In fairness, this is the Kernel we are talking about, and those dudes actually do know what they are doing.

Kernel code is fucking hard. The last kernel coding I ever did was on Minix in the early 1990s for Operating Systems class at University. That was a total brain bender. But heres the thing, Minix was an intentionally simpler kernel designed for teaching and included an extremely comprehensive textbook, that just doesn't exist (I think) for Linux.

The Linux Kernel may well be the most complicated code by some of the most skilled coders on the planet. To claim they "can't code" is frankly, hubris.

Not that I think AI can code either. But it DOES seem to be quite good at finding bugs and code smells. You wouldn't want to rely on it as your everything, but don't be surprised if it finds whoopsies by even Torvalds himself.

Oh I dont know. Some of the scenes at the gas giant in Tau Ceti where pretty spectacular. Was it *Dune* spectacular? No. But I think the immersion of the theatre certainly helps.

Plus it sends a nice signal to the studios saying "more of this please!". Support hard sci-fi, its a frigging rough environment for films in general, and double rough for genre films like this.

Yeah I saw it , and it was actually really good. Gossling is kind of comical at times, but he actually does really well in this, and the comedy is more in service of the premise that he's a competent scientist and not-so-competent unwilling astronaut, and that he's got a weird friendship with the alien.

From a hard sci-fi point of view its really good, good enough that the few places where it does seem to veer off from known science (The solid xenon that the aliens use as a construction material) seems a little jarring.

And as a drama, yeah... it works. You'll definately find yourself rooting for the two main characters (goslings character and "Rocky" (as he dubs the alien)) and I wont spoil where it goes, but it'll get you.

Go watch it. It was easily one of the best films of the year.

Eh traditionall the big "need many hdmi" tasks was multicamera editing.

I know that at some point Multi Camera support got broken or removed but apparently it came back? Honestly its been a long long time since i've been anything close to knowledable about FCP

As an australian Solar is a genuinely viable solution for energy (like it is in most sunny places), and we do have a lot of it.

But the whole industry is getting a bad rep, largely not of their own making due to the relentless illegal spam phone calls that most australians get a couple of times a day offering "access to the government solar rebate". I've had to completely block phone calls from melbourne (most seem to come from that area code) and inform my melbourne friends to just text me on social media and I'll phone them. And its made people very sus on the industry, despite the fact the vast majority of solar installers are just regular tradesmen honest dealers.

I would hope not. Apple will apple I guess, but they are probably well aware that extensibility is a marketing plus not a negative , particularly with tech crowd, I'd argue in recent times a lot of the lock down has had more to do with manufacturing and performance efficiencies and that it has actually harmed them commercially, and they know it, but the commercial harm is outweighed by the manufacturing savings as well as the general speediness of on-chip memory. That said I *think* the latest mac minis can be storage upgraded, so it seems apple isn't too worried about it.

To be fair, outside of GPUs there really isn't much need for third party cards, and arguably even GPUs aren't a show stopper with third party GPU cages. But really for 99% of the use cases the Apple silicon GPUs are good enough. Nobody sane is buying a mac pro to run games, and for AI thats a whole different complicated set of reasonings (for training you'll always be better off with a datacenter server and abank $15K datacenter GPUs.). For everything else, the Apple silicon GPU seems to punch above its weight class.

Oh I suppose there is also video intake cards. I know my father was consulting on a job (he's an audio and video engineer who designs radio and TV studios) where they had mac pro and some black magic cards that had a whole boatload of hdmi signals coming in, and they've had to migrate to a PC. But I think increasingly there are viable thunderbolt solutions for that.

I suspect its been a while since he's been capable of that.

Most dudes that age are well beyond pecker functionalty, and throw in morbid obesity and a lifetime of poor health choices and yeah, short of viagra, odds are low.

Not gonna lie, I'd take the 100 day hit for the $2-3mil settlement if it was me.

Though I'd probably go metaphorically John Wik on them for losing my dog.

"You are too smart to be a cop...."

LMAO That is what they tell the ID10T's that can't be trusted with gun, badge or any responsibilty. Almost any reputable force requires a degree and advancement requires a higher degree. I am not saying a degree shows intelligence or more importantly common-sense, but I'd say your "buddies" might be more suited for the Marines.

What "excellent film adaptation" are you talking about? There's one old animated adaptation, and that's is. There's also a movie that bears the same title, but it's apparently a coincidence: nothing except the title and names of some of main characters matches, thus I don't see how it could be relevant to Tolkien's books.

Enough with the gate keeping.

You cant make a literal version of LOTR unless you want an extremely boring trilogy of unwatchable 9 hour films.

You know full well that while it deviated from the books in some minor and a couple of major, ways (they did our boy Tom Bombadil wrong) it was largely a fairly close adaption of the *story*, but not the writing.

Your entitled to feel agrieved that a film that was never made and never will be made was not made, but lets not pretend your weird stance is anything other than juvenile gate keeping.

We need a burn-down pin. When entered performs a factory reset.

"...the difference between solar and wind known problems..."

Be fair. If he can't reply with some sort of namecalling like "TDS" or "Libtard" or some barking phrase he heard a shouting man say on youtube, then he can't really answer you. Which I think is a bit unfair on him.

They act like dynamic pricing is a new thing ? NOT..

It was the standard for almost the entire human history. There were no price tags and you haggled for a discount, so if you sucked you paid more. If the merchant thought you were a rube you paid more...

Now that Chuck is gone William Shatner "Capt. Kirk", and Clint Eastwood are the last super heroes from my childhood.
Getting old sucks....