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 Surprised to find IMDB had the audio as mono.  Tried downloading a bunch of alternates to try to get stereo.  1 thing they're not doing with AI restoration is converting mono to stereo or converting 2D to 3D.  You could probably do the audio with generative separation of the voice, music & sound effects.  The music could be fixed with separation of the different instruments & delays.  Helas, generative separation always sounded like shit. There's just no money to be made in restoring a movie anymore.  Lions remembered Silver Bullet as a confusing, boring movie that they saw many times in the 80's, either because the parents did, because of the catchy title, or in vein attempts to figure it out.  That memory presented it as another cozy escape. 20 minutes in, nostalgia was complete & it was up to 2x.  The contrived conflicts & canned dialog were as bad as remembered.  Lions remembered absolutely nothing until the great hu...
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   Big news for copter crashes, in lion opinion, because it happened on air.  The crew took up a lot less space after the fire.  Might have survived the impact but not the explosion. https://x.com/PCALive/status/2100045804782145880 Skin curdling video with the final words of the crew.  The engine can be heard spooling down.  Then pilot can be heard yelling his final word "fuck!" when he realizes he's too slow & low for autorotation.  The incompetent talent's last words were "you can't pull up?"  A human's last moments are not their most glorious.  From the camera bobbing, the pilot was trying to auto rotate but the blades stalled.  Noted they switched from orbiting to static hovers in the last 20 years, placing more trust in the more reliable eurocopters.  He probably always knew his final moment would be an engine failure in a static hover. He seemed to get the collective down right away, but didn't have enough energy to f...
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  Feel the pain of 30 million rejections.  Truth be told, polyamory & cohabiting replaced most of that.  The percentage of truly single men is much higher in silicon valley.  60% is a more likely number here.    ------------------------------ As expected, the delayed trades after Friday's inflation miss executed over the next 2 days & then we were down 3% from the all time high in August. Then the fall accelerated after the interest rate hike. Now they're saying to expect 4% by year's end.  It could be more jawboning to lower long term yields.       The retiretube permabulls of the last 5 years are now bailing out of the S&P index fund because for the 1st time in 20 years they can get a bigger return from bonds than stonks.  The Dave Ramsey plan just about died in as much time as it grew. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  The day job completed a long awaited...
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  Another Alamo run went a lot better than the one on 8/22. Weather was much cooler.  https://growmane.blogspot.com/2026/08/most-peculiar-decline-in-fitness-as.html  Managed a 9 minute pace for roughly 14 miles, which was a hair longer than many moons.  Took a food break & succumbed to unilateral posterior tibialis degradation after 16 miles.  It's still pretty bleak, considering the last competitive marathon was 1 year ago.  1 year ago, lions were throwing down 26 miles like no-one's business but very much alternating between walk & run days, doing nothing above an 8 minute pace.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dreamed about  having the talk after 7 years in the same place.  The CEO was now a really young, shirtless, & clueless pacific islander.  "So you're not doing anything related to the company"  "The AI automation has that effect"  "You got that right"  L...
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  Imagine not knowing if keyboards, joysticks, light pens, mice, touch pads, touch screens, or spoken language were going to be the chosen user interface.  In a time when lions could scarcely imagine reaching a double digit age, it really felt like we'd be drawing with joysticks forever.    That was us before 1984.  To lions old enough to recognize artifacts from that era, that's a blue/green screen.  They were never interacting with a user interface.  It was composited later.     Laid down a bruiser.  1 month after the last 10mph effort broke things down again, went back to alternating between walk & run days to try to increase the intensity.  A steady decline throughout August ended in barely being able to hit 6mph.  The walk/run pattern got back up to a 7m45 mile.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------  After fixing a regression in the keyframe paste function, embarked on fi...
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Stories of interest rate cycles ignore the end of the gold standard.  Lions suspect the gold standard was gradually phased out from 1976-2006 instead of suddenly ending.  Attitudes shifted gradually instead of suddenly for 30 years.  That caused the interest rate spike after 1976.  The decline of interest rates since then represented the waning influence of the gold standard & not the downward half of a repeating cycle.  The end game for fiat money is perpetually zero or negative yields. In the mean time, the latest CPI report boxed in even their mightiest attempts to do nothing.  They'll have to raise the rate .25% next week.   Delayed trades from today will make it a super monday.    -----------------------------------  How will the shift from the doll hair to a new digital currency solve the problem?  Lions suspect any digital coin is going to be issued for twice the price in doll hairs of its official exchange rate...
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