Blackmist

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago

I do have a fondness for the Moore era.

Growing up in the 80s, he was my generation's Bond, and every bank holiday or Boxing Day movie was nearly always one of his.

The zoom to the scarecrow in Live and Let Die scared the crap out of me as a kid though.

Rewatching, they're mostly objectively bad. I do have respect for him leaving the role, because being paired with women young enough to be his granddaughter was making him feel icky.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I rewatched them all when Amazon added them a few years back.

There are precious few good Bond films. A lot of them are quite generic, and the later Brosnan movies especially bad. The appearance of Madonna in anything is never a good sign.

What's most surprising is that there was nearly as big a gap between Spectre and No Time To Die as the entire Brosnan era.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, the name of the character is just Octopussy.

Presumably she has like eight of them down there. One for every day of the week, and a bonus for special occasions.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 7 months ago

One of the films (Thunderball maybe) starts with him raping a nurse.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 7 months ago

Man, remember when people used to break into offices to steal the RAM?

My work experience in around 1995 was spent at a local computer firm.

At one point a group of men in balaclavas showed up, the boss stopped playing Doom long enough to cover the security camera and hand over a bunch of crumpled banknotes, and I was handed this pile of SIMMs to put in a test rig to make sure they were OK to sell.

I also had to straighten the pins on used/stolen 486 CPUs, and pretty sure at one point was taken to break into a warehouse. There was certainly nobody else in the whole building, and we loaded the van with a bunch of cheap looking boxes before taking them back to HQ.

The boss was also banging a girl in my class, which in later years I learned makes him a paedo. Times sure were simpler in 1995.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 7 months ago

Hurts like fucking capitalism.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 7 months ago

Well that's nice of them.

Maybe they were concerned there wouldn't be anyone left to bomb.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 7 months ago

aided in efforts to locate and rescue Israeli hostages

Not the best advert for MS's AI products, is it?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a good baseload but it's inflexible. We need more ways to take advantage of it at quiet times.

Electric car chargers are part of it. Maybe house batteries. We need our devices to be smarter about power and when they use it.

It's also very expensive to build and run.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 37 points 7 months ago

Because they're trained on open source code and stack overflow answers.

Neither of which are commonly written in assembly.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 7 months ago

I'm assuming that since it was closed four months ago, and they're still alive, that somebody still works there and feeds them.

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