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FOSS Android app: Loop Habit Tracker
  • I've used this for a while now, and it's an excellent app. It's genuinely refreshing to have apps that just do their job without fuss or feature creep.

  • Take a look around you!
  • That's pretty rough in a lot of ways, but man would that make ASCII box-drawing easier.

  • [meta] confusion around rules
  • I didn't see the content of the post, but the modlog lists the following:

    Removed Post "Unpopular opinion: Wesley Crusher is not the worst TNG character... Alexander is." reason: Rule 1 + No be cares about your “unpopular opinion” luke warm takes

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x08 "Under the Cloak of War"
  • Loved the Clint Howard cameo! Pretty amazing to still have actors all the way from TOS appearing!

  • Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town [31:39]
  • Strange, might be that app, but that seems odd. Here's what it looks like on my end (on desktop): https://i.imgur.com/9PU9A19.png

  • Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town [31:39]
  • Off-topic question, why does your username have a "bot" tag? Are you commenting through a different API or something?

  • Matte paintings
  • I remember seeing a few in an auction a while back. Two things I recall:

    1. Very few of them are full rectangular pieces; they have cutouts for filming which detract from them being pieces to hang (though that's a matter of preference)
    2. Holy hell they were expensive
  • Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed [Opinion]
  • Seems a bit disingenuous to compare the niche of tech folks that used Google+ to the niche that use WeChat, with the later "niche" being... China...

    Not everyone has to agree that dominating a country's social media usage is a good goal, but it clearly is the goal for many companies, and they're going to continue to persue it. Perhaps users of social media should redefine success, but for creators of social media platforms there are absolutely clearly defined measures of success and failure.

  • What are your favourite TNG episodes?
  • One of the things I really like about TNG is that the longer seasons allowed the writers to take more risks outside of the standard "planet of the week" episodes. Some of my favorite episodes are those that dive deep into some of the lesser seen characters and really flesh them out in a way we don't usually get to see in more modern television. It depends if you're more into this vs the more traditional plots, but if so I hope you'll really like the late season episode "Sub Rosa".

  • To anyone who thinks music piracy is dead
  • Was anyone saying it was dead? I guess it took a hit when What went down, but I don't think people are going to stop listening to music...

    This is a good reminder I should get back on soulseek, though; I used to use it and it was pretty great.

  • Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x03 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
  • I don't know if it's a canon connection to Star Trek in particular, but I loved the nod to the trope of using Toronto for NYC/Chicago/wherever.

  • Star Trek viewing party
  • I'd definitely be down to participate if this gets going! Was the other sub daily? weekly?

  • Has anyone else seen this interesting "challenge site" when googling a programming topic?
  • I went through these challenges a while back; they were super fun! I remember at the end there was something about "notify me if there are more challenges" but I don't believe I ever heard anything.

    I'm a sucker for puzzles, and the write-ups for the challenges were the right level of silliness.

  • (Meta) Do we have a general forum for this instance?
  • Seconding the recommendation for thunder; it's the first one I've found with a proper compact mode. Everything is simple and fast without any frills.

  • How a nerdsnipe led to a fast implementation of game of life
  • Super interesting read! Thanks for sharing.

    I'd be interested to see how impactful a sparse representation would be. It's an optimization I know to have been useful from trying it on AoC and similar cellular automata problems, but I have no clue how it would mesh with the other optimizations made here. I would guess its effectiveness would also rely heavily on the particular ruleset you were simulating, as well as your starting state.

  • Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x02 - Ad Astra per Aspera
  • Amazing as always!

    As for regulations around personal logs, Star Trek has a long and confusing history with how it deals with privacy. I swear we've seen personal logs pulled up numerous times before (that one episode in TNG with Geordi and that woman's dog?), including "Crisis Point" as mentioned.

    Given that, I'd take it that Starfleet's rules regarding personal logs are primarily focused on their admissibility in court, rather than general accessibility.

  • Did you know there’s no emoji for the cool S? Please add your name to this petition for change
  • Thanks for sharing this! Very cool to see the work that goes into a proposal, especially knowing that it has paid off.

    From my uninformed perspective, this seems like an easy approval (no doubt due to your convincing proposal), but I'm curious if you were confident it would be accepted when you proposed it? I have no idea how stringent the acceptance process might be.

  • Did you know there’s no emoji for the cool S? Please add your name to this petition for change
  • Not to be a jerk, but the image used there is a pretty bad example of the Cool S. It shouldn't have horizontal ends, and should instead use diagonal lines to connect back to the middle.

    Not that there's exactly one Cool S, but this does not look like the most common or recognizable variant.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x02 "Ad Astra Per Aspera"
  • Honestly, the sets and costumes for SNW are setting the bar for TV shows in general, let alone star trek. Just as much as the new plots, I've been looking forward each week just to the visuals.

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    Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x01 - The Broken Circle
  • Wonderful to see you here, USSBurritoTruck! These posts are amazing as always! That catch about a possible Roger Korby connection is fantastic, and with all the focus they've put on Chapel's relationship with Spock, I wouldn't be surprised to see that come into play.

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