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It's pretty difficult for it to go wrong in a way that isn't just nothing happening.

The eyes don't just grow randomly, you need to give the brain blob a chemical signal that grows eyes in-utero to make the eyes grow.

There's also the question of why would it experience horror? It's not exactly in pain, and they way they make the eyes grow is just to add the hormone signal that makes eyes grow when developing.

So from its perspective, it just got told to make eyes, so it has rudimentary eyes now. Hardly the most horrifying existence.

perhaps some people have eyes in their brains and just don't know it.

Your eyes technically are part of your brain.

But it's certainly not unheard of. Parietal eyes have existed for a good while now.

I wonder if they do. That seems like a lot of effort to go to for the average person for a scammer.

It seems easier to have a generic voice, rely on the fact that phone audio quality isn't great to bridge the gap, and use a shotgun approach.

Some places do, since there were a few high profile attacks, but they were nearly all targeting organisations by pretending to be the CEO or something.

Quite surprising that it's based on state law, rather than something that's mandated by the US Federal government. Employers being able to forbid their employees from having lunch unless their particular state, or medical requirements force their hand does not seem like a legal thing.

It does track, since the US was also one of the few countries that does not consider food to be a mandatory right (their official justification here), but still.

So prices may not actually drop, (even after the pop), because the companies still won’t be producing more hardware than they currently are.

There's also the risk that they simply may not drop the price even after, because the customer base can bear that price, so it becomes the new normal.

Or for things like video editing. Video editors tend to be quite RAM heavy.

Though this is more targeting retrieval-assisted generation (RAG) than the training process.

Specifically since RAG-AI doesn't place weight on some sources over others, anyone can effectively alter the results by writing a blog post on the relevant topic.

Whilst people really shouldn't use LLMs as a search engine, many do, and being able to alter the "results" like that would be an avenue of attack for someone intending to spread disinformation.

It's probably also bad for people who don't use it, since it basically gives another use for SEO spam websites, and they were trouble enough as it is.

Delivery might be part of it. The advice sounds very similar to the typical "if you want to be less depressed, just don't be depressed" or "you don't need bottle of something that rattles, you need a pair of sneakers and fresh air" business, so a lot of people automatically file it away under the same category.

Something like what the researchers suggested, where even moving a little bit helps, and it doesn't replace medication, though it may make it more effective, is better, but a lot of people will just read the headline and move off.

now they quit supporting old windows?

That's not too surprising, since Microsoft stopped supporting it earlier this year.

Not much point supporting an OS the manufacturer no longer updates in any capacity. Similar to how Firefox no longer supports Windows XP or Vista.

You can still use the old version, they're just not going to bring the newer ones to Windows 7, or fix issues for it.

For Toyota, it's both. Both the hybrid and plug-in hybrids use the same drivetrain, except the PHEV/Prime versions have more powerful motors, so they can power the car at higher speeds than their hybrid counterparts are. Honda's newer hybrid/plug-in hybrid drivetrain uses something similar.

You're thinking of the one Nissan uses in their cars. They have a similar setup to a diesel-electric locomotive (engine drives generator, which powers the motor to drive the wheels).

With the Toyota kind, it's both, but they have a special transmission/eCVT for it, rather than just bolting a motor to the driveshaft.

The motor's also responsible for the engine gearing in that case.

The PHEV just uses a beefier motor, so it doesn't need the engine to move the vehicle.

It's the same process. Mpv uses yt-dl or yt-dlp on the back end when loading YouTube videos from the URL.

Even if they were, would it not be better to give the car better senses?

Humans don't have LIDAR because we can't just hook something into a human's brain and have it work. If you can do that with a self-driving car, why cut it down to human senses?

It is quite funny that Cuba, a small, relatively poor country that has been embargoed for decades, is considered an unusual and extraordinary threat to American national security, compared to countries with fission weapons.

Do they have antimatter or something?

"Ah, crap, I forgot about RAM", I said. "No problem", the shopkeeper replied, "RAM is cheap"

That was also the mindset in programming up to very recently. Memory is cheap and plentiful, so you didn't need to worry too much for all but the most conservative of memory management.

Strange to think that with how computers are today, we're looping back around to resource-limited compute, not because of software bloat or anything, but that people won't be able to afford to change their computers out for something more powerful.

Kind of unimaginable these days, since you'd expect it to be artificially limited to 300 MB, even if the hardware could support 500.

