board room filled with parasites

“Ssssss, the humanssss are coming for our jobssssss!”

Russia is doing what no other country could do - Westernizing Ukraine.

The Roku box was one of the good ones… about ten years ago. Though maybe this is just a TV thing. TIL Roku makes actual screens.

In the past few years especially, I’ve seen so many unshakable “good ones” go bad. Some, in the worst possible way.

This looks shopped.

I can tell by the pixels and by having seen quite a few shops in my days.

Whatever they said, Warp 9.975 is NOT the maximum sustainable speed of an Intrepid-class starship. It’s the maximum possible speed… for a few hour at best, before the warp core needs to be powered down to prevent everything from melting.

It’s not a stretch to assume that the initial 75-year estimate was based on average sustainable speed and taking into account time needed to stop, refuel, maintain, repair, etc. Over that long a time, it wouldn’t be enough to just pour more deuterium into it. Most of the warp engine would have to be rebuilt or replaced.

Also, the computer was struggling to figure out exactly where they were, so it might have been off by a few years at first. When Seven built astrometrics, they immediately updated their ETA.

Calling the stage units prototypes is being nice. The reality was that at that point the iPhone had barely gotten to a proof of concept stage. Months before this event, the developers were still using a giant desktop tower to simulate the phone’s hardware.

That the photos of the phone were real and not concept art, that the stage units weren’t just unusable rubber dummies was a magic trick itself.

When the developers revealed years later that the iPhone presentation (just the presentation, not even the actual launch) was a make or break moment for the company, they absolutely were not kidding.

And then they went from “should not even be working” test units to fully functional production units in six months!

Whatever your opinion of Jobs or Apple, credit where credit is due.

“If this is your first night at Mozilla.social… you have to fight.”

You do not want the lizard prince to touch your nuts.

That’s not what Grandfathered means. Basically, original subscribers are being forced onto a new contract.

Looks kinda Discoprise to me.

What’s more threatening? A phaser-sized starship or a starship-sized phaser?

IIRC, this was made using AI.

May your portfolio flourish this commercial season.

‘Microsoft, the company that allowed the app to bypass its gatekeepers, was surprised by getting caught in the act and now promises to come up with an excuse that shifts the blame away from them as soon as possible.’

It’s a really cool discovery, but I don’t know how Apple is suppose to program against it.

What surprises me is how much of a time range each photo has to work with. Enough time for Tessa to put down one arm and then the other. It’s basically recording a mini-video and selecting frames from it. I wonder if turning off things like Live Photo (which retroactively starts the video a second or two before you actually press record) would force the Camera app to select from a briefer range of time.

Maybe combining facial recognition with post processing to tell the software that if it thinks it’s looking at multiple copies of the same person, it needs to time-sync the sections of frames chosen for the final photo. It wouldn’t be foolproof, but it would be better than nothing.

Since Minecraft is one of the rare birds that you buy once and own forever (I paid $20 in 2011 while it was still in alpha beta, and I’ve been playing on that $20 ever since), it’s outstanding that profits are still trending upwards.

Mojang could have moved to a subscription model, but they didn’t. They could have stopped work on Minecraft years ago and charged $80 for Minecraft 2, but they didn’t. Let us count our blessings.

Maybe it was third-person at some point, but Halo was released as a first-person shooter.

My favorite part of the story is how the best version of Combat Evolved ended up being the Mac port.

It’s true though.

Publish instruction on how to use IKEA parts to make custom builds and they will send a lawyer to talk to you for free.

One of the things that makes TNG so good is that they had, not one, but two main actors trained in classical theater. Spiner being one of them.

Difficult to tell when he’s playing an android, but every single time he was allowed to express emotion it filled the screen.

The cake is cake, just to mess with you.