[-] xyguy@startrek.website 9 points 11 months ago

In the song the Sk8r boy is the hero who triumphs in the end so i think it makes sense.

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

My conspiracy theory is that hes sitting on a mountain of Hillbilly Elegy DVDs and this is his plan to finally sell them all.

But yeah, he believes in whatever is making him money at any given point because hes simply 10 pounds of slime in a 5 pound sack.

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm willing to invest in a truckload of A&W if that's what it takes.

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

I haven't done any work for the military but i can say that all the legacy systems I've worked on were because the specific software they need was written only for Windows 98 and the developer or company that created it is long gone. Keeping it going is a chore but switching to literally anything else is out of the question.

I could see for military applications that having the known quantity of a working piece of software that isn't changing anymore and can be swapped as an entire unit is an advantage, especially if it doesn't touch the internet in any capacity. But eventually you run out of people who know what to do if any changes need to be made.

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

Only 1000 times? It's interesting that there's such a bias there but it's a computer. Ask it 100,000 times and make sure it's not a fluke.

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

I finally have Windows banished to a VM, only to be awoken for the 3 times a year I need a desktop version of PowerPoint.

I'm with you. 99% of the way there.

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago

Opting into ~~'link history' on~~ Facebook and Instagram means agreeing to (more) ad targeting

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

Analogue is doing the lord's work. Software is easy to copy infinite times but hardware isn't prevalent or going to last forever.

I hope someday things like this will end up at a more commodity price

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

Now look see what you've done here, I'm down another Wikipedia rabbit hole!

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago

My main takeaway from this episode was the Romulans and Vulcans being the same and what the implications on that for Starfleet and Spock especially.

Romulans are like Vulcans? Does that make Vulcans bad? Romulans good? Spock is already the different one on the bridge? Will the rest of the crew believe in Starfleet ideals or will they turn on Spock and allow racism to rule the day.

Tie this to treatment of Japanese civilians in the US during world war 2 (something Sulu's actor was unfortunately quite familiar with). Are all members of a race bad because the governments are at war? Obviously not but this is a common refrain from the ignorant and afraid during conflicts.

Ultimately the Enterprise and the Romulan captain stop seeing themselves in terms of soldiers fighting for their side and instead as 2 people caught in the middle of the fight between their governments. The Romulan captain's sacrifice in the end exemplifies the realization. Rather than continue the conflict and drag both sides into a brutal patriotic conflict, he sees the humanitarian cost of such a conflict and therefore, the intrinsic value of life of both sides.

The episode wants to drive hope the point that people are people, no matter nationality or political conflict. At the end of the day we are all the same. Despite Stiles racism toward Spock, Kirk and by extension the Federation-idealized humanity, will have none of it.

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago

He is the Rock-Et-Man after all

[-] xyguy@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah its crazy. And according to Wendell at Level1Techs its actually a huge benefit but yeah, especially at a datacenter scale I can't see anyone buying chips with dlc. Especially with Epyc currently spanking everyone's butt right now.

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