Digital video editing was slow to gain adoption, but digital video mastering (i.e. video transfers) was pretty much standard for home video by the early 90s. Telecine setups (even analog) had smart controls, nothing I'd call 'barbaric'. [0]
What was barbaric was the full post workflow for a film-to-tape-to-film edit session as described. Sure, the transfer session wasn't bad, but the full process was
Granted it's often easy to tell on your own, but when I'm uncertain I use GPTZero's Chrome extension for this. Eventually I'll stop doing that and assume most of what I read outside of select trusted forums is genAI.
And in all manner of regulated industries. People simply cannot resist throwing anything and everything at the magic text machine. A company can control its IT assets, but if the content is displayable on a screen, rest assured users will just take photos and upload to their personal LLM accounts to get the generative answers they endlessly desire.
I’m actually shocked that security teams aren’t up in arms over this exfiltration of company secrets. I know some companies that are running their own models and agents but the vast majority are copilot/claude/codex’ing away sending all that sweet sweet IP to 3rd parties
You can get agreements with all of the providers around data sharing etc and host the models themselves through AWS or another cloud provider. That's what clueful companies are doing, as expecting people not to use this stuff is doomed to fail.
Before all the third-wave shops came along? D'Amico, Sahadi's, Porto Rico, Zabar's, Gillies, and that's about it. You'd have to have been a coffee buff to seek those places out as a consumer, as they mostly served as suppliers to hospitality.
Zabar’s seems incredible, I saw a mini documentary a while ago and want to visit the next time I am in NYC. How many grocery stores are actually cupping their coffee shipments every week?
DHH’s argument was about rapid demographic change and loss of a majority culture, grounded (rightly or wrongly) in concerns about social cohesion. An argument you can disagree with, but not reduce to racial preference without distortion.
Fair point, as can be seen from this quote here (emphasis mine):
> London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late ’90s and early 2000s. _Chiefly because it’s no longer full of native Brits_. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.
Here it clear that the thing you refer to as majority culture, DHH refers to as "native Brit". So what majority culture is he talking about that dropped from about 60 to about 30% in that time? Helpfully, DHH links to a wikipedia page on the ethnic makeup of London to clarify his point. The group that dropped from 60 to 30 is that of native white Brits. So the majority culture he's explicitly referring to is that of native white Brits. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
You’re doing it again. You’re taking a descriptive proxy he used and treating it as dispositive evidence of motive, instead of engaging the underlying claim about what happens when a historically dominant, locally rooted culture ceases to be a majority.
So someone says they think a place got worse because it has fewer whites than it used to, and I'm somehow in the wrong for interpreting that as them finding a place worse because it has fewer whites. Check. Very clear. Thank you for the explanation.
Had Redford passed some 30 years ago, your remarks would have been true. By the early 2000s, Sundance became nothing more than a marketplace for a formulaic film type (quirky dramedies with offbeat characters) that big studios (a.k.a. Hollywood) would bid over. Sundance ultimately commodified "independent film".
Do any SOC2 Type II auditors truly audit the businesses they’re making an attestation for? Like do they go onsite, physically and virtually, to probe and determine what’s true? Typically the client of an assessor provides compliance evidence in the form of screenshots of configuration details. Clearly this kind of evidence can be fabricated or adulterated.
Audits are a checkbox exercise. But like before every flight, pilots complete a checklist, checking boxes just like an audit.
It takes a culture of following through with what you say you do and SOC2 is at least a 2-part audit that has you show your policies in the first part and then a year later they validate your evidence that you do what you say. So that puts it well above any self-assessment like NIST (which still has excellent guidance for how to approach security).
A SOC2 doesn’t prove they don’t share your data with the government for example just that they follow what their privacy policy says (which could include clauses about sharing data with the government).
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLZ3ru3N5k
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