Please send flowers, I just died from cringe

You are totally correct, hydrogen is by far the most common element out there, since it’s just a simple proton. Any space without a boatload of hydrogen is what we call empty space. Oxygen is also super abundant, so it’s basically everywhere. As far as we know water is everywhere and very easy to get. Like I said you’d need to filter and clean it, since it’s probably full of nasty stuff, but that’s something we could do 100 years ago so it should be easy.

Now it would be possible for some kind of weird system where there is just hydrogen for the star and not a lot else. I’m not sure how that would be possible, but lets say for the sake of argument that it is. Then you won’t have any planets as well and you for sure wouldn’t have any abundant life to get to civilization levels. The early universe was like this, because a lot of the heavier stuff needed stars to get made. So the early stars systems were just a whole lot of hydrogen and some helium and nothing else, but there obviously wasn’t life as we know it back then.

But I don’t know how this would extend to an entire region of space. And even if it’s for the entire region, why would you stay? Just move on, the region sucks, you have warp capable vessels so just get out of dodge. There’s plenty of stars around with a lot of water in their systems, Voyager gets to them within the year.

They also have, you know, space ships, so they have some level of technology. They say the stole the tech, but that’s a little too easy. Even if they stole the idea and the blueprints, they still understand a lot of it. They operate and maintain it, so they have some technical level at least. That means their space ships probably have pretty decent water recycling options. Or are they just venting their piss into space like we did in the 60s? If water is such a big deal, they would surely have their tech tree invested into recycling and water saving techniques. Even a ship with replicators like Voyager is a very sealed system, why waste the resources?

I think in the show it’s just hand waved away like this is a region with very little water and the audience is just supposed to go with it, instead of thinking even a little bit about it.

Sure but when you have space travel, its dead simple to get water. Just park up at any old moon or asteroid, a lot of them are almost all ice. Sure you need to filter and clean it, but that’s the easy part. Replicators seem like the hard way to get water.

The Kazon also had big logical fallacies, they are somehow very technologically advanced, but have weird gaps in their knowledge. They have space travel, but clean water is an issue? How is that even possible?

And Voyager, one of the fastest ships ever made flies at ultra high warp, but is somehow months inside their territory? And not like there is just a lot of them, no, they were interacting with the same people all the time. Later this is explained by Voyager needing to stop all the time getting supplies, which meant their speed dropped down to a crawl, but that’s a different issue. But the Kazon are season 1 when Voyager has plenty of supplies. So the Kazon, a backwards people, can somehow move people faster than Voyager?

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That’s still a 4xx situation.

Doesn’t matter, the client ignores the error anyways.

Important context:

This is often an exercise for beginning programmers, it’s a very simple task that’s easy to understand, but leaves enough room in the implementation to make it a good exercise.

Sometimes it’s used as a test on job applications, which is total bullshit, it isn’t a good test of someones actual skills as a software developer. Because of this it’s become a bit of a joke on the internet.

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Also programmers: Hmmm do I really need this $1500 Herman Miller chair? Yes I absolutely do!

Typescript on the other hand: Exwuse me sir, you seem to have a little oopsie right here. Oh right! Let me just fix that right up.

HERE ARE TWO THOUSAND ERRORS! YOUR PUNY LITTLE BUFFER CAN’T EVEN SCROLL BACK TO READ THEM ALL! AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A PROGRAMMER?

Many providers have specific clauses for this. Ever since crypto mining became a thing providers have included in general terms you can’t over use the service. And often specifically against using it for crypto mining.

Providers will normally warn users and only kick them off when no explanation is forthcoming.

Usually this applies to shared services, like a VPS. You pay a lower price because you share hardware. But that only works if the hardware is shared fairly. If another user hogs all the resources, the service is no good for anyone. But it can also apply to seemingly dedicated services, like your own server for example. In that case the server is free to be used for whatever, but things like cooling and power are still shared. A regular dedicated server service will be based on typical use and can kick users out who require too much cooling or power. In cases where the resources are legitimately required, they will offer contracts that allow you to use all of the resources all of the time. But in turn you will have to pay a premium for something like that.

On the surface it may seem like a bit of bullshit, but that’s often what allows prices to be as low as they are. So I’m fine with it, as long as it’s made clear beforehand (which in my experience it is)

So you’re saying Relational DataBase Management Systems do really well as soon as Relations are involved?

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I’ve seen this often. The app is marketed as being “api” first as if that’s some benefit to the user of a SaaS application. However in reality much of the team is constantly busy patching the old legacy V1 api to keep it running. And management won’t authorize the budget to create a new api version that replaces the old one, because it still works right?

Public facing web apis have always been a pet peeve of mine. So often the team uses the api their own frontend uses as the public facing api customers should use for integrations. Which on the surface seems smart, why implement and manage two apis that’s just overhead. But in reality the apis suitable for a frontend (or often that specific frontend) isn’t suitable for integrations at all. They both have a completely different target user and completely different requirements.

But hey we’ll just market it as “headless”, because one could totally put in the years of work and money we put in to create our front-end, if they really wanted to. Totally realistic thing that happens.

It’s really amazing how much power you can get for cheap in a small package these days. But yeah putting a battery on that wouldn’t be practical, it’s still a very efficient chip, but in absolute terms eats a bunch of power. So you’d need to be tethered. You could easily wear one of those mini pcs, but need a power cable. One of those could be dropped down from the ceiling, but still not as good as a mobile solution.

I’m not sure what a Steam deck costs? $450 - $550?

A Minisforum UM870 with 32GB of memory and 1TB SSD is around $500. That has an AMD Ryzen 7 8745H CPU. 8 cores 16 thread 4.9ghz boost Zen4. Gpu builtin Radeon 780M with 12 RDNA3 2.7ghz cores. That could give the Steam Deck a round for it’s money I think.

Is it not much easier and cheaper to buy a mini pc and run Steam with an OS of choice? (You can chose between any number of Linux distros, I use Arch btw). Steam can just launch on boot into big picture mode, it’s pretty much a console at that point.

The technical term is Heisenbug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug

Obviously, there is True, False and FILE_NOT_FOUND