SpaceScotsman

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a good mix to start with - a serious episode and a fun silly one.

  The first acts as a really good introduction for Scotty, giving him a chance to build up his character with some insurmountable engineering problems that, with some coaching, he surmounts. The second is a nice way to round off Spock and Chapel’s relationship, poking fun at the mess that following the canon has left us in, using Trelane as a stand-in for the fans.

  various thoughts on the plot:

  • Ortegas seems to have been left with a bit of trauma, being part digested will do that to you I guess. Hopefully La’an will spot this and help out.
  • Una mentions a “couple of litres” of blood. Did she mean pints, and the writers did a find/replace to make it metric and more futurey? Because “a couple of litres” is a lot.
  • Camera spin continues to be a big part of the visual language. It gives me a headache and I have to close my eyes whenever they do this. There were quite a few instances of roll in the first episode that were a bit too much for me.
  • John de Lancie and Rhys Darby make the perfect duo for these characters.
  • Scotty mentions not drinking, but ends up having to take some when he eats something dodgy at the batchelor party. Previously (later?) Scotty has been shown to be a fan of drink, I guess now it’s canon that had there not been alien interference, he may have always been teetotal.
  • While Chapel is dealing with Batel, the Gorn hatchlings seem to agitate when the ship first goes close to the binary stars. Then, at the end of the episode when the ship has been suspended between the stars for a long time, no real mention is made of this. I guess the blood infusions and operations just kind of negated all that? Feels like Chekov’s gun got loaded and then forgotten about.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan using generative AI less than other countries⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I take issue with this article using the language “lagging behind in the use of generative AI”. That language seems to imply there is something wrong in this behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, “country of origin” will have straight lines drawn on a map that are so far removed from where the people who lived there originally considered their borders even that’s probably not pinning it down well enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised VLC fares that badly with CCs encoded this way. Usually it’s pretty good. I’m also now wondering if ffmpeg also shares the same problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a brief brief moment I was elated when I parsed the title as ‘Palantir says it has given up on AI’. Then I read the article and was left dejected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It’s an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Users need to know what this dot means, and some like children or the elderly will likely not understand the ramifications

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no need to be concerned because they’re never going to build 100,000 new homes, never mind the 1.5M target. Building enough homes to house people would cause supply to meet demand and make the housing market “crash”. And Labour will never upset those who’ve been tricked into thinking that home property is an investment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BACK IT UP⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In fairness, cheese from france is probably safer raw because they don’t have as many superfarms that are as prone to spreading diseases like bird flu