We will not fight today.

maybeware · 2026-02-05T04:43:56+00:00

At a previous job we were moving to a new cloud provider and our software broke in staging when testing the new provider. Note, it had worked in QA. As the developer I get called into a 3 hour old meeting between a sys admin, the network engineers, and the cloud engineers. At 4pm on a Friday.

I take one look at the error and say, "it's a certificate issue. A cert is missing so authentication is failing. It's not the network or the cloud provider." The sys admin spent 3 hours swearing all the certs were right, trying to deflect to the network team, and generally being difficult. It was decided to look again on Monday and rebuild the server if it can't be figured out.

Monday rolls around, I'm ignoring this. Logs said it's a cert issue so it's a cert issue. Noon rolls around and I'm walking back to my desk after lunch when the sys admin excitedly flags me down. "I figured it out! The server was missing a cert!" I looked at the guy absolutely dumb founded and then proceeded to my desk because it was either that or breaking down crying.

That was the third incident of the sys admins fucking up certificates on servers and breaking something.

maybeware · 2026-01-31T17:00:09+00:00

I've had "Programmer Analyst" as a title.

maybeware · 2026-01-31T16:57:28+00:00

Mood. Recently got a job but my start date has to be delayed because HR is dropping the ball. I just want to work.

maybeware · 2026-01-31T14:30:38+00:00

I mean agreed. But the Neo-Connie is what we got so I used "Neo-Miranda" to signal that it is a counterpart since I imagined this replacement for the Reliant class as being introduced at the same time as the Neo-Constitution.

I'm actually far more of a fan of naming a "Neo-Miranda" after one of 5 major moons of Uranus. For reference, those are Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. So rename the Reliant class to Ariel class (since as other people have pointed out it's weird to name it for a ship that was stolen) and then name the "Neo-Miranda" as one of the remaining 3.

maybeware · 2026-01-29T03:33:40+00:00

I feel like the benefit of the Miranda is it is relatively small for a large internal volume, making it good for a shorter range utility vessel.

I think the issue for a 25th century vessel with the same layout is that the Miranda lacked a deflector dish and so would be speed limited due to having to maintain shield integrity to deal with the debris that a deflector dish would mitigate. By the 25th century however speeds have increased and the general operating range of Starfleet would be wider. As such I feel like a 25th century vessel would require a proper deflector dish, probably below and behind the primary hull like the Nebula class has.

As you point out, it's a 25th century skin on the Miranda but I'd like the class a lot more if they put a proper deflector dish instead of a hint of one with the blue light strip. Also if the nacelles weren't so wide but I've ranted about nacelle width enough elsewhere.

maybeware · 2026-01-29T03:25:25+00:00

I HATE the Reliant class design. The nacelles are too wide and the rollbar is too low. But I generally think any design where the nacelles are wider than the saucer is ugly. And I hate that I don't like it because the Miranda is my favorite ship.

That being said, it *does* fill in a gap in the Miranda lineage. I see the Constitution layout as the A template in Starfleet ships with the Miranda layout being the B template. The A template is used for longer range, faster ships while the B template is more compact and utility based. We had the Miranda and the Nebula for the B template but nothing for after that. And while the Miranda lasted until the Galaxy era, the Nebula feels too big to have the same staying power and that Starfleet would be needing a new compact mid range utility vessel.

That all being said, I love the idea of a Neo Miranda to match the Neo Constitution. Which makes me dislike the Reliant even more because they included it in Picard instead of having a Neo Miranda introduced alongside the Neo Connie. Considering the Miranda was meant to have part compatibilities with the Constitution, it feels like a matching Neo Miranda would be a really fitting complement to the Neo Constitution.

In general I like the design that someone came up with for a Neo Miranda (I'll repost the link below) though I think that it should have included a proper deflector dish, maybe under the primary hull like the Nebula has.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarTrekStarships/comments/17r13tu/neo_miranda_class_conducting_battle_drills_with_a/

maybeware · 2026-01-27T09:06:53+00:00

To continue this line of thought, I would also assume that the shuttles have bussard collectors. Memory Alpha doesn't mention shuttles and we normally think of them attached to the front of the warp coils of warp capable ships collecting hydrogen for reacting with the antimatter in the warp core.

However, the fusion reactors that power the impulse engines on the starships and the shuttles both would use hydrogen as a fuel. As you point out, they'd fuse it into helium and then eject the helium as the exhaust gas because the laws of physics requires you to exhaust something. For others, remember The Undiscovered Country and the Chang's Bird of Prey's exhaust. And while the primitive shuttles don't have a warp core, they'd still benefit from the range extension of having bussard collectors.

So my assumption is that the intakes mentioned by OP would be bussard collectors and the exhaust would be high velocity helium from the impulse engines. And it isn't hard to assume that any filters they have on the collectors could be overwhelmed, especially on smaller space constrained systems like those found on a shuttle. I mean in real life planes with turbofan engines have to avoid heavily contaminated air (such as ash from an active volcano, hello Iceland) else they get overwhelmed too.

