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I don't know if it's a canon connection to Star Trek in particular, but I loved the nod to the trope of using Toronto for NYC/Chicago/wherever.

I'd definitely be down to participate if this gets going! Was the other sub daily? weekly?

I went through these challenges a while back; they were super fun! I remember at the end there was something about "notify me if there are more challenges" but I don't believe I ever heard anything.

I'm a sucker for puzzles, and the write-ups for the challenges were the right level of silliness.

Seconding the recommendation for thunder; it's the first one I've found with a proper compact mode. Everything is simple and fast without any frills.

Super interesting read! Thanks for sharing.

I'd be interested to see how impactful a sparse representation would be. It's an optimization I know to have been useful from trying it on AoC and similar cellular automata problems, but I have no clue how it would mesh with the other optimizations made here. I would guess its effectiveness would also rely heavily on the particular ruleset you were simulating, as well as your starting state.

Amazing as always!

As for regulations around personal logs, Star Trek has a long and confusing history with how it deals with privacy. I swear we've seen personal logs pulled up numerous times before (that one episode in TNG with Geordi and that woman's dog?), including "Crisis Point" as mentioned.

Given that, I'd take it that Starfleet's rules regarding personal logs are primarily focused on their admissibility in court, rather than general accessibility.

Honestly, the sets and costumes for SNW are setting the bar for TV shows in general, let alone star trek. Just as much as the new plots, I've been looking forward each week just to the visuals.

Wonderful to see you here, USSBurritoTruck! These posts are amazing as always! That catch about a possible Roger Korby connection is fantastic, and with all the focus they've put on Chapel's relationship with Spock, I wouldn't be surprised to see that come into play.

It probably doesn't show when viewing your own profile, but yours shows two links:

• Send Message which links to sending a private message through lemmy
• Send Secure Message which links to sending a message through matrix

Maybe its use is prohibited in the federation and they only had access due to being on the extremists' ship?

there’s no way they would have had this to hand the whole time and never thought to use it during any one of the many life and death emergencies?

Ah, yes, the star trek classic!

I do agree, though. It was too long and too effective. A quick burst to make their way past the medical guards and into a turbolift would have been more believable and better paced.

I do try to maintain proper grammar and capitalization online (to a reasonable degree), and, though I try not to, I've built a judgmental perspective against those who don't. It's not really about things like capitalization, though. The root of it lies in the baseline level of effort that's expected in order to contribute.

I truly don't understand the way some people choose to participate in online forums. In any large enough (and unmoderated) community, there are just pages and pages of single-line, uncapitalized, unpunctuated, emoji-strewn nonsense. None of these individually is a problem, but as a whole it seems to represent a fundamental lack of care about the quality of discussion.

But hey, maybe I've just become a crotchety bastard.