They probably exist in some obscure branch of science. Culinary Anthropology perhaps?

Where’s the Nu trek equivalent to Code of Honour?

People keep mixing up empathy and sympathy and it’s one of my biggest pet peeves.

Empathy is the ability to take the perspective of another person and understand their emotional state. To put yourself into their shoes.

Sympathy is a feeling of compassion you have when you see someone else’s suffering.

Empathy can be part of sympathy but it can also have nothing to do with sympathy. Scammers, for example, use empathy to manipulate their victims by predicting how they will respond, based on their emotional state. Empathy is a skill with no moral content. How you use empathy determines whether it’s a good or bad act.

There’s also ECAD software for electronics. I believe a lot of product teams use both ECAD and MCAD. The former for designing the circuit board, the latter for designing the case and any moving parts.

CAD software for Mechanical design (mechanical engineers use it to design motors and transmissions and other machinery).

I mean I don’t play brand new AAA games. I have old consoles, I use emulation. I basically have every game I’d ever want already. Tens of thousands of games.

I don’t know where you get discrimination out of that. Only if you’ve convinced yourself that you need to play the newest AAA games, I guess.

I see lots of people playing new games, with multiplayer, on their phones. Ubiquitous computing everywhere.

A soldering iron isn’t going to get the job done for high density BGA packages. Example chip:

All those dots are balls of solder. The chip needs to be placed on the board in exactly the right position and orientation, and then the whole thing placed in a reflow oven so that the solder balls can melt and flow appropriately without bridging any connections.

Doing this at home without the right tools is essentially impossible. With the right tools, it’s merely quite difficult. Reflow soldering takes experience and carries the risk of damaging other components on the board which may not survive the temperatures in the reflow oven, so need to be removed first. Plus the reflowing procedure itself is guided by a temperature profile which would have been developed through experience in the factory with specific adjustments for the thermal characteristics of this board. Get the profile wrong and you may break other connections when the solder fails to flow, or have other chips on the board come loose.

The issue here is that the screenshot cuts off grandma’s comment. Bet she had some great advice about farting during sex!

Rosemary? Heavens no! It’s very hardy and easy to grow!

I thought elves were a lot more resistant to the effects of alcohol anyway. Elf children could probably drink without issues!

Seriously, thank you. Those who are puzzled why everyday middle class Americans aren’t rushing to join an anarchist revolution ought to look at how the resistance is has been going in Iran this year, even before the US attacked.

Middle class Americans may struggle to afford the things they had a few decades ago, but they’re still a long way from willing to risk sniper fire in the day and bombings at night.

A good friend of mine is Palestinian and he spent time in Syria during the war. He told me what it was like to have bombs going off near his house. To have pieces of shrapnel fly past his face and embed themselves into the wall. He lives here in Canada now. He wants nothing to do with fighting in wars. He just wants to make a life for himself and his family.

If you, the author, fuck up, yes. But characters fuck up all the time and shows are extremely popular as a result. Look at Breaking Bad!

I’ve never heard of this. Do you have some articles?

On PC without any sort of lockdown mechanism it just becomes a Wild West. FPSes are downright unplayable. Heck, even chess has rampant cheating online.

The solution is simple: gaming on a separate device from your regular PC, which does not have any of your personal data to spy on. We could call it a gaming console!

That’s standard Queen’s English!

Generally, in math, theorems are named after the people who formulate them as conjectures, not the people who prove them.

That’s why it’s Fermat’s Last Theorem, not Wiles’ Last Theorem, even though Andrew Wiles is the one who proved it. Same goes for the Poincaré Conjecture (which is now a theorem): proved by Grigoriy Perelman.

It still gives me flashbacks to the PC game Mafia. There was a mission in that game where you drove a 1930s era open wheel racing car, without roll bars or anything. It was super easy to take a corner too fast and roll the thing. Your body snapped like a twig every time!

Roll bars? Who needs ‘em!

Disney, more than any other company, is responsible for the fact that copyright lasts 90 years instead of 20.

That’s what Disney does. I wouldn’t exactly call what they do “least problematic”!