FriendOfDeSoto

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, man, this will affect tens of people.

I'm concerned about the resources it gobbles up but I'm not skynet scared.

The effectiveness and the benefits are overhyped by the people with a financial interest in it. We call it AI but it's only one for two there in that it is artificial. It's a technology in its infancy. And it hasn't found a use case that will guarantee an ROI. And the companies involved here are running out of runway.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Cannibalism hasn't been proven yet. But even without that, rich people not getting punished isn't mildly infuriating. We are way past that.

And the world was already shit long before we learned about any of this. Because it was possible to get away with that shit before we found out and even still after we learned a little about it.

Billionaires aren't the majority. Turn your morose mood into a political movement that will hold them to account.

Would the order be different in an imported fridge?

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The sliding scales of inviting all the people you want to have there and avoiding people getting pissed off if they don't get an invite (or similar political reasons) are only limited by the financial means available.

100 is a relatively easy target to reach for most people. Family and friends and their +1's and children gets you there pretty quick.

If Ockham's Razor points to the simplest possible reason of anything to be the most likely one, Drumpf's Razor, which I have just made up, holds that the dumbest possible explanation is probably true when the incumbent US head of state is involved. These are posts by an undereducated narcissist; the choice of targets is at best accidental.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The prompt probably included "destroy Iran" and whichever model they used was like gotcha, destroying Ireland it is.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's all based on navies here on Earth. They chose the language to make certain ships this-or-that class. There are no definitive rules so far as I'm aware. A certain class of submarines would be designated something class because they shared the same weapons or the same propulsion system. So when sci-fi writers picked up this ball they played fast and loose with already fast and loose rules.

You may need to clarify what you mean by canon in this context exactly. If this Walker class appeared in a live action TV show I would say it's canon. If it's in a novel or an animated show I'd say it's not or not necessarily. Trekkies can spend weeks debating this sort of thing.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 13 points 4 months ago (8 children)

The naming convention is vague.

LD's California class is a dig at what the writers perceive as shit or boringly average California cities nobody knows if you don't live there.

DS9 had some consistency with naming all runabouts after earth rivers.

All other names are up to the writers. So you get a Crazy Horse next to a Shenzhou, a Hood next to a Defiant.

Canon probably runs along the Memory Alpha/Beta divide.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't have a GitHub account. You're gonna have you sign up for one yourself. The links to their accounts are on the website I linked to above. Just click on the avatars.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 20 points 4 months ago (6 children)

https://www.fossify.org/ only lists reddit and Telegram of all services. You may be able to get in touch with some of the contributors via GitHub. And you could see if some of them recycle their user names on Mastodon.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 19 points 4 months ago

Don't forget the klick. Most of them are not buying that either.

The people in all the countries that have no problem counting off another dozen past twelve don't always do that though. If you meet your friend at 15:00 most people will revert to "at 3" in their language. And they might "go to bed at 11." Economy of language and context clues. So colloquially the am/pm crowd and the 24h folks aren't far apart at all.

And any person claiming that it's too difficult to add or subtract twelve from at maximum a low two-digit integer ought to have their passport revoked.

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