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  • That actually makes me think, would it theoretically be possible to automate ship repair with transporter technology? All the time they have ships coming in with giant chunks missing.

    If you are able to get a high resolution scan of the current state of the vessel, and have the plans to build it, couldn't they set up a specialized transporter to transport the damaged bits away, and transition area that is destroyed, and then replace it with new parts as needed?

    Basically do some a similar repair method from Space Engineers, just fancier with transporters.







  • "Embrace extend and extinguish" has happened before, and it can happen again if corp run instances are allowed to gain traction.

    https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

    I think it is a completely valid worry that corporations will come in, capture an audience, and then force the original lemmy instances into ruin. There is also the fact that corporations will want to make money off of it, and financial motivations are antithetical to the fediverse ecosystem.




  • I think half of the episode is the Tamarians genuinely struggling with human language. If the federations translation software wasn't up to the task, it isn't surprising that the Tamarian's software wasn't up for it either.

    Based on the episode, it was posibly the first time Tamarians ever had friendly and successful first contact. Because if they had it previously, they might have asked for help translating when meeting new races such as with the Federation. The episode would have went a lot different if they had an Adorian ambassador with them saying "Yeah these guys talk in metaphor and only metaphor".



  • It boggles my mind how my conservative father even remotely thinks anything positive about star trek, let alone being obsessed with it.

    Steve absolutely nailed it. Though I think his 4th point about optimism being a core part of star trek was missing a subsection. Almost all of the characters, and especially the ones the show wants you to root for have shit loads of empathy for the people around them, and often times it even extends to outright enemies.

    Whenever a crew member is losing control of their behavior because of a mind control space entity, the crew's first reaction is a level of concern people only have for close family members. When Sisko is doing arguably immoral acts for the greater good, he is wracked with grief and empathy for those he had to hurt. Janeway on the other hand just wants her coffee lol.





  • Doable but you need teachers to open source their lessons and vet them.

    If an OS alternative was trying to completely replace duolingo, it would need far more than that. Duolingo has had extensive work put into listening and speaking lessons. Almost all lessons have a listening componentwhich is a ton of content to make up for. They have significantly better voice recognition than my phone. The amount of effort to get something like that working for a language, let alone dozens of languages is a high bar.

    Take a look at any of the job postings that duolingo has, they're only looking for Google employee level of skill for a reason (aside from how fucked the job market is).

    It's not impossible for duolingo to be replaced with an open source version, but it's a giant undertaking.


  • The dictation software we have is pretty shitty though. It almost always needs proof-read, or re-dictated several times to get it right. At that point you may as well just send an audio clip.

    Until the day that dictation software gets it 100% correct, it's not going to be worth my time.

    For now, the human on the other end will always have an easier time understand an audio clip than a machine, because human minds are more capable of using context and getting past regional accents.