Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Man, I love college football. The post-game interview with the NIU coach is *everything* you love to see!
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Holy (lol) shit, Notre Dame!
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
I love my Georgia Tech band member friends, and the fight songs are undefeated. Halftimes shows though? Yikes. We got shit like “a tribute to flight” and “the music of middle earth.” 😂
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Now to watch the Canes demolish FAMU. Sadly, FAMU didn’t bring their band to Hard Rock. I’ll always remember watching FAMU’s amazing band at the half of games in the Orange Bowl growing up. 🙌🏻
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Just what we need. More Arkansas football 😂. This game is all kinds of stupid. In other words this game is awesome for everyone but fans of either team.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Oh, bees. Why must you do this to us? Can’t win games when your defense gives up a hojillion yards. 😔
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Finally watched Furiosa this evening. What a prequel! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
The UGOOS box has an Amlogic S922X-J under the hood, which has hardware-level support for every codec under the sun, and uniquely supports Dolby Vision Profile 7 FEL, making it even better than my Zidoo. CoreELEC is Kodi, which is complicated, but once you finish setting it up, it is very nice to use.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
In my quest for maximizing A/V quality in my theater, I've been using a Zidoo Z9X to play movies and shows from my collection. It produces excellent quality, but the UX is awful, it doesn't have Plex, and its slow and janky. Luckily I found a better option: CoreELEC and an Ugoos AM6 Plus.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
I wasn’t particularly fond of LOTR: Rings of Power in its first season. While pretty, the writing and pacing let it down. I’m pleasantly surprised by season two thus far.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Finished another openHASP touch control plate today, this time for the great room. First time using the color picker, and it’s pretty cool to be able to change the color of the lighting with a touch.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Damien Martinez. Mark Fletcher. Jordan Lyle. Chris Johnson.
Miami is going to run for 600 yards against FSU. I can’t wait.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Giving up 274 yards on the ground with nearly 6 ypc is really something. Feeling a little less pumped about the relevance of Tech’s win against FSU in Ireland.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
That flop was Oscar-worthy.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
FSU stinky.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
What a weekend of sport for your boy, capped off with an absolutely elite drive and win for Charles and Ferrari! Forza! #F1 #ForzaFerrari
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@crossingthethreshold thanks 🙏🏼 💕
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Playing a game on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean just a week ago may have taken its toll a bit. Hopefully Tech can be more consistent.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
The score looks pretty good in this Tech game, and there have been some great moments, but the overall performance is sus as hell. Especially on defense. Oh, and tons of stupid penalties.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@skoobz that is the plan. Team looks phenomenal. I haven’t seen talent like this on a Miami team since the early 2000’s. Now if we can just avoid stupid coaching errors and stay healthy…
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@odd appreciate it 😇
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@JohnPhilpin indeed! Thanks John :)
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Alright, College Football fans, it’s time for QUAD BOX! Oh, and it’s time for Sheamus! Go Jackets 🐝
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Hell yes, the Canes are looking good! Cam Ward is the truth. Please, please let this finally be the year that we don’t wet the bed down the stretch.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@numericcitizen thanks so much!
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@jthingelstad thanks 🙏🏼
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@alans appreciate it! 😃
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@pratik thank you so much 😊
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
After over a year since my wife began her cancer journey, today she completed her final visit to the chemotherapy clinic, ringing the ceremonial bell with the family. We can now say that she has kicked cancer right in its stupid, stupid ass. I am so happy and grateful that this chapter is over. 🙏🤟
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
While customs like seppuku have faded, the underlying value have not. Eastern values of self-sacrifice for the good of community vs. independence of western culture shines brightly even now. See: communal response to COVID prevention in Japan vs. the US.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Finished watching “Shōgun” last night. What a fantastic show! I love how deftly they highlighted the cultural divide between eastern and western culture, especially as it relates to loyalty, life and death, and personal sacrifice.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Finally got around to starting “Shōgun.” Really impressed!
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@manton it looks great. I wish more literary properties would go the animated route. Costs are lower and you can go all-in on story as anything is possible visually. I hoped that Silo would go animated, but thankfully Apple isn’t being stingy on budget. An animated Snow Crash would be incredible!
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@odd interesting! What brought you there?
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@the I am pleased and proud! But I’ll be more pleased if it passes the “family test” by proving useful! Fun project either way 😎
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@dynamitemoth this, amongst many other reasons, is why I am not on Facebook anymore 😄
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@toddgrotenhuis may we indeed!
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@alans it’s gotta be a third the length of his whole body. It’s crazy.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@jsonbecker nice! I need to watch it again in my home theater to really get the full experience, but honestly I think it may actually be the second best Ghostbusters movie.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@alans 🤞🏼🇺🇸 🎆
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@jean heh then no spoilers! I will say prepare to be disturbed in episode four and to laugh in episode five :)
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@jean same here! I typically can’t handle too much gore or disturbing content, but they mix in so many laughs, and the violence is so over the top that it sorta just works. I do think Homelander’s visit to the lab last week was… too much.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@bloftin2 this this this! I swear, there is so little accountability it is maddening.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@jarrod Ted Lasso did a very good job of capturing anxiety as well, it just did it from a different angle. Unsurprisingly, given the title of the movie, Inside Out focused on the internal aspects of anxiety while Lasso was more concerned with the external impacts.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@pratik I haven't looked at that project in ages, but if I remember correctly, its a combination of JavaScript that loads client-side and a small amount of backend code that I have running in AWS Lambda. Because of how Micro.blog works, I do think that it would be possible to do everything in JavaScript, but its not something I have time to work on. If you're comfortable with reading/writing code, you could certainly use what I have written as a starting point.
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@odd ooh! The first one is also amazing, you should watch both. Be warned, though, the first one has a moment that is absolutely brutal emotionally 🥲
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@JohnPhilpin hahaha so true
Jonathan LaCour
@cleverdevil
@fgtech responsible technologists have to push their companies to deploy any technology to create positive impact on the world. The energy requirements of training LLMs make this even more true. The good news is that so many of the hype-y use cases can use small, low cost, energy efficient models with open training sets today.