Lounging and going barefoot are not safety issues, unless you consider all forms of unconventionality to be unprofessional, and all forms of unprofessionalism to be irresponsible.

It’s a morale issue, which a competent captain would be aware of. Crew members see that and think “if the captain doesn’t give a shit, why should I?” Crew starts blowing off their duties which would ultimately result in a safety issue.

There’s a reason why people in positions of responsibility behave the way they do when in front of others. I’m sure Picard lounged around in his quarters reading books or whatever, but when called to the bridge he’d put on his game face and behave in a way that commands respect in front of the crew. It’s part of the job of being captain.

Making a show about that would be genuine. Making a show about spaceship needs to portray a functioning spaceship. If it doesn’t care about the functioning of the spaceship, it’s just some actors on a set. Why bother with the spaceship set at all if everyone has to accept everything about everyone, even if it negatively impacts their ability to do their job?

One of the most interesting episodes of TNG was when Jellico was temporarily assigned as Captain of the Enterprise. He had a real hard ass leadership style, Riker didn’t like it and was confined to quarters, nobody liked him. Given it’s Star Trek, you assume that it’s going to turn out he was evil. But nope, he accomplished the mission Picard came back and resumed being captain. Leaving the audience with the question, was Jellico the asshole, or was Riker the asshole.

There were a few episodes where Data was in command and he wasn’t respected because he’s an android.

The thing about having a show about a future where everyone is accepting of one another and there is no interpersonal conflict is that is boring as hell. Considering the responsibilities of command, having interpersonal conflicts makes things interesting. Having a captain that acts like a teenager and everyone is cool with it, and the audience need to be cool with it because that’s just how things are in the future is incredibly boring.

And the show may take place in the future, but the audience lives in the present day. The ship needs to function in a way that someone grounded in how ships function in the present day, otherwise how are we supposed to know when the captain has crossed the line and when the captain is doing things that are normal for a captain to do?

It’s not just military captains that are responsible for the lives of those onboard their ship. That’s true for the captain of any ship. Even on a cruise ship. Read about the Costa Concordia. Captain didn’t take the job seriously bent the rules and a bunch of people died. That captain sounded like he’d be a fun guy to go have a beer with at a bar or whatever, but he had no business being the captain of a ship.

And this is my point. You want a show with a bunch of people that seem like they’d be fun to hang out with. I want a show about people that are actually good at their jobs. Sure they aren’t really on a spaceship, so none of it really matters. But it’s more interesting to me to see someone commanding a ship that’s actually acting like someone commanding a ship. otherwise it’s just actors on a spaceship set being quirky. The responsibilities of command the ethical dilemmas that come with that, that’s interesting. A captain is someone the crew should respect, not someone they want to hang out with because she’s like your quirky aunt.

Besides that, isn’t she supposed to be training these people? What happens when these cadets finish their training and get assigned to a captain that’s not a quirky auntie type? In real life the drill sergeants that train people are the most hard ass people around so when people complete training they’re ready for anything.

And I’m pretty sure people in the federation aren’t required to be in starfleet. It’s something like a combo between NASA and the military both of which demand a high degree of discipline. Even in a utopian future there will be jobs that it’s dangerous to have people that fuck around doing those jobs. Physics can be harsh and I think the vacuum of space will kill people even in a utopian future. Just that in a utopian future people will volunteer for those jobs knowing the risks and knowing they will need to be disciplined when doing the dangerous work.

I don’t see it as acting “like a teenager”. These eccentricities seem more to me as being representative of a person who knows all the rules (both formal and informal), and has decided which ones are worth breaking – whether it’s for personal comfort or if it’s for a more purposeful reason, that I can’t say.

That’s a perfect description of how a teenager thinks.

An adult thinks about responsibility and the effect their behaviour has on others. A captain of a ship is responsible for the lives of everyone aboard their ship. The crew of a ship takes cues from the captain. If the captain is acting like a lazy teenager, the crew is likely to follow her lead. They start blowing off some of their duties because the captain doesn’t give a shit, so why should we?

Have you ever been an airplane? Why do they even bother wearing uniforms? You could perform the job functions of piloting an aircraft wearing a T-shirt and shorts. IT would be a lot more comfortable, so why do they wear uniforms? They wear uniforms and behave professionally because people tend to get nervous when people in positions of responsibility look like they don’t give a shit. And adults understand how they appear affect others around them, so they make an effort to look and behave professionally for the sake of other people. A selfish teenager doesn’t think this way and thinks they should feel comfortable and everyone else should change how they think.

Bottom line, she’s behaving in a way that teenagers might relate to, but she’s not behaving the way someone that’s responsible for people’s lives would behave. A captain may need to give an order and have it followed without hesitation would want the people under her command to think of her as a serious person. Not a teenager that bends the rules for the sake of her own comfort.

