Yup. I’m guessing that seasonal affective disorder and social isolation are a very dangerous combo.

I mean, there’s no actual dogs there, so nothing’s stopping that from happening. They’ll get there eventually, assuming this isn’t the real point.

make no mistakes

LOL. I know it’s for a laugh, but you may as well add “pretty please” to that prompt.

Edit: I wonder if it just hallucinates more convincingly, instead?

Is this a computer in a keyboard ? Staggering beauty.

Indeed! That’s how it was done in the 80’s.

The trend was built around keeping the cost down. That and a screen (TV) could cost as much as the whole unit and you probably already had one of those. Nowadays we don’t think twice about our laptops coming with a screen, but if I could somehow keep the screen but replace the rest, I’d welcome the price cut that comes with it.

Bubble-economy Japan led the way for an insane amount of features, aesthetics, and innovation for personal electronics. Most of it was dead-sexy stuff.

One of my favorite examples, the Sony MSX HitBit F1XD:

Just like in the more recent Terminator movies, the fact that a de-aged Spiner would sit in the uncanny valley, would only lean into the performance. We got some idea of what that might be like in Picard, but the scene was darkly lit (on purpose?)

You fell victim of one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a space war in the Gamma Quadrant, but only slightly less well known is this; never go in against a Romulan, when death is on the line!

TL;DR: viable last-ditch option would resemble Highlander 2 in terms of putting one corporation in charge of “protecting” the planet.

Okay, so I was keeping the idea of using deliberate “global dimming” in my back-pocket just so it wouldn’t worm it’s way through the zeitgeist. It’s a viable last-ditch option, but it comes with steep drawbacks. But since we’re here now, fuck it.

We already know that, thanks to requiring shipping vessels to use low-sulfur fuel, cloud seeding can actually reduce solar gain. The problem is that it also blocks out a lot of the light needed for photosynthesis. So this approach punches down on the environment in a completely different way. As for people, while global warming will absolutely impact agriculture, so would less sunlight.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shipping-rules-are-affecting-global-warming/

So we could just use airplanes and cloud-seeding. Or we could increase particulates in the atmosphere. Or, as Elon suggests, fly satellites to do the job. The tradeoffs here are awful: disrupt where rain happens, raise lung cancer risks globally, or catapult one man into multi-trilliionaire status while they charge every government on earth for the privilege. Plus, each of those options are more or less forever if we never get around to carbon sequestration that actually works.

We should seriously considering doing anything else first.

Edit: I know I didn’t invent this idea. Rather, I just didn’t want to add to any consensus around it.

I’m only now just realizing that Tuvix is The Trolley Problem disguised as a transporter accident. Which neatly explains why every discussion about it is such an awful mess: It’s not winnable.

Edit: We need a comic where Janeway and Tuvix are in The Good Place.

Also the more I get into languages like Rust, the more these doubts are increasing and leading me to believe that most of it is just dogma that has gone far beyond its initial motivations and goals and is now just a mindless OOP circlejerk.

There are definitely occasions when these principles do make sense, especially in an OOP environment, and they can also make some design patterns really satisfying and easy.

Congratulations. This is where you wind up, long after learning the basics and start interacting with lots of code in the wild. You are not alone.

Implementing things with pragmatism, when it comes to conventions and design patterns, is how it’s really done.

You say that, but it’s unclear if the paste works as an actual thermal junction or not.

Although it does read like peanut butter would be a better option.

NGL, writing pure functions in Rust is fantastic. Writing responsible code that handles all the error conditions turns the “happy path” into hamburger. Even with the ergonomics of Result, Option, and even ?, code just sprawls and becomes a readability tradeoff. I’m only a few months into Rust at this point, and I have a lot to learn, but it’s tempting to just .unwrap() and .expect() where I think it’s unlikely to fail.

William Shatner, playing a no-nonsense space ship captain.

One of many reasons why I love BSG. As a retro-computing enthusiast, the idea that antique systems are naturally impervious to conventional digital attacks, just felt so validating.

Sure, our navigation system is based on a Commodore-64, but good luck getting it to divulge mission-critical information over bluetooth. Or any information for that matter.

I’ll jump on the bandwagon and say that while I haven’t used Svelte or Quik, I have used React, NextJS, and a lot of older tech like AngularJS, ASP, PHP, JSP, JQuery, YUI, vanilla JS, …

I agree. React is over-engineered, and tries to solve the same thing Angular does: optimize for the most efficient DOM updates possible. As a result, your code is compressed into hard-to-debug pretzel shapes. Its cousin, NextJS, confuses front and backend in such a way that you’d need to be experienced with the separation before being able to navigate it. Neither is starter tech by any stretch of the imagination.

I’ve dabbled a bit with HTMX. I really like this one since it more closely resembles the dynamic web we had before JS and heavy-clients took over. You wind up with a lot more chatter between the browser and server, but each of those conversations can be engineered (more or less) in isolation from the rest of the app. Meanwhile, you avoid round-trips that update the entire page - the very thing that these other stacks try so hard to avoid. You can build an HTMX application one component at a time, instead of all-or-nothing. This makes troubleshooting a lot easier, so it’s likely an easier place to start.

I dunno. Maybe? What does Q eat?

I know we’re all here for the laughs, but this is really fertile ground for all manner of philosophical rabbit holes.

My favorite foray into this topic is none other than Battlestar Galactica (the newer one). A peak moment for this was watching a Cylon have a complete emotional melt-down because they had to witness a supernova, filling the sky with all manner of EM radiation, with frakkin’ eyeballs that can’t see even half of that. Why? Because he’s a machine stuck in a fleshy body and he’s really unhappy about it. And the show just keeps mashing things up, blurring the lines between man and machine like that, all the way through to the end.

Strong disagree. I profoundly dislike being made out of food, with an appallingly short shelf-life.

Last I checked, the OSX native libraries use ObjectiveC and have system library calls prefixed with ns_. So, “used as the foundation” is under-selling it a bit. I think they just re-skinned the NextStep GUI to make it resemble OS9 and called it a day.

Edit: sorry for waking a necrothread. I was unprepared for how stale some posts are in this community.

Don’t forget: all those discs have a “write protect” switch on 'em! Can’t be too careful.

In reality, it’s sometimes appropriate to set the bar at “tamper evident”. Basically: did someone fuck with the data while nobody was looking? If the goods are just missing, or the enclosure is forced open (breaking it), you can reasonably answer that question.