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A dried-up future New York in The Fifth Element

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In The Fifth Element, there's a brief and easily overlooked scene in the middle of the movie where a spaceship takes off toward Fhloston Paradise. It only lasts a couple of seconds, but if you pause and take a closer look, you'll notice an interesting detail from the director.

I've numbered the key spots in the screenshot.

What we see is New York of the future. The ocean level has dropped dramatically, making the city look almost unrecognizable. The only question is - where could all the water have gone for sea levels to fall that much?

1 - The Statue of Liberty. It looks taller because of the extended base underneath.
2 - This marks the future ocean level. Somehow the ice caps didn't melt to add more water to the seas. Did humanity ship the water off to other planets?

3 - Manhattan, 4 - Brooklyn, 5 - The Brooklyn Bridge connecting them. With the water gone, the bridge is now spanning a canyon instead of a river.

And on what used to be the ocean floor, they've built a spaceport.

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How the size of the node_modules directory grows: the Nuxt example

volchara

22 дн. назад

Daniel Roe (author of Nuxt) reports that a new npm package will now be used for route analysis:

We've migrated Nuxt's file-system route generation to unrouting (#34316), which uses a trie data structure for constructing routes. The cold start is roughly the same (~8ms vs ~6ms for large apps), but dev server changes are up to 28x faster when you're not adding/removing pages, and ~15% faster even when you are.

https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/releases/tag/v4.4.0

Performance improvements are always good. But what's happening under the hood? Looking at the GitHub changes:

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The expectation paradox: he wanted a boy, but kept having girls

connected2u

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A man has five children - all girls. He dreams of a son, an heir! Now his wife is pregnant again. Let's skip the psychology behind all this and focus on the probabilities.

Emotionally, it feels like after five girls in a row, a boy is due. Surely, the odds of finally having a son are much higher now.

But this is a textbook example of the gambler's fallacy - the false belief that if something happens repeatedly, the opposite is bound to happen soon. That's not how probability works.

According to math, the chance of having exactly five girls in a row followed by another girl is 1 in 64, or about 1.6%. But those five girls are already here. The only thing that matters now is the next birth.

And the odds of having a boy? Still 50/50. Every birth is an independent event (assuming randomness), so the previous outcomes don't change the next one.

So yes, there's still a 50% chance they'll have another girl.

Quentin Tarantino and his foot fetish: a complete list of all his films featuring scenes with feet and legs - photos and videos

everest

недавно

Fans of Quentin Tarantino know that he has a foot fetish. For those unfamiliar with the term: it's when a man has a particular fascination with women's legs, and even more so with their feet. It's safe to say that Quentin Tarantino is the most famous foot fetishist in the world.

Let's start with Quentin Tarantino's first real film - Reservoir Dogs (1992). I'm skipping "My Best Friend's Birthday", as it was never officially released.

There's nothing related to foot fetishism in Reservoir Dogs: the film features only tough men. Women appear only briefly in a few background scenes. I found just one scene where a woman is shown in the foreground - the carjacking moment.