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FlatFootFox

@ FlatFootFox @lemmy.world

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  • Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what?

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  • Just mashing together shape primitives and Thingiverse parts in TinkerCAD is entirely underrated. It’s still primarily what I use unless I need particularly curvy corner.

    Fusion360 and FreeCAD are the CAD versions of Photoshop and GIMP (if Photoshop had a restricted free tier). They’re both trying to be a legit piece of CAD software, so there’s a bit of a learning curve coming from TinkerCAD. I found it easier to “feel my way around” Fusion360’s UI. FreeCAD has a layer of, “How did Open Source devs decide to be different here?” on top of learning something new.

  • The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that happiness is just an illusion

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  • There’s always the secret third option: Adopting someone even more introverted.

  • #Resist

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  • Weird, this isn’t a picture of Ro Laren.

  • Star Trek: Strange New Enterprise

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  • “Lisa Simpson” got me. Good job.

  • To the best character on DS9!!

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  • You know Riker does an insufferably good classical Cake cover of Short Skant & A Long (Captain’s) Jacket.

  • To the best character on DS9!!

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  • ♫ We know of an ancient radiation,

    That haunts dismembered constellations,

    A faintly glimmering subspace station,

    While Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather,

    The Xindi and Tholian get along together,

    Cobwebs fall on an old captain’s record~ ♫

  • The sound of the internet

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  • The internet used to scream at you when you went online. Now it’s the reverse.

  • What name that's common today do you think will be considered an "old person name" in the future?

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  • Satolingo

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  • The Universal Translator is basically magic. TOS came closest to describing how it works, and it boiled down to, “IDK man it does some brain scans to detect your language structure”. There’s no satisfying answer as to why it knows the “Washington State Bridge” is a combination of a proper noun, a geopolitical concept, and a general noun.

    In Enterprise, the Universal Translator is generally depicted as a modern miracle of technology, but one without useful internal intelligence. If it hears a few snippets of Romanian, it’s just going to start brute forcing a translation matrix with every technique it has at its disposal. More speech gives it more data to work with, but it’s still just cycling through its options.

    Sato’s familiarity with xenolinguistics allows her to aid the Universal Translator by narrowing the system’s options or directing it down specific paths. She doesn’t know or learn the alien languages in the traditional sense, but she’s shown for having a knack for picking up on patterns and syntax. Again with the Romanian example, she’s doing the alien equivalent of saying, “This sounds European, skip trying to translate this as an Asian language for now”. The Universal Translator has fewer options to run through and gets to a successful translation matrix faster.

    But again, it’s plot contrivance space magic.

  • There is no way to win...

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  • Saru actually passed the Kobayashi Maru. Mind you he wasn’t the one taking the test. A pyrotechnic went off early in the simulator and knocked out the cadet going through the program. Saru had to take over as acting captain and managed to save everyone.

  • Follow up to my previous post....

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  • It’s a few doors down on the same deck. Folks like taking breaks and a change of scenery. The few times she really did want to hold up in her office she definitely had the capacity to hide away in there.

  • A cinematic mouseterpiece

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  • Which programming language is this a book cover for?

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  • I think you’re dramatically overestimating how much people want to discuss politics with a stranger who slides into their mentions pointing out logical fallacies.

  • Student dorm does not allow wifi routers

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  • This is pretty typical for universities. They don’t want the airwaves clogged, doubling up NAT can lead to networking wonkiness, and they don’t want you giving university network access to unauthorized folks with an open AP.

    When you say VR streaming, you just mean wireless from your PC to the headset, right? There’s a chance you could do that with an offline wireless router if the VR experiences you’re looking to play are single player.

  • Copium

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  • Modern Star Trek has its ups and downs. I’m just glad there’s so much of it. Discovery can have a weird National Treasure season, and Picard can have a bumpy Covid year, but there’s probably something interesting going on in Lower Decks or Strange New Worlds. (Or vice versa.)

    I’m just happy characters like Stamets weren’t a one off experiment. It’s delightful to see queer folk continue to pop up in the main cast of other shows.

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  • Modern satellites are protected by various means of encryption, but there’s an enthusiast community that tracks down and communicates with very old unencrypted zombie satellites. There’s even been an NGO which managed to fire rockets on an abandoned NASA/ESA probe (with their approval.)

    The Voyagers benefits primarily from the lack of groups with an adequate deep space network to communicate with it. Their communication standards are otherwise completely open and well documented.

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  • I still cannot believe NASA managed to re-establish a connection with Voyager 1.

    That scene from The Martian where JPL had a hardware copy of Pathfinder on Earth? That’s not apocryphal. NASA keeps a lot of engineering models around for a variety of purposes including this sort of hardware troubleshooting.

    It’s a practice they started after Voyager. They shot that patch off into space based off of old documentation, blueprints, and internal memos.

  • The academically social Vulcan

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  • "Kirby Lore" by Shenx Comic

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  • The games aren’t deep per se, but they just get a little tonally weird towards the end given the franchise’s cute presentation. You go from fighting a tree who won’t stop disrupting forest creatures to battling an unknowable alien incarnation of darkness who wants to take over all of reality. The series has a lot of, “Oh no, our friend’s been possessed by a manifestation of pure evil!” plots.