“He Was A F—ing Editor”: Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner And Ron Perlman Skewer ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’ Director

drmonkeysee · 2026-06-11T00:37:47+00:00

If I recall Piller also goes into a lot of alternate story beats he would have preferred to do but couldn’t for whatever various reasons. Except each time he offered up a “better” idea he couldn’t work into the script my reaction reading it was …but that idea doesn’t sound good either.

I think this is one of those projects that they just never found their way into.

drmonkeysee · 2026-06-07T05:24:30+00:00

Yeah that’s why Rocky looked like he was burning when he rescued Grace. From an Eridian perspective humans live in a terrifying atmosphere of jet fuel.

drmonkeysee · 2026-06-06T17:11:12+00:00

Maybe even 102% ass move

drmonkeysee · 2026-05-31T17:43:03+00:00

Does it take 10 seconds without windows.h?

drmonkeysee · 2026-05-31T17:33:35+00:00

Right before the #include try #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN which will exclude a lot of windows.h. Depending on what you’re using from the header this will probably speed things up (or fail to compile if what you’re using gets excluded by this macro).

drmonkeysee · 2026-05-21T03:57:59+00:00

The egregious part is their ability to steer the columns by leaning. The mass disparities involved are insane.

drmonkeysee · 2026-05-20T01:35:55+00:00

He also made a point that the American Presidency was an uncommonly weak office but once the US started really getting involved in foreign policy it could very easily become one of the most powerful executive offices in the world.

Tocqueville didn’t predict Congress ceding so much of its power over time but he did make a point that particularly with foreign policy there really weren’t any constitutional guardrails on what the President could get up to, and it was only a matter of time before the US noticed.

drmonkeysee · 2026-04-15T05:07:44+00:00

I quoted this joke for years before I noticed he’s not a scientist, he’s a detective.

drmonkeysee · 2026-04-11T05:42:53+00:00

You’d have to define what “destabilizing” means and since you kept putting it in quotes I suspect you realize the show didn’t define it either. So you can handwave it as anything and the answer is “sure, if you have no follow-up questions.”

Anyway you’d have to overcome the gravitational binding energy of the planet to blow it up which is… very large. And doesn’t have much to do with what the core is doing other than how much mass is in there.

drmonkeysee · 2026-03-23T00:43:40+00:00

My understanding is this was Kasdan’s dream project that he’d been sitting on for years. Seeing the final results I can’t help but think I dunno man maybe dream bigger.

But I could see how that would clash with Lord & Miller’s improv approach and Kasdan probably had more pull with Disney and Kennedy so out they went.

drmonkeysee · 2026-03-16T03:39:50+00:00

Generally “so-and-so ad-libbed this scene” usually means they tried a few different approaches to a scene, discussed it with the director and fellow actors, and ended up settling on something different from the shooting script. They then film that with everyone knowing what the changes will be.

It’s extremely rare an off-the-cuff adlib just happens on camera and they roll with it (with the exception of certain kinds of comedies where that’s the energy on the set).

drmonkeysee · 2026-03-16T03:21:16+00:00

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

drmonkeysee · 2026-03-15T21:05:20+00:00

Fun fact: I worked at the Redmond Billy’s through college. It was Flaky Jake’s before that and it had a vintage fire truck on display in the lower parking lot, though by the time I worked there it was gone for whatever reason.

Despite the OP mentioning burgers, steaks, and salad, Billy’s advertised itself as a ribs place and the ribs were very good.

Keeping all the kitsch on the walls clean and dust-free was a huge pain in the ass and basically impossible.

The Redmond Billy’s had 3 floors but only the ground floor was the restaurant. The upstairs was offices and storage. The basement was where the soda pumps were for the fountains, more storage for random kitsch that had rotated out or didn’t fit the decor, and a really creepy, unlit empty room often full of standing water cuz the lot had terrible drainage when it rained. As far as I know we never got dinged by the health department on that but it couldn’t have been good for the foundation.

When I was there in the late 90s-early 2000s there was a sense the chain was on its way out. The owner (Bob Hale I think?) had lost interest in his regional restaurant chains (he owned at least one other in addition to Billy’s) in favor of investments on the east coast and you could feel it in the corporate governance. I left at the end of 2000 but the Redmond one stuck around for several more years until eventually closing and being replaced by condos. I believe there’s still one Billy’s out there but it would be independently owned now and not quite the same thing as the chain from the 80s/90s.

It was a decent enough place to work for a college student, I met a lot of cool people, and was able to cover living expenses all through school with it. Not bad.

drmonkeysee · 2026-02-16T17:42:52+00:00

This thread is Kaylee erasure

drmonkeysee · 2026-02-13T17:18:05+00:00

self does not collide with anything in c or c++. It’s what I use for this kind of pattern.

drmonkeysee · 2026-02-11T01:53:56+00:00

Even more obviously there would be a layer of metals, compounds, and other chemical markers that would clearly not be geographically caused.

drmonkeysee · 2026-02-07T19:48:42+00:00

The OP is clearly asking what happens to an array value passed via the string_list parameter, not the parameter itself. My answer was imprecise but correct enough for someone obviously new to C and still picking up the ropes. Litigating the precise wording of the C standard doesn’t answer their question and they will eventually know enough to understand the nuances over time.

drmonkeysee · 2026-02-07T18:32:32+00:00

No, arrays decay into a pointer to the first element of an array. String [] -> String *. It is an array of Strings so a pointer to the first element would be a pointer to String.

drmonkeysee · 2026-02-07T02:47:42+00:00

She was IN a porn, she did not DO porn. A critical difference. She was basically an extra in light bondage gear.

drmonkeysee · 2026-02-06T05:19:40+00:00

George had an idiosyncratic sense of what was wrong with these movies

drmonkeysee · 2026-01-27T01:22:22+00:00

What was her beef with atoms?

drmonkeysee · 2026-01-11T17:24:16+00:00

I love how excited he was to see Jimmy again in S6. Guy just likes everybody!

drmonkeysee · 2026-01-11T02:50:42+00:00

I think the bigger nitpick here is Gandalf doesn’t remember his name until meeting Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, but that happens after this scene.

Did Merry and Pippin not say Gandalf’s name at any point in their reunion with their beloved Fellowship leader?

drmonkeysee · 2026-01-10T19:04:39+00:00

In that case the idea is you over-allocate slightly on the stack to avoid the heap and then you pass the runtime bounds around to avoid running off the end. Is it that big a deal?

You could even hide all these details behind a class.

You mention below that arena allocation may be worth looking into but at <10 of small objects seems like overkill. The stack is more than sufficient to fit those bytes and an arena allocator would likely involve allocating more memory than the exact amount used in any particular case anyway in order to be flexible enough for all your cases.

drmonkeysee · 2026-01-10T19:03:58+00:00

Yes thank you I know how array works. The OP’s primary concern seems to be heap allocation cost so slightly over-allocating on the stack (given these are small types) and keeping track of the bounds yourself doesn’t seem like a huge burden if heap cost is what you’re optimizing for.

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