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I'm convinced the AI models ran across the "best place to test is in production" joke in training and thought it was a valid process.

I mean, it is a valid process. You will get far faster results that way than on a test server.

Many of the sites which operate age verification services say they do not retain ID, videos or images required for them to carry out age checks for any longer than necessary.

Pinky promise?

How about I just pay for a good VPN that isn't under your finger and avoid a "oops, somehow these IDs got leaked" crisis.

"But then how are we supposed to know what you're doing?"

Exactly.

Agreed, and actually I'm fine with some ideas not being everyone's favorite. As the Vulcan philosophy says, infinite diversity in infinite combinations (IDIC).

What I was mainly referring to was the VERY long standing attitude from Paramount to viciously come after anyone who does anything remotely resembling Star Trek assets. Non-profit fan based stuff included. If they aren't getting a cut, then you WILL NOT do it. Learned that in the 80s, wondering why programs made n BASIC were obviously modeled off of Star Trek stuff, but used other names for everything.

Funded by public money through taxes, now have to be funded directly through donations from the public. While the public still gets taxed. Hmmm.

The complicated math is for the one guy who made the tables and charts. The rest of you just look it up. It's fine, it's how we've always done it. Even sending people to the Moon had lookup tables for precalculated things. Although those guys were legend, ever try to use a sliderule?

Been on the internet too long, was searching for something resembling Loss.

Your value is your money and what money you bring in for your employer and taxes. That's it. If they can't have access to your money in some way, you are a non-person to them.

Those driving simulators where you can adjust the reaction time to show how someone impaired would react are scary. And that's just reaction time, a drunk/exhausted person may not even realize how off they are so everything is fine to them.

True, but only if the latest theories on Big Crunch being back on the table don't hold up. Debian ought to not only push out 64 bit time, but place "now" right in the middle to cover any discoveries of an older universe. Hell, they ought to do that and make it 128 bit, to cover anything.

Exponentials can be profound when you grasp them for that fleeting second.

Be amazing if the whole concept of that episode was first and foremost a setup to use that for a punchline.

Seems like it works fine for a meme purpose, which it was obviously for. The framing and focus is actually spot on for giving all the info a viewer needs.

but they've (Paramount) also been going downhill for a while.

lots of long time Star Trek fans' eyes twitch

Indeed.

Sounds like you're with a small company. Great news, it's worse in the bigger ones where the influence and opinions of the working level won't ever reach the ones making such decisions. Over time our computing work has been restricted and tightened so much (for security, you know) that running basic Office stuff can be difficult to do, particularly Excel and macros that we rely on to do our job. The computers have turned into little boxes that are essentially terminals for cloud run crap, and the last new upgrade for one of them (have to replace working equipment with the latest thing for security, again) was given to us with not only no Office installed, it was locked down so hard a user logged in couldn't save a file on their Desktop or in Documents. Also discovered by accident using a flash drive to transfer files can trigger a Bitlocker lockdown lol. Security again, even though all these units are in a secure building. IT by the way is now I think a single guy for us covering the whole region, probably remotely if he can, and I doubt he's better than the last one we had for years who would call someone else to walk him through stuff.

I don't doubt it's like this in some degree everywhere now.

The larch.

#3.

The... larch.

Good news is that it won't be from Starlink unless they decide to start moving them higher. LEO has atmospheric drag that slowly decays orbits that aren't actively maintained.

Especially in a time where communication was sparse and took a while. So many women have been an important part of science, many were probably never even documented.

Anything is possible in a simulation.

Yes, you do, they just don't tell you because why would they talk about something they either have zero interest it, or a past where they believed but then figured out it wasn't believable anymore for them?

And to follow up, are you okay with that? If not, do you try to convince her to believe to save her? How does she feel about those efforts or lack of?

I know Lemmy's the main "format", but I wish Mbin was included in stuff like this. Maybe for apps it's redundant and pointless?