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by laumars 5y ago
What you’ve described there could also be attributed to a plethora of chat systems that predate “gamer culture”.
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by laumars 5y ago
That’s not a capability unique to dynamic languages
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by laumars 5y ago
> Python is easy to grok It’s what you’re used to. I personally find Python horrible to read because I used to a whole different class of programming languages. But I’m sure some of my code might be hard to read by others who aren’t used
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by laumars 5y ago
> Right, "based on zat tech" and so not real zats. So they understood zats enough to come up with a facsimile, but not devise real combat zats better than those ridiculously awkward things the Goa'uld built? They didn’t re
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by laumars 5y ago
> No, this is not correct, read the link. It literally says Prometheus was built on reverse engineered systems. It’s a fan page of a TV show, not a technical manual. so I’m not going to take their use of technical jargon literally. I dis
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by laumars 5y ago
They said it was based on Zat tech and there’s no such thing as “real Zats” because the entire show is make believe.
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by laumars 5y ago
> The X-302 and the Prometheus were fully human-built. They added the Asgard tech in later seasons, but they had hyperdrive prior to the retrofit you're talking about, see: That was a Gu’uld hyperdrive. Also retrofitted. > They r
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by laumars 5y ago
Haha yes. I’d totally forgotten about that episode. Thanks for the reminder :)
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by laumars 5y ago
Given a lot of these tools cannot even parse CVs with inlined tables, the tools I’m imagining aren’t sophisticated in the slightest. But they are depressingly common.
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by laumars 5y ago
Unfortunately the lack of a standardised format hasn’t stopped technology from being developed which automatically reviews CVs before they hit a human. The tech is already out there. The problem we have currently is that some CVs fail that
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by laumars 5y ago
Aside from “Q who” all of the earlier Q episodes were terrible. But the later ones are much better at using him for comic relief without going into the realm of absurdity. > As far as DS9 ripping off B5 Just to be clear, I wasn’t voicing
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by laumars 5y ago
They did replicate Zat tech actually. They used them for training exercises. I’d mentioned this the first time you raised that point too.
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by laumars 5y ago
> It's just insane that they could reverse engineer all of that in one or two seasons since they acquired gliders, Again, they didn’t reverse engineer it. They retrofitted it. They are not the same thing and the latter requires mass
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by laumars 5y ago
I remember watching it at the time and really enjoying the cover up aspect. Then rewatching it 15 years ago and finding the cover up a little less plausible. Then after rewatching it last year the whole cover up aspect felt dumb. What I put
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by laumars 5y ago
It’s already exists in other languages and it exists because a function could have multiple different exit points. Even if Go had different error handling there might well be different exit points. Hence why defer isn’t a Go-specific featur
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by laumars 5y ago
> That doesn't explain why they didn't develop their own long before then. They could reverse engineer the tech and materials science for fighters and spaceships but not energy weapons? Come on. Your confusing two terms there.
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by laumars 5y ago
> In fact there is much more humor and general levity on DS9 than TNG which felt more stuffy and righteous. While I agree TNG was more “stuffy” the examples you’d described were no different to the lighter elements in TNG. Eg most of the
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by laumars 5y ago
Yeah, the hierarchy of the system lords created an interesting political depth to the show but without falling back on the Star Trek cliche of long boardroom meetings and negotiations (which I do personally enjoy as well but that’s more of
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by laumars 5y ago
> The tech jumped the shark at the start of season 5 with the introduction of Prometheus Prometheus was very much portrayed as a kludge that barely held together for quite a few episodes after it was built. It wasn’t until the Asgards he
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by laumars 5y ago
That was addressed in the show. The Prometheus used a retrofitted Asgard hyperdrive however the Asgards didn’t provide them with any tech to build weapons (at least until the very last episode in SG1). You do see Earth building energy weapo
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by laumars 5y ago
I did comment on arc as well, albeit I focused most of post on the comedic style so my points about the arc might have gotten lost. Take the last 3 series of DS9, very few of them can be watched without understanding the context of the wide
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by laumars 5y ago
I don’t agree DS9 did that (aside from the aforementioned episode). DS9 was the darkest and most heavily story arc dependent entry of all the 90s (and earlier) Star Trek series. Though Enterprise and onwards do take Star Trek in another dir
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by laumars 5y ago
If anything, I’d say the acting isn’t as good in SG1 and Atlantis as DS9. I think the reason SG1 works is the same reason the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) is more popular than X-Men or DC movies: MCU doesn’t take itself seriously. When y
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by laumars 5y ago
The genius of SG1 was that while it was largely an episodic, planet of the week style format of Star Trek, it still had a really strong story arc. So it works both as a show you can dip into randomly but also as something to binge watch. I
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by laumars 5y ago
Potentially, yeah. They’re all pretty common features for templating engines these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_processor#Typical_fea...
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by laumars 5y ago
Yeah ceramic hobs are one of the, if not the , worst types of hob you have. I feel for your pain there because my first house had them and I found them to be borderline unusable.
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by laumars 5y ago
I bought a cheap (£200) 4 plate induction hob around 10 years and it worked really well most of the time (it only struggled if you tried to have all 4 plates on high temperatures so you’d have to think ahead a little if doing a roast). But
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by laumars 5y ago
Induction hubs are electric but not all electric hub are induction. I’m not certain what you have there, sounds a little like halogen zones though those are old and uncommon. Induction doesn’t work by producing heat. It works by using elect
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by laumars 5y ago
I thought that when I first switched to induction. Then I realised that induction responds instantly to any changes you set in temperature so you don’t need to move the pan about in 3D space, just leave the pan on the stove and drop the hea
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by laumars 5y ago
Nano tech was dependent on nuclear fusion reactors to power their sentient AI which runs on quantum computing core. So I expect we are only 10 years away from widespread mass production.

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