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Working as executive producer for video at the Financial Times. Previously worked in BBC Global News

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stroughtonsmith, to random
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Nobody can say I don’t use my iPad Pro 😝 I’ve been working with Final Cut Pro on the go all week (on an unsupported iPad, no less), with about a hundred gigabytes of 4K60 drone footage

tomhannen,
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@stroughtonsmith have you tried Davinci Resolve for iPad?

vga256, to InitialD
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ah i can finally play ataru and taitoo classics like abscondee and aim cruise

#arcade #retroGaming

A mini arcade machine with a dizzying number of ripoff games that bear titles similar to, but not quite close enough, to what they were trying to ape.

tomhannen,
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@vga256 I have this! It’s terrible!

tomhannen,
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@vga256 one of my kids played with it endlessly. It’s pretty weird how all these knock-off arcade games exist. I’d love to know who wrote them

scalzi, to random
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As a follow-up to the previous post about the Rabbit, and how its functions could probably be done on/with a smartphone:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145838/rabbit-r1-android-app-pixel-6a

tomhannen,
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@GammaGames @toolbear I wonder what the Panic Playdate team thought when they first saw it.

marcoarment, to random
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My iPhone 15 Pro doesn't hold onto USB-C cables very well anymore, and they always fall out or flake out.

(And I only use the USB-C port for Xcode and travel charging, so it's not from overuse.)

Anyone else have this happen? Is this most likely a "crap in the port” 5-minute-fix-at-an-Apple-store situation, or a hardware-repair I'll-be-without-my-phone-for-some-days-and-need-to-move-into-an-old-one situation?

tomhannen,
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@marcoarment clean it with this. Use a cheap USB microscope with a light to see what you’re doing:

https://amzn.eu/d/3MOUycJ

tomhannen, to random
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Thoughts on Elementary, the 2012 US TV series very loosely based on Sherlock Holmes, of which I have watched 3 seasons as I attempt to fight off a virus. I started it on a whim from a throwaway tweet by @charlesarthur, who said it was good. It is, and it's free on Prime. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B00FZGWU2K/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s1 🧵

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There’s something incredibly comforting about watching a police procedural where everything gets solved in one episode. But...

Seasons 1 & 2 are almost perfectly linear stories. Season 3 starts to have B-plots and multi-episode stories. Not sure it's better for it - feels a bit more like a soap opera?

tomhannen,
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It’s so puritanical to almost be unbearable. Sherlock is a drug addict. He’s supposed to be ambiguous. Luckily the performances and writing save it from this endlessly daft position. The tightly buttoned collar, no sex, no booze tells us one thing: this Sherlock is a vicar.

tomhannen,
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The tech in is delightful. Photo scanners! Tiny flip phones, later little iPhones! Endless custom UIs. The AI episode is great fun S3E4 Bella. Windows mobile! Wired headphones! Papyrus font on the messaging UI!

tomhannen,
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You know what reminds of most of all? 1960's Batman. It’s so charming and silly, but absolutely rooted in its own world. The characters map almost perfectly. In the future some AI will be able to regenerate a version of Elementary set in Bruce Wayne hall, with Jonny Lee Miller flipping the head on a statue, and calling Commissioner Gordon, while Ms Hudson looks on in a butler’s outfit.

tomhannen,
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Delightful trope 1: Let’s go back and see the character we were introduced to two scenes ago. My god! They’re dead! Every time. As sure as Lucy Liu’s hair flick to camera.

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Trope 2: Watson/Holmes look around the room while a witness speaks. We cut to a POV shot of what they’re looking at. It always appears later as a clue. See also: picture frames behind seemingly innocent witnesses, bit-part characters with only a couple of lines of dialogue who enter a scene for no good reason with another witness.

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Trope 3: The writing often refers to expensive things we never see. It has the effect of making the budget feel bigger than it is. A shipping tanker or helicopter is mentioned, a plan is hatched to stop it, and the next scene is in the interrogation room with the bad guy. All killer, no filler.

tomhannen,
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Elementary words I have learnt this week: BOLO. FINEST. Rotator cuff. Single stick.

tomhannen,
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The Brownstone is just a set, but it’s a fabulous set. All the sets have a great lived-in quality.

tomhannen,
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Every time there's a scene outside, the dialogue recording has horrible noise gating and reduction applied to it. It sounds awful. It's remarkable how much better this stuff has got in the last few years. Dubbing mixers who badly remove all the background noise between words, only to overlay more background FX to cover it up are fooling nobody

tomhannen,
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Cultural references - Bin Laden as a touchstone “Anonymous” becomes “Everyone”. It feels like a long time ago.

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Rhys Ifans lifts every episode he appears in as Mycroft. Sometimes if you squint, it looks like a British show with a couple of US actors. Worzel Gummidge's' son is pretty good too

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tomhannen,
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Sherlock saying "faucet" instead of tap in a British accent is a crime against humanity. So much US drama revolves around the idea that “my work is my whole life”.

Edent, to random
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Decided to get a set of fancy monitor arms for my standing desk.

My 15.6 inch screen already obscures the monitor. Not sure how I'll cope with my new 17 inch laptop.

If I move the main screen any higher I'll hurt my neck.

Also need somewhere for the webcam so it isn't looking down on me.

tomhannen,
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@Edent Build an autocue? A black box containing a 45° mirror, display flat beneath it with the output horizontally flipped, webcam behind the glass, ring light above it, or to one side with a white fill board on the other side. (Not everyone looks better lit with a ring light from above)

tomhannen,
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@Edent there are. They’re all a bit fiddly to be honest, work with an iPad or similar. But direct eye contact during video calls! https://amzn.eu/d/67Cm97I

sdw, to random
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iOS disk space management continues to absolutely confound me. My iPhone lies about having 250 GB of ‘free’ space on-device, but plugged in shows only a fraction of that. And it complains about storage nonstop.

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tomhannen,
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@sdw shut down and restart? My phone often seems to lie about free space, especially when downloading iOS updates. It’s baffling.

tomhannen, to random
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Just blocked the words “fedi” and “fediverse”. Honestly this place is better than the other places but my god it does talk about itself a lot. It’s like watching television about television. Not interesting to me

platformalist, to Playdate
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Got a Playdate for my birthday! SO EXCITED!

Any game recommendations? If any of you folks have released games on it, I'd love to try them out!

tomhannen,
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@platformalist Bloom https://play.date/games/bloom/

tomhannen, to random
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Run The Camerons

(Gooey.AI, David Cameron, Run The Jewels / DJ Shadow)

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