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Is that… ICQ? Why?

Never forget Voyager, where Torres could invent a brand new method of transporter lock and implement it on-the-fly all through a console on the bridge, but even the bio-neural gel packs weren’t smart enough to get a power requisition down to the bottom decks without someone putting it into a padd and physically walking it down there.

With some of the biggest baseball caps you’ve ever seen

Meanwhile, on Sync…

really

anyone

Has

The manufacture of 2.5 years of disposable diapers has a lower carbon footprint than the energy usage to launder cloth diapers over the same time period.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/291130/scho0808boir-e-e.pdf

There are actually three.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139191/whats-the-difference-between-primary-selection-and-clipboard-buffer

Apple had planned to have its modem chip ready to use in the new iPhone models. But tests late last year found the chip was too slow and prone to overheating. Its circuit board was so big it would take up half an iPhone, making it unusable.

Considering how bad some generations of Qualcomm chips have been about this, the Apple chip must have been seriously bad.

“Just because Apple builds the best silicon on the planet, it’s ridiculous to think that they could also build a modem,” said former Apple wireless director Jaydeep Ranade, who left the company in 2018, the year the project began.

Well yeah. It’s certainly much easier when you start with ARM reference designs. Apple has what, the modem IP they bought from Intel? A company that, for all its prowess, decided to give up the modem market after only a few years rather than continue to refine the modem that they already brought to market?

Even Samsung gives in and uses Qualcomm modems in the US. And they’re a major provider of the baseband hardware on the other end of the connection!

Apple will get there. But there is no way that their aggressive timeline was ever reasonable. Gotta make big promises to the shareholders, I guess.

And via a website too

Everyone knows real admins do curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/something/or/other/install.sh | sudo bash

Another gem of the Internet history: YouTube video IDs with actual dashes in them!

The scientific, peer-reviewed answer is that it is significantly under-diagnosed in adults as well as in those AFAB of all ages. Most sources say up to 80% of adults with ADHD are undiagnosed and/or untreated.

It’s an inkjet thing.

When you run out of color, Brother lets you select to print using only black ink. But after 4 weeks, they lock you out from that too.

It’s documented on their website. No more printing at that point until you replace the offending color cartridge. They do at least let you scan though.

Meanwhile I have printed exactly one single black-only page since the last time I put in a new yellow cartridge (3 months ago) and yet my yellow ink is almost 1/4 depleted at this point. I’ve just been watching it slowly disappear.

Ah, yes, Brother. The company that uses all your yellow ink to clean the print heads and to print tracking dots, and then only gives you up to 4 weeks to print without it before locking you out entirely.

Once upon a time, a prominent YouTuber released an entire video rant about the fan backlash he was receiving.

He had spent years building up his channel and producing quality content of a very specific type. He had almost a million subscribers, and he was previously received very well.

Then one day he decided to spend months producing and releasing content of a closely related – but different – type. At first it was mostly received well, but it ultimately wasn’t what people wanted from his channel. And it just kept coming.

Enter the rant. The short of his argument was that he was producing quality content with high production value. And that should be good enough for his fans.

But it wasn’t. Because it wasn’t the content that they wanted.

And he kept going. So his views went down. And his subscribers went down too. And he got so frustrated that he ended up just walking away for months.

This week’s episode of Strange New Worlds was objectively good. It was well written and well performed.

But I still squirmed through it. And if I hadn’t suspected that it might be very important to the long-term plot, I probably would have just skipped it altogether. I’ll certainly skip it on any rewatch.

And that’s okay. We’re allowed to like some things and not like others. Strange New Worlds seems to be on a path du jour, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

But when people give a simple star rating, they aren’t leaving a professional review. They aren’t considering production value. They’re saying they liked it, or they hated it, or something in-between.

From IMDB instructions on leaving ratings:

Our ratings are on a scale from 1 - 10. 1 meaning the title was terrible and one of the worst titles you’ve seen and 10 meaning you think it was excellent.

That’s it.

That’s why you’re seeing those one-star reviews. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

Frankly of the 19 episodes released so far, this is the only one I can say that I really didn’t like. All in all, I think that’s a pretty good average.

root causes

Oh, great! So it’s going to restore all that state funding that universities used to get? The funding that student loans were used to make up after it was cut?

No?

Oh well.