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Also, my blog spotlight this week is a cracking deep dive into how webpages work, and why a single page of the New York Times is more information than an entire music album. I thoroughly recommend reading @pheonix's The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
(thatshubham.com)
It's still technically Thursday, so my weekly "Lets talk tech Thursday" newsletter is not lying! This week I talk about Palantir and their increasing foothold in UK life. Also, AI music fraud, trial social media bans, and for something a little more light-hearted, what happened when two devs released different games with the same name.
If any of that sounds interesting, I'd be honoured if you have it a read: https://buttondown.com/willrc/archive/lets-talk-tech-thursday-23/
I also have questions about the Atrium...
It can remain attached either to the saucer or the nacelles, I get that (though it did take me a minute). Does it have any drive capacity of its own? I presume it doesn't also have nacelles (but then, I assumed the saucer didn't either, a la Enterprise, so what do I know?). But does it have its own impulse engines? Can it move itself between the nacelles and the saucer if needed (would that ever be needed? Probably not...)
If all of Engineering is in the saucer, what is all the stuff around the nacelles at the front of the ship? Not knocking it, I love the look, but is it more quarters/classrooms/storage?
Also, if it is just the one warp core, then the nacelles can't warp on their own. So why was Nus Braka so insistent on keeping it tractored by a dozen different ships? It wasn't going anywhere once the saucer left. (Maybe he didn't know that?)
So, a #StarfleetAcademy question (or I guess, questions): how many warp cores does an Academy Class ship / the Athena have? Just one, but it sits in the saucer section? Is that not risky? Or have we solved the issues of warp/nacelle radiation by the 32nd Century? If so, why have external nacelles at all? Are they faster / more efficient?
Also, is all of Engineering in the saucer? It looked like Reno and Mir were trying to realign stuff from a corridor, so no?
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