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marcos,

I’m not sure if I could manage to get a paper newspaper nowadays if I went out looking for it.

marcos,

He was late to the party. Everyone by that time was trying to make applications and web development converge. Mozilla had an entire framework derived from the web.

marcos,

provided they’re literal children

Yeah, you could just remove that part. There’s no sense on holding the non-intervention principle so high that you comply with every crazy request from the natives.

marcos,

Not complying with requests is not the same as imposing your morality. Nopping out of the contact with some population because they believe your people must be killed won’t destroy their culture.

But then, yeah, the show would have to contain hard decisions, and would be completely different from Star Trek (at least the newer ones).

marcos,

To be fair, I would probably hate a series like Star Trek but with the hard decisions. (I don’t like TOS and it’s only minimally less utopian.)

But I’m looking into this one. I have the impression it’s a comedy?

marcos,

Named pipes are your friends. Or sockets.

marcos,

Well, they have world peace, and don’t practice things like genocide or threats of mutual assured destruction.

marcos,

Is this coffee? It looks like coffee.

marcos,

Looks like some kind of insect egg.

marcos,

He only tries murder once or twice!

marcos,

The AI being in the image does not make it AI generated.

marcos,

What movie is it?

marcos,

I would assume Quark speaks Federation Standard

I assume he made a clear point of never learning it.

I’d put larger odds on Nog and Rom eventually learning it (but not at the time of the screenshot).

marcos,

Hum… By the end of DS9 he lives in the federation. For nearly all of it he lives in Bajor, and shortly before it he lives in the Cardassian Empire.

Yeah, I could see the Lower Decks version of him speaking it.

marcos,

Says a huh-man that uses paper to trade…

marcos,

That static moon…

Is it secretly a balloon?

marcos,

Do they get to the parallel universe in Enterprise? I imagine there won’t be too many differences.

marcos,

Yeah, after careful evaluation, I’m not going to watch Enterprise again…

But I will check those two, thanks.

marcos,

Well, you don’t want the kind of change that 9/11 brought.

marcos,

They all run Syncthing and KDE Connect. What more interoperability you could expect is probably about things those devices won’t even allow you to do.

marcos,

the closest thing Star Trek has to an actual god

More like a messiah…

marcos,

Those things behind it are also totally not vacuum bag pumps.

marcos,

You can see the sky, and the sky is beautiful. Why would you care about an ugly road or NSFL gore in front of your car?

marcos,

Bars and churches often do sneak up on neighborhoods.

marcos,

The old ones are usually not loud either. The loud ones tend to open and close often.

marcos,

I imagine it’s “regional” by the meaning that entire countries have them behaving in a similar way, but it’s different from one country to another.

Anyway, I live in a 60 years-old city, so there are no centenary churches here :) yet they are still mostly older than the average for my country. There are entirely pop-up denominations that appear, annoy the hell out of friends and relatives that I have in other cities, then close down and disappear so that nobody remember their names anymore.

marcos,

I don’t know about you people, but personally, I always write programs at work by removing boards from my computer and plugging them in a different order.

marcos,

Hum… I have a 75MJ varistor on each phase of the main wiring of my house. Those are not fuses (because fuses don’t have a total energy specification) but I can certainly get a few more for the Enterprise it they want.

marcos,

Well, it really wasn’t. You’d program by punching the cards, and then insert them into the computer. If they brought the boards from a terminal (or replicator), and switched the old ones to the new ones, the entire thing would make sense.

It’s a bit similar to how people programed analogical computers at the 50s. But it’s actually a lot like programing old sewing machines. The thing those have in common is that their programs were always an order of magnitude smaller than this comment.

marcos,

Yes, I’m sure. I used to have 5MJ ones, but one burned down once. So I got the large ones. AFAIK, they are the largest that will fit 1 unity in a DIM panel. It’s supposed to change phases more than once if it receives that kind of abuse, but keep safely conducting electricity all the way.

It’s a common component around lightning protection. You’d want something better to actually deal with the lightning if your network is unprotected (there are plenty of options), but mine is protected.

marcos,

Something, yes. That specific thing you are going to ask, no.

marcos,

And overcook at the same time.

marcos,

So, you play with the Federation Humans?

marcos,

Or to have completely reasonable responses to anything that happens on Voyager.

marcos,

People insist on making Janeway do those crazy stunts… Just remember that it wasn’t her that created a fleet or Von Neumann probes programed to act as space mines.

marcos,

They are 35 years model, with a measurable age of 35 years. But the researchers actually got brand new products, of current models from the store yesterday.

marcos,

Looks like the obvious thing to do with them.

marcos,

As soon as everybody is speaking it, the word itself is already meaningless and the context has all the information. So, yeah, ignoring it is quite efficient.

Anyway, I suspect that when you notice those things happening, it already means that you are old.

marcos,

Worse. We are directly headed for the Novel Messenger vs. Lotus Notes times.

Only the things you brought from your connector supplier will work.

marcos,

Only integral unsigned numbers, no reference taking at all, no side-effect operators…

marcos,

You don’t have to go very far. There’s an episode on Discovery where Pike just goes and say something like “Enough with the problems with holograms! From now on the Enterprise will have only flat screens!”

marcos,

It looks much more like a joke. A more veiled version of the Lower Decks people referring to the Kirk’s Enterprise as TOS.

And, honestly, I can’t understand an implicit “sorry” there at all. It sounds much more like “fuck the purists, our ship is going to look good”.

marcos,

The entire computer is throttled into a power consumption you can sink through air coolers. So, unless you are overclocking something, it should always be enough. That will hold until companies start to design the components specifically for water cooling.

But the people claiming it can be quieter or thinner are quite right.

marcos,

Nah, he gets lots of plain simple injuries that heal in minutes or hours too.

marcos,

Does Loki come with the full TVA gear?

marcos,

Well, suddenly the Minbari sound much less threatening.

marcos,

It’s hard to display any competency when your bosses are all hidden changelings interested on your failure.

marcos,

He’s responsible for most of the knowledge the Discovery crew acquired about how to deal with trauma and loss after they time-jumped.

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