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Total Recall (1990) has now hit predictions for: ▫️robotaxis ▫️Facetime/Zoom calls ▫️full-body x-ray scans ▫️automatic digital nail color changer Now, we just need that giant martian Mars terraforming oxygen machine.
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![Andy Weir describing how he wrote The Martian and film got made is very entertaining. He said, “I wanted to make sure dorks like me would enjoy it, so made it as scientifically accurate as possible” Here the play-by-play: ▫️started writing full time in 1999 after getting fired from AOL (which had just merged with Netscape) ▫️he was a programmer and had a ton of stock options…because he was fired, had 6 months to excercise them and sold at AOL’s peak before bubble popped ▫️spent 3 years on book ideas that got “no traction” (and no agent wanted to sign him) ▫️went back to work as software engineer and wrote online as a hobby (webcomics, short stories, serials) ▫️The Martian was one of three serials he was working on 2009 (other one was about alien invading earth, another about a mermaid in 19th century New England) ▫️sent stories to a mailing list of 3,000 readers he had built up over a decade ▫️took 3 years to write The Martian, “posting a chapter at a time [every] 2 months” or so ▫️ “spent more time researching than writing, because researching was more fun than writing” (very relatable) ▫️readers corrected him along the way and when he was done, a bunch of them asked if he could make a Kindle version because reading it on his website sucked ▫️Weir didn’t want to charge because was making solid living as programmer…but Kindle has minimum of $0.99 ▫️all his fans started buying the Kindle book and leaving positive reviews ▫️this “sales spike” pushed book up charts and hit bestseller lists and just snowballed after that on Amazon ▫️within a short span, major book publisher reached out…then Matt Damon expressed interest on a film project…then Ridley Scott threw his hat in the ring ▫️Weir negotiated these deals while “debugging code” on his day job Described the process as “one of those things where everything just snuck up, bit by bit” before boooooooooom!! Film came out in 2015: made $630m on $105m budget (and Project Hail Mary might pass that now). *** Link to vid (2017):](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2040648035806720140/amplify_video_thumb/2040647904579510272/img/ERj3ePy_UfOdkyDJ.jpg)
![Elden Ring: Nightreign | Gameplay Overview Releasing exactly two weeks from today. ▫️ The overall structure of the map will not change from run to run - this includes Sites of Grace, cave entrances, and major geographical features. ▫️ Points of interest, rewards, bosses, and mini-bosses will be randomized each run however. ▫️ World Events can take place at the start of your run. This will affect the map or your next run in some way. ▫️ One example is 'Shifting Earth: Crater' which transforms the northern part of the map into a giant volcano pit. ▫️ Enemies in these areas are more challenging but you should always try to explore them. ▫️ IGN: "Exploring the crater took us pretty much the entire second day, but when we did eventually make it all the way to the bottom, we beat a boss that granted us an Epic rarity reward by itself [...] but then also the Unique reward of upgrading any weapon in your arsenal to Max Level for free." ▫️ If you don't want to play with the assigned World Event, you can reset it by sleeping at the Roundtable Hold. ▫️ Random Events can also occur during your run occasionally - similar to the Margit invasion in the Network Test. ▫️ More random events - A giant tornado can appear on the map. Upon reaching it, you're invaded by a group of challenging NPCs. A mysterious boss can also appear that attacks from miles away, with each hit lowering your level. ▫️ Eight Nightfarers/classes at launch. Each one has unique weapons, abilities, and Ultimate Arts. ▫️ Up to 3-player co-op with matchmaking. If a teammate goes down, simply attack their body to get them up. Nightfarers with ranged weapons are particularly useful for this. ▫️ Sadly there will be no crossplay or cross-progression. ▫️ Releasing May 30th on PS5, Xbox, PC, and last gen for $40. #ELDENRING #ELDENRINGNIGHTREIN](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1923520620890910736/amplify_video_thumb/1923518973313761280/img/xEgplT1x_uJjw0OB.jpg)
![Before becoming Microsoft’s new CEO in 2014, Satya Nadella wrote a 10-page memo to the board as part of the selection process. He discussed the details of the memo on the BG2 podcast: ▫️Elevator pitch: Two phrases he used were “ambient intelligence” and “ubiquitous computing” (his PR folks told him to dumb it down and he remade the pitch to “mobile first, cloud first layer”, and has executed on exactly that over the past decade). ▫️Mental model of Microsoft = cloud infrastructure is core: “One of the things I've always resisted is thinking of our Cloud the way the market segments it…I don't allocate my capital thinking ‘here is the Azure capital, here is the M365 capital, here is gaming [capital]’ I kind of think, ‘hey, there's a cloud [infrastructure]. That's the core theory of the firm for me. On top of it, I have a set of workloads. One of those workloads happens to be Azure. The other one is M365 [then] Dynamics [then] gaming’…That was all in that memo and pretty much has played out.” ▫️Selling the cloud pivot: “We had a 98% / 99% gross margin business in our servers and clients [division]. People said, ‘oh, good news, you now can move to the cloud and maybe you'll have some margin. [But we already had margin].’[...] My gut was [that cloud first would be] less gross margin but the TAM is bigger…we'll sell more to small businesses. We will sell more in aggregate, in terms of even upsells like the consumption would increase.” Nadella -- who was running Microsoft's Server and Tools Business (which housed Azure) -- also noted that he was able to sell his vision because he was an “insider” (he joined Microsoft in 1992). As a result, his criticisms of the business would also be a criticism of himself. As Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley note in the podcast, Nadella joined when Microsoft was worth $300B and has seen its market cap since grow 10x to $3.25T (one of the best public market CEO runs ever). *** Full podcast def worth a listen:](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1869907179026952234/amplify_video_thumb/1869906194292207617/img/NiLHZOEGKfltTmdK.jpg)
