[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

They do. Even back in their pre-UEFI days, it was possible to flash BIOS from a properly-formatted USB drive by holding down a magic key combination at power on. But it was not exactly publicized as a supported method.

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

They really didn't give much direction at all on how Klingons should look back then. The actor and makeup artist basically came up with it on the spot.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Depicting_Klingons

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

That might have been true a decade ago. But GPUs and FPGAs have long been obsolete for mining Bitcoin.

Mining is happening on custom silicon in large-scale operations. They specifically observed several of those large-scale operations in multiple nations and extrapolated out. I don't see how that methodology is flawed.

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

It's not just storage capacity either. Google uses custom silicon just to keep up with all the transcoding.

https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/new-era-video-infrastructure/

At the time that article was released (April 2021), users were uploading over 500 hours of video per minute.

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

The image that has been burned into my brain since I was 5

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

Aight imma ~~head out~~ need that template

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

I, for one, look forward to seeing more asteroids flung at jackasses with tractor beams in the future.

Riker and the tractor beam at the nebula. Riker, his aim true.

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

That could have easily been the line on the last panel

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but you know how VOY is. Everything always resets at the end of the episode.

Ship smashed to pieces? Fixed by the time we hear the next Captain's Log.

It's certainly no ENT.

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

Reticulating splines

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

Latest release makes them go away and stay away

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