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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I Put it in my Ass?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Silicon isn’t the same thing as silicone 🤣
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a good thing they aren't in charge of adult toys...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The idea is that the string of lights has a male end and a female end. That way you can have several daisy chained and just plug the one with the male end into the outlet. But if you plan it wrong then you may end up with the wrong end in the wrong place, in which case yeah, use an extension cord or hang the lights all over again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a good thing they aren't in charge of adult toys...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yep! That way you can daisy chain several in a row.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this AI thing⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

The closest analogy is specific tech skills, like say DBs, for a small firm its just something one backend dude knows decently, at a large firm there are several DBAs and they help teams tackle complex DB questions. Same with say Search, first Solr and nowadays Elastic.

Yeah I mean I guess we’re saying the same thing then :)

I don’t think prompt engineering could be somebody’s only job, just a skill they bring to the job, like the examples you give. In those cases, they’d still need to be a good DBA, or whatever the specific role is. They’re a DBA who knows prompt engineering, etc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens of you use the gas from the exhaust pipe to inflate a tire?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I have an air compressor which is powered by the 12V DC outlet in a car. They are quite cost effective and easy to buy. I use it all the time to refill my tires. Much better than some odd exhaust pressure solution.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this AI thing⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m totally willing to accept “the world is changing and new skills are necessary” but at the same time, are a prompt engineer’s skills transferrable across subject domains?

It feels to me like “prompt engineering” skills are just skills to compliment the expertise you already have. Like the skill of Google searching. Or learning to use a word processor. These are skills necessary in the world today, but almost nobody’s job is exclusively to Google, or use a word processor. In reality, you need to get something done with your tool, and you need to know shit about the domain you’re applying that tool to. You can be an excellent prompt engineer, and I guess an LLM will allow you to BS really well, but subject matter experts will see through the BS.

I know I’m not really strongly disagreeing, but I’m just pushing back on the idea of prompt engineer as a job (without any other expertise).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
100% monitoring and control doesn’t exist. Your children will find a loophole to access unrestricted internet, it’s what they do.

Similarly, children will play in the street sometimes despite their parents’ best efforts to keep them in. (And yes, I would penalize Ford for building the trucks that have exploded in size and are more likely to kill children, but that’s a separate discussion.)

I get what you’re saying, I just think it’s wrong to say “parental responsibility” and dust off your hands like you solved the problem. A parent cannot exert their influence 24/7, they cannot be protecting their child 24/7. And that means that we need to rely on society to establish safer norms, safer streets, etc, so that there’s a “soft landing” when kids inevitably rebel, or when the parent is in the shower for 15 minutes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys need to stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This kills the clutch
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love DS9⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’m confused, are you saying that it was the 11 year old girl’s personal responsibility to avoid being the victim of sexual abuse? Or are you saying that it was her parents’ responsibility to be monitoring her technology use 24/7?

Neither seems right to me…

Now the predators will just continue to do there thing in a darker hole that is even harder to find.

If it’s harder to find, then fewer children stumble upon it and get preyed upon, which is a good thing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're only allowed to pick one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not even close!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistance was futile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
What you’re saying is you wish Ira Steven Behr ran the show instead of Rick Berman. And really, don’t we all wish that?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No shade on Sato's actor, I just think Uhura has better writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yes!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No shade on Sato's actor, I just think Uhura has better writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

Or her usefulness to the episode could be that Edgar Alien Perv has a crush on her.

Yeah that was a super rough episode.

We just are taking two different perspectives about being essential. Uhura was like an organ: quietly essential to the regular operation of your body. Whereas Hoshi is like hands or maybe ears or something: very important for achieving your body’s goals, but you can compensate for them not working. You’re right Uhura is more essential. I just think it’s more interesting watching the hands / ears of the ship helping achieve the mission.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No shade on Sato's actor, I just think Uhura has better writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

At least it wasn’t as bad as Mayweather’s character arc of becoming a background extra.

😭😭😭 so true
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No shade on Sato's actor, I just think Uhura has better writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It’s funny because I have the exact opposite opinion! I feel like in TOS, Uhura just relays messages and presses buttons on her console. Maybe I’m missing something though. Maybe she’s critical to the intra ship communications as the “telephone operator” but she never seems to be critical to the mission.

On the other hand, ENT spends a lot of time building up how many languages Hoshi knows, and how quickly she can pick up new ones, even alien languages. She definitely has her moments where she just struggles until the UT works. But in several episodes they rely on her to translate alien writing, and in at least one or two, she learns to speak a whole new language to communicate. She’s also shown to have developed major improvements to the UT. My impression of her, even from Broken Bow when Archer recruited her, was that she’s a freaking language savant, operating and developing very new experimental tech. It is sad she didn’t get to fully realize her transition from timid linguist to badass crew member (and still linguist). But I always felt like she was doing something critical for the mission, whereas I felt Uhura (in TOS) wasn’t.

SNW Uhura is very different in that regard, she does a lot more “mission critical” stuff and she’s getting an arc that’s very reminiscent of Hoshi (totally a savant, hard working, starting out timid but growing). So I love that for her!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't tell The_Picard_Maneuver...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I appreciate the recognition, finally!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: very Short Treks | "Holograms All the Way Down"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not cannon but at least they are somewhat officially acknowledging the absolute dumpster fire that was the ENT finale.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"God works in mysterious ways" basically means "this doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm gonna ignore it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It can be both, and I’m not sure I see the distinction. It’s a coping mechanism, and that’s not actually an awful thing.

Growing up in church, nobody was creating hypotheticals and then trying to explain it using religion. It’s just not what it was about. But I guess if you brought up babies with cancer, then yeah the “mysterious ways” argument would have been a prime cop out to avoid challenging faith too much.

