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MudMan,
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You didn't need to go to all the trouble, if you let some bread out in a humid place you'll get it all over it as well.

Still delicious.

MudMan,
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It's amazing, but I never peer pressure anybody to try it.

Because it's great when there's a cheese board and you get to hoard the blue cheese because people are "ew, gross, mold".

MudMan,
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Oh, you are giving a lot more credit to homemade food than it deserves. Or you're surprisingly alright with eating your own of all of the above.

MudMan,
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You left all the interesting ones out of that, though.

MudMan,
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I keep telling people that the UI being similar is the least of the worries of a Windows expat. I promise all of Linux's mainstream GUIs are perfectly intuitive for a frequent Windows user. The things that are most annoying are software and hardware compatibility and not having to manually hunt for support or equivalent software.

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How to make that relevant again: Get a time machine.

The fascists are already on the ballot, in case anybody missed that detail.

I swear, this stuff barely played back when it seemed like an idle concern of the politically inclined. Today it seems entirely detached from reality.

But hey, by all means, absolutely get the kind of reform that would make this make sense again. I want a world in which this thread doesn't feel like either disingenuous trolling, a conservative psyop or entirely delusional. I want a world where Americans can vote for multiple parties and get proper coalitions and stuff.

But seriously, until that point, just vote for whoever the Democrat is.

MudMan,
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Don't make me break out the spacetime diagram, young man. Because I WILL break out the spacetime diagram.

Anyway, doesn't matter. Star Trek has messed with time travel since TOS season 1. And that was after they started introducing magic men with god powers, which they did in episode 3. It makes zero sense to get nerdy about it. That's my point here.

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Ah... ok, wow, that's a lot of relativity to explain from scratch for a non-physicist. There must be someone else...

Here, this one is a bit dense but it addresses Star Trek by name, so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTf4eqdQXpA

Bonus points for starting with the point that forget warp, subspace communication breaks causality already, so you don't even need to boldly go anywhere for any of it to be kinda busted.

If that's a bit too dry you can search for a similar subject line, there are TONS of explanations like this one out there.

Anyway, none of it makes sense, it's all for funsies anyway. Suspend disbelief, ye nerds, and enjoy your sci-fi.

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You should get back into it, though. It's all pretty solid, except maybe some of Picard.

I did bounce off on DS9, too. That was a rough time for the franchise. Glad people enjoy it retroactively, though.

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Wait, no they both do. Normal warp does. FTL as a concept does.

Hey, props to them for embracing it immediately and doing time travel nonsense right away.

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See, for me it's often the other way around. Wtih the usual suspects we're often just in each other's ears for a while and moving around to get a coffee or even just pacing up and down to stretch our legs. It's the outside-facing stuff that requires the face time.

That depends on your business, I suppose. Either way the audio only stuff is definitely the better choice IMO.

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One year, typically. Some could be two or have a big chunk of on-the-job training/internship.

We used to have a more prominent 3 year degree, but it went semi-extinct in favor of other intermediate education, leaving our Bachelor's equivalent being 4-5 years, depending on which degree you're going for. And yeah, I think now they made them all 4 year and have more of a master's offering.

The thing is that internationally those 4-5 year degrees are still the thing immediately under a masters' degree, so there is a bit of a mismatch there. That goes some ways towards clarifying that, thanks.

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Well, not really over here. You do have to do a bunch of hands-on stuff for credits. Can't even replace those with more standard subjects.

You can absolutely wing it past all five years, depending on your degree, but between mandatory projects and internships you have to try really hard to not get some level of expertise in the field.

Plus, university curriculums have specializations here, so you get mandatory courses on pretty narrow subjects whether you like it or not. So... I guess there are some differences, maybe? I was pissed when they announced they'd do that masters' thing here because the price of tuition for that year goes from being a couple hundred to a few thousand for basically the same curriculum, but this is definitely not the first time I notice that the anglosphere assumes there's a huge difference between the two things.

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Hah. Not even. Between Youtube and Mastodon it was doing the job just fine.

Not like I don't see all those posts anyway, this place isn't THAT big yet.

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    Look, I know it's nonsense and I know it'd be a disaster and a threat and it'd imply they are in power and that's bad. So please, please, I don't get to vote, so go vote against these idiots if you can.

