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frezik, (edited ) to risa in Cope

SNW is probably what you want. There are some longer arcs, but for the most part, you can take things episode by episode.

The streaming era is favoring shows with long arcs, though. Just the opposite of where we were in the 90s, where missing one episode of Babylon 5 meant you might not understand what’s going on, and VCRs were clunky and hard to setup right.

frezik, to risa in I love that SNW kept that detail in the uniform

I’ve actually been working on a similar thing for the SNW uniforms by printing direct to fabric. First tried TPU, but it’s hard to get a consistent pattern of some of the fine details. Some of them come out better than others. Then tried a transparent PLA–the emblems are small enough that the flexibleness of TPU shouldn’t be necessary–but it didn’t stick very well.

So they’re either using a very carefully calibrated 3d printer (and this is the first time I’ve worked with TPU), or it’s a different technique entirely, like a mask.

Full details of SNW uniforms for cosplay, for those who are interested: makingitsew.com/starfleet-duty-uniform-skant-vari…

frezik, to memes in Does it not pierce thine very heart?

There’s lots of sources from the losing side. Josephus was a Jewish writer who told of the Roman destruction of the temple. The history of the Eastern Front of WWII, as it was known to the West, was dominated by the writings of German soldiers for a long time.

History is written by writers. For much of it, that means it comes to us from an educated upper class. That’s where the historical blind spots are.

frezik, to opensource in Haier, the air conditioner maker, takes down open source third-party Home Assistant integration

I have a Lennox multistage system with a heat pump, and furnace for when it gets too cold. The best way to run those (according to the installer) is at a low level all the time. So it doesn’t benefit much from things like location tracking to turn the system up or down while we’re out. Especially since I work from home.

What it does do is make graphs for tracking how it runs the heat pump and furnace each day.

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

Programming grew up in an environment where failure is cheap (relatively speaking). You might make a mistake that costs five, six, or even seven figures (I’m sure I’ve made at least one seven figure mistake), but nobody will die from it. When people could die, such as flight control software, different development techniques for formal methods are used. Those tend to cost at least ten times more than other methods, so they aren’t used much otherwise.

If anything, we should lean into this as an advantage. Iterate even faster, catch failures faster, and fix it faster.

frezik, to science_memes in BIG GEOLOGY

That commenter already is the surgeon general of Florida.

frezik, to programmer_humor in 4 billion if statements

Those are rookie numbers. Professionals came up with the nested logic monstrosity that is the JSON-LD specification:

www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11-api/#context-processing-a

Looks through the algorithm bits in the various sections. How would you implement that? The answer is invariably by copying the highly nested statements of the spec directly into your language. Maybe there’s a better way, but you’d have to understand all that nested logic first, and you’d be exhausted at that point and just want to move on.

frezik, to piracy in Amazon and Tolkein Estate force author to destroy all copies of his work. Only pirated copies will survive.

Works made for hire are 95 years from publication. LotR is not a work for hire, so it goes by life of the author plus 75 years. It goes public domain in 2044.

frezik, to lemmyshitpost in Electrician job

“He’s grounded, so it’s OK” - Someone on YouTube

frezik, to asklemmy in Donald Trump May 'Turn Off the Internet'. How even? A thought experiment.

For many countries, it’d be as easy as cutting a few undersea cables. Two to three cut cables in 2008 brought down most of the Arab peninsula.

www.wired.com/2008/12/mediterranean-c/

As for the US and Europe, things are too interconnected for that to work. That said, the Internet as a whole is more centralized than you might expect from its history as a network that was supposed to be nuclear war proof.

frezik, to lemmyshitpost in Crypto genius

Economics is simply a study in how to allocate scarce goods. It does not need to result in hoarding scarce goods in the hope of getting more for them later.

frezik, (edited ) to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

Hmm? I wasn’t talking about OSI.

If you’re thinking BIOS, that was originally IBM proprietary stuff.

OSI started from a lot of telecom companies, who inflicted their silly ideas of Presentation and Session layers on us all.

frezik, to risa in Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

A big door shut, but they also knew how to open it again.

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

I agree on Pulaski. She could have been a great character if she had more than one season.

I don’t think there’s a truly great episode in TNG’s first two seasons, though. They range from “utter garbage” to “fine” . Season three is massive improvement. Watching it back to back, it’s almost jarring how much better it gets. Barely seems like the same show.

DS9 ranges from “I’ll watch it, I guess” to “holy shit this is amazing”. Kai Winn is a fantastic villain straight away, and would be the most talked about villain in any other show. The only reason she isn’t is because there are so many great villains in DS9 that she gets lost.

frezik, to memes in Air cooling is just better

It has more points of failure, and that failure can be more catastrophic. If your air cooler falls off somehow or the fan dies, CPUs these days are pretty good about shutting themselves off before they melt. If your fittings leak, it can destroy everything.

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