I started with Star Trek after watching the Star Trek (2009) movie in college. After that I went wild watching everything I could since I was young with loads of time. I watched most of TOS, all of TNS, all of DS9, all of Voyager, all of Enterprise and all of the movies. I then stopped since I didn't have the time and wasn't...
That show feels like a huge step in the right direction. I do wish they'd steered clear of existing characters & not have to rehash the enterprise, but otherwise it's a great modern take on the old formula.
Discovery was trash though, finally beat out Voyager for the position of worst Trek TV show.
And then, you know, there's the J.J. Trek abomination movies.
Most Scifi fans I have ran into can pretty quickly rank the four stars –BattleSTAR Galactica, STAR Trek, STARgate, and STAR wars, but what lesser-known or less-prestigious shows hold a special place in your heart?...
The Supreme Court rejected the independent state legislature theory in a bombshell decision Tuesday, turning back a right-wing attempt to vest the sole power in administering federal elections with state legislatures.
There used to be a water park in my hometown that had a bunch of slides and a wave pool. I used to go there all the time as a kid, and even went there as a senior on a trip. I went to birthday parties there, sometimes....
The mall I used to ride my bike to as a child, where my favorite Arcade (Aladdin's Castle) & had a toy store (K.B. Toys) was leveled to the ground about 20 years ago, with the exception of like two restaurants at the corner of the building.
It's now some fake ass 'downtown' like outdoor mall, in Michigan, with terrible parking & it's just gross.
I miss Meadowbrook Mall, man, I miss it a lot.
I was gonna say "The Arcade" but you made me remember the entire mall it resided in got blown up.
I mean, it absolutely can return, but it's not going to be like my grandfather's time where he could support a family of four (with a vacation home) on what he earned building Buicks.
The level of automation in factories here in the US is already below what it should be, as the Unions are fighting to keep those jobs in human hands.
Fewer jobs & substantially higher automation.
The value of unskilled labor is going to continue to diminish, it's peak value before, during & after WWII was the historical anomaly not the norm. Before the industrial revolution, you mostly had to know how to do shit to be of value, and in the post industrial era you once again have to have skills to be of value. The biggest issue is those skills are changing and evolving at a rapid pace, instead of remaining stagnant for generations like before the industrial revolution.
please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread
With rumors the defense minister has been detained coupled with Wagner blaming the defense minister for the lies justifying the invasion.... MAYBE this is some weird way for Putin to save face/stay alive while pulling out of eastern Ukraine?
But that sounds like bullshit, this whole thing is getting weirder by the moment right now. Smells like a lot of misinformation flowing from all sides right now.
Bingo. He's following a WELL KNOWN playbook of making the company both leaner in terms of expenses, and trying to add revenue, with zero care about long term viability of the company.
The goal is to make the books look better then they are, so that you can dupe investors into thinking the turd you just shined up isn't a turd.
EVERYTHING he's doing is logical when you look at it in that sense, they are throwing a coat of wax on a used lemon to dump it on some unsuspecting suckers for a profit.
I'm very weary. The books where very China centric, understandable being written by a Chineese author, and fear a white washing.
Also, even though I loved the books, there was something... odd about them. I'm not sure if it was something lost in translation, or just that some of it felt. IDK over simplified, childish? I think it's a combination of all of them, and I really wonder what they'll have to do to make a TV Show from that source material to have mass appeal here in the west.
Well, GOT was a Western novel being adapted for TV to suit a Western audience. I fear what they will do with 3BP, given it's very Chinese centric mindset. Even the English translation of the novel had to move a few chapters around to make sense to us.
It's a MASSIVE security risk. What you tell ChatGPT is not private, if you knowingly or unknowingly tell ChatGPT secret information you have no control over where that information may go. Especially for a company for Apple that lives & breaths on surprise product releases.
Not entirely sure, started with Ubuntu in 2007 or 8 I'm guessing. Still on Ubuntu, but the shine is very much off with all their pushing away from .deb files & several other frustrating issues.
