It falls victim to the old SciFi trope “The only way to beat a Good Protagonist is with an Evil Protagonist”. And like all the Picard-Era movies, it has a habit of forgetting what made the television series gripping. Perhaps because it’s always afraid of doing something with a character that they can’t undo with a handwave by the time the credits roll.

Janeway was the best starship captain as a kid

Definitely feels generational. I’ve got a friend who is a Janeway diehard. But she didn’t really get into it until Voyager.

Picard will always be my captain of choice, but that might have its roots in watching the show as a little kid with my very bald father whom my mom teasingly referred to as “The Captain” when the show was on.

😏

Pretty sure that was just Star Trek Beyond, the movie where the crew defeated a horde of ravenous space insects by blasting Beastie Boys hit single “Sabotage”.

In the early iterations of the 1960s smash hit Star Trek, audiences were shocked and titillated to see a white male officer in a romantic relationship with a black woman officer.

This continues to be shocking today, as modern audiences are not ready to see any (fully clothed) woman in any form of Sci-Fi media doing anything at all.

DS9 great example of non utopia.

It’s a great example of the struggles to achieve utopia and the decisions made in pursuit of those goals.

Shit TNG had a ton of examples of how Starfleet isn’t perfect and there’s still political bs.

Practically a running joke that every Starfleet Admiral is trash, sure.

But they’re typically described as contrary to the ideological underpinnings of Star Fleet, not agents within a system that rewards and reproduces corruption.

Borg were the good guys the whole time. History is simply written by the most violent and territorial species.

🎶 What doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger🎵

🎵 Stand a little taller 🎶

🎶 Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone 🎵

Cursed Y-axis

Not sure if bored, sarcastic human or highly advanced artificial intelligence.

UwUID

I agree that the more verbose style is more explicit, and so more readable.

On its face, its readable. But when you’re dealing with 10,000 lines of code in a file, it becomes this ugly morass of extra nothingness to scroll through.

The only part that has me stumped is the unary question-mark operator: private static Singleton? _instance = null;

It transforms a strict variable into a nullable variable. I most commonly see it with primitive types.

So, for instance

int myInt = null

is an illegal assignment, but

int? myInt = null

works fine.

Why does a public class instantiation need this? Idfk. That might be extraneous. But I wouldn’t throw away the whole code block rewrite over that one character.

Boiling down multi-line expressions into single line statements has been a trend in Comp-Sci for a while.

That

X = IsY ? Y : Z

format has been around for decades.

I generally prefer it to clunky if-statements

When you’re an old-head who recognizes the old style it is easy to read the old style.

When you’re a new-head who recognizes the new style it is easy to read the new style.

When you’ve never seen C# before, they’re both gibberish.

When you’ve got experience with both, it can get a little confusing but you’ll catch on without too much difficulty.

But its fucking wild to think the left side is more readable than the right side, simply because it is more verbose.

From my experience in O&G, the thing that delivers bonuses/promotions/etc is making clients happy. A lot of that just comes down to rapid turn around time, low system downtown, and low instance of repeat fixes for known issues.

I’ve been fielding Azure DevOps implementation over the last six months (to date, we’ve just been getting Server/DB Admins to shepherd the files to our systems manually) and getting it right has been a big part of my evaluation for the year.

Cleaning up old tech debt is actually a good job for book smart / business dumb new hires. Its the kind of work that gets you experience working in the environment and learning the landscape of the application, while adding value to the firm straight off the starting block.

And, in theory, the faster you clean up the backlog, the more attractive you become to your seniors when they’re fishing around for support on new projects.

Broadly speaking, technical debt is a trade-off between quality and expediency. The problem isn’t that it exists. The problem is that businesses will saddle themselves with debt and refuse to pay it back.

The difference between swiping a credit card and closing the balance out at the end of the month. And carrying around a forever-rising balance on a card that’s charging you 29% APY.

They had a better joke, but they converted it to a Webp and lost the punchline.

Extremely talented expert programmer with 30 years experience: “I need an API for the Windows registry that’s accessible in perl syntax within the Android 8.5 OS, and it’s got to be written in Chinese”

Zero Results

College dropout with two years at Best Buy who got the job from his uncle: “How make phone edit WimOSreg fewest characters chinglish”

1879563822560 results, answer in first screen

Amazing that they weren’t using Signal

I wouldn’t rule it out. But you can’t do public comms over Signal.

it’s even more amazing they weren’t using something like Meshtastic.

Again, I wouldn’t rule it out. But if I’m on a public group that’s very likely compromised by the IDF, I’m not going to announce all the other protocols they need to block.

He’s just reporting one avenue that’s been closed to the protesters by a corporate entity that is now complicit in genocide.