JWBananas
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aka @JWBananas@startrek.website
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- Comment on Reporters Without Borders sues X 5 days ago:
Worse, to me, is that there is a perfectly grammatically correct way to be just as brief.
Wrong:
The bed sheets need washed.
Right:
The bed sheets need washing.
- Comment on Reporters Without Borders sues X 6 days ago:
the car needs washed
Is there a name/term for this abomination? I’ve only ever heard one person speak in that form (omitting “to be”), and it has haunted me ever since.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 6 days ago:
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x04 "A Farewell To Farms" 1 week ago:
Was it not gagh blood?
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
ICU level care
Acute care, understood.
referring to like, fists.
i.e. “I need Olanzapine [broad receptor affinity, highly anti-cholinergic, well-tolerated], but, like, faster.” I’m surprised that particular aspect of the side effect profile comes into play with acute usage.
I’m unsure if you don’t work inpatient psychiatry or you just work somewhere significantly classier than I do.
Ah, yes, this happens a lot. No, I don’t work in the medical field at all. I just know things, for reasons.
I do work in an inner city area that’s flush with people stuck in a cycle of drugs / homelessness
i.e. the psychosis has done so much cumulative damage at this point that you need to fall back to the typicals. That explains why the third-gens are useless.
On a different note, have you heard about Cobenfy yet?
npr.org/…/karxt-cobenfy-schizophrenia-psychosis-f…
It obviously isn’t suited to the needs of your practice. But I’m really glad we’re making progress on alternative treatment approaches, especially novel ones like anti-muscarinics.
Hopefully the new glutamatergics can reach your setting soon.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 3 weeks ago:
In 2024? Why? Risperdal is such a blunt instrument with respect to its broad affinity for receptors.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 3 weeks ago:
Even worse, that was done intentionally. They wanted to prevent retail stores from leaving them plugged in at all times.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x01 "Dos Cerritos" & 5x02 "Shades of Green" 3 weeks ago:
The events of Prodigy largely involved wormholes across spacetime in one universe (and incursions into that universe by bad guys).
The quantum fissures in Lower Decks are connected to other universes. While this season of Lower Decks does canonically occur in the same time period as season 2 of Prodigy, I doubt the two are related.
That said, with the specific call-out, I definitely see them having some significance later in the season.
I was more surprised that the crew of the other Cerritos weren’t responsible for opening the fissure in the first place. The setup felt like it was leading toward a reveal that Captain Becky’s crew had ulterior motives.
It was a bit disappointing that the twist only turned out to be Captain Becky opportunistically trying to swap universes. I was expecting something more like Stargate SG-1 9x13 (Ripple Effect) wherein an alternate-reality SG-1 is after
me Lucky Charmsa ZPM. - Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x01 "Dos Cerritos" & 5x02 "Shades of Green" 3 weeks ago:
What is it?
- Comment on Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh 4 weeks ago:
There are several monospace adaptations of Comic Sans which are great for use in terminals or IDEs. I particularly like this one:
- Comment on Clevo reseller wants get coreboot ported, ends up throwing a temper tantrum and banning Germany, Texas and AMD over unsatisfactory experience 4 weeks ago:
We originally reached out to 9Elements last year along with several other coreboot consultants, but all of their prices were so outrageous ($50k-$100K per board) that we decided to try porting our laptops ourselves. After hitting a sticking point, we reluctantly contacted them again for help debugging our code.
From the start, our interactions with Christian Walter were awful. We repeatedly stressed how important and time-sensitive this project was, but he seemed completely indifferent. In fact, he made a snide remark about us coming back after trying to do it ourselves.
We never received a quote for the actual porting, but they said the evaluation cost is typically 10% of the total cost, which would mean the porting would have cost around $33,000 for Dasharo-branded coreboot, and $66,000 for unbranded coreboot. Even their highly discounted Dasharo-branded porting comes out to around $250 to $330 an hour, and that’s if they started from scratch. We had 80%+ of the job already complete. We just needed to debug our code.
