cail.bsky.social
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I wonder if my years of cycling on rough surfaces have blunted my sense of danger regarding quick vertical movement? I know that fear you mean but it’s totally absent when I fly, even with bad turbulence. I get it when I’m a car passenger sometimes though, when the driver doesn’t brake like I would
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Yes, this is the way. It’s bullshit that they don’t have to report these waitlists at all. They do have to report time waited when appointments are finally given but that’s super easy to game - just offer as few routine appts as you can and the median drops.
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The location offset is refundable. www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-... - so it’s trivial to have a SPV that imports money, racks up QAPE, pays no tax and then receives 30% of the QAPE as a refund. If the QAPE is spent on loss making enterprises where the loss is due to cross border loans…
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For perspective; I ran a small equipment rental place in Australia for quite some time, and got jaded as I saw government cash for international shows being spent on my multinational competitors that then declared net losses year over year in Australia. So that money is gone.
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Ultimately we can never know for sure if domestic motion picture industries would survive or not because that experiment hasn’t been run in our countries. But I do look elsewhere in the non-English world and see plenty of dense industries that don’t require part-funding foreign shows to survive.
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I have no problem with international shows coming and spending their money here. It’s when the government chooses to subsidise that activity instead of putting that cash directly into the economy that I start to ask questions.
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To be fair my opinion comes from at least a decade ago here. Perhaps things have changed but back then at least there was some real stinky behaviour from SPAA around allowing US shows to work to US conditions which were materially worse for staff.
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Increased compared to what, though? I always wonder about opportunity cost of giving the incentives to internationals vs local. We can’t really prove that Marvel renting gear and paying a multinational post house with an office in Oz makes more economic activity than a domestic show or five would…
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It is more nuanced, I agree, but I mean in the broader economic sense. Marvel isn’t making the national workforce permanently larger, but this is the frame it’s usually presented in (at least in Australia).
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I always had the same issue with “we landed Marvel Film Twelve, which will “””create””” 1500 jobs” no it won’t those people would be working anyway, the production is a temporary venture.
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It’s anaesthetic choice.
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hm, I think about what is instrumented. So certain parts of the software process are much easier to instrument (hence software metrics), because of the fact that they run via certain technical processes. What is systematically NOT likely to be instrumented? Of course, more social processes :)
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Ah, a fellow @wtyppod.bsky.social listener
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Having skimmed the pipeline chapter recently I think it’s due an update now that Collector is more mature
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Nuclear weapons are too powerful to ever be used, and yet they exist.
LLMs impose an impossible ethical burden on the creativity of humanity to work, and yet they exist.
Nukes are (theoretically) subject to international agreements to control their use.
LLMs?
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www.midisolutions.com/prodfsw.htm
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Echoes of this amazing story: www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09...
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Someone funged the tokens?!
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We are hiring for someone to do research - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42... - happy to chat off the record about the culture etc if you want. I don’t know about FT/PT but we mean flexible work when we say it if that helps.
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Rice (cooker)’s Theorem
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About to travel east for 22 hours, hold my collateralised mortgage
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Was a great night, what a tremendous idea. Thanks for putting it on.
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Glad you enjoyed it, thanks so much!
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I thought I set my template to private.
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And here’s Nik’s blog ludic.mataroa.blog
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Pine Gap is going to get really awkward… No great loss there, mind you.
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An old film industry colleague built this recently…
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VERY interesting…
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Holy shit, nice work. Always wanted to do this but the thing with car license plates always felt impossible to get past
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Ah, but are their numbers predictive? Causative? Or just happen to move the right way at the right time?
Given you mention ‘legibility’ have you read Seeing Like A State? I think the challenge here is not how to build better mechanistic models of work, but changing the management mindset
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I wanna hear about the deviated standards.