I don’t really remember SQL, does it prevent you from using a range of values? I can understand why leap seconds would be an issue.

I don’t really get why people use any time other than ms/seconds since the epoch for anything other than displaying that time to the end user. Having time just be a single number with no time zone shenanigans makes writing logic like that so much easier.

Orb of Enhancement?

If you used transporters to remove feces from yourself for years and years, would you eventually lose the ability to poop normally? Imagine the transporter functions and they have to replicate a bunch of industrial-grade laxatives for the crew.

Well the point of this post is to get a list of good languages, so it could actually be used to find new languages to learn.

Please don’t actually do this. Comment stuff in the code and documentation, not the JSON.

I didn’t realize this was sarcastic and was getting ready to post about how broken it looks for me.

Well, you still usually have to use Gradle, so not all the suck.

Ugh, I hate when people use Python for that. It makes the application slow and power-hungry. The Matrix backend is a great case to look at for why Python shouldn’t be used for more than glue and scripting. It’s soooooo slow and they’re rewriting it in Go now.

BRB, gonna make a platform frontend, backend, desktop application, mobile app, and hardware controller all in JavaScript. shudders

It’s probably just cheap ingredients. Not an issue for replicators.

Characters on the show also mention on multiple occasions that certain foods don’t taste as good when replicated.

A big part of the Trek universe is that it’s supposed to represent a society that has overcome the limitations imposed upon it by greed, oppression, and hate.

I mostly agree with you except the libertarian part. Is that a misspeech or something? The Federation is pretty far from being (economically) Libertarian.

Sorry, I don’t remember which episode. I’m pretty sure it was in season 1.

One thing that would probably work for news sites that I haven’t seen would be to give subscribers access to articles a day or so earlier than non-subscribers. No article limit or anything like that, decent freedom of information, and minimal incentive to make clickbait bullshit that nobody will subscribe to.

Reminds me of that crazy scene from Picard where they get holographic popup ads on their ship.

It might just be my crazy conspiracy theory brain, but I feel like they’re trying to normalize advertising in a supposedly idyllic and utopian future society to make us see them as more of a necessity than they actually are. Same thing with Raffi living in poverty and Picard having private ownership of the means of production (his vineyard) with employees. So much for that “money-free socialist utopia.”

A self-replicating swarm of fighter drones would be far more devastating than almost all of the weapons we see in the Star Trek universe. You could send a few off to some random uninhabited solar system to suck it dry and come back with literally trillions of small unmanned drones capable of overwhelming entire civilizations with ease. Of course, there’s always the threat of them going rogue or being taken over by someone else.

This is explicitly stated in Strange New Worlds.

Ideally, you would use TOML for human-readable configuration and document your JSON API with external documentation instead of sending comments around a bunch. If you need to display the description to the end user though, that would be a valid use case.