Like how on the 970(?), on some video cards, you could overclock it into being a 970Ti if you were lucky, since it was before they started lasering parts off the chips to stop people doing that to lower-grade cards, and binning was just a matter of whether it passed muster or not to match the requirements for the higher-grade cards. They could sometimes be pushed to that level, just not reliably for all of them.

I don't know, TNG could be up there, but it was also generally influential as a whole, so both its good and bad ended up getting carried over.

The entire exploding bridge trope came from it, as did evil admirals. It also set up the Enterprise as the flagship, with the best and brightest of Starfleet. Which also meant that people generally assumed it to be the norm when it was the exception, and that the hero ship was some special ship, when it was a normal ship of the line in TOS.

VOY Borg are really bad compared to TNG Borg.

They are, but more due to issues with overuse more so than anything. In TNG, we saw the Borg for all of 4 times. In Voyager, they were shown much more frequently.

But as far as the timeline goes, it also wouldn't make sense to show an earlier iteration of the Borg, not when they were severely affected by the actions of the Borg.

I heard PIC stinks because it makes VOY Borg the main villains

I'd honestly argue that which version of the Borg to be a minor issue in Picard. Picard's bigger problem was that it didn't seem to know what it wanted to be, and kept leaping between multiple different plots and story lines, which confuses it a bit.

It arguably have been better if it has taken one of those plots, and run with it for the entire show. Like the matter with Synths and former Borg drones being treated as subhuman, vindicating the concerns Guinan and Picard had in the Measure of a Man, or visiting the TNG crew and seeing where they are now. As it actually was, it seems like the writers/producers felt that now they had Patrick Stewart, they wanted to do everything before it was too late, and the result was a bit of a mishmash.

The issue with the Borg tends to be more that they really aren't very much of a threat by the end of Voyager, and were dealt such a blow that it would be almost impossible to ignore.

Their greatest threat, assimilation, is trivially curable, and it's now known that their assimilation abilities are one of their greater weaknesses. The Federation might have issues with infecting someone with a pathogen to make the Borg assimilate them and self-destruct, but others have no such qualms, and we know of at least one species that did use such methods (Icheb's parents).

Their adaptation is a greater issue, but even older Federation ships, like the galaxy-class saw good effect just cycling their weapons frequencies. The Voyager's ablative armour would be well-studied after they returned to Starfleet, and dedicated anti-Borg weapons would have both been in active development, and also use.

As of the events of First Contact, it's also known that not only are there Borg ruins on Earth that may still be intact and active, but that Borg ships are not as truly uniform as they seem, with Picard pointing out a weakness in a Borg cube that dealt catastrophic damage to it. Local signals, what he felt, scans of what remains of the area, and everything would have been thoroughly studied to determine how to both find and exploit those weaknesses on other Borg cubes, without a former privileged Borg unit at the helm.

It would be difficult for them to retain much of the mystique and terror of their TNG appearance, with all of that now.

It's also been 800 years since then. It's the third millennium, the seat probably is the belt itself at that point.

Discovery definitely feels like it, especially since you have people still arguing quite animatedly about how it's not Star Trek, and might have Ruined Star Trek Forever, though I would rather imagine much of it to be recency and accessibility more so than much else.

The other shows are a bit less accessible, even if they are newer, since CBS moved it onto their streaming service, and off of Netflix, whereas Discovery aired on Netflix around a time when Netflix was one of the bigger streaming platforms out there, and more people who aren't as into Star Trek or other CBS properties might encounter it incidentally.

But for the most part, every single successor to Star Trek has always been controversial, and deemed to have ruined it forever, though most of it abates when the next show comes around, and is then deemed to have ruined Star Trek forever.

Though TNG was by far the least deserving of it.

I actually wonder about that. Most of the complaints, like the ones about Stewart being a shakespearean actor who wouldn't be able to handle the rigours of serious television, or being bald were nonsense, but there was a lot of good reasons to complain about early TNG. A fair chunk of the early episodes weren't very consistently good.

We know it to be better in hindsight, but if The Next Generation had started today, and not only is the second episode a rehash of a Star Trek (1966) episode, but the fourth was Code of Honour? I would also be inclined to criticise it for being quite bad. There's a good reason why a lot of the advice for people watching TNG is to stick around until Season 3, or start from Season 3, since that's when it gets better.

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