I'm finally watching star trek with my girlfriend and getting her into it. Been watching along with her on TNG. So far we are about done with season 1, but I am big excited to re-watch DS9 se5, especially with her watching it for the first time by my side.
Gonna have to brave the awful ass se1 Sisko haircut though lol.
That actually makes me think, would it theoretically be possible to automate ship repair with transporter technology? All the time they have ships coming in with giant chunks missing.
If you are able to get a high resolution scan of the current state of the vessel, and have the plans to build it, couldn't they set up a specialized transporter to transport the damaged bits away, and transition area that is destroyed, and then replace it with new parts as needed?
Basically do some a similar repair method from Space Engineers, just fancier with transporters.
Given that they have the ability to select pretty much whatever material they want with the transporters, I imagine it wouldn't be too hard for them to do a once a day transport for all dust/debris particles directly into space, or some containment unit of their choosing. Same goes for pretty much any other cleaning task.
On the other hand, EVs typically have regenerative breaking, reducing the wear on brake pads.
Still shit, but partially canceled out.
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People are posting fan fiction of them together? That's disgusting! Where? I need to make sure I avoid it.
Star Trek: Tactical Assault for the DS
I was absolutely trash at it, but I loved it. And to be honest, I thought it was just a very hard game to begin with. There is only so much you can do to manage your shields, weapons, and position before the ship becomes overwhelmed.
The graphics and animations were solid too.
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"Embrace extend and extinguish" has happened before, and it can happen again if corp run instances are allowed to gain traction.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
I think it is a completely valid worry that corporations will come in, capture an audience, and then force the original lemmy instances into ruin. There is also the fact that corporations will want to make money off of it, and financial motivations are antithetical to the fediverse ecosystem.
"Make Sure You Are Square With Your God Before Trying To Merge This"
For some reason I was able to make it through the whole video, despite having numerous videos in my backlog that were significantly shorter. Something about Hbomberguy just immediately gets my attention.
I think half of the episode is the Tamarians genuinely struggling with human language. If the federations translation software wasn't up to the task, it isn't surprising that the Tamarian's software wasn't up for it either.
Based on the episode, it was posibly the first time Tamarians ever had friendly and successful first contact. Because if they had it previously, they might have asked for help translating when meeting new races such as with the Federation. The episode would have went a lot different if they had an Adorian ambassador with them saying "Yeah these guys talk in metaphor and only metaphor".
Our electoral system is inherently biased against 3rd party candidates due to the spoiler effect of first past the post voting. The only solution is election reform that regulates election finances, a switch to approval/STAR voting, and regulation on political ads.
It boggles my mind how my conservative father even remotely thinks anything positive about star trek, let alone being obsessed with it.
Steve absolutely nailed it. Though I think his 4th point about optimism being a core part of star trek was missing a subsection. Almost all of the characters, and especially the ones the show wants you to root for have shit loads of empathy for the people around them, and often times it even extends to outright enemies.
Whenever a crew member is losing control of their behavior because of a mind control space entity, the crew's first reaction is a level of concern people only have for close family members. When Sisko is doing arguably immoral acts for the greater good, he is wracked with grief and empathy for those he had to hurt. Janeway on the other hand just wants her coffee lol.
So the transporter destroys all the matter, recreates it somewhere else, then moves the neural energy? So during the process our neural energy is detached from our brain, despite the brain being the thing that produces said neural energy.
Seems a little far more fetched than the process of consciousness kickstarting itself/being uninterrupted by the process.
Then if replicator technology isn't able to kick start the process, how does transporter technology do it?
Star Trek never shied away from quasi-religious concepts like “the sanctity of life”.
To be fair, those concepts aren't unique to religion.
If consciousness/souls are a natural byproduct of our brains, and we can create brains that produce these things from the transporter/pattern buffers, then that more or less means that we could replicate life. How the transporter buffer works is another question altogether, but I'm not seeing a part here where it is impossible to use a pre-existing pattern to create a brain with consciousness if you're able to store the pattern.
Doable but you need teachers to open source their lessons and vet them.
If an OS alternative was trying to completely replace duolingo, it would need far more than that. Duolingo has had extensive work put into listening and speaking lessons. Almost all lessons have a listening componentwhich is a ton of content to make up for. They have significantly better voice recognition than my phone. The amount of effort to get something like that working for a language, let alone dozens of languages is a high bar.
Take a look at any of the job postings that duolingo has, they're only looking for Google employee level of skill for a reason (aside from how fucked the job market is).
It's not impossible for duolingo to be replaced with an open source version, but it's a giant undertaking.
The dictation software we have is pretty shitty though. It almost always needs proof-read, or re-dictated several times to get it right. At that point you may as well just send an audio clip.
Until the day that dictation software gets it 100% correct, it's not going to be worth my time.
For now, the human on the other end will always have an easier time understand an audio clip than a machine, because human minds are more capable of using context and getting past regional accents.
Especially with some of the star trek mods
I can recommend against enders. I have two friends with them, and one myself. Between the 3 of us none of them are currently working, and its been like this since i found out all 3 of us had 3d printers. Keeping them working is like pulling teeth.