Most commonly, people just wanted to know how to handle the (typically less hyperbolic) challenges in their own lives. They believed they were good and faithful and didn’t understand why God would allow bad things to happen in their lives. Ultimately the “mysterious ways” line was just a coping mechanism, that came with advice to search for the silver linings, and think about past challenges and how they resolved, as evidence of the mysterious ways. Of course it also served to avoid challenging their faith too.

At the end of the day, religion has its very bad elements that I won’t defend. But it’s silly to ignore that for most people, they’re looking for ways to interpret life in order to find meaning, or maybe cope with struggles. For myself, I’m not religious, but if I were trying to help a friend dealing with something difficult in life, I would still encourage them to look for silver linings and to reflect on past challenges. Not to use it as evidence for some god working in mysterious ways, but just to give them perspective to realize that they have the strength to overcome challenges.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undercover Boss: The Next Generation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This is exactly what the TNG episode “Lower Decks” was about. It was actually super powerful as a representation of how the decisions made by the captain and bridge officers had a profound impact on the lives of the ensigns (NCOs didn’t seem to be mentioned), without them knowing what’s going on.

The show lower decks was obviously inspired by that specific episode, but definitely lost that serious tone and lack of visibility into the politics/big picture that the captain dealt with.

And honestly I think star trek forgot that NCOs existed and just kept remembering it each time Chief O’Brien had a major episode and his rank came up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblock⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

It’s far more important to trek to criticize and reflect modern society, which is a lot harder to do if your characters are living in a utopia.

I disagree… if anything, the opposite is true! Having “Federation utopia” makes it incredibly easy to critique modern society. Just introduce planets which have whatever element of modern society you want to comment on, and then draw a painfully obvious comparison to the perfection that is humanity in the 24th century, and boom, it’s done! Heck, you could even make an entire alien race to critique an element of modern society like capitalism, not that anybody would do something that obvious :P

I feel like TOS and TNG lived on this a little too much, especially in early TNG seasons. It was what made DS9 so interesting when the writers flipped the script. Instead of spoon feeding you the critique of modern society in the form of planet-of-the week, they throw in stuff that makes you question whether the federation utopia approach is actually right, or if it’s too naive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The holy trinity of DS9⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I can count on one hand the number of mirror universe episodes I’ve enjoyed in trek. But I don’t even need that one hand to count the mirror episodes I liked in DS9…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where We Last Left Off with Star Trek: Lower Decks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Absolutely loved the quote in the video near the end, where the dude said something along the lines of “this isn’t the 90’s with 26 episodes, ‘hey this one can be about a ghost in a lamp’”

So glad the franchise can “officially” acknowledge and make fun of its silliness.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watched episodes 2&3 of DS9, thoughts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It literally changed me
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Day 2023 Special⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It was fine. A total of maybe 8 minutes of interesting content. I enjoyed the segment with Tawny Newsome and Eugene Cordero watching silly clips. And the interviews on the street were cute.

Jerry O’Connell did have a slight “blink twice if you need help” vibe going on, but I’m not sure how much of that is me projecting it onto him given that the strikes are going on (but I assume this content was prepared in advance?). And honestly, I couldn’t do half as well “hosting” a show with no guests in front of a green screen!

The segment about Discovery was a bit… Image

And I’m actually a discovery fan! But wow that Paramount Plus narrator was so proud of their achievements, lol
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloom filters: real-world applications⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Usually it’s a bunch of different string hashes of the text content. They could be different hashing algorithms, but it’s more common to take a single hash algorithm and simply create a bunch of hash functions that operate on different parts of the data.

If it’s not text data, there’s a whole bunch of other hashing strategies but I only ever saw bloom filters used with text.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloom filters: real-world applications⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
A classic use for them is spam filtering.

Suppose you have a set of spam detection systems/rules which are somewhat expensive to execute, eg a ML model or keyword blocklist. Spam tends to come in waves, and frequently it can be as simple as reposting the same message dozens of times.

Once your systems determine a piece of content is spam (or you manually flag content), it’s a good idea to insert the content into a bloom filter. This means that future posts of the identical content will be flagged without needing to execute the expensive checks, especially if there’s a surge of content stressing your systems.

Since it’s probabilistic, you can’t use this unless you have some sort of manual reviewing queue or system, as it’s possible for false positives to be flagged. However, you can also run more intensive checks once you’ve flagged content, to detect false positives.

The false positives can also be a feature, not a bug: with careful choice of hash functions, your bloom filter can actually detect slightly modified content, since most of the hashes may still be the same.

I’ve worked at companies which use this strategy so it’s very real world.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DS9 S2 "Second Sight"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That was a great episode actually, my only complaint was that he didn’t seem to require serious therapy afterwards.

Same with O’Brien’s mental imprisonment episode, though at least they tried to show the psychological damage there. He just managed to get over it at the end of the episode 🫠
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DS9 S2 "Second Sight"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, that’s probably the best explanation. Or maybe she just knows her deep seated desires, and uses them to imagine how Fenna would be?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DS9 S2 "Second Sight"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

Yeah…Star Trek has never been particularly good at one-off romance episodes, and this is certainly one of those.

Yeah, I don’t think that I enjoyed any shoehorned romance with Picard especially…

The episode also has Dax asking O’Brien to boost the top speed of Seyetik’s ship to warp 9.5 to avoid a potential supernova, a prominent example of Star Trek supernovae being apparently able to travel faster than light. So there’s that.

Lol now that you mention it, yes that is quite silly.

I also remember a moment where O’Brien reports that he increased the speed to warp 9.6, and Dax asks “wasn’t the theoretical maximum warp 9.5” and he’s just like “it was.” Top tier O’Brien right there.