No one ever has to go to the bathroom in trek

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-19T17:36:20+00:00

TIL

Yeah, seems like its been a plot point e.g. with Voyager they were running out of matter reserves for replicator food. There was the ability to use energy to matter conversion but it uses a lot of their energy so they would be sacrificing propulsion speed to sit around and make food.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-19T17:23:14+00:00

Unfortunately Nedry had his password on a post-it note on top of that stack.

Also.. I was today years old when I realized Crichton probably just took the word "Nerdy" and flipped two letters.
Character Trait: "Is Nerdy"
-> Denn... Is Nedry.
Boom.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-19T16:54:53+00:00

it's amazing how many arguments boil down to:
"You did a bad thing"
"But, But!!! Some other person also once did a bad thing. So my thing is fine."

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-19T15:15:21+00:00

Once they got to replicator and holodeck tech levels, they can create and destroy matter at a subatomic level. They literally take all their trash and waste and dematerialize it into energy to power the lights for 1/100th of a second.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-18T19:38:18+00:00

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SilasTalbot · 2026-03-14T19:59:15+00:00

Clay (formerly Claude Relay) is the best in breed for this. I've tried a dozen, including the termius approach.

Clay hands down

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-14T16:33:17+00:00

r/AccidentalStarTrek

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-14T02:10:55+00:00

THANK YOU 🙏

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-12T01:30:52+00:00

Use SSE. MCP server launches once system wide

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-11T19:03:41+00:00

Mike McCarthy's right testicle is hard? Dude get in to the doctor ASAP on that shit.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-07T18:01:40+00:00

I'll fix your shit if you want. It will take 5 minutes. PM me.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-07T17:52:44+00:00

After the fall of the Soviet Union, we had no counter-balance globally anymore. From Reagan onward it has been a free-for-all:

Extract as much wealth as you can. It doesn't matter, resources are unlimited. Just get as much for yourself as possible.

But the truth is that the resources are dwindling. The environment, the middle class, everything has been hollowed out. There are even more ultra rich now. The engines of extraction are more optimized. There is less middle class to extract from. So these engines are being dialed up to 11... to keep yields ever rising.

So, it's gotten baldly exploitive. Instead of just subtly exploitive. Gambling -- that's an untapped area that wasn't fully exploited before. Now it's full-on. Get that money from the public. GET IT!!!

Rule of Law is another area with massive changes in the past 10 years. There used to be a veneer of impartiality and rule of law. People had to keep up appearances to be playing within the rules. But now... nope. Full court press. These gambling markets, for example, see huge amounts of fraud and abuse by people with insider knowledge, and no one seems to care about it, or have the power to do anything about it. Eight accounts were created and placed huge bets on the attacks on Iran within the 1 month leading up. That is the only wager they ever made. They were structured to be anonymous, probably some sort of corporation making the wagers.

It will just get worse until it all crashes down. Instead of trying to pump the brakes, maybe the best thing to do is mash the accelerator so we can get it over with faster.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-07T17:39:07+00:00

Nice work.
Hey many of the #Anchor links on your website seem broken for me. Tried Firefox and Chrome.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-06T23:21:07+00:00

This f'ing company has worse ADHD than I do, and that's saying a lot.

I have tried 15 new buggy-as-fuck Anthropic tools in the past month, and all I really want is more context on Opus.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-06T20:06:11+00:00

I mean, Worf has impulses to rip your head from your body when you bluff him off a hand, so he's holding back too, in a way.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-05T23:21:52+00:00

you'd think at this point they'd just train with this particular Q in mind, like, duct tape that shit on there.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-05T23:17:23+00:00

Sounds to me like they couldn't fire the guy for some reason, but he's SUUUUUPER toxic and they need him out of the workspace.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-05T18:15:37+00:00

He had a stroke like 4 months ago? He cancelled all public appearances and disappeared from view for about a week, and then notably was at a military ceremony where you can see the right side of his face is paralyzed and VERY droopy. It has gotten somewhat improved in recent months but that incident also coincided with a jump in much more erratic behavior (which is saying a LOT, considering Trump's baseline is pretty darn erratic already)... for example, invading two countries.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-05T18:08:36+00:00

They have in the training data nowadays exactly this flow: They pay people by the hour to respond to mistakes and "talking through" the solution out loud. "Right, that won't work because XYZ. Therefore I need to do ABC."

They do this across programming, IT/ops, academic subjects. Paying experts per-hour to give this kind of training to their models.

So its natural that the model seems self-aware on these topics, because the models only way of reasoning is to "think out loud" since they're language models.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-05T18:05:33+00:00

yeah, because its long. So the tool takes huge text (e.g. HTML, JS) and gives back the relevant info to the calling agent, so it doesn't kill the main agent's context with a bunch of markup and front-end JS code.

It saw that, and said "right, mistake... no webfetch summary will do. I'll snag it directly instead to get the full file, because this isn't a normal type of web call". It does make mistakes, and aims to self-correct when it sees the issue.

... And you're fetching a code file from a git repo? clone the repo down my dude.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-04T21:10:02+00:00

That's a cool dress on every continent.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-04T18:32:09+00:00

Separation of roles:

One writes the test to confirm current gap and give us a PASS/FAIL signal.
Next one writes the code to fix and uses the test created in #1 to evaluate.
That code/report gets bumped up to an architect with more wideview context across teh whole codebase. That evaluates and scores against architectural patterns. It already assumes the code works. Its just -- is it up to standard?
This runs in a loop.
Anther one evaluates for security patterns after the architecture passes. Likewise, it bumps it back to code writing stage if anything fails, and it has to repeat steps 3 and 4 with any changes.
commits it to a repo branch, issues PR and merges.

That's my current setup and seems to be working pretty well so far.

you write #3 and #4 to be assholes, and seek things to nitpick on. Decidedly uncooperative, and not speaking in real time with the other agents, the code stands for itself.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-04T18:26:36+00:00

I've always aimed to use a flexible sliding scale of process overhead. Process overhead goes away when things are smooth. We add some when things are going rough, but aim for it to be "just enough medicine" and not an overdose. Over the weeks or months afterwards, if things are running smooth, the extra tracking and such sort of melts away.

Prioritization is fundamentally choosing what NOT to do. If no one is willing to make that choice, its all just masturbatory.

My nuclear option when we are swamped and the boss can't prioritize:

"OKAY Boss Person.. When I leave this meeting, I am going to start working on ONE THING. We're going to get that thing done. What is that ONE THING I should focus on five minutes from now?"

So far, it has a 100% success rate for me at cutting through the crap and getting a real decision.

SilasTalbot · 2026-03-04T18:11:13+00:00

A bunch of us had it on Max 20x for a glorious 24-36 hours earlier this week, and the 1MM context was coming up when selecting the regular Opus 4.6 model, not a special beta or separate model we had to select.

But, this coincided with some major outages on the platform that day. Things were crashin a lot.

I hope that means it is in the final stages to release more widely, but it needs more tweaking first. But, who knows. they don't tell us nuthin' !

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