That’s what happens when you comment right before going to bed…

I want clarifying as most as I was making fun of the LLM in the picture, which did put “an eighth season would’ve been too expensive” as a reason for the almost-cancellation after season three. That might’ve been a reason to cancel in the end but not then.

The show was almost canceled after the third season because an eighth season would’ve been too expensive. Better cancel five seasons sooner, then.

And I wouldn’t know where to start using it. My problems are often of the “integrate two badly documented company-internal APIs” variety. LLMs can’t do shit about that; they weren’t trained for it.

They’re nice for basic rote work but that’s often not what you deal with in a mature codebase.

Like every time there’s an AI bubble. And like every time changes are that in a few years public interest will wane and current generative AI will fade into the background as a technology that everyone uses but nobody cares about, just like machine translation, speech recognition, fuzzy logic, expert systems…

Even when these technologies get better with time (and machine translation certainly got a lot better since the sixties) they fail to recapture their previous levels of excitement and funding.

We currently overcome what popped the last AI bubbles by throwing an absurd amount of resources at the problem. But at some point we’ll have to admit that doubling the USA’s energy consumption for a year to train the next generation of LLMs in hopes of actually turning a profit this time isn’t sustainable.

Honestly, it’s still the F310 for me. I have mine since the early 2010s and it’s still working perfectly. Those things are built like tanks and between XInput and DirectInput are compatible with just about any PC game of the last forty years, no extra software required. Also, they’re dirt cheap.

Honorable mention to the F710, the wireless version. While Windows 10’s USB stack unfortunately broke compatibility with it (causing randomly dropped inputs), Linux does not have that problem.

Not to mention that pushing changes through over the objections of senior staff seems like a good idea to hurt morale in at least the short term. These people know how the ship and its crew work and they have an excellent track record.

Jellico always looked to me like a manager who joins a new company or department and then immediately has to change something to justify his presence and “leave his mark”. This usually results in terrible decisions and lost productivity. Except that in this case he’s messing with the flagship of Starfleet during a mission.

So you name the road after the neighboring town. Sixty years later you merge with that town, becoming a district within it. Now you have a road that leads from you to you.

I kinda like the idea of him dropping that out of nowhere and just awkwardly walking off and her staring after him, unsure if that really just happened. And then he decides his joke didn’t land and vows to never ask Geordi for dating advice again. (He didn’t in the first place but that didn’t stop Geordi from trying to be helpful.)

As if! Star Trek has a bad habit of discriminating against hard-working, benevolent administrators who can’t even get one little statue built in their honor.

I’m not sure about the SSD. Has QLC substantially improved since hitting the market? If not I’d recommend going with something TLC-based.

They should’ve kept making versions in different genres. A cappella. Ragtime. Polka. Death metal. Boy band-era pop with the bridge crew inexplicably doing a tightly choreographed dance routine.

I just use the Europass CV Builder. Works fine for me, has been for well over a decade now.

Definitely one of the more subtle benefits of the EU: They made a perfectly serviceable resume builder.

(But yeah, a LaTeX template would also just work forever. This stuff is what TeX and its derivatives are great at.)

Which would explain why TOS-era ships used those everywhere. Until they had LCARS and the matching display tech it was just easier to have everyone remember button positions.

Alternate interpretation: Starfleet’s mobile device UI isn’t great for managing multiple documents that you quickly switch between. Everyone defaults to using multiple PADDs because they’re not going to see a major revision of LCARS anytime soon.

(Also, they’re free and easily obtained, just go to a replicator.)

cries in German

The literal translation of what’s on the box makes it easier to understand:

Width of the condom when laid flat: 52 mm

It’s simply the easiest width measure you can do yourself.

Probably because that’s getting dangerously close to a subspace weapon, which gives just about everyone in the galaxy the willies.

Going too fast on an older warp drive can already degrade subspace and make warp travel harder for everyone. Now imagine a ship made to run at full warp into another ship at full warp and then both explode. That sounds like a fast way of pissing off your neighbors.

If you want a snake and a pie chart, at least have the snake do something with it like carrying the chart in its mouth.

Perhaps you can do the biblical scene of the snake tempting Adam and Eve but this time it’s the snake tempting managers with a useless pie chart.

And even if we accept that it was always intended to be PSN-only and they decided to launch before PSN integration was done, the fact that multiplayer is entirely dependent on them providing a service is troubling. That’s how we lose games.

I can still launch Rainbow Six 3 and play multiplayer with my friends because it has the server built in and allows direct connect via IP address. You can’t do that with a live service game; once the official servers are down the game becomes (partially or completely) lost media.

True, but getting someone to switch to Linux is a hard sell already. Any compatibility issues are seen as the OS’s fault, not as the game company being lazy.