T156

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He brawled with the shotgun shell, and lost.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Patterns might be portable on storage devices, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re cross-platform, especially cross-species/technology, or maybe it would require a technical specialist to convert the pattern between systems.

At least on this front, Star Trek doesn't tend to have that much of an issue crossing between platforms. The only time problems seem to rear their head is when another completely different computing paradigm comes into play (like using biochemical computers instead of electrical).

Otherwise, there doesn't seem to be anything technically preventing you from hooking up your Federation computers to a Cardassian mining station and have everything work more or less okay.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

That's a good way to get kicked out of the wet lab. Most tutors are incredibly serious about treating bodies with respect, you can't take photos, or muck around with them.

Going Hamlet with them would be absolutely not on.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At some point, though, it seems a little unreasonable, when there's enough ambiguity that the computer has 37 separate presets for tomato soup.

It'd be like going to a coffee shop and adamantly demanding "coffee", and then being annoyed that the barista can't magically intuit what it is that you exactly want.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Presumably the patterns are not easily interchangeable/distributable - different file formats, different scanner resolution, maybe different output options (canonically some materials are more difficult to replicate than others, so might require a specialized replicator). Quark’s replicator, being Ferengi, is probably proprietary and requires purchasing new patterns only from the original manufacturer to increase the variety.

They are, it just takes time to update, since it gets sent over whenever the computer gets updated. That's why Tom Paris was annoyed that the Voyager's replicator didn't have his preferred tomato soup ready. It was scheduled to be loaded onto the computers on Tuesday.

You can write the pattern yourself, but it is easy to get them wrong (Janeway managed to have it consistently produce charcoal).

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Now these errors are for the most part irrelevant in most applications, because food for example is still very edible and nutritious even if it is not absolutely 100% as good as the original, same goes for most spare ship parts and such.

Star Trek's replicators also modify the food, which may matter more than small-scale errors. They specifically create a copy of the food that is deliberately nutritionally tailored for your specific dietary needs, and to remove poisonous substances within it.

Those errors tend to be more of a problem for big complex molecules like DNA, or sophisticated things like computer chips.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It does vary. My Thinkpad (T490s) is awful if you want to do more than replace the battery and main drive, despite being a used office machine.

To replace the keyboard for example, you basically have to disassemble the entire laptop, since the frame is a single unit, and the keyboard sits under it, sandwiched under the motherboard and case.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

And to allow installing non-market apps. Apple wasn't happy about that in the slightest.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It would at least be a little more understandable, what with the whole aborting, terminating, or killing children before the parents to prevent zombies.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Brain and Limb.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

They do. That's why it's called an LLM (Lizard Language Model).

 

Why is there a mother-daughter thing in the first place?

 

While kbin.social's site mentioned that they were migrating to a new provider, and as a result, the site might be experiencing some issues, kbin.social has been serving up a similar HTTP 50x errors, and that migration message for well over a month, if not more.

What happened?

 

While ordering a crew cut is easy, since it's on the menu, what about other kinds?

Can you just go "I'd like a men/women's haircut" and leave it at that, or do you need something more specific, like saying you want a Charlestone done by a No. 3 to the sides, and a 4 up top?

 

You wouldn't start off an e-mail with "My Dear X", or "Dearest X", since that would be too personal for a professional email, so "To X" being more impersonal seems like it would make the letter more professional-sounding, compared to "Dear X".

 

What caused the shift from calling things like rheostats and condensers to resistors and capacitors, or the move from cycles to Hertz?

It seemed to just pop up out of nowhere, seeing as the previous terms seemed fine, and are in use for some things today (like rheostat brakes, or condenser microphones).

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