    But I'm not gonna stand here and say I wouldn't like to see them try.

    Just... maybe with access to a time machine so I can reboot the timeline after. But come on.

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    This.

    Of all the weird choices MS makes sometimes, this is one of the most baffling.

    On a 16:10 screen it's fine on the bottom, but I use a 21:9 on my desktop setup. That's just comically broken without the option to dock it to the side.

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    This is the most Fedi pendantry thing I've seen today and I encourage the chain to continue until it triggers a black hole of chained corrections over nomenclature nobody cares about or will ever follow.

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    Oh, bless you.

    Being old enough to have Voyager and especially DS9 be my "nuTrek" and also never having let it go I can feel your nerdrage as a warm, fuzzy winter fire.

    Can I interest you in how DS9's focus on greed, war and moral compromise is a betrayal of the concepts behind Star Trek and if they wanted to make Babylon 5 they should have just made Babylon 5?

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    Here's a controversial thought: The worst Trek is at the absolute worst kinda decent, and it only goes up from there.

    My Trek power rankings don't line up with most (Discovery is pretty great, DS9 is kind of annoying, all the Kelvin Treks are fun and the first one is pretty great), but even the parts I don't like I can watch and be chill about it.

    Picard is bordering that line, honestly, but I can't be actively mad at Patrick Stewart and I actually would have watched a cheaper, longer show about the La Sirena crew without the TNG baggage.

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    I like that you like DS9. Good for you. It's there for you and that's fine.

    But it's a weird show that is a fundamental contestation to what makes Star Trek appealing and pretends it isn't.

    It's fine. All of Trek is fine. But if you ask me if I'd rather watch Discovery, I'd watch Discovery any day. Which, again, is fine, because both of those exist and are at the very least decent.

    I'm not sure how much "teen humor" there is in modern Trek, though. I mean, there's Lower Decks, but that's the point of Lower Decks and I kinda warmed up to it over time. Ditto for Prodigy.

    If anything Picard was overly self-serious, and one could argue the same of Discovery, at least during the first season. I kinda see it in SNW, and I do think Season 2 tries to do too much too soon, but whatever, that show has a specific niche and that's where it lives.

    Man, can I just stop to say that I just rattled off five different Star Trek shows, all of them different and all of them at least decent? What a time to be into this particular series.

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    Some of the settings are messed up, I think. It definitely can run faster than that by toning down some settings on that hardware. They really should have changed the defaults or straight up removed some visual settings, given what they do to the game. In my experience, the volumetric clouds, reflections and GI presets are all messed up and cost a disproportionate amount of performance when maxed out.

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    That does sound like a setting is bugged somewhere, or perhaps like one of the problematic settings is not toned down on the low preset. It's hard to tell without testing on the specific hardware. I'm curious enough that I may install it in more devices with less VRAM and mess with the settings just to see what happens.

    I do think if they hadn't told people that performance was going to be messed up you'd absolutely assume that's a bug, given that, as you say, it doesn't match their spec notifications.

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    They did put out an announcement that they had "missed their performance targets", and that made news.

    It's fair to be disappointed, though. There ARE serious issues here. The game can be made to run acceptably (I went and dug up a comparable card to your 2080 and yeah, it's a 1080p30 game there, but it works). That takes significant fiddling in their advanced menu, and there are significant visual compromises to be made.

    At the very least, their default presets should have been tuned differently. That would have been free and prevented the whole "it runs at 20fps on my 4090 on low" frustration with no additional development effort. Not to say that they shouldn't be patching this up a LOT going forward, but they had tools to mitigate that they're not using, which is very confusing.

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    Porque: because
    Por que: for which
    Por qué: why

    It's weird to explain this in English, but also strangely easier.

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    I swear American fantasies about societal collapse are so frustrating. Everybody assumes people would turn to violence and greed immediately. Either it's because it looks good in movies or they genuinely think they suck.

    Meanwhile in real extreme conditions everybody is all "let's get all the famillies together to help each other gather our crops" and "I have too many lemons from my lemon tree, do you want some for free?" "Oh, only if you take some of this fish I got that may go bad instead".

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