It's been a few years since I tried Fedora but I'm kinda still angry at RedHat for the RHEL & Fedora split, that was some bullshit right there. That was a good chunk of why I went away from them, and being purchased by IBM & killing off CentOS hasn't won any popularity contests.
I'm thinking I may have to give real Debian a shot next cycle. I don't want bleeding edge anything, I stick to LTS for about a year past the release of the latest LTS, so Debian's "slow" cycle works fine for me.
Firstly, certain groups have over politicized this topic in order to punch down on a minority group they dislike. Those people are ass holes, and I'm not defending that behavior. However, unfortunately, their base argument does actually have some marret, even if they are complete ass holes about it.
There is consistency, to use your terminology cis gender women can compete with cis gender women & cis gender men compete against cis gender men. Transgender folk are somewhere around 1% (or less) of the over all population, they are the extreme outliers that don't fit this consistent & highly effective (in terms of athletics) categorization of men's & women's sports. Another group, roughly the same size with an unknown advantage/disadvantage that are excluded from this classification are amputees/augmented humans.
We currently have separate competition for amputees from non amputees, the Paralympics exist & is lauded as a good thing. Outside of the political oppression issues, this model makes far more sense for trans athletes then simply allowing them to compete with the gender they identify with.
Splitting competition into male/female makes sense, because sexual dimorphism is a reality for our species. In nearly every sport, women are highly disadvantaged against men. Statistically the physical divergence between the sexes is vastly larger then the divergence within the sexes. This is consistent, despite your argument to the contrary.
I'm all for trans people being treated with respect, but respect goes both ways & part of that respect is the admission that a trans woman is not the same as a woman, and a trans man is not the same as a man. These are 4 different & distinct categories of people (hence the desire to relabel two of those groups with the 'cis' moniker), and ignoring that reality causes more problems then it will ever fix. It is not transphobic to prefer dating cis gender people, nor is it transphobic to believe that men & women's sports should be for men & women respectively. Both of these CAN be transphobic if your being a hateful dick about it, but it's not inherently so in holding those opinions.
Android is my favorite currently, but when I was growing up it was Symbian, comparing it to java it was miles ahead with way more advanced capabilities!
For example if someone creates something new that is horrible for humans, how will AI understand that it is bad if it doesn't have other horrible things to relate it with?
What your saying doesn't exist is an Artificial General Intelligence, something approaching the conscious human mind. Your right that doesn't exist.
AI doesn't just mean that though.
What we're dealing with right now is the computer equivalent of growing mouse brain cells in a petre dish, plugging them into inputs and outputs & getting them to do useful things for us.
The way you describe chat GPT not being creative, is also theoretically how our own brains work in the creative processes. If you study story structure & mythology you'd find that ALL successful stories boil down to a very minimalist set of archetypes & types of conflict.
Now lets really break your brain, are you & I able to make our own choices? Is the ego, the voice in our own skulls, the conscious mind really ever making any decisions?
There are a great many studies that seem to indicate decisions are made well before our conscious selves are aware of them.
We are far more driven by emotion & instinct then any of us care to admit.
Odd, I find it WAY EASIER to do these things remotely.
In office one of us is hunched over trying to view the others screen over their shoulder, remote we screen share & have a conversation about what is being done.
Either what you do day to day is very hand on, and not 'in the computer' or you just don't have a good grasp on the tools available to you.
I will say, it takes engagement on both sides though, it's way easier when working remote to disconnect from the job (for anyone) and that can lead to issues for sure.
My first fully remote job, I was one of two people on the team who where too far to drive to the office with any regularity (had to rent a car & get a hotel for my yearly visits).
If you team isn't fully remote, then it's almost inevitable that the remote members will be forgotten & not communicated with.
