T156

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[–] T156 1 points 1 week ago

Got a huge nosebleed on the train, so that was fun. Spent a few minutes looking like I'd come fresh from the exorcist.

Forgot to take a photo, but a bee landed on me and started cleaning herself, which was cute. Had to relocate her with a spare tissue so she didn't get on the bus, but was otherwise the highlight of the day.

[–] T156 1 points 1 week ago

Excel definitely has its flaws though. For example, in science, it will mangle your data in its attempts to be helpful by reformatting the file if you so much as open it.

The genomics committee had to change their naming scheme for some genes because excel kept converting them into dates (for example, you had a MAR-10 gene, it'd be converted into a timestamp or 3/10) and destroying the names, even if the file wasn't saved.

[–] T156 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

CPUs have multiple cores now? Amazing.

[–] T156 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The split might leave a monopoly still, if it's the only major browser.

[–] T156 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, but the swearing is immaterial. That apology isn't, so let's break down the likely interpretation a bit.

I didn't want to insult you and if you felt so, I apologize.

This is probably the most egregious part, since 'I'm sorry you felt offended' isn't actually an apology, it just sounds like one. You're not actually apologising for anything you did.

No matter what it is you might have wanted or intended, the fact of the matter is that you did offend your coworker with your swearing.

The word fuck is one I use very often, but I'll try to control myself around you'

This part is fine-ish? I'd leave off the "around you", since it's extraneous. They don't need to know that you're deliberately taking exception around them.

I apologize. The word fuck is one I'm used to using, but I'll try to avoid using it.

Seems a better way of putting it. You made the error, you apologised, clean and cut. No need for unnecessary explanation that could be taken as excuse, or unnecessary exceptions that may taint your intended message.

Maybe accompany it with an apology muffin or something.

[–] T156 3 points 1 week ago

Plus the military doesn't want to show the full extent of their intelligence capabilities right off the bat. They would much rather be underestimated.

[–] T156 5 points 1 week ago

Far left? She's barely left of centre.

[–] T156 52 points 1 week ago (18 children)

If Mozilla does become defunct, it does raise the question of whether Chrome would be considered a Google monopoly, and therefore subject to antitrust legislation.

I can't imagine any governments would look kindly upon internet access being guarded behind a single company's product.

[–] T156 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least it's better than ed.

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[–] T156 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plus he's proven that having a cult of personality works, and caused a notable shift in the US Republican party.

For all we know, that might be a permanent change, rather than a temporary one.

[–] T156 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Are they defending it? Seems more like they're saying that the US legal system doesn't consider it to meet their classification of child pornography, as opposed to saying that it's okay.

It would be like saying the UK criminal justice system only considers penile penetration to be rape, with other forms being folded under sexual assault. That doesn't mean that they're defending rape, and saying it's just sexual assault.

[–] T156 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

A surprising amount of technological development is for pornography. Video-casettes won out because pornography used them over laserdisc or betamax.

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Is there a way to do inline spoiler tagging, or is the current :::spoiler :::-type tagging the only form of spoiler tagging that is available, short of doing something like abusing the linking functionality?

 

We already know that the Federation seems to struggle when it comes to things that are non-humanoid, and non-organic, especially if they originated from Federation technology.

But we also see that there are progressive elements. Both the Doctor and Data have a fairly healthy heaping of support, once some form of personhood was established for them.

But does that attitude extend to non-organics that the Federation isn't familiar with?

For the other side, Federation attitudes towards Data, the Voyager's EMH, and the ExoComps weren't all that favourable. Both the EMH and the ExoComp's burgeoning sapience were treated as simple malfunctions, that could be resolved be constant factory resets, or in the case of the ExoComps, lobotomisation/resetting of their control circuitry, effectively killing the ExoComp, and putting the Doctor back to a blank slate (in theory).

There have been some documented cases where the Federation meets some mechanical beings, which were treated as sapient beings in their own right, but does that treatment extend to other non-organic beings? Or do you have to be "acceptable" as a humanoid to be treated as one?

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