Am I in the minority that finds these slides hard to parse?
One stylistic quirk is its liberal use of `=` and `+` for things that aren't equivalence or summation, which keeps throwing me off.
Does she ever do a presentation of these, talking through / commentary on the slides? If a recording of that, I'd 100% clear half a day's worth of meetings to watch it.
I wonder if really great stuff are always for a minority. You have to have listened a lot of classical music to notice a great interpretation of Mozart from a good one. To realize how great was a chess move, how magical was a soccer play, how deep was the writing of a philosopher. Not only for stuff that requires previous effort, but also the subjectiveness of art. Picasso will be really moving for a minority of people. The Godfather. Even Shakespeare.
Social media and generative AI may be good business because the capture the attention of the majority, but maybe they are not valuable to anyone.
I think of a lot of thing in terms of distributions, and I think the how-much-people-value-quality distribution is not that much different.
On the right side, you have the minority of connoisseurs. And on the left, there is a minority who really don't care at all. And then the middle majority who can tell bad from good, but not good from great.
Many things you don't notice consciously unless you take the time to look but they still affect your overall perception. I suspect highly detailed animations fall into that category.
Seeing something like this or Akira on the big screen there is an analogue patina to meticulous hand drawn motion and some of the effects like the physically process glow effects of the neon lights in Akira that do give a very different feeling than a CG shot.
Although only a few will really appreciate why it's different I definitely think the difference has a heavy effect on the vibe of a movie.
Same with shooting on film vs digital, not that digital is worse it has it's own feeling which can be used with intent.
I think you’re right that most people don’t notice, but without the extra effort, it would’ve ended up as just another mediocre animation. And standing out from mediocrity is what made it appealing to many people.
We'll turn on one or two to play games ourselves. E.g. my 5-year-old is currently playing Portal 2 at the station next to me.
But otherwise, no, not really. At least not so far.
Fun story: When I built the house in Palo Alto in 2011, people asked me if I was using the machines to mine Bitcoin. I said "What's Bitcoin?" I should have been mining Bitcoin.
This is absolutely not true. Customers regularly shift spends in the >= 7-digit between cloud providers. Yes, it takes planning, and it takes many engineer-months of work, but it definitely happens.
And also factor in (1) the claim that most cloud growth is ahead of us, eg. moving large customers from on-prem to cloud, and (2) it would be terrible policy to try to charge existing customers more than new customers.
>> it would be terrible policy to try to charge existing customers more than new customers.
Companies do this very, very often. This is part of the reason why they have a "call the sales department for special pricing" option. They can give large contracts a nice discount to get them onboard, then slowly (or in some cases, if they really think they have you hooked, not so slowly) ratchet up the price. This is common in both B2c and B2B businesses.
TIL about Talos (https://github.com/siderolabs/talos, via your github/onedr0p/cluster-template link). I'd been previously running k3s cluster on a mixture of x86 and ARM (RPi) nodes, and frankly it was a bit of a PiTA to maintain.
Talos is great. I'd recommend using Omni (from the same people) to manage Talos. I was surprised how easy it was to add new machines with full disk encryption managed by remote keys.
Practically, its not a problem as you can always create a privileged container and mount the root filesystem into it. I have an alias I use for exactly such things.
