Oh, nice, Windows 11 will fix Teams!

The one problem with that is that I need to know I’m not being told about a meeting to take a print.

Well, my local mail service often has less lag than Teams…

It temporarily deletes my meetings just before they happen, so that I don’t have to attend them!

Of course, when I open it later, the meetings are restored, with the original date, and no trace of the deletion. So not attending them is quite hard to explain to others. But it does save me from attending!

Screen off!!! Screen off!!!

Eh…

Most of Brazil calls it “abacaxi”. And by “most”, I mean almost all of it, and the exception is there because of recent immigrants bringing the other name.

Almost always for the worse. Possibly always.

A war going on changes everything, doesn’t it?

Anyway, the people they were sharing with weren’t naive societies that didn’t know there was life elsewhere on the galaxy. For those ones, they just presented themselves, warned about their enemies, and moved on trying to make the minimum possible impact.

Star Trek is so full of those horrible interfaces that you aren’t actually expected to use. I really like (or dislike? I duno) the ejection mechanism of the ships outer plating, that not only require a lot of meaningless movement, but also expect two people to do it at the same time.

The worse thing is, I can really imagine people making something like this.

AFAIK, the first one was written in LISP.

The one most people push around here was written in Rust. It’s a really great language to write memory managers anyway.

I remember that DS9’s 2024 being “democratic” (as in, working citizens voted).

The GP is not describing a piezoelectric scale. And you won’t be able to find any piezoelectric scale that is anything similar to “cheap”.

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No way, Badgey is smart.

You know it’s not reality because people are reading the manual.

Now I wonder how Lower Decks call the TNG people.

Looking forward for a fully thematic week!

When Le Forge says it’s gonna take 16 hours to fix the engines, he isn’t working that whole time right?

It means there’s a team working on it during the entire time, and it’s not useful in any way to increase the team size. They also talk a lot about how that time is buffered.

In an emergency it would make sense to make people work for longer, so maybe there’s some rescheduling implicit on it. But they never make it clear.

Interestingly, vinyl players applied a standard “reconstruction” filter into the low fidelity sound waves you can store on the disks. When CDs were created, there was no such filter, and a lot of studios did lots of stupid things, from using the exact same signal they stored on vinyl to playing with post-processing filters to get the most different sound possible.

So yeah, a lot of time vinyl was really measurably better than CDs.

Are Tholians in every show?

Because I only ever remember noticing them in Lower Decks. But people keep posting completely different renderings of them.