15189530, seared into my brain like my childhood phone number.

I don't love most Lwaxana episodes, but that one and Half a Life are wonderful.

God damn right I'll do Picard.

It's * exactly * how reference apps with in-app purchases should work. You can pay a la carte for specific lists of recipes, or pay more (once) for everything forever. It's a really good app with a fun design. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

My favorite example of this is from The Chase, where they discover the origin of all humanoid species in the galaxy, probably the most important discovery made in the history of Starfleet, and it's never mentioned again.

I use the Control D private DNS, which performs similar functions to a pi-hole, but I think is easier to set up.

Only $500 if billed annually (16% savings)

Only $500 if billed annually (16% savings)

When I had a Pixel 6, there was a bug that caused awful battery drain when on 5G, so I changed the preferred network setting to LTE for like a month while waiting for them to fix the issue.

It had NO effect on my regular use at all. Running speed tests showed that my max download speed was significantly slower while using LTE, but that's obviously not indicative of real world usage. If there was any difference between LTE and 5G in terms of page loading, media streaming, etc during regular daily activities, it wasn't perceptible.

I'm in the same boat. I make drives that require refueling even if I leave home with a full tank once every other year (Philly to Indianapolis). Even with a very high range EV, that would probably require multiple recharges each way, so that's not a great use case for EVs, but you know what? That's what rental cars are for. I'll happily get an EV for the 99% of driving that I do within three hours of the Philly metro area and rent an ICE car for the at worst annual trip I take that isn't convenient in an EV.

Of course, this is all theoretical for me because I drive a company car and so don't have much choice in my vehicle, and I probably won't have to buy my own car until that job perk goes away.

Shatgorn!

It's wild that in the few instances where the generative AI feature would actually work quite well (summarizing lists of distinct instructions), it often pushes long-form video instead.

Yeah, it's definitely a bad episode, but it's really just a pretty bog standard "new technology goes haywire" Trek episode. It was a good episode for RDM acting-wise, and the makeup effects for Paris' deterioration were pretty great.

Because at the point that this episode occurred, Hugh wasn't really an ex-Borg yet. He wasn't part of the overall Borg collective, but he was part of the rogue Borg, and whether or not he was fully an individual read probably still up for debate.

Agreed. He doesn't have any trouble interpreting or expressing feelings, it's just that he's kind of a prick with an identity crisis.

When I was in high school, there were a few kids whose parents would let them have drinking parties and would drink with the kids. Even as clueless teenagers, most of us thought that was weird and creepy.

Yep. I have no doubt that Gates and Bezos and Zuckerberg are genuinely very smart and hard-working people, but there are a LOT of smart and hard-working people with poor parents, and you don't see a lot of billionaires in that group.

Holy shit, $170 a year for pro? Who on Earth thinks it's worth that? SAAS is generally an infuriating model, but I definitely think I get $100 worth of use out of Office 365 over the course of a year. Evernote is just not that useful.

"For you, the day Elim Garak graced your ready room was the most important day of your war. But for me, it was a Tuesday."

The Padres play in Seoul for the series opener next season. If they move Kim, I will be so pissed off on behalf of the people of South Korea.

I've survived layoffs at companies where we were told that following the cuts, we were going to get leaner and more agile and more efficient.

I'm sure you'll be just shocked to learn that what actually happened is I ended up doing twice as much work to pick up the laid off people's slack, and at the end of the year got a smaller bonus than the previous year, along with a raise that didn't cover inflation. Overall company profits, of course, hit a record high.

It's Solok and it ain't close.

Say what you will about the entertainment merits of Real Housewives and Kardashian shows, at least the stars of those shows signed up to have their drama exploited for ratings. The producers of shows like Hoarders and Intervention are morally bankrupt. TLC is basically an entire network devoted to turning people's mental health and addiction crises into spectacle for cheap entertainment, and it's absolutely disgusting.

Yeah, but then all the dealers start singing happy birthday as they bring my crack out to me and it's really embarrassing.

Set your browser up with a good private DNS. I use Control D, which you can use to block a lot of annoying crap.

I'm actually not nearly as worried about PPA abusing this as I am about the company that administers the software.

It absolutely rules that RS had this locked and loaded.

Really sucks that this world historical monster died unpunished after living a long and happy life, though.

Nerds deserve their first amendment rights, too.

Ain't gonna happen. Best case scenario, we overspend on Chapman and end up regretting it. Most likely scenario, Urias is our opening day starter at third, we make no big splashes in either the trade market or free agency, and Stanton buys another yacht.

Did she really have to? Nurses act independently in regular medical settings, but when there's a doctor with the sum total of a civilization's medical knowledge available 24/7, everyone else is just a pair of helping hands.

This is wokeness' fault!

The actual behind-the-scenes reason is much funnier.

Just a REALLY distressing percentage of Hollywood does. The apologia for that fucking freak is absolutely baffling.

I like the idea in theory, and it's one of the seemingly rare good uses of AI. My concern is that the bill doesn't have any requirement for outside auditing of the system, and as far as I've seen, the data use/storage policies are nowhere to be found for public review.

I emailed my councilperson about this, but haven't gotten a response yet.

Yep, "happily married" is definitely a phrase that comes to mind when I think of Miles and Keiko.

Same.

Best boss I ever had!

There's only one Kevin in Trek that I'm willing to recognize!

the least tailorly way possible

I don't know, I think he usually finds a way to thread the needle.

A real shame. The first generation product was such a piece of crap and the product name itself was so incredibly bad that by the time the Zune HD, which was better than any competing product in just every every way, came out, the damage to the brand was irreparable.