I have only seen this episode on DVD, and didn’t know they changed it.

I don’t like that they change anything for streaming, either to remove jokes that didn’t age well or for attempts to upscale or whatever. It reminds me of when they were inserting product placement ads in the background of sitcoms a few years back.

Does that make earth and fire the 5D experience?

“We ain’t found shit!”

Blender is not designed as a CAD software. It is for 3d modeling. So you would use Blender to make graphics for a video game, or a 3d movie.

CAD is more for designing things to be made outside of a computer, so 3d printing, CNC or stuff like that.

Blender doesn’t consider the object as a whole, and can leave holes that a CAD setup would handle.

Civ IV is still my favorite game of the series. It was peak Civilization.

I had an Itchy and Scratchy game (from the Simpsons). It was a mini golf game that was a lot of fun.

The problem most of these examples and counter examples make is only showing simple code and assuming that you always want to apply the patterns of abstracting things or not.

This is the real problem. Without context of what the project is for we can only speculate on what the “best practice” is. If my problem is that I have a directory with 2000 videos in it, and I need to process all the ones with an English language track, I am going to write a one-off bash script, and not a huge C# project filled with the OO concepts.

But if the method is one of 10,000 needed in a huge project, then sticking with the coding guidelines of the whole project is more important for maintainability. A dev coming in 36 months later who is familiar with the code base would have less problems going through an abstracted setup, just because they have experience with the project and can make assumptions from that.

This is the answer. It is expensive because it will be a low demand item. Most people will never need this, so it is a specialty item that is taking up valuable shelf space.

All the conspiracy theories in this thread are just the standard “whaa, they changed something” whining.

The code on the left is more readable. It is easy to follow and see what is happening at each step.

That being said, the code on the right is easier to maintain. If the requirement comes down the pipe that we now need to support a new pizza topping it is easy to jump to the add toppings method using the IDE instead of scanning the entire monolith procedural function. Or if we now need to add support for take-and-bake, we can just modify the small entry method.

This also assumes that we are not needing to reuse any of these methods. If you want to add toppings to a sandwich or a salad, better write another huge method like the one on the left, or add a ton of nested if/else or switch statements. If you use the style on the right you can reuse the add toppings method without worrying about if you should preheat the oven for a salad.

The author chose a very simplistic requirement for an example and it is all well and good until you let it fester in a code base for ten years, with multiple interns maintaining it and end up with a huge spaghetti code monster to deal with.

My first thought was how Best Buy tries to get people who are buying a tv or DVD player to get some over priced Monster HDMI cable.

This is nothing new for retail.

That makes sense since the Enterprise is the flagship and Voyager was a lot lower in the fleet. It would make sense that the flagship would have a lot more experienced crew.

This seems like a no brainer idea for being able to order in a store and get it delivered home. I just hope they don’t end up having no stock in the retail stores and force all orders to be delivered.

I personally will just order online if I want it delivered or if what I want isn’t in stock at retail. I only go in if it is for something that I can pick up right now.

Be careful buying drive you intend to shuck for a NAS. It is hard to tell if they are SMR or not, and if they are the NAS will throw errors from time to time. I would say if you already have the drives go ahead and try it out, but if you are buying new, get some that are designed for a NAS.

It was pretty easy to set up. There was a time machine setting somewhere that makes it so the Mac will just see it as a viable backup location.

Having everyone’s TM on the NAS would make it easy to set up some sort of offsite mirror as well.

I just googled Synology Time Machine setup or something and there were a ton of guides.

I use a Synology DS920+ And have been very happy with it. I have time machine running for several MacBooks. I also use it as a Jellyfin server.

The Synology setup is easy and it is smooth to add new drives. Just remember to add the smallest drives first. If you have two 4 tb drives setup, don’t buy a 2tb drive to add more space, but going up to an 8 is no problem.

I absolutely love the commentary. If you have the Simpsons DVDs, those are worth watching as well. Although I can’t really vouch for much past season 12.