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.

This is part of what Colbert wants to fix. His proposed film will cover the largely-omitted chapters 3-8 of The Fellowship of the Ring, including the barrow wights and Tom Bombadil.

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.

No idea. It's fine so far, but I've only had it for a few months. Honestly, I'm pretty brutal on devices. Odds are high that I'll break it in some other way before the flexing causes a problem.

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.

In a case like that I think Claude is "smart" enough to push back. Claude often catches my mistakes. It's also pretty easy to add rules like "Request confirmation for any purchase requests that are unusually large or otherwise out of the ordinary for the user. Review past purchases to determine user purchasing patterns." to make this explicit.

Claude is far, far smarter than Alexa.

OTOH, it sometimes does do stupid things. On balance, I think I screw up more often than it does, but you can't just assume it will make the right decisions, so adding rules that require doublechecking with the user is a good idea.

Without a foldable phone, I'd agree. With the foldable, I can unfold it and have a reasonably large on-screen keyboard, which I can type on with both thumbs. And of course my phone is always with my, while a tablet would be an extra device to carry -- and if I'm carrying an additional device, the laptop is more functional.

Me too. I looked! Termius + tmux works reasonably well, but an app specifically for this purpose would be nicer.

I use the Termius app on my phone, SSH to my workstation, run tmux attach -d to attach to the tmux session in which I'm running Claude, then tell it to do stuff. It can only do stuff that can be done via the command prompt, HTTP requests or MCP integrations (Gmail, Drive, Confluence, Jira, etc.), but that covers a lot of ground. "Only what I can do from the command prompt" is not much of a limitation.

I've told Claude to write a design doc in Confluence (which I reviewed and shared with others to get feedback); then implement the feature, including tests; build and run the code and tests on two hardware platforms (the host and an attached embedded QNX board); commit the code to a feature branch and push the branch upstream (where I reviewed it and told Claude what to fix); create a pull request; respond to reviewer comments; and merge the PR, all from my phone while a thousand miles from the workstation. I've only done the complete cycle from the phone once, but I've done pieces of it many times.

To make this work well, it helps to have a phone with a big screen. I have a Pixel 10 Fold, unfolded for Termius use. A tablet would be better... but if I'm going to lug a tablet around, my Macbook is better yet, since it's not that much bigger than a tablet and has a keyboard. And, obviously, I do reach for the laptop rather than the phone if I have it. But I can get a lot done from the phone.

This new feature is basically "Let poor GUI users do what command-line jockeys have been doing for a while".

This isn't true.

Members of Congress and congressional employees are not exempt from the insider trading prohibitions that apply to everyone else. Trading on non-public information is a crime. In addition, if they're trading on classified information, the mere act of making the trade could constitute public disclosure of classified information, which could constitute several additional felonies, potentially including treason if the disclosure aids enemies of the United States.

However

While what you said is patently false as a matter of law, in practice there's basically no enforcement of the law against members of Congress. So, while your statement was wrong, you could say "Insider trading is ignored when done by a member of Congress" with near 100% accuracy.

The fix I would propose is not to ban members of Congress or their staffs or immediate families from trading, but instead to require them to disclose all trades 48 hours in advance. This wouldn't change the legality of trading on insider info (it would still be illegal), but it would serve to eliminate most of the benefit of acting on insider info, because their disclosure would move the market. Violating the disclosure requirement or failing to follow through on a disclosed trade would incur a fine equal to 150% of the value of the trade. This should be coupled with a requirement that members of Congress put their prior holdings into a blind trust and refrain from trading in any security over which they have a direct regulatory role.

I think that's a terrible white vs blue collar crime example. Sports betting with co-workers is ubiquitous, but if anything is even more common in blue collar workplaces.