jj4211

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It works better if you put it in your mouth first.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  RTGs aren’t as limited by technological investment as they are constrained by fundamental physics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It works better if you put it in your mouth first.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They can, but when you have any alternative, Agrivoltaics aren’t very appealing.

  You frequently end up deliberately setting up solar panels in suboptimal ways to let the plants get the light. So you end up having fewer panels and those panels not able to be used to their full potential at a given site.

  So I absolutely vote for parking lots and rooftops to be the first order of business. Yes, Agrivoltaics as it comes to it if the alternative is losing cropland, but it seems like we have a long way to go before we have to make such compromises.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meow⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving us the ow for now, later it’s going to give us the d.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is one of the reasons why Discovery and Picard at least are problematic (I haven’t seen Academy).

  As you say, a lot of the old stories aren’t really that good. What happens when they had a bad story, or maybe less ‘bad’ and just didn’t engage with you? New one next week.

  With Discovery and Picard? Well the whole season is the story, so if it doesn’t engage with you, you are pretty much out for the season.

  Personally, I never felt there was really enough narrative “meat” in their stories to warrant a season long arc, and so it felt a bit stretched for time for the perceived “a story needs to fill a binge” market.

  Strange New Worlds primary win was returning to episodic, to give a story a chance to shine or fail in a digestable amount of time and move on. Was at its weakest when Season 3 kind of devolved to a weird arc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much. And maybe in the off-screen bragging about it, at least say first main character or first crew member (someone argued about Dax, but I’d say that character was gendered, just fluid over the long term), not ‘first character ever’, since you had a number of instances, and pretty much dead-on a whole species dedicated to exploring gendered versus non-binary in TNG. That’s one habit of Discovery was leaving people wondering if they even watched the shows that preceeded them…

  There should have been no good reason for Adira to only tell Gray despite their clear desire to be recognized as non-binary.

  Or, alternatively, they could have established that 32nd century Earth cut off from the federation had backslid to MAGA-sensibilities to explain why far future human feels the need to tiptoe around their identity until they come to terms with the culture of the federation that might have been lost to Earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I quoted the show. Season 3, episode 8. After several episodes of going by “she” did Adira actually say anything, after spending their entire life only telling Gray.

  Why else would they withhold this their whole life except for anxiety. Is not like they had an awakening, they said they never felt that way and had already confided in the person they were closest to.

  They made it very clear that asserting a non binary identity was just uncomfortable enough in society in the 32nd century that Adira felt a need to keep it to themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, fine.

  “Adira, who joined us from Earth, may be able to guide sto Federation headquarters one she regains her own memoris”

  “Is there any way the symbiont was joined with Adira against her will?”

  Basically, Adira spends episodes 3 through 8 rolling with feminine pronouns, keeping their non-binary nature a secret.

  Adira doesn’t come out until Episode 8: ADIRA: Um, “they.” Not… not “she.” I’ve never felt like a “she” or or a “her,” so… I would prefer “they” or “them” from now on.

  STAMETS: Okay.

  ADIRA: Um, and I’ve never told anyone but Gray.

  Adira kept their non-binary identity secret and took them 5 episodes to work up the nerve to declare to the first person other than Gray. I think the traditional trek move would have been from episode 3, right out the gate, first reference to this new character would use non-gendered pronouns because, well, why would they feel they need to keep it a secret?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d have to rewatch, but I recall as they picked Adira up from 32nd century Earth, despite being a fully grown up person, went by feminine pronouns. Adira had to work up to come out, rather than being out from the onset.

  I recall because I was very confused on Adira’s introduction because they kept yelling from the rooftops about how progressive they were by having a non-binary character, but Adira and everyone around Adira kept using feminine terms. I distinctly recall a ‘coming out’ moment which seemed to be played with trepidation.

  The fairest thing I could say is that 32nd century earth was no longer “federation” and so maybe they had a big old conservative backslide and so Adira’s plight was due to the gloomy setting of isolated Earth with the loss of FTL travel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨marriage update⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolute gigafrood energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  startrek.com/…/star-trek-discovery-introduces-fir…

  Is where they officially declared that Trek was doing a non-binary character for the first time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, as I recall the entire society was ‘non-binary’ and that specific alien wanted to come out as female. And of course Riker banging was a green light after she declared herself female. Probably not the best choice to have Riker banging her as part of the narrative, but yeah, that was famously an example of them trying to address a point by inverting real-world, the ‘norm’ is non-binary and the ‘unusual’ one is gendered and the Federation serves as the model of ‘we respect your people either way, you should too’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It got there, sure, but that coming out was a bit rough, because they treated it as a “big deal”, they were afraid of coming out and ultimately did, but seemed to harbor anxiety that should have not had a place anymore. They got over it (I assume, I actually kind of lost track of Discovery), but at one point it was too big a deal.