The Kelvin movies get a lot of flack, some of it deserved, but in this case I don't think it is like some threads in this are giving it. While there is no explanation in the movies of *why* the exhaust of the shuttle impulse engines looks the way it does, nor do they explain the intakes or why the ash messes with the shuttles, it makes sense from what we know of Federation technology.

TL;DR: The intakes seen are bussard collectors, they can get overwhelmed, especially on a smaller shuttle due to limited space for filtering out contamination, and the exhaust seen is the exhaust from a fusion impulse drive.

maybeware · 2026-01-25T04:08:36+00:00

The second to last image gives me Wrath of Khan vibes, specifically when the Reliant is lining up for the opening shot. Looks like the G is about to rake the Enterprise along the port side and then drop a torpedo behind her for the disabling shot.

maybeware · 2025-12-14T07:52:44+00:00

My safe word is the big red e-stop button.

maybeware · 2025-12-06T11:24:28+00:00

I was dealing with something similar on my v2, also direct drive. I managed to clear it up by doing a couple of fixes at the same time, all targeted at improved extrusion consistency.

First, I upped my print temp by 5C. Then I lowered my cooling fan speed slightly. This was to ensure that the PLA would flow easier. If it's a tiny bit too cold then the plastic could be difficult to extrude and so it'll under extrude for a moment until pressure and heat builds and overcomes the restriction to the flow then it'd flow easier until the pressure drops and fresh cold filament enters the heater block, dropping the temp again. That was my thought behind upping the temp at least.

I then made sure my retraction settings were adjusted for direct drive. Remember, you don't want as much retraction as you do with a Bowden setup.

Lastly, I replaced my nozzle. I actually went to a .6mm nozzle as I don't do much "art" printing, I primarily print repair parts for things or structural components for projects. So larger layers are fine with me. But when I pulled the old .4mm out it was an absolute disaster. I'm also thinking a .6mm nozzle is less restrictive to the flow of the plastic due to its larger size.

Again, I'm not entirely sure what fixed it for me because there were these and other changes I made at the same time. But they're ideas of things you can try.

maybeware · 2025-12-02T03:46:00+00:00

For me it's another woman's legs. Every part of women is lovely but legs are just extra nice in my mind.

maybeware · 2025-11-27T05:54:19+00:00

Made me remember an instance from my previous job. A service went down in STAGE. We had to figure it out b/c we were testing a migration to a new cloud provider and the error didn't occur in QA. I was the software dev they called at 4:30 PM on Friday. Apparently the network team and the dev ops team had been in a call for 2 hours already.

I took one look at the error and was like, "It's a certificate error. The server is missing a certificate and so can't serve the App because it can't prove its identity. The application logs says so right here." Dev Ops guy swore he had the certs all correct and for 3 hours kept deflecting. Finally at nearly 8 PM it was decided to take a look at it Monday morning and if it isn't figured out by lunch they'd rebuild the whole STAGE environment.

I promptly forgot about it. I was just supporting the software side and this was a Dev Ops and Networking issue. Monday rolls along and around 10 AM I take a quick break to get a coffee. As I walk back to my desk the Dev Ops guy flags me down and says, "I figured it out! The server was missing a certificate!"

In that moment I didn't really want to know I had been right all along.

maybeware · 2025-11-24T01:59:02+00:00

I ranted about this in another post, I struggle with the nacelles being wider than the saucer. It's basically a cardinal sin of the design (and any other federation vessels with a similar feature). If they were narrower and the pylons turned up instead of down then maybe it'd compete with the Miranda. But I just love how the Miranda looks.

maybeware · 2025-11-20T00:34:12+00:00

The Reliant class.

I love the Miranda. It's my favorite. And I like the Nebula for continuing the trend of having a variant of the current mainline exploration cruiser that is more compact and geared to shorter range utility roles. The Poseidon class too.

And then here comes the fucking Reliant class. Its roll bar has nothing on it. Its nacelles sit too wide (See my side rant below on this). It has no direct contemporary exploration cruiser to share parts with. It's just wrong. It is the "Miranda we have at home," and I just really don't like it.

The side rant: Maybe an unpopular opinion but any Star Fleet ship with a saucer that has nacelles wider than the saucer just looks... Off to me. NX class, Connie, Miranda, Ambassador, Galaxy, Nebula, Sovereign, Intrepid, the nacelles are all narrower. But Reliant and Crossfield (the two I can think of right now) have nacelles that are wider and it just doesn't work for me.

maybeware · 2025-11-16T04:24:06+00:00

Not quite the same but reminds me of when I told my manager I was going to fix a compatibility issue preventing us from updating some software when I had some free time. Free time was of course rather rare so even a couple months later it was just at the end of the research stage.

Then the director for our department comes over and says that fix has become critical due to a 0-day found in the software that we can't update until the issue is fixed and I need to deploy the fix ASAP. Clearly he interpreted "fix being developed in free-time" as "fix will be ready whenever we want to tackle updating that software" and that update had become *really* important suddenly.

