Yeah, they seem to enjoy doing the podcast so I assume they'll keep going after DS9, working their way slowly in reverse through the 24th century as they eventually get to the setup of some stuff they were confused about getting referenced in Voyager. I doubt they'll get TNG main cast in the show.

Why your NEW computer is SLOWER than your OLD computer! By a Retired Microsoft Engineer. YouTube video by Dave's Garage

Quite a good little "video essay" / personal statement about modern code bloat and some of why modern software is so fucking annoying from "Dave's Garage."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t992...

Trump is insane enough that I think he absolutely believes that America would fall apart without him. So it makes sense he thinks every country would do the same.

I've been watching it along with the "Delta Flyers" podcast. Two guys from Voyager are watching with Terry Farrell and Armin Shimmerman from DS9 and they talk about working on the show. It's kinda fun to watch an episode every week and listen to them.

no matter how you feel about cancer, it’s becoming more widespread, so it’s important that we all understand how to not only live with cancer, but use cancer as a tool in our every day lives. because when it comes to pure evil, we should cooperate with it rather than eradicate it entirely!

I think the NYT just wants to make a business model out of selling NFT's of retractions and corrections.

Eyewitness video from the scene of today's ICE shooting in California appears to (you guessed it) contradict officials' claims that the man "weaponized" his vehicle. The car is reversing and the agents appear to be well clear of it.

"Civil Rights Division" is just a vestigial name now.

Like in the Roman Empire the Equites were upper class aristocracy. The name literally meant cavalry and it originally referred to basically Roman knights. But eventually it was just a cool sounding historic group with special privileges.

At this point, I feel like I am running out of things to "Set aside right now."

Another fun thing about the bare-fucking-minimum expectations of modern software. Reddit status claims 0 incidents, on a day when the log indicates that there were problems worth logging. So they can claim uptime when they know stuff wasn't working. Everything's wrong. Nobody cares.

I know there's bigger stuff going on right now. But it's always a bit of a thing to see an application has a robust test suite with tests all over, and then look at one of the actual tests and see literally everything is commented out. Great, now I have a lot of confidence I can use this.

Functionally, there simply is no institution of Congress any more. It's just a fossilized word from an earlier era.

This is me, every day.

Apparently AI wasn't fucking up brains enough yet.

This... I don't even know. It just makes me feel so cold and sad to see how the AI hype cycle is playing out, and the scale of harm it is being allowed to cause. I have come to despise the future.

When I took improv classes at Second City I just had to ditch class every week there was a music lesson because I couldn't figure out how music was an assumed skill for improv comedy. I was baffled that apparently nobody else had ever graduated while skipping the entire music program.

When you have some kind of processing difference like that, you are just living your life and then you occasionally find out that absolutely everybody else in the world seems to have some sort of crazy X-Men superpower. And then you have to just go on with your day.

It was just not something that anybody had ever really explained to me they could do easily. Apparently trivially. Even the kids who definitely were generally worse than me in the class. For me it was as if the teacher said the assignment was to levitate, and everybody did.

I'm not a music person, and yeah I apparently just don't process it the way other people do.

I was shocked in high school when our French teacher put on a song and said to write down the words, and I thought I was being punked when everybody seemed to be able to pick out the words from the music.

When ICE is destroyed, we need an Immigration and Customs service org that isn't under a Security/Enforcement umbrella. Head of customs should be judged entirely on how smooth it is to get through customs without undue hassles.

They sell way more subscriptions with hype cycle AI stuff convincing people to upgrade from CapCut to Premiere than they could ever get from improving serious workflow stuff to steal users of Avid. The economic incentives just aren't aligned with making good software anymore.

Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error

Day Counter

xkcd.com/3228/

I assume this happens to me too, but I am famously bad at recognizing people out of context. I am like 70% sure that Cheri Oteri from SNL used to be my neighbor in my apartment building.

Some people really struggle with the concept of "universal" public services. It's so important to them to divide up who is worthy and who is unworthy that they don't really give a damn about the costs or benefits, just that there be distinct groups in society to conserve the distinctons between.

It probably gets an unfair level of critique from sitting between more beloved IV and VI. But it's not great.

Shatner's not a great director. He shouldn't have been the star of a movie he was directing. Klaa's behavior makes no real sense. He didn't navigate the FX problems very well. It's meh.

This isn't too surprising if you remember that Bonfire Legend was the company Dallas Sonnier founded after his previous movie production company, Cinestate, violated the safety of its crew who were sexually harassed on set. Daily Wire is a home for gross losers to keep being awful.

The fact that they want to push libertarian fever dream action fantasies, but almost kill themselves by not following basic building code is hilarious. Absolutely the most embarrassing way for them to go.

I think the 186 was mostly only ever used in embedded stuff, not in consumer PC desktops.

Motorola had the 68010 that was roughly equivalent to 186. The '010 mostly got used in obscure stuff, but not Mac desktops. Then the two's were back to familiar desktop CPU's for the '286 and '020.

Modern infrared imaging can 1000% see the hot side of an F35. The heat dissipation is only "invisible" to old Soviet era heat seeking missiles.

I would surely have been kicked off my Middle School paper for less.

It always baffles me that somebody that stupid and belligerent manages to build enough trust with anybody to create that big of a problem.
Everybody who has ever been on a set knows it is surprisingly easy to get hurt, and sane investors avoid obvious liability magnets.