitively capable of understanding 1% of that 1%
- art style
- a doctor might see indications of a health issue that Lisa has
- what it says about the society of that time
- geology of the landscape
- contemporary production of the color pigments
- what the picture does with you when you look at it
- and so on
Good Sci-Fi novels bring along some of these - aliens that have access to different concepts of reality, e.g. the dark forest hypothesis. The hard part is that you actually have to come up with that understanding for writing it, instead of just hand-waving it.
> anti-Canadian sentiment whipped up by Trump might make the country inhospitable
It's not Americans who are being whipped up against Canadians, and it never has been.
Are Americans "inhospitable" to Canadians now? Or more the reverse?
Today tensions are highest, but even if Trump is the source, he's far from the cause.
It's like the Mad Men scene where the junior blows up, enumerates to Don everything wrong with him and Don blandly reacts "I don't think about you at all"
the Canadians have reacted with restraint to someone, as in arguably the most powerful person in the world, ranting about conquering them as the 51st state and then petulantly slapping random illegal tariffs on goods from there when they didn’t roll over and play dead.
Canadians haven't reacted with restraint to Americans in the decades I've been aware of the divide, and this time there has been no restraint at all.
Canadian politicians and media are pursuing a strategy: it's arguable whether it's clever or foolhardy, but what's not arguable is whether it's restrained.
There's a cultural reason why "look how ignorant and stupid Americans are" has been staple Canadian comedy since the latter half of the 20th century. And it has nothing to do with America.
One of the great things about Americans, by the way, is being able to shrug, maybe chuckle along, and let it be for going on decades. That's what comes from being a first-rate global power. Game of Thrones reminded us "the wolf does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep".
And the power dynamic here is such that the analogy is apt.
> There's a cultural reason why "look how ignorant and stupid Americans are" has been staple Canadian comedy since the latter half of the 20th century.
It's been a staple of American comedy, too. Did you think this youtube clip was insightful or additive?
> Game of Thrones reminded us "the wolf does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep".
Ah, yes. That staple of actual, real, human geopolitics. Game of Thrones. Another brilliant analogy that has a lot to do with the real world. Clever and well thought out. Glad you shared.
Trump likes to insult other leaders but goes in a rage if they reciprocate even mildly.
That seems like a similar perspective on Canadians, we rip up trade agreements and some call like for like reciprocal tariffs a lack of restraint on their part.
We’re going to have to disagree on Canadians. I would’ve called their response unrestrained but not necessarily unreasonable if they’d closed the border to American tourists or slapped on an expensive visa, and closed the airspace to American flights - probably not in line with treaties but that hasn’t seemed to stop any of trump’s policies.
That type of response would be an unrestrained one.
Reciprocal tariffs and people being less willing to visit Florida and places when Florida is trying to specifically tax them and overwhelmingly support the person advocating the take over of Canada… Oh no the Canadians don’t want to visit us, they’re over reacting!! /s
That’s my take. You’re legally entitled to your own opinion.
> closed the border to American tourists or slapped on an expensive visa, and closed the airspace to American flights
None of those were ever viable options on the table. It'd immediately set off a Canadian national crisis that hurts the USA 1% and Canada 99%. Even Canada's current leadership isn't that politically suicidal.
It's like fighting off a mugger by cutting off your own arm and beating him with it, as you bleed out and weaken with every second that passes.
Well I’ll give you that only our leader is so utterly unconcerned with what actually happens to our economy that he ignorantly slaps huge tariffs on raw goods that we turn into high value goods.
But there you go, my point exactly, as you point out Canada is practicing restraint and not cutting off their own nose over our leader’s petulance and repeatedly shown to be illegal behavior around tariffs. Canada only has done reciprocal measured responses. Glad we’re agreeing on that now.
If only our leader could learn from them and stop taxing Americans just because he has a weird fetish about making Canada a state, instead he’s lashed out and started taxing Americans for importing cheap raw material like aluminum from Canada in order to turn it into higher value goods… because I guess it hurts Canada a bit to tax American importers
If America didn't practice restraint with regard to Canada, let's say cut off all diplomatic and economic ties, it would hurt for a while. Consumer prices would rise, there'd be a significant uptick to inflation, the expense of building housing would increase, the international community would be pissed off and sentiment against American would be at an all-time high, European, Asian and South American countries would form new trading blocs to leave America out, etc...
It would be pretty bad.
If Canada did that, 3 months later there would be no country left to call Canada. The EU and East Asia would be sending relief aid in the form of peace-keepers, heating fuel & emergency power generators, antibiotics and food rations in a humanitarian gesture to save what's left of what was Canada.
I'm the combo. I feel like you, and I live in the forest.
I feel better-prepared for this than almost anyone. I have everything I need, I can work with my hands, I can build any software I need, I own my own business for 16 years. I have a 38 acres of forest and game, a big garden. I'm a generalist, born in the perfect year to understand how computers actually work, remember DOS, remember before 9/11.
I've never been more excited about the world, and I have never felt I could have this much power (without great wealth) as an individual. I can't wait for robotics to land in similar fashion. I hope biomedical advances can keep my folks alive until we beat this game.
> If you’re familiar with JavaScript, this should feel pretty familiar. We define new functions with @function and specify the returned value with result.
It used to be that HTML was for content, CSS was for layout, and JS was for "code"
Now JS is for content and layout and code, HTML is for content and layout, and CSS if for layout and code
I think your definition is off. Js was never for "code". The code itself is just a means to a goal. That certain things better can be achieved without js is good.
Better analogy would be "Microwave ovens were never for injecting electromagnetic waves into food. The electromagnetic waves were just a means to heat the food".
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