the insect’s brain evolved to process insect’s available sensory input, so did human’s. so geordi would see exactly the same reducted picture that we see on the viewscreen, because that is the only thing our brain knows how to do.

Incorrect. There have been humans born with an extra come in their eyes due to a mutation, and those people could see extra colours. There are people who get damaged lenses on their eyes that let them see a bit of ultraviolet.

and you are still narrowing this discussion to subset of the facts. there is still the fact of visor being piece of technology that can be lost, malfunction, causes occasional pain and allows its wearer to be hacked by romulan intelligence. i don’t call that superior to my

Yes. And there are ways in which it’s superior. Data called them superior too. It’s not wrong to call it superior.

The insecure parts of Linux is mostly on the DE side opposed to the core OS part that servers use. We absolutely will see more vulnerabilities in the future as Linux grows.

But that’s not how he sees, or how any of this works 🤦

Things that see stuff in the (to us) non-visible spectrum don’t see it in the visible light spectrum.

An insect that sees ultraviolet light doesn’t see it how we see it when we apply a camera filter to view it. That’s just the camera shifting it to our visible light spectrum, because we can’t see ultraviolet.

A screen showing an image in ultraviolet light would not be usable to us.

The viewscreen Picard was looking at wasn’t magically adding cones to his eyes and allowing him to see a wider range of the light spectrum. It was showing a representation in the visible light spectrum of what the visor can detect.

That’s a visual representation, in the visible light spectrum, of what he sees. He would see it differently than what appears on the viewscreen.

There’s also nothing there that shows or says he can’t see the visible light spectrum.

I mean a can opener is very different, no? Or at least it is when I try to put myself in those shoes.

A can opener can open cans but nothing more. Sure you gain one piece of functionality, but you lose others.

Geordi’s visor was a bit different in that he could see the visible light spectrum, but also a bunch of other stuff.

Yes, they’re still bionic

I don’t think that’s contradictory at all though.

Geordi wanted to be able to see [naturally], but his visor is superior to human eyes in that it can see things that humans can’t naturally see.

To put it a different way: a person with advanced bionic legs that never tire, could run far faster than any natural human, and bend in ways that human legs can’t, would have superior legs. But there wouldn’t be anything wrong with their stance if they said “yeah but I just want normal human legs”.

I mean, in response to the last one, the Federation does allow (and sometimes advocates) for the correction of birth defects.

Julian: DNA resequencing for any reason other than repairing serious birth defects is illegal. Any genetically enhanced human being is barred from serving in Starfleet or practising medicine.

Deep Space Nine, “Doctor Bashir, I presume”

Doctor: Yes. It’s a girl. And aside from the deviated spine, she’s healthy.

Paris: Will she need surgery?

Doctor: Fortunately, we’ve advanced beyond that. Genetic modification is the treatment of choice.

Voyager, “Lineage”

So I imagine plenty of disabilities do end up being erased, it’s just that being disabled is also socially accepted to a much greater extent than today.

Definitely. CUDA has had a long headstart, and Nvidia were very clever in getting it entrenched early on, particularly in universities and such.

My above comment was purely on the gaming side

People buy Nvidia no matter what. Even when they aren’t the best choice. Then those same people complain about Nvidia doing the anticompetitive things they do.

The best is when people cheer for AMD making something great, only so they can buy an Nvidia card cheaper.

Nvidia’s greatest asset is the mindshare they have.

Good lord. So that’s why got me into trek as a teen

Definitely a Magnum, not Haggen Daas

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_(ice_cream)

Trust me, I’m a greedy cunt. I know all about ice cream.

I wish that were the case. Unfortunately, human rights are up for political debate, since a lot of people are vehemently against them.

Khan’s glorious chest not being featured is a disgrace

In the books they pretty much confirm it takes more than just heat to destroy the One Ring.

Good forges burn hotter than lava, and dragonfire even hotter still, yet Gandalf said that the biggest, baddest dragon who ever lived Ancalagon the Black (who makes Smaug look like a whimpy little butterfly in comparison) wouldn’t be able to harm the One Ring.

It’s the magical tie to Orodruin/Mount Doom that allows for its destruction.

“You’re serious? He needs a councilor with him to keep his anger under control?”

“That’s what our intelligence suggests, captain. And there’s more… he was once involved in a bar fight with multiple Nausicans. He was stabbed through the heart, then laughed at them. Should I answer his hail?”

“Oh fuck.”

☝️🤓

Surely a yard (3ft, ~90cm) is the most equivelant to a metre, not a foot

No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.

People didn’t just mass-destroy CRTs in 1999…

I bought an LCD TV in 2006 (a Sony Bravia that is still going strong) and that was earlier than most people I know switched

UK just took France’s logic to naming potatoes (earth apples) and went “well I guess it’s like a pinecone… pineapple. That’s sufficient.”

I think it’s Pina in Spanish too.

Yeah I get that SteamOS wouldn’t, but Valve themselves have explicitly stated people should use Flatpaks, not distro repos or Snaps (perhaps with an exception for Arch repos if what you say is correct).

Seems very weird to me.