jobbies@lemmy.zip to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world · 14 days agoIs it 'Worf' like 'Cher' or is his full name 'Worf Roshenko"?message-squaremessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up158arrow-down1message-squareIs it 'Worf' like 'Cher' or is his full name 'Worf Roshenko"?jobbies@lemmy.zip to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world · 14 days agomessage-square29linkfedilinkfile-text
If Alexander’s surname is Roshenko then surely his dad is the same? In that case, why isn’t it 'Commander/Lt Roshenko"?
minus-squarejobbies@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up45·14 days agoBit of a mouthfull tbh. Starfleet probably went with ‘worf’ cos the surname field was 25 chars max
minus-squaretaiyang@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·14 days agoCenturies in the future and government is still using a 25 character maximum for string data. Actually yeah, that tracks.
minus-squareThebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoSiddig el-Tahir el-Fadil el-Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim el-Mahdi. No wonder he switched to Alexander Siddig
minus-squareDionysus@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·14 days agoSo the isolinear chip stores a lot of data… Hell, Enterprise D’s 3 Core computers we suspect to hold ~483,840,000,000 TB to 3,870,720,000,000 TB depending on which canon reference you use. They could store Worf’s full name.
minus-squareusernamefactory@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·14 days agoHad to make room for Riker’s porn folder.
minus-squarePope-King Joe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·14 days agoAnd his music sheets for his trombone.
minus-squareRiceMunk@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·14 days agoIt’s not so much that the computers are incapable of storing it. Turns out the Starfleet records system just depends on a schema an intern implemented at the UN in 1997, and no one’s had time to migrate it since then.
minus-squareUpperBroccoli@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·14 days agoYeah but then they have to fax it to corporate, and with such a long name, it’s such a bother…
minus-squaremed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoZFS could manage that. You might have to split his name over a few files though :/
minus-squarejobbies@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 days agoBTRFS and immutability might be better, given how unwieldy it is and how often it changes.
Bit of a mouthfull tbh. Starfleet probably went with ‘worf’ cos the surname field was 25 chars max
Centuries in the future and government is still using a 25 character maximum for string data. Actually yeah, that tracks.
Siddig el-Tahir el-Fadil el-Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim el-Mahdi. No wonder he switched to Alexander Siddig
So the isolinear chip stores a lot of data…
Hell, Enterprise D’s 3 Core computers we suspect to hold ~483,840,000,000 TB to 3,870,720,000,000 TB depending on which canon reference you use.
They could store Worf’s full name.
Had to make room for Riker’s porn folder.
And his music sheets for his trombone.
It’s not so much that the computers are incapable of storing it. Turns out the Starfleet records system just depends on a schema an intern implemented at the UN in 1997, and no one’s had time to migrate it since then.
Yeah but then they have to fax it to corporate, and with such a long name, it’s such a bother…
ZFS could manage that. You might have to split his name over a few files though :/
BTRFS and immutability might be better, given how unwieldy it is and how often it changes.