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Jesus_666

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  • I have overhauled my backup system

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  • In stardate 42761, war was beginning.

    Picard: What happen?

    Worf: Somebody set us up the probe.

    Riker: We get signal.

    Picard: What !

    Riker: Main screen turn on.

    Picard: It's you !!

    BORG: How are you individuals !!

    BORG: All your distinctiveness are belong to us.

    BORG: You are on the way to assimilation.

    Picard: What you say !!

    BORG: You have no chance to resist make your time.

    BORG: Ha ha ha ha ....

    Riker: Captain !!

    Picard: Take off every 'Voyager'!!

    Picard: You know what you doing.

    Picard: Move 'Voyager'.

    Picard: For great genocide.

  • She has that effect on people

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  • And not only is she capable of scaring Picard and Odo, she also becomes one of very few people who truly accept all of Odo's weirdness and social awkwardness and just let him be himself.

    Sure, Kira also accepted him in a similar way but that took years of time and romantic feelings. Lwaxana was just cool with it pretty much immediately. DS9 did a lot to show us that there was more to her than just an incredibly loud personality.

  • Linux players on Steam hit an all-time high for November 2025

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  • There is an installable btrfs driver for Windows. No idea how trustworthy it is, though.

    And yeah, accessing Steam games on an NTFS partition from Linux is a recipe for permission issues. Just don't.

  • questing

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  • I'm not complaining about a hero having some kind of advantage that allows them to go on an epic quest. I'm complaining about the devices of a) fantasy universes inexplicably having game mechanics like character levels and numeric stats and b) the protagonist being ridiculously overpowered, usually without expending any effort.

    The former feels like a lazy shorthand so the author doesn't have to be able to actually depict power differences well; just pretend everything is Dragon Quest and throw around a few numbers. The latter is instant gratification wish fulfillment that may be nice every once in a while but feels wildly overused.

    Heroes can win without being overpowered. They can start out weak and grow with their challenges. They can even stay weak but persevere through it all. I think a heavily condensed Lord of the Rings clone would probably make for a more compelling story than yet another cookie cutter story à la "I Got Reincarnated In Another World And My Cheat Skill Made Me Level 9999 Instantly".

  • questing

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  • Sounds good but can we set it in a world that inexplicably has explicit game mechanics? And can the protagonist be absurdly strong because of some technicality that somehow nobody else has run into? I feel that would really set it apart from the competition.

  • The Correct Incantation

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  • As has been established in the previous strip, that's what her school provides instead of familiars. She wasn't happy about it back then and it doesn't look like her opinion is going to change anytime soon.

  • It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's...

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  • Except if they then have to run it on their machine and the setup instructions start with setting up a venv. I find that a lot of Python software in the ML realm makes no effort to isolate the end user from the complexities of the platform. At best you get a setup script that may or may not create a working venv without manual intervention, usually the latter. It might be more of a Torch issue than a Python one but it still means spending a lot of time messing with the Python environment to get things running.

    This may color my perception but the parts of the Python ecosystem I get exposed to as an end user these days feel very hacky. (Not all of it is, though; I remember from my Gentoo days that Portage was rock solid.)

  • It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's...

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  • There still plenty of "this version of pytorch doesn't run reliably with Python 3.12, please use 3.10", though. It's not all sunshine and roses.

  • Congrats on living long enough to complain about it

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  • Oh, I am aware that this dynamic doesn't quite work. Both sides of the equation get it almost, but not entirely, right. Because getting it right is challenging.

    The older generations do get lazy as soon as their own needs are met, especially those of them who wield power. And that doesn't just mean politicians but also CEOs, large investors, etc. Working for the common good is difficult and most people follow the path of least resistance, leading to the dynamics young people complain about.

    But young people fall prey to the very same dynamic. It's easier to get disillusioned and complain on the internet than to consistently go out and exert pressure. Sure, maybe they go on a protest march or two but few have the energy to consistently go on marches, be active in politics, stay on top of which companies are toxic, openly defy the law, and do a myriad other things that don't directly benefit them in order to fight for a better world. You can do that if you're rich and isolated from consequence but in that case your life is cushy already so you'd be fighting for abstract principles.

    There are few people of the caliber of Bernie Sanders or Greta Thunberg because it's really hard and carries a real risk of ruining their own life. Most people who do try end up like the people who glue themselves to highways: They get ridiculed and fined and effect no change whatsoever.

    So for most people all that remains is resignation. Gen X said "whatever" when they weren't listened to because they weren't willing to sacrifice their personal future to escalate things until change is inevitable. Millennials say "OK Boomer" as they find themselves in the same situation for the same reason.

    (I'll gloss over the "young people are lazy" part but it boils down to young people actually being lazy in terms of failing to apply themselves in ways the older people did, with the caveat that some of those ways no longer apply and young people are applying themselves in new ways the older people don't realize are necessary now. This perception dynamic is at least as old as recorded history.)

  • Congrats on living long enough to complain about it

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  • It's exact opposite of a trend. The younger generations criticizing the older ones for not living up to their responsibilities has been just as much a constant throughout human history as the older generations criticizing the younger ones for being lazy by their parents' definition.

    The world sucks, as usual, and by now Gen X are old enough to be in charge. It's sensible to call them out, just like in a decade or two it'll be sensible to call out the Millennials for the same thing.

  • You can't pet the cat

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  • Other lessons from the sign:

    • You may send radio broadcasts to origami birds.
    • We encourage you to dip your hands into any glasses of sparkling water.
    • Do not swing progress bars around.
    • Violence against butterfly skewers is forbidden.

  • Lucky enough, I am C++ Developer

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  • See, I don't have to worry about such details. I work in corporate software dev, which means that everything is an MSSQL database where most of the tables contain only an ID of a table-specific format and a JSON blob. Why use an ORM when you can badly reimplement NoSQL in a relational database instead?

  • A language like a set of building blocks.

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  • With the missing f it's now a law about the transfer of talents of meadows used for the supervision of the labeling of beef.

    I'm not sure why they're supervising that on a meadow but the meadow is clearly very talented.

  • It's too late for many of us

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  • Cooking instructions don't mesh well with some people. I'm one of them.

    Half of the time the instructions are vague (like "golden brown", which has vastly different definitions based on what you're cooking) and the measurements are often inexact ("to taste" is completely useless to someone who doesn't know how the intermediate product is supposed to taste). Plus, you often have to do things during the heating process and if your multitasking isn't good enough your meal is ruined.

    All of this is less of a deal if you have someone with cooking experience in the kitchen. If you don't, well, good luck.

    I consider cooking to be highly stressful even with a recipe. Baking is much better since the measurements tend to be precise to the gram and the heating step happens in isolation.

  • It's too late for many of us

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  • Assuming that you can cook well enough that your meals are guaranteed to be edible, which is assuming a lot for novices.

  • And again

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  • Lol, all the cat wants is that you come along on the away mission. (If you were bridge crew you'd be coming along anyway...)

  • And that's how Leola Root was introduced

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  • To be fair, 80% of the campaign consisted of the GM going "yeah, that sounds cool, let's go with it". When the players noticed, they took it to the extreme and described how they one-shotted the Borg Collective and insta-ported themselves back home. And got away with it.

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  • "Just as planned," thinks the wife as she starts going down on the hot dog man.

  • TIL Edison tried to make a spirit phone

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  • His first call consisted of repeatedly asking: "Where are you? How old are you? What do you want?"