Rhaedas

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Those driving simulators where you can adjust the reaction time to show how someone impaired would react are scary. And that's just reaction time, a drunk/exhausted person may not even realize how off they are so everything is fine to them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

True, but only if the latest theories on Big Crunch being back on the table don't hold up. Debian ought to not only push out 64 bit time, but place "now" right in the middle to cover any discoveries of an older universe. Hell, they ought to do that and make it 128 bit, to cover anything.

Exponentials can be profound when you grasp them for that fleeting second.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be amazing if the whole concept of that episode was first and foremost a setup to use that for a punchline.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Seems like it works fine for a meme purpose, which it was obviously for. The framing and focus is actually spot on for giving all the info a viewer needs.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

but they've (Paramount) also been going downhill for a while.

lots of long time Star Trek fans' eyes twitch

Indeed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Sounds like you're with a small company. Great news, it's worse in the bigger ones where the influence and opinions of the working level won't ever reach the ones making such decisions. Over time our computing work has been restricted and tightened so much (for security, you know) that running basic Office stuff can be difficult to do, particularly Excel and macros that we rely on to do our job. The computers have turned into little boxes that are essentially terminals for cloud run crap, and the last new upgrade for one of them (have to replace working equipment with the latest thing for security, again) was given to us with not only no Office installed, it was locked down so hard a user logged in couldn't save a file on their Desktop or in Documents. Also discovered by accident using a flash drive to transfer files can trigger a Bitlocker lockdown lol. Security again, even though all these units are in a secure building. IT by the way is now I think a single guy for us covering the whole region, probably remotely if he can, and I doubt he's better than the last one we had for years who would call someone else to walk him through stuff.

I don't doubt it's like this in some degree everywhere now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The larch.

#3.

The... larch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Good news is that it won't be from Starlink unless they decide to start moving them higher. LEO has atmospheric drag that slowly decays orbits that aren't actively maintained.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Especially in a time where communication was sparse and took a while. So many women have been an important part of science, many were probably never even documented.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Anything is possible in a simulation.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Yes, you do, they just don't tell you because why would they talk about something they either have zero interest it, or a past where they believed but then figured out it wasn't believable anymore for them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

And to follow up, are you okay with that? If not, do you try to convince her to believe to save her? How does she feel about those efforts or lack of?

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