  Also, out of universe, they were a bit annoying about bragging about being the first non-binary representation in Star Trek ever, which just seems disrepectful of the times it came up before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing was in TOS that kiss, in-universe, was no biggie. In DS9 with all the gender and sexuality shifts in the Trill scenario, it again just ‘was’. When it was a big deal, it was some alien culture being backwards and the Federation being an example of doing it right.

  STD was oddly self-congratulatory. “First ever non-binary character in trek!” they proclaim as people were able to respond with just so many examples of previous non-binary characters. The character despite being a human, being on Earth, had to make a big deal of “coming out” and a big outpouring of support in-universe to balance out the trepidation of coming out. Which should have just been a very mundane scenario, you want the character to be non-binary, fine, they are, people will be respectful but it will be a boring mundane fact rather than some big deal.

  Yes, there are those that are flipping out over too much representation that are done consistently with star trek. Probably the most fair point was that someone probably wouldn’t be out of shape, but by that logic, Picard shouldn’t have been bald, so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Will that reinforces the point of the critique.

  It invents an intent that may be inconsistent with the original vision.

  E.g. it just assumes girls should all be wearing makeup, which may be very much at odds with the character or the scenario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I too late?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Strong “don’t you have phones” vibes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Suits can override their art directors, or replace them with someone willing to play ball.

  Mostly hope rests with indie devs, but that’s not too terribly new given the big business of micro transactions and forced online play only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, somewhat good news: The best stuff of the times is generally still available, often legally for cheap, or even cheaper otherwise. As long as you aren’t purist about original copies on original hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Business folks calling the shots over the artists cut back their hours and insist they let the slop generator make up the difference.

  Every corner that can be cut to make running the business cheaper does get cut, and this is a pretty big possibility of corners to cut. It’s worthwhile to adamantly express the market for quality work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks to genai ads, we will all be schizophrenic soon as every electronic device will be taking specifically to each of us constantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the 80s, the second any two boomers had some sort of camera at the same time they would immediately take a picture of each other talking each other’s pictures because obviously it would be hilarious. So maybe another gaggle if AI generated people are getting their pictures taken at the same time, and two of the aigen ladies wanted to make sure they had their own copies …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People have repeatedly in this thread talked about how it also added details that were not hinted in the original, and in part it looks like adding makeup, which could totally undermine a character or setting if they are unlikely to care about our have time for makeup.

  Characters that have barely survived in the wilderness for weeks somehow wearing lipstick and eyeliner and eyeshadow… That’s the sort of thing that can happen with this approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy, if it needs that much GPU and even one GPU is hard to find, then it could make someone rent their games from Nvidia to use their GPUs…

  Oh. Did you mean justify for the user? Lol, no, only the interests of nvidia matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tm8gaXQgaXNuJ3Qh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not so much as “better” as it would be “almost as good for cheaper”.

  The bespoke AMD part is an exercise in cost management. iGPU is more affordable but usually pretty low end. The bespoke AMD solution is an iGPU bumped up to a nearly on par with a mid tier discrete GPU.

  If released with same generation of tech, I would expect the steam machine to have higher performance but at a disproportional higher price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨many have been saying this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably think they do: not enough racism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instructions unclear, sold it when it doubled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💀🌈🙏🌈💀⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, there is not one person in the gender I’m not attracted to that even vaguely seems interesting that way.

  Might as well be thinking of grasshoppers or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If their costs went up by 3%, they could hold prices level by taking the credit card fee out and making it an explicit surcharge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In case no one caught your reference that indeed, Google issued a hundred year bond for this bubble build out. Which is of course crazy as either it pops and is a waste, or continues and they need to issue more debt with 97 years left on the bond they already issued…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think O365 is a bigger lockin than anything else. But you are right that AD/Entra, for example, is pretty much only because they also have the desktop market locked up. To the extent anyone bothers with Windows Server, which is almost no one anyway, it’s only because the desktop market, so that slice is at risk.

  So you have Excel/Powerpoint as the biggest lockins for them outside of Windows itself, but Azure is broadly considered an acceptable choice alongside AWS or GCE, and your cloud provider selection tends to be pretty vendor locked pretty much instantly.

  Of course, the bigger threat to them on the “desktop” is not so much RedHat/Ubuntu/SUSE as much as it is Android/iOS.

  Not about Windows 11, but another discussion where laptops are infeasibly expensive this year drove some people to report that their companies have begun moving technicians they formerly required to use a laptop to tablets and phones. Having a tablet-in-a-laptop form factor with Aluminium flavor of Android may be an attractive option between hardware costs and Windows 11 nonsense piling on top of long-term Windows desktop nonsense (companies pay microsoft and several security companies to try to wallpaper over security, and Android/iOS are very appealing for their more restrictive privilege model).