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  • I have watched it and just seeing the meme has gotten Lain's theme stuck in my head.

  • "Until I die?!"

    "No, until the end of the comic. We're in the last panel, what did you expect?"

    "And the pile of corpses?"

    "Oh yeah, they're dead alright."

  • They should've hired tea industry execs. If the tea industry can come up with grades like "Special Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe", they can come up with something beyond Ultra High Definition.

    Maybe like this:

    • High Definition (HD)
    • Full High Definition (FHD)
    • Ultra High Definition (UHD)
    • Very Ultra High Definition (VUHD)
    • Special Very Ultra High Definition (SVUHD)
    • Full Special Very Ultra High Definition (FSVUHD or SVUHD1, both are acceptable)

    Not that these grades would only apply to displays that don't support picture-in-picture or split screen. Displays with those features ("broken" displays) would use the following equivalent grades instead:

    • High Broken Definition (HBD)
    • Full High Broken Definition (FHBD)
    • Ultra High Broken Definition (UHBD)
    • Golden Ultra High Broken Definition (GUHBD)
    • Special Golden Ultra High Broken Definition (SGUHBD)
    • Full Special Golden Ultra High Broken Definition 1 (FSGUHBD1)
  • Because your company makes you use Azure Virtual Desktop to connect to a VM and AVD's clipboard handling is as unreliable as anything else from Microsoft?

  • Humans, animals, who cares? In fact, let's just go full phylum-agnostic!

    5,000 deaths from nuclear power. (humans)

    140,000 deaths from renewable energy. (wildlife)

    70 million deaths from a single dose of mouthwash. (~100 miillion bacteria per ml of saliva, assuming vaguely 0.7 ml of saliva in the mouth)


    Seriously, though, renewables are technically more lethal than nuclear but that's mainly because NPPs are usually designed for extreme bulk production and (AFAIK) most renewable deaths are due to construction accidents. Just look at that rooftop solar number. All in all, both renewables and nuclear are pretty safe as far as pure mortality goes. Beyond mortality we of course run into the nuclear waste issue but that's another story.

    Coal is comically bad on so many levels it's amazing how insistent some people are on maintaining it. It even manages to lose to nuclear on the metric of radioactive pollution. That's... impressive, I suppose. I'd prefer it if it could be impressive in a history book.

  • Problem is, if your slang is too new it looks like gibberish. Of course you could try something else that stands out. Like badly translated idioms.

    But it's probably jacket like pants. Even if you tear your ass open to make your writing look less 08/15 that doesn't mean everything's in butter. It's probably only a matter of time until LLMs will copper off that style as well and your clever plan turns into a zero number. And that's where the hare lies in the pepper: Your clarity goes over the Jordan and it ain't itching the LLMs' bean. It'll get trained on your stuff anyway and the cat bites its own tail.

    Maybe bad translations aren't the solution either.

  • The same happens to people who write a lot and pay attention to their style, such as this gentleman. The way LLMs generate text is strongly influenced by what used to be considered a high-effort eloquent style. Varied sentence lengths, triplets, typographically correct punctuation, yada yada yada. Until recently, that stuff used to be the hallmark of professional writers (and Kenyans, apparently).

    What were LLMs trained on? Professional writing, first and foremost. Books, scientific papers, op-eds, blog posts. So by default they take a polite, professional tone with all the flourishes and best practices that previously used to be de rigueur for authors and the like. So now what happens when someone used to "proper" writing writes something?

    Everyone thinks it's AI slop because that's how LLMs talk. High effort now looks like low effort. And because tech bros immediately went on to develop "humanizing" tech, any other style will soon also look like low effort. And the same is true for art: Being able to produce highly detailed pictures with spectacular colors and shadows went from something impressive to evidence that you're just a random jackass with a ChatGPT subscription.

    You can't really win anymore. Anything short of a live performance or a feature-length movie could feasibly have been generated by a fully automated content mill. That really sucks if you want to engage in creative expression of any kind and doubly so if you once thought you could make a living off of that.

  • A kiln. The Bajorans wanted to use a moon as a power plant but people lived there. And apparently they had spent so much time living there (since the end of the occupation) that some old guy didn't want to leave.

    He also refused to do anything until he has finished building a kiln. So Kira helped him build it and spent some time getting to know him. Then when it was done she nuked it with a phaser and he finally left.

  • If it goes like the only "building something by hand without advanced technology" episode I can think of, the pyramid gets built and then Kira blows it up a minute later. Which, frankly, is a very Kira thing to do.

  • AFAIK another factor is that ancient structures were often way overbuilt by modern standards because it wasn't possible to perform razor-sharp load calculations like we do today. So they added large safety margins, leading to many structures being way more massive (and robust) than they strictly had to be.

  • I'm pretty sure that if a judge would grant that injunction there'd be one less a week later.

  • This would be a great time for an injunction to force the data center to shut down all of those turbines until the matter has been resolved legally.

    Of course you need to be able to pay for a lawyer who convinces a judge to pass that injunction.

  • The diagram is not comparing between two standards but between two sizes within the same standard. Philips size 0 (PH0) has a slightly different shape than Philips size 1 (PH1) and up.

  • Note that according to hardware manufacturer Tekton, the differences are smaller than you think and especially the diagrams are highly misleading as they actually compare PH2 and PH0.

    Just about the only major difference is the thread pitch and that is only different in JIS screws if they don't have the dot.

  • And if you went for the color depth because your graphics accelerator could do HighColor at 800x600 you had to decide between 15-bit and 16-bit colors.

  • Speaking as sometime from Central Europe, rain in winter is very much accurate. Typical Christmas weather is light rain at two degrees above freezing. When it does go below freezing in winter it's usually relatively damp air with no precipitation so there's no fun snow but a cold that becomes painful within seconds if you don't have much body fat.

    Even a full week of 43 °C wasn't quite enough to make me like summer less than winter.

  • Would if really be Star Trek if the first season wasn't weaker than the rest?

  • I have never personally witnessed two Floridians having sex. Therefore we can conclude that Floridians don't procreate and thus Florida can only sustain its population by illegally importing hordes of immigrants. The American federal government should arrest the entire Floridian government to put an end to this.

  • On the other hand, sometimes episodes written specifically to be take it easy can still be exceptionally good. Duet was a cost-saving exercise and I consider it to be one of the best Trek episodes of all time. A modern show with a movie-tier per-episode budget is not going to have the kind of constraints that caused the writers to focus that intensely on characterization.