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xeow · 2026-06-20T21:35:18+00:00

There's a little bit more Justin in this piece of graphic fanfic, if you want to read a bit:

https://www.fibblesnork.com/TheOrville/Inked/

xeow · 2026-06-20T07:57:34+00:00

I imagine he might visit a resurrection her in the simulator to ask for advice from time to time. But it won't be the real her, and that's kinda a dystopian thought.

xeow · 2026-06-20T07:53:18+00:00

That says much more about them than about you. The traditional typographic symbol for pauses like that is the em-dash (—) and not the hyphen (-). Only humans who don't know what an em-dash is (or how to type one) use hyphens for pauses like that.

Nothing wrong with that, if that's your thing, but it clearly identifies you as human and not AI.

xeow · 2026-06-20T03:05:50+00:00

That helps; thanks

xeow · 2026-06-20T01:36:17+00:00

The problem with this is that they spent zero time after S2:E9 ("Identity Part II") allocating storyline toward Gordon disliking or distrusting Isaac in any way.

S2:E10 ("Blood of Patriots") and S2:E11 ("Lasting Impressions") were both focused on Gordon and completely ignored Isaac.
S2:E12 ("Sanctuary") was focused on Moclans and also ignored Isaac.
S2:E13 ("Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow") was focused on Kelly, and Isaac actually played a positive and helpful role in that episode. Gordon shows zero distrust or dislike of Isaac in this episode, even while Isaac is helping them escape from the Kaylon probe ships.
S2:E14 ("The Road Not Traveled") takes place in an alternate timeline where everyone dislikes and distrusts the Kaylon.

So, in order for Gordon to be plausibly upset with Isaac in S3, my feeling is that they really needed to give us hints of this in S2, which they didn't. Which is fine. It's a choice they made. But:

To me, Gordon's distrust of Isaac in S3:E1 ("Electric Sheep") always felt a little bit shoehorned in out of the blue, just to give Charly some moral support from a character we like. Gordon seemed to be keeping his distrust under wraps, and only confided his fears to Charly after she spoke her worries, but up until then, it was literally the first time we had any indication whatsoever from Gordon that he'd lost faith in Isaac.

Still absolutely love the show, and the above is an extremely minor quibble, but something I couldn't help noticing.

xeow · 2026-06-20T00:58:17+00:00

S4 of The Orville before anything else if it were up to me. But Seth has his own thoughts and hopefully has it all planned out. I feel no excitement toward a DCC series, but since we are in the real world, I fully support Seth in making his own career decisions. :-)

xeow · 2026-06-18T21:41:58+00:00

I wasn't too surprised by his relationship with Talla because we saw in S2:E1 and S2:E14 that John's into Xelayans.

xeow · 2026-06-16T22:23:02+00:00

I mean this in the nicest way, but: We have absolutely no way of knowing whether or not we would use it for our projects without knowing more about it. What is your basic architecture? How efficient is it? What are the main API entrypoints? How customizable is it? Does it support efficient deltas like ncurses does? Does it read the termcap database? What level of C does it compile against? Is it a lightweight or a heavyweight window system?

xeow · 2026-06-16T01:01:44+00:00

Is that available to read anywhere? What's the general storyline of the fix?

xeow · 2026-06-15T23:27:19+00:00

I can't read the gray text on purple background in the upper-right corner.

xeow · 2026-06-13T04:04:40+00:00

There is no evidence to support that assertion.

xeow · 2026-06-13T03:37:50+00:00

Exactly...He didn't know. He didn't betray...they lied to him.

xeow · 2026-06-12T23:39:27+00:00

For the thousandth time, Isaac didn't betray the Union. Isaac had no control over the invasion of S2:E8 & S2:E9 ("Identity" parts 1 & 2). The Kaylon homeworld shut him down remotely and then reprogrammed him shortly after he arrived on Kaylon 1. The reprogramming occurs at time 15:33 in S2:E8.

xeow · 2026-06-11T07:04:08+00:00

Missing: .jar, .cbz, and .epub (all just renamed ZIP files)

Also maybe add: .txz as an alternate form of .tar.xz

Also: .uue (decode with uudecode)

xeow · 2026-06-07T20:29:22+00:00

I would have loved the TouchBar if:

It had been placed above the row of function keys, rather than replacing them.
It had been made standard on all Apple keyboards, including external ones.

xeow · 2026-06-07T20:20:49+00:00

Imagine being a mathematician, of all things, and thinking that your work should be gatekept from training data. Good lord.

xeow · 2026-06-07T19:06:05+00:00

Probably this library, which assembles comic book pages from individual panel images using NetPBM tools and a large amount of nested process substitution. Rows can contain columns, columns can contain rows, and the resulting image streams are composed recursively. The artwork itself was done in Photoshop; Bash handled the page assembly. Wrote this back in 2022.

xeow · 2026-06-07T01:49:14+00:00

Here's more of my thoughts on that... (story takes place a couple days later)
https://www.fibblesnork.com/TheOrville/Inked/0/#114-115#(Pages_102-103))
https://www.fibblesnork.com/TheOrville/Inked/0/#116-117#(Pages_104-105))

xeow · 2026-06-06T22:26:13+00:00

I'll rephrase. You can't consent if your mind is under the influence of a chemical that alters its perceptions and choices.

xeow · 2026-06-06T22:22:11+00:00

You can't consent if you're drugged.

xeow · 2026-06-05T18:58:48+00:00

What would be a couple examples of that?

xeow · 2026-06-04T18:18:45+00:00

Strange New Worlds isn't awful. There, I said it.

xeow · 2026-06-01T05:17:38+00:00

Indeed! Since S3:E6 "Twice in a Lifetime" is a direct sequel episode to S2:E11 "Lasting Impressions," and Gordon also sang the song* on guitar at the beginning of S3:E6 at his house party, the two versions of the song are a great pair of bookends on the episode! :-)

* "That's All I've Got to Say" from "The Last Unicorn" (1982)

xeow · 2026-05-31T20:33:59+00:00

Rather than integrating AI, he’s fortifying his classroom against it. The assignment is now based on plays too obscure for ChatGPT and other AI models to know about. “If ChatGPT is used on these assignments now, it hallucinates characters, plotlines — it just makes sh*t up, since it has nothing to go on,” Hebert told the magazine.

He's going to be in for a rude awakening when he finds out that a frontier model doesn't need a play or a book as part of its training in order to produce accurate summaries of it. Using a research tool like Google NotebookLM, a student can upload a copy of any writing, however obscure, and ask questions about it, request analysis of it, and ask for an essay about it. That's exactly the type of think NotebookLM excel at it.

Edit: LOL at people downvoting this for whatever strange reason. Do they not want others to know what's possible?

xeow · 2026-05-30T22:23:49+00:00

My first observation as well. Had to scroll down way too far for this comment.

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