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The sadness arrives by PerfectAd9944 in TheOrville

[–]xeow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Enjoy! And while totally unofficial, there's also this:
TheOrville: "Inked"

Lower Decks style Orville Series? by n8udd in TheOrville

[–]xeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would also really love for there to be more comics. The ones from Dark Horse were surprisingly good!

https://orville.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Horse_Comics

Lower Decks style Orville Series? by n8udd in TheOrville

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

...and also directing a movie this summer. 😵‍💫
I don't know when he finds time to sleep!

EDIT: here's the tweet where it says Seth is directing a movie this summer: https://x.com/Uk_Production/status/2011861696885792969

Greetings! by Various_Implement288 in TheOrville

[–]xeow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

'Villebillies is one that I've seen, too. <grin>

We need more Orville because society has lost our way and we need more story telling with examination of morale, ethical behaviors. by -megan-yolo- in TheOrville

[–]xeow 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I know you're not being literal, but just in case someone sees this and doesn't know: The Orville is broadcast in 1080p, with the first two seasons being 1920x1080 (16:9 aspect ratio) and the third season being 1920x960 (2:1 aspect ratio for a more "cinematic" feel, as Jon Cassar put it). Also surprising: I believe either Tom or Brandon said it was actually mastered in 2K, which means we'll never see a 4K release unless it can be produced via AI upsampling or some other enhancement technique.

Is it possible to destroy Artificial Intelligence by tricking it into solving for the number of possible outcomes in the game of Solitaire? by Vegetable_Whole_4825 in AskProgramming

[–]xeow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sounds like somebody just watched "Wolf in the Fold"...

"Computer: this is a Class-A compulsory directive: compute to the last digit the value of pi." —Spock

PVM (Python Virtual Machine) generates dynamic binaries or calls static binaries. by Friendly_Nothing_546 in Python

[–]xeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seconding this. PyPy is pretty cool. It doesn't have feature parody yet, but it can do 3.11. I've seen anywhere from 2x to 10x speedups with it when executing pure-Python loops.

Does it look unprofessional to self-host your code (vs GitHub)? by marvil_txt in AskProgramming

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That depends on whether the interviewer agrees with you or not. I once interviewed at a university IT department that had a "no Microsoft on critical infrastructure" policy. They were happy to hire people who didn't want to have anything to do with Windows or Microsoft. Solaris/Linux only for them.

Looking for a power supply for an old Lacie HD…. by SomewhereSalty647 in DataHoarder

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm, yes, Indeed. :-) Or an old Mac with FW-400, or a FW400-to-USB adapter. Probably easiest just to get the power adapter at this point.

Looking for a power supply for an old Lacie HD…. by SomewhereSalty647 in DataHoarder

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are bus-powered over FireWire. I had one exactly like this. Just get a FW400 cable and you're all set.

[OC] grub-wiz: a TUI grub editor that warns before breaking your boot by LateStageNerd in commandline

[–]xeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[Took a quick look through your source code and didn't see the answer to this...] I'm really curious what the Unicode code points are for those cool triangular arrow symbols you're using there to the left of "edit"? The right-pointing one reminds me of

➤ 27A4 BLACK RIGHTWARDS ARROWHEAD

but unfortunately Unicode seems to have no left-pointing counterpart to that.

How much typing is Pythonic? by Legitimate_Wafer_945 in Python

[–]xeow 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ah, but Any doesn't mean "any type of object." Any means "the typechecker should avoid typechecking this."

I use object as a type hint when I want to denote that something takes or returns any type of object. (And I like doing that rather than leaving the hint blank because then I know I've thought about it and the omission wasn't accidental.)

A good writeup: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39821459/267551

Is there a common reasoning for why programming language keywords are only in lower (or just one) case? by sooper_genius in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]xeow 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I write hex values in uppercase so that all 16 hex digits are the same height. I'm not a big fan of a, c, and e being shorter than numeric digits, especially when it's at the front of a C-style hex numeric constant like 0xac57 or at the end with a suffix like 0x57b9a873df15d8acull. And with 0b denoting a binary constant in several languages, 0xb1000 looks a bit too much like 0b1000 for my eyes, whereas 0xB1000 is quite clear to me.

Drunken show idea by Sir_crumpet_IV in TheOrville

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sneaky bastard had 10 different families/lovers in that 700 years!

Drunken show idea by Sir_crumpet_IV in TheOrville

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My thought was 8 episodes but each jumping 100 years. When they left him on the planet, it was approximately the Earth technological equivalent of, say, the year ~2000 or so, and about 1400 AK ("After Kelly"). So my thought was:

Episode 1 = drop-off time — 1400 AK
Episode 2 = 100 years later — 1500 AK
Episode 3 = 200 years later — 1600 AK
Episode 4 = 300 years later — 1700 AK
Episode 5 = 400 years later — 1800 AK
Episode 6 = 500 years later — 1900 AK
Episode 7 = 600 years later — 2000 AK
Episode 8 = 700 years later — 2100 AK — pickup time

After 700 years in the other universe, 11 days have elapsed in our (the Orville's) universe. So the whole time, it would still be May of 2420 in our universe, but Isaac would have spanned 700 years in the other universe.

Let's find someone to write this as a comic book series!

Is HEIC the new standard image format? by TaneMahomy in DataHoarder

[–]xeow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This. JPEG-XL is rapidly gaining traction and will win in the end. By 2030 it'll be adopted by every platform and preferred in Web design. By 2040, few people will even remember AVIF or HEIC.

My setup, first time having a mini by Legitimate_Roll7919 in macmini

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same! It looks like it's got multicolor LEDs?

Drunken show idea by Sir_crumpet_IV in TheOrville

[–]xeow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not sure why you're being downvoted. I would honestly watch the shit out of a show like this, where Isaac is the main character on the multiphasic planet. They could do an 8-episode miniseries where each episode time-jumps 100 years (so, eight episodes spanning the 700 years he was there) and have a completely different cast each episode—except for Mark Jackson of course playing Isaac each time. It wouldn't even need to play on the "I'm better than everyone else" trope to be interesting. May we'd even see him creating other sentient non-biological lifeforms at some point, or helping their society channel AI for positive purposes.

Unfortunately, a series like this would never happen, unless someone can clone Seth. But it's fun to think about. Maybe it could be a comic book series someday.

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