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Dejected Warp Core

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  • PhD level intelligence

    Which PhD's, exactly?

    Yes, that matters quite a lot, actually.

  • Xmas at the mega church

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  • What in the actual three-ring-fuck is going on in this picture?

    I know that church doesn't have to be as solemn as a funeral, but still... unless these production levels are generating millions for charity, I can't imagine how people are just okay with this.

  • The future!

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  • I'm waaaaayyyyy too orange-pilled for this. Both images are wrong.

  • A happy follow-up to a formerly one-off TOS species

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  • I also appreciate that, perhaps, it's the art department adding their own layers to things on top of the dialogue. There's just so much happening in the background that is never mentioned/noticed by the characters; it's all for us to enjoy instead.

    The giant skeleton is probably my favorite reference like this.

  • "I hate you! Leave me alone!....No, kiss me! Your ears are so big!"

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  • I completely missed that this exchange is a Spaceballs reference, and now I'm kinda mad at myself.

  • Riker is prepared for anything

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  • Why not both?

  • Symbolism

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  • Was this before actual hard disk drives became popular?

    Real answer: yes, but also no. Depends on context.

    Professionally, proper hard-disks go back before 8" floppies, let alone the 5.25" and their stiffer 3.5" counterparts. But those drives were comically oversized appliances (like rack-mount and even mini-fridge sized) compared to the stuff we have now.

    For home-gamers, PCS have shipped with all three floppy formats shown above, at different times. Hard Drives start showing up for IBM PCs after they miniaturize to fit in the 5.25" drive bay form-factor. But all that's just before the invention of the 3.5" floppy, and well ahead of it's popularity as something that comes standard.

  • Symbolism

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  • I was thinking the same thing. It should have at least morphed into an SD card by now.

  • Save animals, push to prod

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  • But we do have a QA department. I'll leave it to the reader to decide if that's humane or not.

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

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  • Honestly, a Japanese-style capsule hotel and net cafe would probably do very well in a university environment.

    Granted, that's still charging people for homelessness, which doesn't help any of the underlying problems. It's just slightly less dystopian since it's cheap.

  • Venturing into the world of black teas, I finally decided to try Earl Grey

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  • .75oz aqua faba

    You had my interest in the cocktail, but you get my upvote for this stealth beans post.

  • Venturing into the world of black teas, I finally decided to try Earl Grey

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  • I much prefer coffee, but man, Earl Grey has an amazing aroma to it.

  • 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

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  • I'm going to call it like I saw it, a very long time ago.

    <rant>

    You have a product that is basically purpose built to make data hoarding and piracy practical, yet it requires a login with a central service. I don't care what justification anyone thinks makes that worthwhile or even a good compromise. Signaling to any corporate entity that you're in possession of such a thing is a bad idea to begin with. They shouldn't even know you exist. That information, along with anything else you do with the product is compromising to you and can be sold for money if aggregated with everyone else's data.

    If you find this rant out of place in our modern world, I'd like to point to the concept of shifting baselines. This didn't used to be normal and nothing short of greed continues the behavior. The technology before this ran/runs without anyone knowing. Consider VLC, or XBMC.

  • Mine are scarily accurate

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  • I'm seeing this the other way around. It's possible the normalization is incidental: the comic exists because it's a common interaction these days.

    At the same time, the comic is from the New Yorker. Magazines have a different attitude about advertising in general, so (IMO) this is as anti-ad as a magazine comic can get away with.

  • Mine are scarily accurate

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  • I was gonna say: I have no idea what this is like.

    I'm simultaneously living my best life, (mostly) ad free, and at once unaware of how the rest of the world navigates an ad-encrusted digital space.

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • To quote your quote:

    I got the product launched. It worked. I was proud of what I’d created. Then came the moment that validated every concern in that MIT study: I needed to make a small change and realized I wasn’t confident I could do it. My own product, built under my direction, and I’d lost confidence in my ability to modify it.

    I think the author just independently rediscovered "middle management". Indeed, when you delegate the gruntwork under your responsibility, those same people are who you go to when addressing bugs and new requirements. It's not on you to effect repairs: it's on your team. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. The idea that relying on AI to do nuanced work like this and arrive at the exact correct answer to the problem, is naive at best. I'd be sweating too.

  • ‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida

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  • Eh, there's a little more than that.

    • Lots of piracy museums
    • Open beverage carry on Duval St.
    • Lots of gay clubs
    • More tour boats than you'd think possible for such a small island
    • Drunken cruise passengers
    • Drunken tourists on bikes/scooters/ATVs.
    • Military base
    • Old Civil War era fort (not the same thing)
    • Margaritaville

    Most of those things are up for debate following each hurricane season.

  • ‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida

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  • Eh, I went to a few pretty good museums in Key West once. Although, they also tried to become The Conch Republic for about a day that one time, so maybe they don't count as mainland Florida.

  • Electron apps

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  • Same here. At first, I thought I was going to get a better Discord experience with the dedicated 'app'. Nope. Another web app crammed into Electron, multiplying the overall browser footprint on my system. It now happily lives on in a normal browser tab where my ad blockers and user-scripts claw back local control of things.