A person with way too many hobbies, but I still continue to learn new things.

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  • ShdwdrgntoDoctor Who@lemmy.worldWhere do I start?
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    4 days ago

    I guess it bugs me more because I’ve watched ST:TOS and never had such a horrid feeling from those episodes. Someone once told me the early episodes showed how much the Doctor grew over time, from an elitist to someone who truly cared for everyone, but I have to wonder how much of that was simply the writers themselves realizing they could do better?


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    5 days ago

    If you decide to jump back to the original series, also keep in mind the time at which they were filmed. I tried watching the original 1963 run and was just disgusted by how the female actors were treated… The whole “you need a strong man to save you”, and the constant “woman screams every time an alien shows up”. I know we’ve come a long way since then, but it’s really a slap in the face considering how relatively recent that is within our history.

    Then again, cartoons from the 1930’s? Hoo boy the massive amount of open racism.

    But if you really get interested in Doctor Who and want to see the history of the many story lines, then you just have to bite down and blast through them.









  • Shdwdrgntoretrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgMiniature Hard Drives
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    11 days ago

    Haha yeah storage capacity just keeps going up fast. Now that you mention it, I do recall the performance on these drives was supposed to be just absolute crap, but it was a massive innovation before chip storage came out. And some day the next big thing will be released and we’ll wonder how we put up with SSD drives.


  • The numbers on the clock have magical powers as far as what time I am expected to report to work. Most people do not start work at 4:30am when the sun come up (if you do NOT change the clocks), so that would mean more hours of the day lost. If you have the energy to get up early and do things for work, great for you, but the rest of us sleep until the alarm and use that extra evening hour to get things done. Now it’s easy to say 50% of the population is wrong when we look at the current administration, but having the sub come up at 4:30am doesn’t really help you and for most people it means trying to get those last couple hours of sleep while the sun is shining in your eyes. What you’re suggesting is useful for a small handful of people in exchange for fewer hours of good rest for the majority of the population.








  • My only hope in this is that these agencies always have backups available to restore the original code and undo the damage to the servers. Since all of their code was being done on live servers and completely unvetted, none of it can be trusted so all of it needs to be wiped out for security reasons.

    The other bonus is that Musk is going to be tied up in court cases for years. Any time there is the slightest appearance of unauthorized knowledge against one of his competitors, they are going to bring up the question in court as the whether or not he followed the court order to destroy all of the information he illegally accessed. One can hope this leads to a series of devastating blows against any of his new business deals.