rob64

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[–] rob64@startrek.website 29 points 1 month ago

That's the whole idea!

[–] rob64@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

I wish it took me a moment.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

That's a really great point.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 29 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It worked out just fine for her. Gave him a chance to dig his own grave, which is what he did and what she wanted.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Holy crap his tie isn't red

[–] rob64@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

That does make more sense, and I'll even give it to Donnie this is what he meant. But as usual, his communiques are not clearly articulated.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Prog album cover.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The best kind of correct.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

All files are made up of "text", or rather, numbers. How each program interprets those numbers differs depending on the kind of work they do. Any program can open any file, but the way it translates those numbers won't make any sense if the file wasn't intended to be opened by that kind of program. So, if you opened an MP4, you might see a little bit of metadata that was encoded in a way the text editor can understand, and then you'd get a ton of random symbols, some that are numbers and letters you recognize, but a lot of them would be specialized characters from farther on in the list of characters whatever font is being used might have.

Think of it this way: take two human languages that use the same writing system, like German and French. Suppose you ask a Frenchman who also speaks English to translate and write down a few specific sentences. You then take those sentences to a German who also speaks English (but not French) and ask her to translate it into English. Obviously she can't. She might be able to sound out the words, but neither of you will know what it means, and it probably wouldn't sound right to a French speaker. Or better yet, you can ask her to try and guess what each word means. She'd likely come up with mostly nonsense (minus a few cognates and loanwords). This isn't an exact analogy, but that's basically what's going on.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

The first 2-3 seasons are great. And that's because it's excellent characters in an unusual situation with just a splash of mystery/paranormal. The end of the show sucks, because they wrote it like they knew where it was leading, but they didn't. The big reveals are very unsatisfying. Would have been better if they just ended it with no answers and let it develop organically instead of shoe-horning a "this is what it was all leading to" ending into it.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Just rewatch the last season. That'll cure you.

 

I've found that in order to get there subscription list in the tray to update, I have to leave the app and clear it from recent apps before reopening.

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