Sometimes people take their vehicle to mechanics and don’t like the quotes for the repair costs. Some of those people then choose to try to do the work at home. Sometimes one of those people will then reluctantly take the car back to the mechanic after they screw up the work.
And then they balk, because they discover that (A) the mechanic will outright refuse to work on the vehicle due to it being in a dismantled state, or (B) the mechanic will give an even higher quote since they now have to diagnose and clean up the mistakes too.
- Comment on Nacelle Reveals First Eight Star Trek Action Figures at NYCC... With Plenty of Character Surprises! 4 weeks ago:
*ahem* that’s Captain Tuvix
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2 4 weeks ago:
What was it they said back then? They’re from the South or some such?
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2 4 weeks ago:
I would like to second this, particularly the line “through a slightly O’Brien-esque process.”
😭😭😭
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 4 weeks ago:
He also launched it from a space station.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
Teams is built on Edge webview. It’s Microsoft’s lighter-weight version of Electron.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
You have to opt into that behavior. It prompts you on first launch
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
AND being forced to stop the bullshit every few updates where they force you through choosing options
Just turn it off. Settings → Notifications → Windows Welcome Experience or some such.
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 1 month ago:
It’s way easier to get someone’s attention in office
Exactly. Most employees aren’t just sitting around waiting for someone to get their attention. They’re already actively working. And when that work is interrupted, it’s a distraction, and productivity goes down.
Even the mental context switching between the tasks is costly in terms of time lost. Most people can’t just instantly jump back to the original task at the same level of productivity.
- Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home 1 month ago:
Your M365 admin can already tell by your IP address. Just like they know when you’re looking at porn when your IP randomly hops states for a little while.
- Comment on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison 2 months ago:
Moving down the stack, Unix systems have never been big on supporting arbitrary drivers: remember that Unix systems were typically coupled to specific machines and vendors. NT, on the other hand, intended to be an OS for “any” machine and was sold by a software company, so supporting drivers written by others was critical. As a result, NT came with the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), an abstraction to support network card drivers with ease. To this day, manufacturer-supplied drivers are just not a thing on Linux, which leads to interesting contraptions like the ndiswrapper, a very popular shim in the early 2000s to be able to reuse Windows drivers for WiFi cards on Linux.
- Comment on YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness 2 months ago:
“From The Article”
- Comment on Amazon’s recommendations are getting a little too creepy 2 months ago:
Besides the fact that present-day battery technology makes this impossible, modern smartphones display a very obvious indicator when apps are using the microphone.
Hotword detection notwithstanding, as that happens at the hardware level.
- Comment on European iPhones are more fun now 2 months ago:
The two are not mutually exclusive. The downvote button is not an “I don’t like this” button.
- Comment on European iPhones are more fun now 2 months ago:
They were keeping their promise of 10 years of Lightning ecosystem support. Dropping the old iPod connector was highly controversial.
- Comment on Hackers Exploit PHP Vulnerability to Deploy Stealthy Msupedge Backdoor 2 months ago:
It makes about as much sense as the typical ones anyway. Or, like, the output to
nmap --helpor something. - Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster 3 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on Hyundai and Kia car thefts fall sharply after software upgrade, study finds 3 months ago:
Can confirm. Happened to a friend within the past month. Theirs wasn’t even on the list of affected models.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Prodigy | 2x19 & 2x20 "Ouroboros" 4 months ago:
They confiscated the portal tech and shipped it away in crates marked classified and with the Daystrom Institute logo.
Wesley said Solum needed to invent that tech so that the Protostar could be sent back in time. So the Federation clearly didn’t have anything like it yet.
What are the odds this is the precursor to the portal tech stolen and used by Vadic in Picard season 3?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Prodigy | 2x14 "The Mirror Universe" 4 months ago:
How were they able to reunite with Voyager without triggering the Living Construct?
