I feel like that Data shot is going to be a holodeck simulation. That would be a very TNG thing, playing cards on the holodeck with a reproduction of a respected person.

Depends on where your values lie. While we could just brute force trips outside of the Earth-Moon system with bigger rockets, a new space station not only has the potential to increase efficiency, it can be used for a number of parallel scientific projects. And when the politics change, a big single rocket might…

Definitely a hardware issue. I have had the drift problem; the calibration routine included with the Switch does nothing to remedy it. My Switch was only a month old, so I sent the Joycon in for warranty repair, came back working. Hopefully it does not go bad again.

I might be able to get behind a hybrid, car-based, small pickup. As long as it has a real bed (6') and looks decent. Not sure what payload they could get out of it, but if it is enough to haul the kind of stuff I might need to haul (household stuff, bikes, furniture) and tow a small trailer, and gets good enough fuel…

I got a Switch in December, and had this problem develop within the month. Very frustrating. Well within warranty, at least, so it was just some shipping cost to get it fixed. Has not recurred, but I am dreading the possibility that it someday will. I play almost entirely handheld, so the problem has the potential to…

I would say more than converging. They basically replaced the Macbook with the Air, they just kept selling old stock Macbooks for a while. I just think they would have been better off working on the Macbook form factor instead of retreading the Air (Which is bigger, btw. Not sure what you mean about the smaller form…

Perhaps I was unclear. Easy when all the names are so similar. I believe they never should have released the new Air, they should have made improvements to the Macbook. It has a more notable form factor and design as a difference from the Pro line. If they had continued to upgrade it, I feel it would have given more…

I still don’t get the new Macbook Air. It feels like they should have just worked on improving the Macbook and kept it with the Pro. Get an 8th gen CPU, and 9th when they become available. Bump that usb-c port to thunderbolt 3 at some point. Replace the keyboard when someone comes to their senses. The Macbook was a…

That’s... not how statistics work. You can’t just refactor the scale of the data any way you like, and statistical significance is an important concept that has nothing to do with “the numbers look similar to me”.

Yeah, basically an S10 van. People take the AWD unit to replace the transfer case on S10 projects, and the reverse (if you want a van with low range). 

I would be very surprised if they axed the SE. As you noted, they have two generations of older phones still on the update list and they were selling the SE new up until relatively recently.

Because Nintendo’s whole business model is “games!” and “fun!” What else would they do?

I have been looking for something like this. Who makes these?

Only in a very narrow sense. The moment it can be interpreted as threat or incitement it stops being protected speech, and it is really hard to avoid that kind of thing when you are spouting proper hate speech. Basically, insults are protected, no matter how ugly, but anything that implies action along the same lines…

Chicken breast should be filleted and pounded with a hammer. Most chicken breast is bad because chickens’ breasts have gotten so big. A thinner cut is easier to avoid overcooking and a bit of tenderizing really helps. Once you do that, most chicken breast recipes improve. Like other meats, you can use simple…

I stopped all news notifications when everything Trump said started being qualified as breaking news. I can’t be happier. I have now gone one further; I usually only read what news was published in the paper in the morning. I only go looking for updates when something is happening, which I will know about by word of…

There is a $0.99 app that simulates the original toy (at least on iPhone). It even has an Apple Watch mode, which is one of the best uses for the Apple Watch I have heard of.

Definitely this. The anti-vaxxer thing seems to have jumped party lines, as mentioned, but big cities tend to be more likely to have outbreaks (just because of population density and travel patterns) and are coincidentally also more likely to be more liberal. Just a fun correlation, nothing to see here.

If at all possible with standing water, try to find out the depth. Put a stick in it, do some wading, whatever. If you are not experienced with water crossings, it is easy to get fouled up if you don’t have enough information.

Um... I don’t even allow remote content to auto-load on my email. I am certainly never going to allow AMP email. No one needs this except marketers, and we are marketed to enough already, thank you very much.