I had this experience watching Eddington. My adult son and I were laughing all the way through and the packed audience was totally silent. Very strange experience.

So I just finished watching the Elizabeth Holmes biopic. It was amazingly well-attended, in a fairly large auditorium. This was a Tuesday evening, less than a week after opening night. I am still not accustomed to films drawing such a large audience like this. It seems that people are actually capable of quitting Netflix on some nights, and putting down their phones for three hours.

I'm happy to report that the 100-200 humans filling the room were laughing throughout the film, and all at appropriate times. The plot really began to peel an absurd onion, and things got quite meta, and we just kept laughing along with one another. It was a very good time, had by all.

As for the film itself, I thought it was quite engrossing, and I am glad that I hadn't seen any real spoilers, because the third act was definitely a doozy. And it didn't feel too long, or dragging or tedious. I thought that the entire question of what's real, what's deception, what is believed, especially by Holmes and Fielder, were very well-explored in this.

And this might mean something if the President created the budget.

The president effectively does because of Veto. They inly cant control the most bipartisan aspects which is very limited today.

What? That is so not true I don’t even know where to begin. The President, of course, has some input into what the budget will be but we have seen plenty of times that Congress can and will flex their power when the parties of the Congress and President do not match.

> has some input

The president proposes the entire budget, and can veto the entire budget regardless of which party is in power. Of course Congress has immense influence and you also can't pass a budget they don't agree with. That doesn't change that not only does the president matter (the claim I'm refuting), they are the most important single person that matters, by design.

The president has a huge say in which bills and budget items are passed, they routinely put enormous pressure on individual senators to whip votes for their agenda. This goes double or even triple for Trump! Congress might literally create the budget, but in our age they're – at the bare minimum – starting from the president's agenda and working with him to pass what he wants first.

Sure, when the party controlling both members of Congress matches the President. Less so when it doesn’t. Some of the biggest reductions in the growth of spending come when the parties do not match for that very reason.

True, that's a good point.

And there is a very American anti-government aspect to it as well.

I know the whole “AI logos look like buttholes” thing is a joke for most people, but I really speaks to the pornification of our society. I would never have thought “butthole” looking at any of their logos.

It reminds me of looking at my cat’s hind end, which is not a good brand association. Has nothing to do with “pontification”.

I didn't know this was a thing and I typed "AI logos look like buttholes" into Google and the AI overview response started "You are completely right."

Have Google's models achieved the ability to throw shade?

Good point, it could be any kind of sphincter.

Not usually a “+1” or “Me too!” kinda guy but homebrew is incredible and makes dev on Mac quite seamless. Huge thanks to the team.

Not to take things too off track but I worked at Egghead Software around that time and the looping recording we had on a TV for that game haunts me to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkmjSSC3r5A something like this?

You call it UML? Really?

Yes, this appears to be entirely about raising the price of iPhones without raising the cost of iPhones. Most people don’t buy it out right so they need a way to ease the prices raised by keeping the monthly payments around the same. The difference is you have to return the phone at the end instead of owning it.

I searched for each of the supported eInk devices and they were all tiny. Anyone know if there is a larger reader (maybe Paperwhite size-ish) that might run this?

The "Hardware" link indicates that the BoM specifies a "24-pin SPI e-paper for GoodDisplay panels (3.97″, 4.26″, 7.5″ and up)." A search turns up this: https://www.good-display.com/product/516.html

I've never heard of any of them; I guess it's geared toward build-it-yourself or kit-type devices? I can't imagine a serious aftermarket FW not supporting a single Kindle or Kobo device.

I'm not knocking the devs for the choice to target open hardware, only remarking that that choice signals the project is for hackers, not regular consumers.

I would say that there is no such thing as firmware targeted for regular consumers. Regular consumers do not know what firmware is.

I am still disappointed that there is no kindle sized hardware that this can run on, but I think that has to do with manufacturers rather than firmware developers.

I mean, a) regular consumers are just gonna buy a Kindle, do nothing with its software, and only buy books from Amazon. But also b) the way a lot of these hobby things expand is that if they get some market traction, someone starts making and selling pre-assembled, retail-friendly versions of the thing. Look at wacky keyboards, for instance: Used to be that you had to solder your own weird ergo split, now there are companies like ZSA and Keebio that'll make really nice versions as finished products.

Yes that's 100% the goal

ESP32-S3 is really too underpowered for larger e-ink devices.