It's just human nature to talk to the guy right next to you, instead of IMing or picking up the phone to talk to someone remote. Meetings in conference rooms with speakerphones are insufferable if your on the remote end.
For the most part, meeting rooms should be avoided if not everyone is on site, tools like MS Teams should be the preferred method of communication to equalize things for everyone.
Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell Saturday morning, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson. He was 81.
His writing IS very intelligent, and he makes some very insightful points, but his megalomania, his hate for 'over socialized liberals' and 'computer nerds' is more based on his emotional issues then any rational thinking.
The key when reading anything by Ted, is remembering his pathology and attempting to filter the content through that.
He was right about some things, but his absolute self assuredness in his conclusions (that he used to justify violence against people who hurt him emotionally) are a huge weakness in his arguments.
Seriously, I can understand going to Discord over IRC. I don't LIKE it, I think it's a terrible idea, but at least the use case is the same & I get why the 'ease of use' would get the young pups who don't "get" technology that isn't nativly rubbing on their phones.
But I can't comprehend using Discord instead of a forum, it's absolutely shitty & totally unsearchable.
in my opinion, '98 was the best year for game releases. What's yours? (en.m.wikipedia.org)
98 has some of my favorite games to ever come out, like:...
What "third generation" Trek is worth watching?
I started with Star Trek after watching the Star Trek (2009) movie in college. After that I went wild watching everything I could since I was young with loads of time. I watched most of TOS, all of TNS, all of DS9, all of Voyager, all of Enterprise and all of the movies. I then stopped since I didn't have the time and wasn't...
What's your most-loved non-star movie/show?
Most Scifi fans I have ran into can pretty quickly rank the four stars –BattleSTAR Galactica, STAR Trek, STARgate, and STAR wars, but what lesser-known or less-prestigious shows hold a special place in your heart?...
Supreme Court Rejects Right-Wing ‘Theory’ That Would Have Upended American Elections (talkingpointsmemo.com)
The Supreme Court rejected the independent state legislature theory in a bombshell decision Tuesday, turning back a right-wing attempt to vest the sole power in administering federal elections with state legislatures.
What’s a place from your childhood that doesn’t exist anymore?
There used to be a water park in my hometown that had a bunch of slides and a wave pool. I used to go there all the time as a kid, and even went there as a senior on a trip. I went to birthday parties there, sometimes....
To reduce dependence on China, more of us need to work in factories (www.politico.eu)
The Verge reacting to Reddit's spokesperson trying to discredit them (pixel.tchncs.de)
MEGATHREAD: whatever the hell is going on in Russia right now
please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread
First post in Lemmy
Maybe spez is intentionally destroying Reddit. Because all their moves are illogical. It doesn't make sense.
Three Body Problem (Netflix) (lemmy.world)
https://youtu.be/5lj99Uz1d50...
Apple bans use of ChatGPT internally (www.theregister.com)
What's the longest you've stayed on a distribution?
This is kind of the anti-distro hopping thread. How long have you stayed on a single Linux distribution for your main PC? What about servers?...
midwest rule (pawb.social)
A photograph of Culver's employees, captioned "The Only Blue Lives That Matter".
Trans women have no advantage in elite sport, new report finds (www.thepinknews.com)
What is your favorite phone OS growing up?
Android is my favorite currently, but when I was growing up it was Symbian, comparing it to java it was miles ahead with way more advanced capabilities!
OC ELI5 - How does artificial intelligence understand what is right and what is wrong for humans?
For example if someone creates something new that is horrible for humans, how will AI understand that it is bad if it doesn't have other horrible things to relate it with?
Why Do Blockbuster Climaxes Like Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Look So Bad? (www.escapistmagazine.com)
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has an awful, meaningless climax of visual noise in an open field: These climaxes are common in blockbusters.
Silicon Valley escalates the battle over returning to the office (www.cnn.com)
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski found dead in prison cell (abcnews.go.com)
Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell Saturday morning, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson. He was 81.
so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process?
I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.