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  • TNG as NuTrek

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  • I didn't realise that Cheryl was her first name, I thought they'd made a mistake (like how they've spelt it Ryker).

    But Wikipedia informs me that her full name is Cheryl Gates McFadden and she uses both names:

    She is usually credited as Cheryl McFadden when working as a choreographer and Gates McFadden when working as an actress

  • Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

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  • Absolutely, that's what I was thinking of when I wrote "tedious"; all the stuff you mentioned matters a lot to the user (or product owner) but isn't the interesting stuff for a programmer.

  • Dr. Pulaski Appreciation Post

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  • I was referring to this trivia:

    Picard's scene with Guinan was not in the original script. Melinda M. Snodgrass was told that they needed a "Ten-Forward" scene to accommodate Whoopi Goldberg coming in that week.

    I took it as true, although I had a quick go at finding where this claim came from and am drawing a blank

  • Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

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  • [...] a lot of AI companies are “selling dreams” that this tech will go from 80 percent correct to 100 percent.

    In fact, Marcus thinks that last 20 percent might be the hardest thing of all.

    Yeah, it's well known, e.g. people say "the last 20% takes 80% of the effort". All the most tedious and difficult stuff gets postponed to the end, which is why so many side projects never get completed.

  • Dr. Pulaski Appreciation Post

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  • I watched that one last night and had the same thought - she's been the face of nonacceptance towards Data and although Bruce Maddox is far more extreme in his views it seemed like a waste of her character building.

    That said, they'd already shoehorned in a Guinan scene so I don't know where they'd find the time.

  • xkcd #2937: Room Code

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  • Ah, the major system. I have a slightly different version: 1 is L, 5 is f/v (FiVe) and 8 is ch/J. Sun, sci-fi, lichee maybe.

  • TNG v DS9

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  • Picard gets pegged? I clearly missed the TNG After Dark episodes.

  • Microsoft starts bundling Windows 11 with its 'PC optimizer' app in some regions

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  • And PC Optimiser in other regions.

  • Mushroom ID

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  • I love fungi facts.

  • Sam Altman is full of shit (and totally has a thing for Scarlett Johansson)

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  • Altman is the P.T. Barnum of tech

    Love it, so many great quotes in this piece but this is my favourite.

  • Carley Thorne, "Permission to Pause"

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  • The link includes the short story, so don't read the AI summary in these comments since it's mixed the article and the story!

  • Maybe some ALGOL 58 while we're at it too.

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  • Lisp variants like Clojure are being used for new projects (e.g. Logseq) but I'd be surprised to hear of anyone choosing COBOL for a greenfield project.

  • @roguecache's solarpunk logo v2

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  • [History] An editor letter by Edsger Dijkstra, titled: "go to statements considered harmful" (march 1968).

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  • I wasn't saying that unit tests replaces readability, I was saying that back in the 60s they'd reason and debug using their brains (and maybe pen and paper), with more use of things like formal proofs for correctness. Now that we write more complicated programs in more powerful environments, it's rare to do this (we'd use breakpoints, unit tests, fuzzing, etc).

  • [History] An editor letter by Edsger Dijkstra, titled: "go to statements considered harmful" (march 1968).

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  • For such an influential letter, I don't find his arguement all that compelling. I agree that not using go to will often lead to better structured (and more maintainable) programs, but I don't find his metric of "indexable process progress" to satisfyingly explain why that is.

    Perhaps it's because at that time people would be running the programs in their heads before submitting them for processing, so they tended to use more of a computer scientist mindset - whereas now we're more likely to use test cases to convince ourselves that code is correct.

  • Community

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  • Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar

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  • There's the idiom "return to the fold" which means come back to a group, but aside from that I don't think many non-farmers know that meaning of fold.

  • Hey kid

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  • This was my face when I foolishly asked my maths teacher what pi was - he spoke for a long time, I understand nothing and I was late to my next class.

    I'm not a teacher, but I'm so ready for a kid (or anyone) to ask me this so I can do a better job. Ideally somewhere I can get hold of coins because who carries those any more?

  • Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows

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  • In Foobar2000, Shpeck allows you to run those old Winamp vis plugins - I have Milkdrop 2.2 with all those old classics. They still look great on modern tech!