JWBananas @ JWBananas @startrek.website

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In season 1 they used a lot of practical effects (i.e. puppets) for the Gorn babies and then layered CG atop. They may have done the same here.

My captions! I can't hear without my captions!

Edit: Now they're working. Weird.

You could try running for US Representative in NY's third district?

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This. None of the major automotive subs that I subscribed to on the old site even participated in the blackout.

This is how you know it's a good show.

The true fans come out of the woodwork to bemoan every single new Trek.

If cultured meat becomes cost-effective to produce, it may become the filler.

I am sorry that you had to personally experience data loss from one specific hardware failure. I will amend the post to indicate that a proper hardware RAID controller should use the SNIA Common RAID DDF. Even mdadm can read it in the event of a controller failure.

Any mid- to high-tier MegaRAID card should support it. I have successfully pulled disks directly from a PERC 5 and imported them to a PERC 8 without issues due to the standardized format.

ZFS is great too if you have the knowledge and know-how to maintain it properly. It's extremely flexible and extremely powerful. But like most technologies, it comes with its own set of tradeoffs. It isn't the most performant out-of-the-box, and it has a lot of knobs to turn. And no filesystem, regardless of how resilient it is, will ever be as resilient to power failures as a battery/supercapacitor-backed path to NVRAM.

To put it simply, ZFS is sufficiently complex to be much more prone to operator error.

For someone with the limited background knowledge that the OP seems to have on filesystem choices, it definitely wouldn't be the easiest or fastest choice for putting together a reliable and performant system.

If it works for you personally, there's nothing wrong with that.

Or if you want to trade anecdotes, the only volume I've ever lost was on a TrueNAS appliance after power failure, and even iXsystems paid support was unable to assist. Ended up having to rebuild and copy from an off-site snapshot.

Sure, but wouldn't the calorimeter's reading still be the theoretical maximum since it's based on thermodynamics? In other words, an inefficient metabolism may see a net gain of fewer calories, but it shouldn't ever see greater.

They read as zero due to rounding. In packet form they're almost always cut with dextrose/maltodextrin (which is definitely not zero-calorie).

no dramas where the events in the episode are less important than the character development

VOY. What you're looking for is VOY. The character development always reset at the end of the episode, just like the damage to the ship.

You certainly aren't describing TNG.

Once upon a time, a prominent YouTuber released an entire video rant about the fan backlash he was receiving.

He had spent years building up his channel and producing quality content of a very specific type. He had almost a million subscribers, and he was previously received very well.

Then one day he decided to spend months producing and releasing content of a closely related – but different – type. At first it was mostly received well, but it ultimately wasn't what people wanted from his channel. And it just kept coming.

Enter the rant. The short of his argument was that he was producing quality content with high production value. And that should be good enough for his fans.

But it wasn't. Because it wasn't the content that they wanted.

And he kept going. So his views went down. And his subscribers went down too. And he got so frustrated that he ended up just walking away for months.

This week's episode of Strange New Worlds was objectively good. It was well written and well performed.

But I still squirmed through it. And if I hadn't suspected that it might be very important to the long-term plot, I probably would have just skipped it altogether. I'll certainly skip it on any rewatch.

And that's okay. We're allowed to like some things and not like others. Strange New Worlds seems to be on a path du jour, and there's nothing wrong with that.

But when people give a simple star rating, they aren't leaving a professional review. They aren't considering production value. They're saying they liked it, or they hated it, or something in-between.

From IMDB instructions on leaving ratings:

Our ratings are on a scale from 1 - 10. 1 meaning the title was terrible and one of the worst titles you've seen and 10 meaning you think it was excellent.

That's it.

That's why you're seeing those one-star reviews. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Frankly of the 19 episodes released so far, this is the only one I can say that I really didn't like. All in all, I think that's a pretty good average.

For all we know, it was a temporal paradox in which Boimler was always the reason Spock changed back in the first place.

O'Brien La'an must suffer

How many hardware RAID controllers have you had fail? I have had zero of 800 fail. And even if one did, the RAID metadata is stored on the last block of each drive. Pop in new card, select import, done.

There's a reason TruNAS and such use ZFS now.

Do you mean for the boot drive?

This might be controversial here. But if reliability is your biggest concern, you really can't go wrong with:

• A proper hardware RAID controller

You want something with patrol read, supercapacitor- or battery-backed cache/NVRAM, and a fast enough chipset/memory to keep up with the underlying drives.

• LVM with snapshots
• Ext4 or XFS
• A basic UPS that you can monitor with NUT to safely shut down your system during an outage.

I would probably stick with ext4 for boot and XFS for data. They are both super reliable, and both are usually close to tied for general-purpose performance on modern kernels.

That's what we do in enterprise land. Keep it simple. Use discrete hardware/software components that do one thing and do it well.

I had decade-old servers with similar setups that were installed with Ubuntu 8.04 and upgraded all the way through 18.04 with minimal issues (the GRUB2 migration being one of the bigger pains). Granted, they went through plenty of hard drives. But some even got increased capacity along the way (you just replace them one at a time and let the RAID resilver in-between).

Edit to add: The only gotcha you really have to worry about is properly aligning the filesystem to the underlying RAID geometry (if the RAID controller doesn't expose it to the OS for you). But that's more important with striping.

Lithium batteries

Munich

Thankfully this one doesn't require AI. You can generally find the most important sentences in an article by counting the occurrences of every unique word, throwing out the common articles (e.g. a, an, the), and then extracting the sentences which contain the most frequently used words.