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frezik, to mildlyinteresting in "Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report

I saw more Confederate battle flags in Indianapolis than Atlanta. Fuck Indianapolis.

frezik, to comicstrips in Something on the wing [Tyler Hendrix]

The real monsters were airline executives the entire time.

frezik, to comicstrips in elders

I played MP3s on a 486DX4 100MHz. Barely. If anything else happened in the background, it would stutter.

frezik, to programmer_humor in ifn't

Runs havoc on parsing, too. It’s bad for both humans and robots. I say we ship it.

frezik, to lemmyshitpost in I'm 99% sure it's not real

Major engineering organizations, like the IEEE or the ASME, often require degrees, but do have exceptions built into the rules for on the job experience. So this does happen, and regularly enough that there’s consideration for it.

frezik, to memes in Remember when everything was so blocky?

PNG mainly lacked support from Microsoft (Internet Explorer) and Adobe (Photoshop). IE didn’t handle PNG transparency, while Photoshop had a shitty PNG implementation that tended to produce files larger than an equivalent GIF. Held back widespread adoption for almost a decade.

frezik, to memes in Remember when everything was so blocky?

Odd they bring up TIFF. That one is more like a container format that can hold many different types of images.

frezik, to memes in I can't stress enough how much I don't care.

I could have sworn he said he had a legal degree in his home country of Australia, but I can’t find any evidence of it now.

frezik, to lemmyshitpost in Crypto genius

Adoption for what? There’s no indication that it’s becoming interconnected to the economy at large. Just the opposite, in fact. FTX, one of the biggest crypto banks, completely collapsed and the rest of the economy didn’t care. If it was Goldman Sachs or BoA, everyone would be sounding alarm bells, because they are actually integrated into the rest of the economy. Crypto just isn’t.

frezik, to lemmyshitpost in Fuck Disney tbh

Just to correct a few details that don’t contradict your main point:

Now its the lifetime of the original author + 80 years after IIRC

Life of author + 70 years.

Copyright has stalled so severely that the latest works to come into public domain are from the 19th century.

Things from 1927 entered the public domain in 2023: americanwritersmuseum.org/new-works-to-enter-the-….

frezik, (edited ) to memes in I've been robbed!

It has plenty to do with engineering, because it was engineering that first decided to measure things this way. Marketing merely continued it.

frezik, (edited ) to risa in Crystals good, fungus bad

Could you imagine a Voyager where the ship is no longer constantly running towards home? One where they have to stay and gather materials to get their warp 10 drive working. The species they meet will be the same species around a few seasons later, and the relationships they build with them matter. Maybe stasis isn’t good enough, and they have to hold everyone in a transporter buffer, which means rebuilding huge sections of the ship to support having all the crew inside transporters at once. They expect this to take years, but it’s still by far the shortest way home. A few shuttles get modified and they send couriers back to the alpha quadrant. So they have some contact with Star Fleet, but it’s not as simple as opening a channel.

If there’s only enough story material here to support a few seasons, then maybe something comes up that means they have to go back and fix it. Maybe some Borg shit. Make up a reason to keep the Maquis crew around (not like Star Fleet gives a shit once the Dominion War is underway).

Good thing they never gave us that nightmare of a show.

frezik, to risa in DSC Season 5, LD Season 5, SNW Season 3.... GIVE IT TO ME NOW

There’s a lot of fighting between DS9 and B5. The story goes that B5 series creator J. Michael Straczynski had shopped the series bible around, including to Paramount. They weren’t interested, but when they heard it got picked up by WB, they rushed their own space station based Star Trek series forward. With people coming over from TNG, they get a pilot ready faster than JMS can create a series from scratch.

Since they had the B5 series bible, there’s long been allegations that DS9 is a ripoff of B5. Indeed, there do seem to be some elements stolen out of it. For example, the pilot of B5 has a “changeling net” technology that lets people impersonate each other, which had apparently evolved out of an early draft of a changeling species, which DS9 copies outright.

What Paramount studio execs did was definitely underhanded. They were deliberately pushing out a show to make sure B5 wouldn’t get to the same level of popularity as Star Trek. They probably did steal elements from the B5 bible and pushed Berman and Piller to use them.

However, fans make more of the similarities than are really there. Berman and Piller were almost certainly unaware of why the studio was pushing certain ideas and where they got them from (and JMS said as much at the time). Most of the stolen elements are ultimately superficial. The way the central conflict unfolds is very different, the characters are very different, and the technology is all different. B5 doesn’t center around a planet coming out of a long term colonial authoritarian government, and DS9 doesn’t have humanity crawling out of a war that nearly destroyed it and which ended for mysterious reasons. B5 doesn’t have an excellent father-son relationship, and DS9 doesn’t have a wisecracking ambassador who’s very likeable despite doing some incredibly fucked up things.

They are both excellent shows, and well worth your time.

frezik, to risa in DSC Season 5, LD Season 5, SNW Season 3.... GIVE IT TO ME NOW

Those first two seasons really aren’t that bad. There are some episodes that are downright excellent in there. Duet is a masterpiece.

frezik, to memes in "OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns"

I’m a shareholder in a non-profit. Specifically, the Green Bay Packers. It basically means having a unique piece of team memorabilia.

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