T156

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[–] T156 1 points 20 hours ago

They're definitely good choices, but all of them are worth watching. Your tastes might differ from the recommendation, anyhow, so it's worth checking the shows out personally, and then make a judgement.

[–] T156 1 points 20 hours ago

Holograms aren't stable in the long term. They will start to come apart after some time. That, and they constantly require power to maintain. A bed and furniture does not, and will still work if the ship needs to go without power for one reason or another. Most things someone might put by hologram can be done by replicating the thing, instead of using a hologram. Most rooms have a replicator, and excepting furniture, which you might need to ask engineering to make for you, you can just make it yourself.

Starships aren't lacking space by any means, so there's no need to stick people into a broom closet.

Though there are things like that. The Ba'ul "migration" ship was basically that, where the entire ship was meant to be a holodeck. In the 32nd century, rooms are basically holograms, except that holography has been superseded by programmable matter.

[–] T156 15 points 20 hours ago

I think it's just an easily obtained large amount of reasonable text that is easy to spam.

People did it using the Shrek script, and now they're onto the Bee Movie.

[–] T156 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Dot matrix is also an option, if they neither want to bother with toner, nor inkjet.

[–] T156 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Any particular reason for going thermal? Personally, I'd recomnend against them, since thermal paper is coated with BPA, and that can come off and might have health effects if ingested.

[–] T156 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

The original rationale for not having editing, at least on Reddit and Twitter, was concerns that someone could get a viral post, and then edit it to spam.

That's not an impossible thing with Lemmy, though we're not big enough for it to be worth spamming to, for the most part.

[–] T156 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not quite that, but more the ${variable##.*} sort of thing.

[–] T156 8 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Bash substitution is regex-level wizardry.

[–] T156 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Neither a phone nor website would work if your phone battery is flat. The meter should at least have a way for someone to park their car if they don't have a functioning phone, or internet access, even before the hellscape of needing a separate app for everything.

[–] T156 6 points 3 days ago

Shot of olive oil?

[–] T156 40 points 3 days ago (4 children)

How did they estimate whether an LLM was used to write the text or not? Did they do it by hand, or using a detector?

Since detectors are notorious for picking up ESL writers, or professionally written text as AI-Generated.

[–] T156 2 points 4 days ago

discovered a chimeric strain on the subatomic level in the Terran stem cell, implying that this could explain the Terran inclination towards malevolence.

Isn't this implied/stated to be a falsehood meant to try and unsettle Empress Georgiou, by saying that the inhabitants of the mirror universe have a predisposition for evil? She more or less shoots it down immediately.

 

Why is there a mother-daughter thing in the first place?

 

Voyager takes after the Apollo app in this regard, where if the app is closed while text is being edited, it'll bring back the unsaved draft, but it'll pop that into the next reply window you open, even if it is a different thread entirely.

Being able to reopen the same thread and resume editing would make it much easier if you're switching to another app to look up a reference or a link, and Voyager gets destroyed by the OS. It'd also help refresh your context if you can't remember what it was you were writing and why.

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submitted 5 months ago by T156 to c/fediverse
 

While kbin.social's site mentioned that they were migrating to a new provider, and as a result, the site might be experiencing some issues, kbin.social has been serving up a similar HTTP 50x errors, and that migration message for well over a month, if not more.

What happened?

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How do you ask for a haircut? (self.nostupidquestions)
submitted 6 months ago by T156 to c/nostupidquestions
 

While ordering a crew cut is easy, since it's on the menu, what about other kinds?

Can you just go "I'd like a men/women's haircut" and leave it at that, or do you need something more specific, like saying you want a Charlestone done by a No. 3 to the sides, and a 4 up top?

 

In our world, the police going to a spirit medium for the DL-6 case, and being ridiculed might be logical, since spirit channelling isn't a real thing, but in the world of Ace Attorney, it is.

Not only is it a known and established practice, with detectable physical effects, but the monarchy of at least one country is specifically sought out for their spirit-channelling powers by other governments, so that they can commune with the dead, and receive advice that way.

However, it also seems to be disbelieved, and ridiculed as a pseudoscience, despite that.

 

I've been using "mechanoid" as a classification (similar to humanoid, etc), but a friend pointed out that it's both too generic, and that said inorganics might just consider it biology, with organics being the weird outlier.

 

You wouldn't start off an e-mail with "My Dear X", or "Dearest X", since that would be too personal for a professional email, so "To X" being more impersonal seems like it would make the letter more professional-sounding, compared to "Dear X".

 

Doctor Who zips all the way up and down through time, popping in at any time and place. If you don't have a time machine to follow them around with, it should be impossible to keep track of which incarnation was where. And yet, the Doctor's enemies somehow manage to do just that, with the Daleks being accurate enough to determine he was on his last regeneration on Trenzalore.

 

One of the options for students enrolling into Hogwarts, if they come from a wizarding family, is that they have the option of using a hand-me-down wand. But short of wands being damaged beyond repair, we don't see many people replacing them, even though it happens enough that hand-me-downs are a valid option for new students.

So how long does one last? Does a wizard normally use one wand in their lifetime, or is it the kind of thing where an old, worn-out wand is fine for schoolwork, but you'd need something newer/better for adult life?

 

What caused the shift from calling things like rheostats and condensers to resistors and capacitors, or the move from cycles to Hertz?

It seemed to just pop up out of nowhere, seeing as the previous terms seemed fine, and are in use for some things today (like rheostat brakes, or condenser microphones).

 

You often see people in fitness mention going through a cut/bulk cycle, or mention one, with plans to follow up with the other. Why is it that cutting and bulking so often happen in cycles, rather than said person just doing both at once, until they hit their desired weight?

 

While we hear of the TARDIS having engines that are implicitly essential to it working, we've also see a TARDIS work without the rest of the machine.

"The Doctor's Wife" and "Inferno" show that a TARDIS is capable of operating as just the console, which would seem to imply that they're just a power source to allow the console to do its thing and move the whole ship around, or to allow for the pilot to do silly things like tow an entire planet one second out of phase.

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