HairHeel @ HairHeel @programming.dev

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...why would you even go into a thread about Tuvix if you feel that way? "This Slayer concert is just too dang loud!"

Terrible idea. Any time a transporter duplicates somebody, one of them turns evil. (See the DS9 episode where Tom Riker pretends to be Will Riker and hijacks the Defiant, or the reason Harry Kim, who was replaced by his own duplicate early on in the series, never got a promotion).

So now you have to decide to kill Good Tuvix, or kill the other one, which will just give you Evil Tuvok and Evil Neelix.

Poor statement of her mission. IIRC Janeway says pretty clearly in one of the first episodes that they're still going to carry out their duty as a Starfleet ship to seek out new life and new civilizations, boldly go, etc. That's their mission, and getting home is an important part but not all of it.

Must be nice working at a place where that ticket doesn’t just get dropped into the dev backlog as-is.

My salary, I guess.

Everybody on my team is required to do on-call once they have enough experience (except for the low budget offshore contractors who I wouldn’t trust to do it anyhow…)

We have 2 people on call at a time, 1 primary and one backup. You do a week on backup, then the next week you’re primary.

There’s no set time limits etc, but if you get sucked into some fire, people are reasonable about letting you take some time off the next day or whatever.

All in all, there are very rarely fires that happen inside or outside of normal working hours. Making the whole team be on call helps incentivize everyone to write more stable code since it’s your own ass on the line.

I always wondered if those rocks they’re sitting on (and the one he was skipping, I guess) were changelings who lost a bet.

My favorite pastime is arguing about which JavaScript runtime is faster while I wait for my app to finish running O(n^n) table scans of my database.

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Mainstream news outlets are just copying what their corporate sponsors ask them to say 99% of the time anyhow

What kind of use cases do people have for AI assistants in their web browsers?

"oops"

Now do communism where the monster is emaciated.

If I haven't played either RDR game, should I start here or play 2 first? It seems like 2 might be a better game and I don't have to worry too much about knowing the story from the first one?

I mean, even if programming.dev defederates with it, it'll still be there...

If that's a 16oz glass of ranch dressing, and you're planning on drinking what's left, I'm all for this

I enjoyed 20XX a lot. I’m not a fan of the more-pixelated art style they went with in 30XX, but looking forward to the gameplay.

I really wish they had used the same actor with or without a mustache in the new show.

The question is more about "how much" of PD they support right? Like PD has standards for charging at higher or lower currents.

My understanding of the current-gen MacBook Pro is that they support some kind of "fast charging", but only if you use their MagSafe port. You can still charge on the USB-C ports, but not as fast as you could with MagSafe. I'm not sure if that's a violation of the regulations, or if PD simply doesn't have support for the amount of power they're pushing through the MagSafe.

But I think the point is that they'll continue to look for ways to offer a better experience with their proprietary stuff, even if they're forced to support a standard in addition.

The real test on this one is going to be in how well those regulations support the eventual transition from USB-C to something else.

There's inevitably going to be a use case for new connectors that have some yet-unidentified advantage over USB-C for certain devices, and there's going to be hurdles convincing regulators to grant exceptions for those devices or to adopt one of them as the new standard for everybody.

There's plenty of examples of government regulations gone wrong trying to transition from an old technology to a new one. (i.e. the REAL ID format in the US, or the switch from analog to digital broadcast TV).

Could have just as easily said it would have been “much worse” without fossil fuels.

When soaring temperatures and demand for cooling led to a peak in Sicilian power demand on 24 July, nearly half of the excess demand - which totalled 1.3 GW - was covered by solar, Refinitiv data show.

So basically wherever the 1.3 GW of capacity came from (could be a bolt of lightning, or some Libyan plutonium, for example), it would have been much worse if they didn’t have it.