Not a stupid question at all. Here’s the Wikipedia article for it. The significant part is this:

The 5-dimensional discs [have] tiny patterns printed on 3 layers within the discs. Depending on the angle they are viewed from, these patterns can look completely different. This may sound like science fiction, but it’s basically a really fancy optical illusion. In this case, the 5 dimensions inside of the discs are the size and orientation in relation to the 3-dimensional position of the nanostructures. The concept of being 5-dimensional means that one disc has several different images depending on the angle that one views it from, and the magnification of the microscope used to view it. Basically, each disc has multiple layers of micro and macro level images.

Moore’s law is about circuit density, not about storage, so the premise is invalidated in the first place.

There is research being done into 5D storage crystals, where a disc can theoretically hold up to 360TB of data, but don’t hold your breath about them being available soon.

That’s uBlock Origin Lite, which the developer already stated is grossly inadequate for ad blocking.

That’s LLM AI, but the type I’m talking about is the machine learning kind. I can envision a system that takes e.g. a sample’s test data and provides a summary, which is not far from what doctors do anyway. If you ever get a blood test’s results explained to you it’s “this value is high, which would be concerning except that this other value is not high, so you’re probably fine regarding X. However, I notice that this other value is low, and this can be an indicator of Y. I’m going to request a follow-up test regarding that.” Yes, I would trust an AI to give me that explanation, because those are very strict parameters to work with, and the input comes from a trusted source (lab results and medical training data) and not “Bob’s shrimping and hoola hoop dancing blog”.

AI trained to do that job? Sure, yeah. LLM AI? Fuck no.

And later Romo Lampkin and Crowley.

Mark Sheppard was so young!

Knowing that there are 7+ Enterprises already qualifies you as a Star Trek nerd.

To me the weekend is the end of the week. I don’t start the week on its end, so by elimination the week starts on Monday.

Thursday is 5/7 if you’re one of those uncivilized people who start the week in Sunday.

His other stuff is great too! Some of my favorites:

• The Beast of Pirate’s Bay
• Dirtiest Song that Ain’t
• Hell in a Handbasket
• Death, Death (Devil, Devil, Evil, Evil Song)

I will never forgive JSON for not allowing commas after the last element in a list.

I think it should be reversed - Janeway on the left, the borg cowering on the right.

If I had a nickel for every time in the past week I saw an article about a courier game I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t much, but it’s odd that it happened twice.

The article’s author mentioned that the problem is not limited to Samsung TVs - someone reported the issue on their phone.

The article does not mention a root cause, but I have a theory that it’s likely a malformed subtitle track. I tend to watch with subtitles on so I run into related issues every once in a while. Most of the time it’s one of two things:

• The subtitles are misaligned (eg wrong offset, addressed by adding a positive or negative delay to the track)
• Bad formatting on the timing information.

The latter can have multiple effects depending on what format the subs are in, but most of the time it’s a missing end time, meaning that the subtitle stays on. However, some formats also have cues as to who the speaker is, and that comes with a start and end tag like in HTML. I suspect that in this case the end tag is either missing or misaligned in the syntax tree, causing this one line of dialogue to be displayed over and over when the player reaches other lines matching the cue for it, but that don’t get shown because the user has turned subtitles off.

As to why this is bleeding into other shows: I suspect it’s an issue with how the software clients are caching the subtitle files. This would also explain why going back into the episode that caused this fixes things, because it would reset the cached file. Which in turn brings me back to pointing the finger at Amazon, not Samsung, because Samsung would just be loading Amazon’s software client to play the video and subtitles.

… fuck = “this will probably end the world.”

Transparent vs translucent.

Yeah, you’d have a LoadBalancer service for Traefik which gets assigned a VIP outside the cluster.

virtual IP addresses

Yeah, metallb.

The container is reproducible. Container configuration is in version control. That leaves you with the volumes mounted into the container, which you back up like any other disk.