xyguy

joined 2 years ago
[–] xyguy@startrek.website 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Been there. Reason I didnt is because other people would bear the shit if I did. Im in a much better place at the moment but I felt exactly the way ypu do about the world.

There is a fuckload of propaganda, and a lot of it is meant to make you lose hope at ever seeing the system change. That makes the opinion that things can and might improve and you are going to be a part of it, no matter how small the most radical thing of all.

Genuinely what helped me through it was volunteering. Everything is shit wall to wall BUT this one tiny thing is better than it was because of me. Its a sustaining feeling for sure.

Keep hanging in there for the ones you love, and the ones that love you.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Its sort of related to the reason that Sharknado isnt a good movie but The Room is even though they both objectively suck.

A genuine but shitty attempt at art will always be more valuable and interesting than a soulless replication of the thing its trying to emulate.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 39 points 6 months ago

Ok have it your way. No more copyright strikes on YouTube then. And you should open source all the code that Google has written across the board.

We cant let copyright get in the way of innovation.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah fair enough.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

AKA Higgins and the other less cool guys. Nice score!

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Apu anger intensifies

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

The main point is that the disk controller gets exponentially more complicated as capacity increases and that the problem isnt with space for the nand chips bit that the controller would be too power hungry or expensive to manufacture for disks bigger than around 4tb.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Relevant video about the problems with high capacity ssds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2i8wZCXDF4

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 7 points 7 months ago

The Amount of Ads you see won't change, just their relevance to you.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago

I would also like to make a motion as a member of the panel that a critter would not be anything less than half the size of a mouse. Bugs aren't critters unless they are big spiders for instance but a tiny frog definitely is.

Bees and wasps I dont know.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

I've always considered the symbiont to be like a brain extension that while attached allows the host to access all the memories. Sort of like a flash drive adding storage to a computer. Even if the initial computer crashes the flash drive can still be plugged into a new machine and the files recovered. And, an unjoined trill (like what happened to Jadzia in Invasive Procedures can only remember what was recently accessed in the symbiont from her own brain (like a data cache).

If we are dealing with Thomas Riker or William Boimler Logic, I would say that you now have Jadzia 1 and Jadzia 2 and each is their own Dax as well.

In case number 2, I would say that most likely, as long as parallel Dax is compatible with Prime Trills, you'd still be able to pass it along to the next person. I have a feeling that the Dax's might argue about who deserves what though. That would be/have been an interesting episode.

And as long as I am writing fan fiction, it would be interesting if Dax got some sort of worm concussion and lost certain parts of its memory. Could anything be done? Is it the same Dax without the memories of Curzon? Can we travel to an alternate timeline or back to the past to get a close approximation of the Curzon memories and somehow do a Young Frankenstein brain transfer to set everything right? Also the B story is Quark and Dr. Bashir having love triangle problems with alternate Dax or whatever.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

Right. Just make a super super good compatibility layer so whatever you have next will be compatible and give up on Windows proper. They can call it Windows 360.

view more: ‹ prev next ›