I think they meant to rotate through different pictures, not to physically walk up and rotate the ipad every few hours.

Which is kind of the point of a digital picture frame, cause… why use an electronic device to display a single static picture. Just go to a store and get your picture professionally printed if you only want one.

They could have saved even more by not putting batteries in them, or motors… Man, these things coulda had a way bigger profit margin!

Fits on a 3.5" floppy… interesting.

I understand how you feel, but reading your story, I think when you were grabbing the product and telling him to “just drop it an leave” is what ended your career.

It sucks, you got attacked, but you don’t need to trade your personal safety for some store product.

Just based on this story here, where you are giving a very one sided view of the situation, you intentionally put yourself at risk and kept escalating. I hate that a criminal put you in a situation where you ended up getting fired, but there was more than one mistake here.

It’s an interesting story anyway, kind of fun how the early days of the internet people just decided to build stuff and that random little tool from decades ago continue to be the backbone of much of the world. Imagine if all that stuff was proprietary…

But rand() is a number between 0-1, so it will never be >10

Basically this is just #define True = False

The cat physics are also outstanding. You can tell there were animators just sitting there studying how cats move for many, many hours.

Yeah, Stargate did it better, because kidnapped humans inhabiting the galaxy makes more sense. Solves the “everyone looks human” problem without the “we have proof of evolution here” problem.

So, the biggest tech of 2023 is a bunch of promises of things coming soon?

They don’t say why the US hasn’t paid out yet, and the way it’s stated in this article and the linked article inside implies that it’s a failing on the government side.

With the significant delays and attempts to bring in off shore labor, it’s much more likely that the factory hasn’t hit the targets needed to receive the subsidy.

The government is using the cash as an incentive to build the factory, not just handing out cash for no reason. Just like the Foxconn factory that failed in Wisconsin, they need to hit milestones to get the money, it doesn’t get handed out upfront, otherwise they’d risk a company just taking the money and running.

Because requiring blond hair and blue eyes would, by definition, exclude people based on race.

I think you mean Tuvix

That’s my point though. They don’t really address how McCoy got the glasses he gave to Kirk in Star Trek II. Did he buy them? Did he just ask someone for them? Did he barter for them for services?

Same thing with alcohol, some people pull out alcohol they obtained through some back alley, black market deal. But what was traded for this black market alcohol?

Star Trek was pretty inconsistent with money. Riker often gambled for money, and they certainly treated specific items as “valuable” (historical items, weapons, and especially liquor.)

I think some of the writers just didn’t know how to picture a post-money world. But by DS9 they mostly treated things like latinum an inter-species trading valuable (especially to/from the Ferengi) or just something that’s needed in the outskirts of the Federation.

Ramanujan reborn - the main protagonist from the Wheel of Maths books.

That’s actually not true, and framework has similar issues. There was vampire power drains from certain mix and match options with HDMI and USB-C ports.

https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-high-battery-drain-during-suspend/3736

On the AMD framework, the upper right and left USB-C ports are slightly different from the lower ports

https://community.frame.work/t/usb4-and-thunderbolt-on-amd/30771

I love my framework laptop, but we shouldn’t pretend that they are free from quirks that plague other brands.

Checkov was the original Wesley Crusher.

Nah, they just made a stupid joke about how he doesn’t think of her as a woman.

His second in command was a woman already in the pilot.

Show was written in a time before streaming, before people could record TV. She was there to explain to the audience, who were assumed to not be aware of the previous episodes, who the bad guys are.