[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 181 points 8 months ago

Real answer: these are actually real languages! They're just conlangs, or constructed languages, instead of natural languages. The major problem with conlangs generally ends up being the limited vocabulary, but the grammar foundations are usually solid.

I actually really like Klingon as a language because it was intentionally designed to be alien, and specifically to be very Klingon. Most languages are Subject-Verb-Object (like English and other Western languages) or Subject-Object-Verb (like Japanese or Hindi). Klingon, however, is Object-Verb-Subject - it's very direct with the emphasis placed on the target of the sentence, which makes sense with the Star Trek world and Klingon culture.

Fun fact, Klingon has at least one native speaker - some guy raised his daughter to speak Klingon as well as English. (I'm not a fan of this - on one hand, learning multiple languages from an early age is a huge leg up in being able to learn more languages in the future, but on the other hand Klingon is entirely useless as a primary language given its structure and the few other people who speak it.)

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 158 points 9 months ago

I've never understood why people have such a hard time with the trolley problem. Obviously, if you pre-emptively move that lone guy over to the rail with the five, you can hit all six at once to maximize your score. Just requires a bit of setup.

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 188 points 10 months ago

"client side validation is fine, nobody's gonna open up the dev console"

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 133 points 1 year ago

Bob, short for Bobert. So that every time he has to say his full name to anyone on the phone or fill out forms somewhere, he has to repeatedly explain that, no, it's not Robert, it's Bobert.

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 143 points 1 year ago

Yuga Labs says it’s currently investigating reports of impeded vision and skin/eye injuries believed to be caused by unprotected exposure to UV lights during ApeFest 2023.

Jesus Christ.

Anyway, I'm... Actually somewhat impressed they're still having Monkey PNG meetups. I kind of assumed every NFT was a scam but this one is just a very expensive buy-in to a cryptonerd club, I guess.

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 168 points 1 year ago

20 inches

doubles in length

takes off my robe and wizard hat Nah I'm good.

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 131 points 1 year ago

You're telling me I can meet a potential partner, have video calls with them, get scammed out of money, and tweet about how sad I am, all from the same platform? Sign me up.

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 139 points 1 year ago

Let him play in the legacy code. You can just hose him off later before letting him back into the office so he doesn't track it everywhere.

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 85 points 1 year ago

If I remember, and I could be wrong, the Samsung emoji there was actually 😬

Which is still messed up because 😬 is supposed to be the "I just saw a guy commit a sexual perversion" emoji, not the "I just committed a sexual perversion" emoji.

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 158 points 1 year ago

Dear Medical Team:

Please send me an up-to-date itemized medical bill. If possible, coordinate with my family on my current amount of medical debt and send that across as well. This will help me determine whether or not I even want to wake up.

Yours sleepily,
comatose ryan

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 83 points 1 year ago

Piracy exists because it's easier than the alternative. Textbooks are expensive as hell and publishers are working to demolish the used book market - first by changing the version every year, and now with one-time-use mandatory software keys. Sites like Libgen wouldn't have to exist if textbooks were $20 a pop, or if the used book market was allowed to exist. These problems are created by greed.

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 94 points 1 year ago

$1/day is pretty cheap. I've been alive around 12k days. For less than the price of a car, I can erase my own existence. Sounds like a bargain to me!

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The fifth TNG movie that never was (memory-alpha.fandom.com)

Spiner himself explained,

One of the ideas that John Logan and I had about what the next film would have been was a Justice League of Star Trek. Something would bring all the great Star Trek villains together, from Khan to Shinzon, and Picard is the only person who could stop them and he actually has to go through time and pluck out the people he needs to help him. He goes back to the moment before Data blows up and takes him back to get Kirk and Spock, and go even further back and get Scott Bakula's character, Archer.

I can't imagine it would have been good, but boy do I wish I existed in a universe where this movie had been made.

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