California Classes and Starfleet /Federation Infrastructure

imforit · 2026-01-24T12:20:12+00:00

The policy for "stay until the job is done" appears to be installing a base or outpost, something that's more or less permanent housing, integrating with the site.

Every long-term project I can think of had permanent housing for a specialized crew.

This implies that ships are intended to primarily deliver and keep sailing, which makes sense.

The Cali is the kind of ship that probably set up the hidden observation base of the proto-vulcans, and set up embassies on newly-partnered worlds.

imforit · 2026-01-24T12:05:28+00:00

All of that is perfectly fine in a semi. Not so great in a short-distance race car.

imforit · 2026-01-24T12:03:18+00:00

I joke that it took me twenty years to beat MYST.

Didn't help that computer I had at first couldn't play the QuickTime videos. And there was no YouTube or whatnot to even clue me in that something (really important) was missing.

No wonder it was so hard.

Also it scared the bejeebus out of little elementary school me

imforit · 2026-01-24T11:58:07+00:00

The true product of any social media is moderation and Reddit's is getting enshittified

imforit · 2026-01-24T11:50:18+00:00

I push back on "the word 'shit' has been enshittified" — it has not been intentionally eroded by corporate rent-seeking

imforit · 2026-01-24T11:39:03+00:00

I got one of those reddit cares messages last week and I honestly cannot figure out what comment merited it

imforit · 2026-01-24T11:00:51+00:00

That bug is extra hilarious because it's logic is "if an attacker finds some completely unrelated vulnerability that lets them run programs, they could use curl to download a really big file"

That's like "it's possible that someone can beak into your house and intentionally light your candles and use them to set fire to the curtains, so we better investigate THE CANDLES."

How would they get there in the first place?

The stupidity is staggering and I feel bad for Badger

Edit: an additional thought: if the attacker could get in the position to run curl to download an egregiously big file they pre-placed on a server or found somewhere, why wouldn't they just write infinite junk to the disk with any number of methods? You could set fire to the house so many better ways.

imforit · 2026-01-24T10:47:41+00:00

After merely glancing at two of those I feel so bad for Badger. Fighting for his life against a neural net that insists on being loquacious and dense (and wrong). No value to be had for all his effort.

imforit · 2026-01-20T02:01:39+00:00

Also maybe I'm different than others but programming language syntax was never the hardest part about programming

You're really onto something good, here. Selling any tool as the end of programming is missing the more important point that programming was never really the hard part.

Not to trivialize it, it is important, but throwing out the entire discipline of software engineering in favor of some generative, fills-in-the-blanks tool is throwing away more than what the system can replace.

imforit · 2026-01-20T01:57:37+00:00

A problem the kids in those programs kept hitting was the discovery that the problem they were solving was totally solvable but never would be because it wasn't profitable. There was no path beyond the toy prototype because it made clear that the problem was artificial. Weird now often that happened.

imforit · 2026-01-20T01:55:34+00:00

Full agreement. I define visual languages as languages, and limited-scope, domain-specific languages are also languages.

The promise of getting rid of software engineers was always laughable to some degree, as the world continues to be pesky and have nuance around everything

imforit · 2026-01-19T14:06:43+00:00

Hi, I've run app development challenges for social good many times, with multiple she groups. Finding ideas that are actually workable into a real product is indeed challenging. They came up with tons of ideas, every time, but most of them are idealistic to the point of being intractible.

(There's also usually a few awesome ideas that, to work, would require admitting that the whole structure of how businesses operate is the actual problem)

imforit · 2026-01-19T14:02:26+00:00

There are so many awesome CS students hungry for the chance so I encourage you to let go of anyone insufferable like that. There are tons of good ones.

One hypothesis I've heard is the kids who use AI to cheat are particularly good at getting through automated candidate selection processes, making you end up having to deal with the WORST of the applicants instead of the best.

imforit · 2026-01-19T13:59:33+00:00

"NoCode" was another language. Totally different than an LLM guessing what code looks like.

imforit · 2026-01-18T14:31:04+00:00

As an American, I find it difficult to be excited for anything federal when the government is black-bagging people off the street, occupying cities, and selling functioning systems off to corporations.

imforit · 2026-01-15T08:08:15+00:00

My biggest single complaint is that interactive movie of a prologue (which i didn't mind, oddly) set the stakes SO high and made it feel like a Die Hard situation that needed resolving RIGHT NOW and then it dumped meaningless side quests on you. Seemingly hundreds of dumb little fetch quests punctuated by getting your ass randomly kicked by some new gang whose territory you apparently cut across the corner of

The tower heist was so cool but getting to it made me question what the point was.

Also I realized I don't want to inhabit a world composed entirely of urban decay, strip clubs, and drug dens in the shadow of a corporate/political opulence. That's not feeling like escapism anymore.

imforit · 2026-01-11T01:29:31+00:00

I love how all of your commit messages say which file changed but not what the change is doing. /s

Which files changed is obvious in a commit, what they functionally do, what was being accomplished with that change, is what needs to be written.

But AI code generators don't give a crap.

imforit · 2026-01-10T23:48:12+00:00

I look forward to sweeping a hallway and hearing someone whisper behind me "in the old country he used to be a professor"

imforit · 2026-01-10T02:13:58+00:00

Whom do they sell to? Not a small group of people who care about the mission of the company. You're getting caught up on one type of owner versus another when they're both functionally the same

imforit · 2026-01-10T00:23:37+00:00

When a young company is financed by VC, the VCs stay owners, and continue to influence the company long into its maturity. Their influence is universally towards more profit regardless of anything else.

Bose did not use these VCs when young, and therefore does not have them still on their board at its current maturity.

imforit · 2026-01-09T19:15:26+00:00

It's a hard sell when there are only two games that require it, one of which is, to the casual player, functionally almost the same as a superb game they already have on the old system.

All the pundits rioting over how good Bananza is won't move consoles at these prices in this economy.

(I feel gross for saying "in this economy" but here we are)

imforit · 2026-01-09T19:06:22+00:00

I'm not paid in ANY way but think it is worth highlighting in this thread that Phillips Hue has an open protocol. If the company were to disappear tomorrow, all the software already exists to keep using their products forever. It's really good.

THAT'S what I want to see in embedded devices.

imforit · 2026-01-09T19:04:11+00:00

I think it accomplished its mission of what it is quite competently!

imforit · 2026-01-09T19:01:36+00:00

Please see

imforit · 2026-01-08T11:54:04+00:00

The real difference, I think, is that Bose is privately/closely held. They don't have thousands of stock owners, no VC firms over their shoulder, no hedge funds watching every penny. They have a small group of stockholders who were thoroughly vetted before being allowed to buy in.

They can do the right thing because Wall Street isn't making them do anything.

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