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Comment · 1 day ago
He controlled one of the most powerful starships in the Alpha Quadrant. He had the power to wipe out civilizations, destroy stars, and more.

I don't think whataboutism is warranted.

Comment · 1 day ago
It's cool, but aren't you Picard? I want to be the one saying "Analysis Mr Data" and know that Claude is looking at the problem from a certain, fixed POV. Then I can ask Number One and Worf, my cybersecurity officer.

Then, obviously, you tell them to make it so.

Comment · 3 days ago
I think DS9 has some characters that are intentionally annoying. Early Kira is supposed to get on Sisco's nerves and test his patience.

Then there's the queen of making you say, "I hate this character" Kai Wynn.

Comment · 3 days ago
My #1 beef with the Orville was always that they couldn't write a B-plot. Some of those later seasons have a 60 minute episode, with no B-plot. South Park always has a B-plot in a 22 minute episode. TNG always had a B-plot.
Comment · 2 months ago
> I am sure that what they're using it for can be substituted in large part by way cheaper models.

I saw a commit in the repo at work that edited a few config files and a dictionary.txt file. "co-authored by Fable"

Comment · 2 months ago
> Once CosmoCube’s data is back on Earth

Did I miss it or did they fail to explain how that would work? Does it just slowly move around the moon so it gets its 1000 hours of observation, then eventually comes out of the EM shadow?

Or is there some final boost that pushes it?

Will it crash into the moon eventually?

Comment · 2 months ago
So the conversation might go, "Hi we're Deutsche Bank - we're able to clear renminbi transactions up to one million yuan." ?
Comment · 2 months ago
Is it a yuan or is it a Renminbi?
Comment · 3 months ago
My argument is that all the vocabulary for computer science are things. Even if they are virtual, they are tangible. You can draw a picture and label a box "bytes".

Nothing in the ChatGPT conversation is tangible. It's all in the realm of concepts.

Comment · 3 months ago
start-ups spend over 100% of revenue on risky ventures.
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm stodgy, but I can't get past how they chose VERB-OBJECT instead of OBJECT-VERB. get-<tab> is useless. MSFT knew tab-completion would be a thing, yet they made it useless.
Comment · 6 months ago
Fallout 1 & 2! Formative titles for young me.
Comment · 6 months ago
For recorded music, you could always buffer however many milliseconds of audio to account for the processing.
Comment · 8 months ago
Michael Bay just read "computronium" and spawned an 8 movie franchise in his head.
Comment · 8 months ago
Well yeah. Cars kill 40x the people.

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