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  • Severance is phenomenal (fantastic premise, extremely well-executed)

    Silo was great (interesting premise, very similar to Fallout but played seriously, without the bizarreness)

    Constellation is good (another parallel universe story, but well done with good acting)

    Monarch was meh (terribly-written characters and dialogue, but it ended in an interesting way)

    I have not yet watched Dark Matter, but I read the book years ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. That said, there are so many parallel world stories lately that I’m beginning to tire of them.

    I have not yet watched Foundation, For All Mankind, Dr. Brain, or the others which are reviewed less favorably.



  • tl;dr for article and comments:

    Microsoft mangled arrays and code comments with ASCII extended characters into UTF-8 encoding, which makes building many of these files impossible without a lot of extra work. This was mistakenly attributed to Git.

    The timestamps for each file are also not preserved, which is debatably a valid criticism of Git (original file timestamps can technically be preserved on an archive like this, but it requires a large amount of work to line up those times and the correct commit times programmatically).

    Several Microsoft employees involved in this project appeared in the comments and offered to work directly with the author to correct the character encoding issues. One Microsoft employee indicated that historical timestamps could likely not be included due to Microsoft corporate policy around personally identifiable information.








  • I have to admit that I’m impressed at how incredibly committed the haters are to continue stewing in their negativity and commenting on a show they despise many years after they stopped watching.

    There were problems with the show from the beginning, and there have been some clunky, eye-rolling choices and dialogue, but it’s had some good storylines (particularly season two) too.

    It was an incredibly bold decision to jump into the far future of the Star Trek timeline. That was probably the most dynamic choice in any Star Trek media since The Next Generation launched, a series which also garnered a lot of hate from Star Trek “fans” early in its run.

    Of course, Discovery is no TNG, and the writing isn’t as good, but I can appreciate that it’s tried to do something completely unique each season.

    Overall, I’m looking forward to the final season, but I won’t necessarily mourn it once it’s gone.