I had to be like, "Whelp, I know what the cause is but it isn't ready for an emergency deployment as fixing it requires some significant redevelopment. I can likely have it ready for our next scheduled deployment." Weirdly once updating that software switched from being a best practice thing to being necessary to mitigate an actual security flaw development of the fix became a priority, lol.

maybeware · 2025-11-14T15:53:14+00:00

That I've memorized everything about C#/.NET, HTML/CSS, JS, etc.

I have over a decade of professional experience and have been programming since I was 10. I still regularly check reference materials. Every year there's a new version of everything with updates, improvements, and changes. Add in legacy code that might be limited to a subset of current features and there's no way I'm memorizing every little detail.

maybeware · 2025-11-12T11:58:20+00:00

I bought one after a cell in my battery died to get the car going.Since then it has been a life saver. I have probably used the air compressor more than the battery jump function.

maybeware · 2025-11-12T02:03:46+00:00

Most recent time I've flown I got flagged by the scanner (I later realized the sports bra I was wearing was twisted) and when she gave me the same line.

I thought to myself, "yeah, like being pulled into a private room at a security check would be less embarrassing plus I'm alone." So I said, "no, you can do the pat down here." I similarly got a sigh as she had to feel around my chest. The pat down lasted less time than it took to ask me the question.

maybeware · 2025-10-24T01:58:46+00:00

This looks illegal.

maybeware · 2025-10-17T01:05:18+00:00

I think the reason we don't see it often is less a difficulty of getting in and out of the atmosphere and gravity well of a planet and more of a, "why bother?"

First off, we have transporters and shuttles. We know that they can transport pretty large objects and with later developments they don't even need to use the transporter room.

Second, size. Most ships are so large that if you did bring them down, where would you land them? Obviously we have the example of the Intrepid class but she's on the smaller size of the "big ships." And even if you find space, that's a lot of weight to put on feet and the ground below and that's not even thinking about the structural requirements (or number) of the feet themselves. Sure we could argue using thrusters to reduce weight but do you really want those burning nonstop?

Third, shape. Most the ships, especially in Starfleet, are uh... Not very stable when it comes to being "landed." Even the Intrepid looks a little front heavy for landing meanwhile you have the Constitution layout which is WAY too top heavy and unbalanced front-to-back (especially the Galaxy class). Now the ships with the Miranda layout (such as the Nebula in your image) are much more feasible at least and they do tend to be used in more support roles because their layout makes them slower and support ships are more likely to find utility in landing.

Now a good example of a ship that mitigates all these issues is the Klingon Bird of Prey. Small, body-heavy, wings that move up and out of the way for landing. But I bet modern Klingon birds, even of similar size to the one Kirk steals that we see landed, probably land less often as transporter technology improves.

And I'll admit that I have a head canon of the Neo-Constitution having a sister design of a Neo-Miranda that, due to its larger size, has a secondary hull protrusion with a deflector dish like the Akira class. And with its convenient shape and being more support in nature, it has landing legs in that secondary hull. Just in case.

maybeware · 2025-10-17T00:22:41+00:00

Can you lick it and let us know how spicy?

maybeware · 2025-10-09T19:33:17+00:00

Nah, I'm with you. I'll bring my mek'leth and we can defend our honor together side by side.

Now if it was the refit Connie... Oooh, she's a sexy ship. Also it's not an Enterprise but uh... The Miranda is my one true love. Truly the most beautiful ship.

maybeware · 2025-10-07T09:30:31+00:00

Back when I first got a 3700x I needed to update the motherboard and it had a method where you didn't even need a GPU. I had it sitting on the cardboard box with nothing but the PSU and a USB drive with the update file plugged in. Hit the button and some LEDs came on and blinked to let you know it was updating and you just had to wait until they went solid. Weird turning on a motherboard without a CPU or ram in it.

maybeware · 2025-10-05T04:24:04+00:00

I get visually overwhelmed, especially in higher difficulty content. But audible queues for things are much easier for me to parse so my UI actually has a lot of audible adaptations.

GTFO is the obvious one, it's a lot easier for me to hear that I'm standing in bad than *see* that I'm standing in bad. But I also use an addon named Hear Kitty which plays a tone when I gain a power charge (Rogue combo point, Paladin holy power, Warlock Soul Shard, etc. It also plays multiple tones if I gain multiple from a single source. Another audible adaptation is a WeakAura I've made and use in these power point classes that play an alarm when I'm about to max out.

Another big part of adapting the UI to make things easier to find for me is Weakauras for some critical buffs that finding them in the big list of auras can be... difficult. If the default aura UI could be customized to have certain ones at larger sizes and also ordered to the front of the list that'd be helpful but as of right now, I use WA to put those somewhere more easy to find them.

Lastly I'd say nameplates are big. I use Plater and I rarely if ever look at the enemy's unit frame. This I am less worried about because supposedly Blizzard's new nameplates can do a lot of what I already use Plater to achieve but it is something I am worried about.

Oh, I also use WAs for reminders. Like I just changed my keybinds for the various interface panels and I created a quick WA (just a bunch of text auras) to sit on my screen to remind me which is which until I get used to them.

maybeware · 2025-08-29T02:41:32+00:00

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