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  • Robert who?

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  • Fun fact about that one:

    Numerous actors have applied for Star Trek supporting acting roles and been cast, but then the actors simply disappeared without a trace, never to be heard from again. However, on the first day of shooting Jeffery Combs has always been immediately available and already has all of the lines of the character the missing actors have meant to play. Its uncanny! Directors desperate to meet tight shooting schedules, Combs is always accepted and plays the roles perfectly hitting all marks and delivering a consistent knock out performance. There's probably more to it than this, but it would take someone smarter that me to figure it out.

    /shittystartrekdetails

  • Robert who?

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  • Further on the posted meme:

    Duncan McNeill knew about the "Robert" bias and simply lied about his first name during casting saying it was indeed "Robert". While this landed him the role it required the actor to legal change his name to "Robert Duncan McNeill" to be able to cash the paychecks Paramount was giving him for his acting work.

    /shittystartrekdetails

  • Mildly annoying

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  • I know of you. When you end a phone conversation you don't say "goodbye" you just hang up on people after you've expressed your last thought.

  • What are the biases of Lemmy?

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  • I think Sec 31 (version from show, not movie) could absolutely have worked as a standalone show. It would essentially be "CIA in space". As Sec 31 was a clandestine organization, they would not only have adversaries working against their chosen goals, but also other competing clandestine organizations (like the Romulan Tal Shiar or the Cardassian Obsidian Order) working to thwart them. There would be all kinds of wonderful stories of team ups and betrayals as their various goals overlapped.

    When I think about that possible version, it makes what they actually delivered even worse.

  • What are the biases of Lemmy?

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  • No worries

  • What are the biases of Lemmy?

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  • I agree with Hawke, I think people are against the use of technology in such a way that it exploits workers and customers, not fundamentally against the technology itself.

    I agree with that statement too. Where Hawke and I are disagreeing is I believe Self Driving cars can be used to exploit workers and customers. We already have Waymo robot taxi cabs that are displacing human drivers.

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  • GenAI being used in missile guidance makes zero sense - the technology is not applicable there, because you need precision and reliability. Normal AI, sure.

    I specifically said "not Gen AI".

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  • I’m more a The Expanse type of person

    So say we all! Oh wait, that's a different one too...

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  • Touché! I would argue 'Gate has better representation on Lemmy than 'Wars. "Would you not agree, Daniel Jackson?" /Teal'c

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  • I didn't make it past 15 minutes of watching it. I bailed when it became immediately obvious this was an attempt at a Star Trek version of Suicide Squad of quirky misfits. That whole concept is not what Section 31 had been sold to us in the various Star Trek series'. What we were expecting were the best minds recruited across Starfleet performing morally questionable actions in service of their (possibly twisted notion) of the "greater good".

    Julian Bashir working for Section 31 had no place in that movie version of the agency of the same name. Nor did Malcolm Reed. The movie version of Section 31 made a joke of 30 years of espionage and political intrigue.

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  • It’s not hatred of AI there.

    I still disagree, but let me create another hypothetical example that may highlight where we might disagreement further:

    What if Deep Learning (not Gen AI) was used in missile guidance systems specifically to aim toward "people shaped targets"? Would the hate be for AI or just for missiles? If missiles is your answer, where is the distinction in your mind between that and the self-driving cars example?

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  • Unfortunately it’s just harder to be a Star Wars fan since Disney bought it.

    Paramount is trying very hard to create the same difficulty to love Star Trek with their Section 31 movie.

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  • You're paraphrasing "Only Sith deals in absolutes" and you're showing your bias. 😀

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  • I'm not sure I follow your logic. Those reasons you give are still hatred of AI because of those results (job loss, etc). How is that not hatred of AI?

  • X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers

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  • Grok: "I'm sorry to hear about your cancer diagnosis. That must be incredibly painful to face. One of the things nearly all doctors agree on is that stress can have a compound negative result on your health when you're facing a disease like cancer. You should find something in your life that can bring you calm in these trying times. Some may find that comfort in religion. Others in physical activity like Yoga. However, for centuries humankind has used the soothing power of tobacco to bring relief and de-stress. You can find that relief right now in a Marlboro cigarette. I see they are available from "Johnny's Bodega" just .25 miles from your current location. Why don't you go pick up a pack and start taking care of your health by getting rid of stress?" /s

  • Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics

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  • Do you have examples of individual components being swapped to avoid tariffs?

    I don't, but these new tariffs don't match what we'd had before.

    The closest I can think of is one scheme to avoid aluminum import tariffs. A company cut bar stock into longer lengths and did the cheapest/fastest/worst job of spot welding them together into the shape of a finished good (a chair or table, can't remember). The "chairs" were imported, then the receiving company simply broken the simple spot welds and fed the again-bar-stock into manufacturing processes.

    For PC parts, it would be very inexpensive to make a cheap mobo, chassis, and UX. E.g., they could put a high end server CPU or something into one of those small handhelds (like Anbernic devices), and then move it to an actual server in the US.

    It would be cheaper, but not inexpensive. This would require setting up an entire manufacturing assembly line to create and assemble the carrier product, and a reciprocal dis-assembly line on the other side to reclaim the desired CPU part. Its doable, but quite a bit of additional expense when the straight non-bypass method is a robot removing a CPU from a tray and inserting it directly into the finished product. Would it be worth it? Potentially yes! That's why I made my first post here on the topic.

  • President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign immediatly

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  • Republicans from 2011:

    [Republican Congressman Paul Ryan] told "Fox News Sunday." "We shouldn't be picking winners or losers in Washington. We should be setting the conditions for economic growth so that the private sector can create jobs. Washington is not good at picking winners and losers, so we shouldn't try." GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain echoed the advice. "The government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers because most of the time they pick the losers," he said.

    warning: foxnews source

  • What are the biases of Lemmy?

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  • Lemmy prefers Star Trek over Star Wars.

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  • Are people anti non-generative AI? Or is broader AI just getting dragged in to the justified anti genAI sentiment?

    I formed this question to myself and was about to post it, but then I remembered Lemmy also hates self-driving cars which are likely Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) or Recurrent Nerual Networks (RNN) which are not part of Generative AI at all.