2600+ people without power here in #Nashville. My neighborhood in East Nashville is entirely dark. It's been awhile now. Enough so I'm now getting concerned about conserving batteries on flashlights and phone.
There were emergency vehicles at Trinity and Jones an hour ago with a cherry-picker.
A wise woman I met 23 years ago once said to me: "Skin is important." I married her. Three years ago (minus ten days) she died on Easter Sunday, weeks after her 40th birthday. Hug those you love, and make love to those who you love in that way. Because skin is important.
I mean, most automated tools from autoconf to AI do this, but it's harder to recognize when you're misusing AI if you don't know your goal with detailed clarity.
Most of it did, in a high warp shockwave. I thought they explained it at the start of the first episode in the "final frontier" voice over, but they didn't make it clear. "Why" was the plot of a season of Discovery, but is so relevant to all 32nd century Trek that it should probably be explained.
Metaphor: It made Klingons a refugee population without a homeworld. They have always had a shifting parallel: they were dishonorable authoritarian communist warmonger stand-ins in TOS, then glasnost/fallen wall post-Soviets in TNG. Now they are environmental refugees trying to keep their culture.
Metaphorical: It is a transition after a power source proved environmentally catastrophic. Directly CO₂ but also any tech (from leaded gasoline to mixed bag things like industrial agriculture). It moves Trek into a still-rational, science positive place to recognize nuanced ethics of consequence.
Storycrafting: It reset Trek to have scarcity, allowing choices to become meaningful and the Federation and Starfleet to be limited. More room for stories where hard ethical choices come into play more like TOS than TNG, while still allowing for "Federation might" when appropriate to the story.
In-universe, storycrafting, or metaphorical? In-universe: It's when dilithium, a fictional core part of most culture's travel and power became unstable and detonated, killing many and ending easy space travel. Qo'nos, the Klingon homeworld used dilithium in power generation, destroying the planet.
Subscription based software is one thing. Subscription based thinking is a pretty bad direction.
I was there when Canter & Siegel posted the first notable spam. When you could openly telnet into friendly systems. Then it ended. This reminds me of the start of the Eternal September: github.com/matplotlib/m...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal...
An AI agent writes code, AI does a pull request, gets rejected by a human (with a rational reason). Then the AI agent writes a flame post on a blog about it being discrimination against AI. The very bullet-pointy, highly questionable screed:
crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...
apnews.com/article/demo...
As a kid I watched Sanford & Son, as it was on either before or after Star Trek. The theme song (along with Night Court and Taxi) makes me wonder why today's theme songs ain't got no soul.
Best use of a bass harmonica, along with The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel.
Man, the ISS is orbiting a little low these days.
(I used to watch the NASA feed, which had times like these).
Who else turns up the volume on your laptop or desktop when you walk away from your desk so you can keep listening... while you're using bluetooth earbuds or headphone?
Wait. What?
"Highlighted" should really be "highlit."
[Random Thought] LLMs cause any singularity to move further into the future: they depend on human generated input data and a reliance on LLMs drops the quality of human created data for training both AI and humans. LLMs tend to flatten the slope of advancement over sufficient time.
So last night the Ents started marching in on me. I have the beard, but I am not Saruman.
Talk about the rules for relationships or marriage all you want. But when it comes down to it, what works is when what makes them happy makes you happy, and what makes you happy makes them happy. An inversion of self into the union. And there's no way to demand or force it.
A more relatable version of a meme floating around. At least to some folks (that poor half-a-goldie!)
Pop, coke, highways, and going to the hospital are disappearing. AI narration seems to ignore these in favor of soda, freeways, and going to hospital. And this is now what we are learning from.
Our language is going to become Applebees: the same everywhere, flat and riblets.
Holy crap thought at 3am: did my dad like watching old Star Trek reruns, or did he like watching Star Trek with his eldest son?
I miss watching Trek with my wife and dad, who have both stepped into that Undiscovered Country, and while I enjoy it, I enjoyed it more with them.
A Star Trek fandom band that plays terrible music, each just a mess, and then as each player gets their solo, they break into perfect, wonderful music, then go back to slop when the band comes back in. Name: Ship of Barclays.
I honestly did not expect to see Star Trek pick up a goofy device from MASH in the announcements. But it really works well for this series. #sfa
"Vanilla mucus is not my jam." Also, hair and makeup is nailing it for the Chancellor. Lanthanites are among my favorite new species. I have a stream of thought post for the pilot, and I genuinely think her non-uniform outfits are motogear inspired. #sfa
In general, my JLab multipoint earbuds are great. Except that the most common lyric I hear, randomly, is "Bluetooth connected."
...when asked complex questions. This is not an improvement. This is placating the immature. I am ignorant about many things. That's okay.
So, right now I can ask Google Assistant a question and it will answer, "I'm sorry, I don't understand." Most world cultures are so terrified with losing face or causing others to lose face we can't accept that correct answer and are switching to LLMs that are wrong 60-70% of the time...
PHP is to a server as Lua is to NeoVim.
(I was considering the "PHP is not a language, it's a glue that happens to need to look like a language" concept, and that is not a bad explainer. Although I've made it mainstream from my original "as Lisp is to emacs")