Ciro Santilli likes this.
He doesn't have the patience to actually watch full episodes with rare exceptions, rather just watching selected scenes from: www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeIGY2DIjpGf0A2m9GSE3g, but still, it is interesting.
What appeals to Ciro in this series is how almost nothing is solved by violence, almost everything is decided in the bridge, at the "cerebral" level of the command structure. This reminds Ciro of a courtroom of law sometimes.
Maybe there's also a bit of 90's nostalgia involved too though, as this is something that would show on some random cable channels a bored young Ciro would have browsed during weekends, never really watching full episodes.
One crime of many episodes is being completely based on some stupid new scientific concept, which any character to back it up.
Another thing that hurt is that due to their obsession with the senior members of the crew, sometimes those senior members are sent in ridiculously risky operations, which is very unrealistic.
Episodes that Ciro watched fully and didn't regret:
- s02e09 Measure of a man en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation) see also physics and the illusion of life
- s04e14 Clues en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clues_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
- s04e15 First contact en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Contact_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation). Although the premise that the aliens look so much like humans, and worse, that Decker could speak their language to the point of passing as one of their race is preposterous, the idea of inversion of first contact is just too cute.
- s07e15 The Lower Decks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Decks_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation), sliding scale of idealism vs. cynicism near cynincism, yes please
Semi worth it:
- s03e11 The Hunted memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hunted_(episode) if it weren't for the ending, maybe this would have been decent
Not worth it:
- Cause and effect
TODO
- s06e11 Chain of command
Group theory, abstraction, and the 196,883-dimensional monster by 3Blue1Brown (2020)
Source. Too basic, starts motivating groups themselves, therefore does not give anything new or rare.Minimal React hello world example. As you click:By opening a web inspector, you can see that only modified elements get updated. So we understand that JSX parses its "HTML-like" into a tree, and then propagates updates on that tree.
- one counter increments every time
- the other increments every two clicks
Ubuntu 24.04 installer "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" doesn't work when BitLocker enabled by
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli reproduced on Dell Inspiron 15 3520 with factory defaults. This bug prevents "wipe windows" installation without workarounds, one of which is to disable encryption in Windows.
Ubuntu 24.04 "The application files has closed unexpectedly" by
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Happens at startup without doing anything, and then keeps happening randomly infinitely many times... on a almost clean 24.04 ISO install on Dell Inspiron 15 3520... God how can it be so bad.
Viewing the apport issue a bit further shows title:
nautilus crashed with sigabrt in g_assertion_message_expr
Possibly related:
- www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1ce1027/2404_is_a_terrible_release/
- bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1795210
- bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1823529
- askubuntu.com/questions/1406294/nautilus-keeps-crashing-in-22-04
- superuser.com/questions/42068/application-are-closed-down-unexpectedly-under-ubuntu
- ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2466502
- x.com/cirosantilli/status/1792792620323967227
"Quantum interconnect" refers to methods for linking up smaller quantum processors into a larger system.
As of 2024, seemingly few organizations developing quantum hardware had actually integrated multiple chips in interconnects as part of their main current roadmap. But many acknowledged that this would be an essential step towards scalable compuation.
The name "quantum interconnect" is likely partly a throwback to classical computer's "chip interconnect".
Sample usages of the term:
- news.mit.edu/2023/quantum-interconnects-photon-emission-0105
Researchers have demonstrated directional photon emission, the first step toward extensible quantum interconnects
- qpl.ece.ucsb.edu/research/quantum-interconnects
Gerhard Rempe - Quantum Dynamics by Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
. Source. No technical details of course, but they do show off their optical tables quite a bit! There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.