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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You might enjoy the book "Blindsight" by Peter Watts.

It does a phenomenal job telling a very unique first contact story. I can't remember if cameras are much of a plot point (I think they use them occasionally), but one of the characters is a linguist, and the aliens are distinctly non-human.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

The episode is "My Screw Up" (S3E14) if anyone is wondering.

I might actually prefer "My Lunch" from S5 as an episode, but they are both fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Senate seats can't be altered much shifting the lines on the map because there's two per state, what you take from one you give to the other

Senate seats are ALWAYS state-wide elections, with no district lines to draw or gerrymander. Gerrymandering still arguably has an impact on senate elections, but it's a secondary factor of reducing turnout and not a primary factor of just picking the best districts.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I feel like you can do both these days, can't you? Hades was one of the first to break this ground.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, yes and no.

Quantum computers will likely never beat classical computing on classical algorithms, for exactly the reasons you stated, classical just has too much of a head start.

But there are certain problems with quantum algorithms that are exponentially faster than the classical algorithms. Quantum computers will be better on those problems very quickly, but we are still working on building reliable QCs. Also, we currently don't know very many quantum algorithms with that degree of speedup, so as others have said there isn't many use cases for QCs yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This isn't a "comic book" universe, but the parahumans story universe (Worm and Ward) fits this pretty well.

Without spoiling too much of the story, characters all get powers in response to traumatic events. The powers they get also tend to reflect the type of trauma that occurred, so if they lost an arm they might get a healing power, or if they were trapped in a burning building they might get the ability to phase through walls and a resistance to fire. All of the powers in the setting tend to follow this approach, and stay within the rules of the setting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Hi Will!

Now that you've tried out directing as well as acting, which side of the camera do you prefer?

Are there any things you've learned from the experience of directing that you think will help in future acting roles? Additionally, is there anything you would do differently about directing Kodar if you got to start over from scratch today?