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> [I Love Lucy, Bewitched] These are good examples of TV pushing the envelope on societal norms, but if you are discussing "pushing a political view", they rank far below "Trek's f…

> Again, I never said anything about race or gender. I never said that you did. But you did propose, and you continue to double down on, the idea that the original Star Trek was no…

> Current Earth politics do not belong in shows You’re really displaying some ignorance here. Star Trek has always has a political slant. The basic premise is about a bunch of peop…

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> Virtual dispatch absolutely has an overhead, but absolutely nobody in their right mind should be using COM interfaces in a critical section of code. I could definitely be wrong, …

Everyone gets to choose which language they use for their personal projects. Where are all the Racket personal projects? N.B. I say this as someone who personally contributed small…

> Opinion The single word "opinion" is not an answer to the question I asked. > Another example: ... "Yanny or Laurel" This is not remotely the same thing. > I can understand how s…

> Is AI conscious? I believe "yes" [...] and in a way that somehow means I don't think anyone who believes "no" is wrong. What does it even mean to "believe the answer is yes", but…

This sounds like it should be true, but from life experience, I don't really think it is. It would be rational for things to work that way, but personalities and emotions are not v…

The article mentions that the main pumping unit could draw water from 8 hydrants at once. So 7000 ft of total hose to get to 8 hydrants sounds like it makes sense. I wonder if mayb…

> no, you need to explain why you thought What kind of purity test bullshit rhetoric are you using here? Whenever you find yourself saying, “you need to explain yourself”, step bac…

That’s a separate concern. Every command that you issue to the ssd returns a response. It would be nice to have a bunch of performance counters that tell us where the time went wit…

You're using hydrogen in a balloon. Where its very low density is a boon. Hydrogen gas also has very low energy density. To store enough of it to be useful, it has to be pressurize…

Thank you for this good description.

But we know, with absolute certainty, from the Dominion lawsuit subpoenas, that Tucker Carlson was privately telling people that Trump was awful, while publicly saying the opposite…

I had PRK done at Stanford in 2007 or 2008. Now it's nearly 20 years later, and I just turned 48. My vision has deteriorated from "old age" enough now that I might have considered …

Are you sure? My Bosch dishwasher has wifi connectivity and a companion app.

That headline is a stunning achievement. I honestly wish there were some way to better call attention to it. I would have missed it if it weren't for your comment.

The retractable cable is overkill. I remodeled my house a couple of years ago and replace most of the wall outlets with the kind that have 2 AC outlets and 2 usb ports, a USB-A and…

How much dressing do you make at once, and for how many single-person large salads? Can you tell us the size/weight of the tube of paste and the anchovy tin? I agree that anchovy i…

I think it's far from useless... Because it helps to focus on what could possibly be happening. It's not "true enough for an 8 year old's purposes", it is the actual truth. The air…

If a work is older than 200 years and worth reading, then original editions are going to be valuable. But it will also be out of copyright so the cost of getting a “new” copy is ba…

You misremember… That episode is about helping someone move, not giving them a ride to the airport.

“A Deepness in the Sky”, by Vernor Vinge. Excellent book, with a concept very close to this as an element. You don’t need to read “A Fire Upon the Deep” first… the stories are more…

The company said they were going to do something, they got threatened by the current administration, and then the company reversed course. Please name a single comparable situation…