Huh, it works on my machine…

I mentioned this in another comment below about Citizen Kane, but a big reason these hugely known “great” movies don’t standup today is explained in the TV Tropes page about why Seinfeld is Unfunny - basically that so many pieces of art were so revolutionary at the time, they they have been endless copied and reiterated over and over, so that modern audiences seeing the original piece of art don’t see it as anything special.

2001 A Space Odyssey was specially called out as an example:

2001: A Space Odyssey: Similar to Jaws 1, the so awesome, but now sadly so clichéd uses of “Also sprach Zarathustra”.

• One would be hard-pressed to find a scene from any Stanley Kubrick film that hasn’t been parodied/homaged to death.

• The famous “Star Gate” sequence, in which brilliant colors flash past the screen as the main character travels deep into space, required some extremely tricky cinematography and caused jaws to drop when the film was released in 1968. Thanks to the incredible advances in special effects since then, modern audiences often find the scene ordinary.

• Other purely FX scenes, like the docking sequence early in the film, had audiences riveted. By today’s standards, they’re downright boring.

There’s actually a good reason for this! Explained in the TV Tropes page about why Seinfeld is Unfunny - basically that so many pieces of art were so revolutionary at the time, they they have been endless copied and reiterated over and over, so that modern audiences seeing the original piece of art don’t see it as anything special.

Citizen Kane is called out specifically as:

Citizen Kane, oftentimes trumpeted as “The Greatest Movie of All Time,” tends to inspire “what’s the big deal?” responses from modern viewers, especially since Post Modern movies have become the norm and the cinematography has influenced so many other films. And everyone knows what the twist at the end is.

Citizen Kane was also, in the context of Hollywood at that time, a big challenge to the cheery sugar sweet Hollywood stories. It was critical of the idea of The American Dream and the notion of “success”, namely that a man who is outwardly a public success like Kane could still be a failure in terms of personal ambitions and relationships. Its refusal to tack on an unconvincing Happy Ending similar to earlier serious films made it far harsher than other movies of that time. Subversions like this are much more common these days. The narrative structure where we see Kane at different parts of his life, all of them intercut with each other rather than following a straight chronological pattern from childhood to old age, was cited as an influence by the more radical film-makers of the 60s and 70s who enjoyed playing fast and loose with chronology.

Why thank you

I think oil and gas companies are responsible for a lot of that misunderstanding though. For example, you think the average person would be concerned about how heavy EVs are without someone pushing that narrative?

I miss that glass aesthetic from 2001

The video specifically calls out Creality from a few years ago - and also the Bambu stuff recently.

Lol I had to use a jumper to reset my son’s BIOS the other day and I felt like Gandalf using the old magics.

I thought he made some interesting points about how ultimately this type of legislation is just encouraging 3D printer manufacturers to just abandon open source, something they’ve been trying to do for years.

Nothing screams LLMs like using emojis instead of bullet points. I can’t figure out how LLMs got that idea though. I never saw that in human writing before people started using ChapGPT for every little goddamn thing.

Yeah exactly. They’re effectively banning 3d printing.

The source for this is actually a good read. Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

Lol I was just talking to my wife about that yesterday and how it’s exactly like AI.

If you read something in the newspaper about your job, you’re like “these fucking idiots got this all backwards.” If you see AI output of an attempt at your job, it’s the same thing.

But if you read an article about someone else’s job, you think “that makes sense.” Same about seeing AI trying to do someone else’s job.

That sounds like an awful lot of effort just to jack off a tree branch

I’m neither very experienced with firearms nor printing

Unfortunately that’s the crux of the issue. The people who have written and signed this bill aren’t either - and they weren’t as big of a person as you to recognize that.

At the end of the day, 3D printing gcode is telling your printer to spit out a shape. And you simply cannot ban shapes. Am I printing a firing pin or a part for my shoe rack? There’s no way to tell. Any politician that’s telling you there is is either ignorant or lying to you.

Your faith in this mystery algorithm is stronger than mine. Here’s a diagram of the parts in an AR-15:

So we need an algorithm that renders the gcode I’m printing, then compares it to… something?

I just thanked the Lord she didn’t live to see her son as a batmaid.

Batman! (high-pitched cough) Bat-MAN!

Under the proposal, printers would have to evaluate STL files, CAD files, or other geometric code using a firearm blueprint detection algorithm and block files flagged as capable of producing a firearm or illegal firearm parts, including conversion devices.

California’s Department of Justice, or another relevant state agency, would have until January 1, 2028, to publish performance standards for detection algorithms and software control processes.

This is the problem when lawmakers write technical bills without speaking to technical people. They’re going to publish standards for evaluating if your gcode is a firearm or firearm part? THAT’S FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE

Came here for this. Doom on a pregnancy test is by far the most impressive!

I still have some old hard drives that only use IDE, but no computer that has an IDE port. Can’t bring myself to throw them away.