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Straight from the horses mouth.

Some … more fringe film critics and fans believe that Kubrick was a crazed perfectionist. They suggest entirely every move he made was some calculated, inscrutable act of a god-like master. That never set right with me. I’ve worked with top industry experts before. Yes, he was very detail oriented and went to some extreme lengths to get what he wanted (lighting in Barry Lindon for example). But all of these were with a very clear technical or emotional goal.

One thing these folks usually point to is how he made some actors do dozens and dozens of takes to get exactly the right one. Kubrick says why here as clearly as possible. It was a practical (and very British) way of handling a real problem. Maybe it’s because they didn’t study their lines in the evenings and get plenty of sleep so they were ready.

By putting the actor out there and making them do the scene again and again, it makes them think about the lines. Instead of yelling at them, he made them work the lines out on-stage in take after take in front of everyone until they do what they should have done in preparation.

It’s a subtle but very effective way of telling actors do more work on their lines. Stand there in the hot seat, repeating your scene dozens of times in front of a whole crew staring at you, and perhaps it make the actor want to come better prepared the next time so you don’t need to do 50 takes.

Kubrick worked many times with Jack Nicholson, and the story goes that when Nicholson was doing his famous ‘You can’t handle the truth’ speech for A Few Good Men, he was practicing off set leading up to the take and ended up doing the 3-4 takes almost exactly with just as much intensity each time. He was ready, and could perform on command because he did the work before getting in front of the camera. Maybe he learned that working with Kubrick.

Intel Panther Lake’s new Arc-Pro driver will let you set up to 93% of system ram as iGPU memory. This means if you have 64 GB of RAM – you can theoretically allocate up to 59.5 GB of memory. Since Intel Graphics Software 25.26.1602.2 and driver 32.0.101.6974, the old limit was 57%.

While this is really cool (and something that should have been done a decade ago when integrated graphics was first a thing), the reality is that the memory is the slower system clocked DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR memory with all the corresponding bandwidth and latency limitations. So, do not expect your models to run very fast – but they might actually run for a change.

Sr. Stephanie Baliga is famous for running the Chicago Marathon every year to raise funds for her order.

As a teen, she was a division I runner with the University of Illinois, and was one of the fastest in the country. She planned to become a professional athlete until a foot injury her sophomore year led her to discern another path. She joined the Franciscans of the Eucharist in Chicago in 2010 at age 22.

Sr. Stephanie completed her 15th consecutive year running the Chicago Marathon this past Sunday, October 11, raising funds for her order’s Mission of Our Lady of the Angels. She and the 192 runners on her marathon team (with another 30 running the half) brought in $579,589, setting a new record.

All funds go to her order’s mission, supporting its food pantry that feeds 3,000 to 4,000 families each month, as well as other outreach programs the sisters operate in an under-served Chicago neighborhood. She has raised more than $3.2 million since she founded the team in 2011.

An Intel patent application published on August 6, spotted by Patentlyze, describes an orbital data center architecture that moves some of the computing used to operate massive satellite constellations off the ground and into space. The architecture proposes a two-tier satellite network in which a small number of more powerful satellites in higher orbits manage large constellations of relatively simple satellites in low-Earth orbit.

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The Weather app in macOS consumes five times less memory and isn’t riddled with ads, Windows 11’s app can sometimes reach 1.6GB of usage.

Memory prices are astronomical. Sales of new PC’s are down because people cannot afford systems configured with 32gb or 64gb of ram. Microsoft has been trying to say you can run Windows on systems as low as 8gb, but when your ad-chocked weather app uses up 20% of your system ram, it’s hard to believe any of their claims.