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  • Cubans turn to electric vehicles as US tightens oil blockade

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  • 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?

  • remember progress?

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  • "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.

  • remember progress?

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  • 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.

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • 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.

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • 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.

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • And if you don't, that's what subtitles are for. Hardly much to complain about.

  • Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead

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  • I mean, they are all pushing all their chips in at the same time. It’s like they know it’s now or never.

    Even if they didn't, they probably don't want to seem like they're falling behind, so once one person goes all in, so do the others.

  • Winter Olympics in crisis as athletes deplete entire stock of 10,000 free condoms

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  • Plus they're officially branded, not some knockoff. It would be an amazing gag gift.

  • New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles

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  • They're also trustworthy, reliable technology. Why change what isn't broken?

  • Making the world a better place

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  • I always thought the things on the side were jubes of some variety.

  • Fortnite the Latest To Demand Secure Boot and TPM for Anti-Cheat

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  • There's nothing that hardware-level anti-cheat can do against the monitor having a feature that highlights other people in a game, for example. The computer wouldn't be able to tell.

    The only thing that this might stop is someone using something like Cheat Engine to give themselves infinite health or something like that, but I would be a little surprised if that was the common means of cheating these days, compared to something just looking at the screen and putting a helpful overlay on top.

  • DIY

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  • Which is quite a shame, really. I had a BTX Dell, which had amazing potential to be upgraded, since nearly everything was just spring latches, and could be slid open quite easily. You could install and swap most parts without a screwdriver.

    The potential to upgrade it was there, and then it just never materialised, so the entire thing ended up basically being useless.

  • feels like we're forgetting something

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  • We also have an idea what carbon-based life looks like, and can more easily look for it.

    For the others, we can really only guess.

  • Password123!

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  • They've existed for quite a long time at this point.

    That's how virtual puppetry/V-Tubing works. The camera tracks your face, and then moves part of a corresponding model, and unlike face posing inside of Garry's Mod, or something like that, since it's bound to a real face, it would move more or less like a human face.

    eventually passing the test will be a fail because the actions requested are either too difficult for humans to understand or too difficult for humans to perform, at which point AIs will be trained on knowing the physical limitations of humans.

    This also exists for some forms of captcha, which track how you complete a puzzle, or something along those lines. A bot would either be completely stumped, complete it far more quickly than a human would, or do it by snapping their cursor to the relevant parts, instead of moving it.

  • Old Bureau of Meteorology website still getting thousands of clicks

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  • It does now, but it didn't used to.

    They changed the old site to also allow HTTPS when it was updated.

  • Old Bureau of Meteorology website still getting thousands of clicks

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  • Although, the nice thing about the new site is that the BoM website finally got around to enabling HTTPS support, instead of having a redirect that supported HTTPS telling you that the actual website didn't support HTTPS.

  • Florida tests show pesticide (glyphosate) in popular breads

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  • What is the best alternative to a "smart" cell phone today?

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    If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    What happened to Kbin.Social?

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    What caused the change in electronic terminology?