T156

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[–] T156 4 points 1 day ago

I don't think he can. He's not Scotty. Voyager tried to replicate the trick, and could only hold someone in there for a few hours.

Assuming it's possible to copy patterns at all (maybe DS9 might know?). Barclay didn't clone the mid-transport people. The person he grabbed would be the original. The pattern was just maintained for an unusually long time, like a natural version of what Scotty did in Relics.

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

Wasn't that basically Geordi's original plan using Hugh?

[–] T156 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Those hormones affect fat distribution, which can make someone appear younger.

[–] T156 5 points 2 days ago

It already existed. They called it Bebo before it went Bebust.

[–] T156 11 points 3 days ago

Its also terrible for originality. Itcan create a basic template, but that is all it will be. If you want to make music for your game, and you have a specific kind of theme and instrument in mind, you'd be hard-pressed getting that right with generative AI.

[–] T156 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Just look at what happened during COVID.

All the jobs marked as "essential" back then would probably be a solid proportion of the grease of society. People would riot if they suddenly stopped existing.

[–] T156 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Big W sells dishwashers? I've never seen one when I've popped in.

[–] T156 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You've never heard men say "dude, just suck it up and get over it already. Don't be a wuss." about similar issues to other men?

[–] T156 2 points 2 weeks ago

The advertising companies would riot if they did count as impressions, so Facebook would either not count them as such, or hold off on them for that reason.

[–] T156 9 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yes, I too, program in the Language programming language

[–] T156 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Flying drones are hugely noisy, which might make them unsuitable.

[–] T156 15 points 3 weeks ago
 

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 3 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 4 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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