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Australis13

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  • I don't know how to translate April 1 into a Stardate

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  • I guess I'm that person ...

    The TNG/DS9/VOY era stardates are actually really easy to calculate: 1000 units per year, with 2364 = 41xxx (first season of TNG). TNG Season 1 was a bit of a mess with the stardates, but after that the remainder of that era is surprisingly consistent.

    Assuming the screen caps are DS9 Season 5 or 6, that is either 2373 (50xxx) or 2374 (51xxx). The 1st of April for those years would span the following stardates (rounding to one decimal place):

    1st April 2373: 50246.6 to 50249.3 1st April 2374: 51246.6 to 51249.3

    For DS9 Season 4 (2372), it would be slightly different, being a leap year:

    1st April 2372: 49248.6 to 49251.4

  • "It's marble, about twenty metres tall and you're looking up at the sky. Your hand sort of reaching to the future." - Geordi

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  • STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY Ends with Season 2, Wrapping Known Kurtzman-Era Productions

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  • I'm actually not sure if it was the number of shows or the fact that Star Trek has historically been episodic (even with DS9's larger arcs), which is suited to longer seasons. The limited runs of modern shows places a lot more pressure on them to succeed instantly (and have a higher percentage of highly rated episodes) than the TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT era.

  • Typing into the abyss - need a service

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  • Joplin has encryption and can use some sync services (or you can set up your own instance).

  • The US bans all new foreign-made network routers

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  • I'm more wondering that if all consumer network routers have to be made in the US (e.g. forcing people to use the ISP-provided one), it makes it easier for them to utilise the ISP's backdoors for monitoring of people's LANs. If that's actually the goal, then the next logical step would be to deny anyone access using a third-party router or ISP-provided router that didn't have their firmware.

  • The US bans all new foreign-made network routers

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  • Are there actually any US-made consumer network routers on the market? All the brands I can think of are pretty much made in Asia these days.

  • Rate my cookie

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  • Gotta have strength of the soul to keep persisting through all those failed cookies...

  • Trump demands NATO and China police the Strait of Hormuz. So far they aren't joining

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  • It wouldn't surprise me if China does eventually step in and demonstrate that it's the adult in the room, but only after the US has completely embarassed itself.

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    Tech boss uses AI and ChatGPT to create cancer vaccine for his dying dog

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  • This is actually one of the few applications for which these tools make sense. LLMs can be useful for brainstorming and planning (which seems to be what he used ChatGPT for - he developed the plan and then went to the relevant experts) and other machine-learning tools are good at identifying patterns. He still had to put in a lot of work and had the advantage of being a data analyst with experts in the relevant fields to lean on, so this is not just a random person using "AI" to solve a problem.

  • Your logging is probably down

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  • Honestly, that would be living the dream... I have too many other things I want to do!

  • "Modern" problems require modern solutions

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  • I am old enough to understand this joke. Sigh.

  • Wrong answers only - WHY didn't Kim ever get promoted?

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  • Pips can't be replicated and Voyager only had a limited supply of spares. Janeway set aside the only spare pip for the bridge crew for Tuvok's eventual promotion.

  • Has anyone actually figured out what they want when they do this?

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  • He wants attention. One of mine does this (including the repeated walking around and flopping dramatically in my line of sight) but only wants a cheek scritch. Everything else is off limits. Sometimes they also want you to play with them (if you have cat toys). But almost never do they want a belly rub.

  • Red state GOP pushes abortion ban with possible death penalty: 'God demands equal justice'

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  • No, it's pointing out that these sort of claims are flawed and the need to be careful not to undermine one's own argument. People on both sides of the argument use the Bible incorrectly or are unaware of the nuance of the text.

    As I said, I'm all for calling out the hypocrisy, but it's important to get it right. And if different translations have different views (and one isn't willing to get into the weeds of what the original text actually says), then perhaps we shouldn't be using those passages as a "slam dunk"?

  • Red state GOP pushes abortion ban with possible death penalty: 'God demands equal justice'

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  • Please be aware that those are common misrepresentations of those texts popularised by the NIV translation.

    Many translations show Exodus 21 demands life for life and a fine if the child survives but suffers injury. The NIV is one of several exceptions (although probably the most popular one) that instead translates it as a fine for a miscarriage (the original NASB also said this, but the 1995 revision corrected it).

    Numbers 5 is a religious test and requires God to enact punishment. The "potion" has no abortifacient components and commentaries suggest that the punishment was infertility. The NIV is again an exception here suggesting miscarriage when most other translations (eg. NKJV, NASB, RSV, ESV, Amplified, Young's Literal, etc.) do not.

    By all means call out their misuse of the Bible or their lack of consistency with it, but please be careful making claims like this -- it just undermines credibility.

  • My list starts somewhere around the Challenger explosion and really doesn't let up from there

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  • twitches *

    That word lost all meaning a few years ago...

  • Australia says it may go after app stores, search engines in AI age crackdown

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  • Professor Lisa Given, director of RMIT University’s Centre for Human-AI Information Environments, said the Reuters findings were unsurprising because “most of these tools are being designed without a view to potential harms and the need for those kinds of safety controls”.

    That's basically the history of the Internet. The vast majority of security, privacy and safety mechanisms have been bolted on after the fact. Not only should tech companies know better by now, but they are deliberately exploiting the human need for connection. So-called AI is even worse since many LLMs are borderline sycophantic and there is no easy way to filter out all the adult or dangerous content from them without rebuilding the model from scratch using a carefully curated dataset.

    On another note, it will be very interesting to see what X does about Grok... It would almost be funny if the platform ended up blocked here.

  • Turns out Generative AI was a scam

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  • There's a big difference between having a website that you can choose to engage with and having LLMs jammed into your device's operating system or programming IDE that make you jump through hoops just to disable them (or your email and then be told your emails are going to be used in training and if you don't want that you have to turn off all the smart features, including the ones that aren't LLM-based).

    There would be certain use cases I'd be open to, but at least give me a choice when deploying it out as to whether it's on or off, what it has access to and make it easy to change those settings.

  • Turns out Generative AI was a scam

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  • You don't say...