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You are a fintech dev using floating point? And your advice is to encode things as strings?

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This is why I got out of fintech.

(I am sorry, I know there are horrors and I am sure I am not familiar with your exact scenario.)

Edit: just for anyone who passes by: try to stick with integers in a currency’s smallest unit of division. (This is only one small bit of this problem, but the number of times I have seen currency values in floating point makea me psychotic.)

Maybe true, I don’t pay much attention. All I know is most studies and censuses I have seen show religious affiliation falling fairly rapidly.

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What would you think of someone who goes door to door trying to convince you a blubbery clown rules the universe from planet zebulon?

Is that a normal person just doing normal person things?

For the non-religious, there is no difference between the person above and a relgious believer.

I think it’s reasonable to ask why people still hold unfounded beliefs with the greater interconnectedness of the world making it pretty plain that not all these religions can be divinely inspired truth, so many of them are necessarily imaginary.

Nah, I like my community without the side of eternal suffering that so many religions like to threaten you with for varioua reasons.

I’d put my money on huge adoption of D&D in the utopian future before I put it on religion.

There is no other battle shown in Star Trek to rival the time given to the one in Khan.

Off the top of my head there are incidences of ships being behind moons, in weird places they wouldn’t expect, etc. It’s just not a) discussed nearly as much on screen or b} shown on screen.

When we do see big battles, they are in 3d - Wolf 359 comes to mind.

I think you are correct that Khan is explicit and gives it a lot of punch, but I would argue we shouldn’t be too quick to say they almost never deal with 3d/zero g.

(who remembers Klingon’s blood is pink?)

And there are LOTS of examples of other ships uncloaking in non aligned positions.

I like this “starfleet policy is to make a best guess and align up when approaching” - borg cube presents particular problems.

As a cishet white male who dislikes Voyager, I would absolutely have enjoyed a clueless straight Tom Paris trying to set gay Harry up.

Instead he turned into a fish and kidnapped Janeway to, and I will be very gracious to the writing staff here, have consensual offspring with her.

Why did I tell myself I needed to watch that show? Worst trek. 😢

Edit: Also, good on Kate Mulgrew for being way more Star Trek than most by advocating for inclusion. I do like Janeway.

Thanks for this, one of the more interesting suggestions I have seen.

I will die on the Enterprise theme song hill.

It’s been a long way…

As someone who watched it with no nostalgia glasses: it is not good trek.

I can’t think of a really outstanding episode off the top of my head (maybe the Tuvix one? But even that is just … rough?). And there are some episodes in there that I actively dislike in a way I don’t with most of the other series.

I like Kate Mulgrew, she was a strong actor for the role and the theme is a banger, otherwise … meh.

Your ISP selling your browsing data is the hacker.

Too cynical a take to be real.

The above happens sometimes, and is maybe more common among older entrenched politicians (that we have in spades right now with the aging out of one of the largest generations ever). But most of the time it’s real people with real beliefs who want to change things. Governments are usually set up to change slowly, if at all, so often little seems to happen, but those gears do grind slowly based on how they’re pushed.

So, your take is definitely a way to make it so the political class can continue to exploit people - you need more people upset and willing to change if you want to make a difference, not lots of powerless apathy.

So close, if only you had said Mary McDonnell.

Name a main character. Not the actor, the character.

If you can, you’ll be the first person who has been able to that I have asked. (Though I have never asked online.)

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Hans Gruber, The Sheriff of Nottingham and Severus Snape would all, collectively, be interested in that conversation as well.

This right here? ☝️

This is how “business” people save money.

STOP HIRING BUSINESSPEOPLE

You’re right, my fault. Thanks!

Hello, I am now confused. Can someone link me the song being discussed because I think I only know the US opening?