So yeah… it breaks immersion to have a captain acting like a teenager. It’s just an actor that didn’t bother to think about how captains in real life behave thinking it’s cute to be sitting in the captain’s chair like a teenager would. Not believable as a captain responsible for people’s lives.

I thought the captain was the one that supposed to teach them how to do the job? Why is she acting like a teenager? How are they supposed to learn how to stop acting like teenagers and take their jobs seriously if the captain is acting this way too?

Yeah it’s just a show, but characters in a show should be acting as if the world they’re in is real. It breaks immersion when they don’t.

There’s a general fear of being genuine with characters in a lot of shows and movies, and it’s gotten really old. It’s really cringey at this point.

It would be nice to have a show about people on a spaceship acting like people that are really on a spaceship that have serious jobs. It’s boring to have yet another show where it’s just people acting like youtube influencers on some spaceship sets. People that actually like vapid youtube influencers will only just watch clips from these shows, so what’s the point of trying to appeal to that crowd?

It’s part of a general problem where old trek is basically competence porn (everyone is ridiculously competent at their jobs) while in new Trek everyone kinda acts like a teenager. Maybe it’s a desperate attempt to appeal to a younger audience (I don’t think that actually works tho), but it certainly doesn’t appeal to fans of older Trek.

It definitely breaks immersion to have characters that have serious jobs acting like teenagers.

Guinan and Dr Who weren’t captains. I don’t think anyone would take issue if it were the bartender portraying a laid back vibe, but you kind of want the captain to give the crew confidence that they’re alert and on top of things. Of course that’s not possible at all times, but that’s why the captain has quarters and a ready room. Some other officer should be sitting the the chair keeping an ey on things if the captain wants to read a book or whatever.

It breaks immersion to have characters that are supposed to be ding serious jobs acting like teenagers.

Isn’t that what the ready room is for? Captain chills out reads a book or whatever in a room next to the bridge, but they are ready to go out to the bridge and conduct themself formally when they get out there.

You could do this (there are websites you can find easily) but Pelosi isn’t in power anymore and wouldn’t be in the loop on Trump’s corruption which is way more significant than just knowing which company the government is going to award a big procurement contract to or whatever.

The Trump corruption seems to have gone with crypto shenanigans and you can’t track them. We just know that someone made >$100M by doing crypto shorts exactly one minute before Trump posted about more insane tarrifs on China, but there’s no way to know who did that and we can’t track them. They’ll probably make similar amounts of money on the inevitable TACO.

Given what Peter Thiel’s been talking about lately, that’s not all that far fetched.

Yeah I remember a VC guy during the dot com boom was saying they were just about to invest in another start up (following the same plan they’d been doing for a few at that point) and they got a call form upstairs telling them to pull out. The next day the bubble burst.

These bubbles burst not based on random chance. The big guys know the business isn’t sustainable, but if they keep their money in it the shares maintain their value. Then one day they all pull out and pop! The bubble bursts. But they’ll make money on that too by shorting everything.

They make money when the stocks go up and they make money when the stocks go down. And they have enough money to make those stocks go up or down.

Nah, it’s still a thing unfortunately. There will have to be a bunch of business go bankrupt because of it before managers start to think it’s a bad idea.

Yes. The original post that coined the term was using “vibe coding” to indicate how problematic it is to build software by generating code based on vague prompts.

But a lot of people didn’t read the entire post and just thought the term sounded cool and used it as if it was positive thing.

Now we’re seeing the negative impacts of vibe coding, just as the original post predicted. So it started as derogatory, somehow became something positive, but it’s going back to being derogatory again.

Also rebase is usually better than merge.

For sure. I copy JSON from swagger and get a Typescript interface all the time. It’s boring stuff to do manually, and yeah there are definitely tools I could use for this, but it’s not as easy. It’s basic stuff, and the AIs can do it reliably.

I have a bunch of chat contexts for things like this. SQL -> DTO object, JSON -> Typescript, etc. So it’s kinda a swiss army knife kind of tool where it can do a bunch of basic stuff. Sure there are specific tools for each of these things, but it’s easier to have all of those basic functions in one place.

But this week I was doing some very complicated logic that required in depth knowledge of the data structures and consideration for a whole bunch of edge cases… so I didn’t even touch an LLM this week. Though next week I might add some new tables to the DB, I’ll think about the data relationships and get that right, and then I’ll have the AIs deal with all of the boring shit involved in getting it to the FE.

They left one bit for the other cultures use.

There was a push for an international minimum tax rate from some guy. But that guy was old and so people decided to replace that old guy with an old guy that’s a billionaire, but because he’s crazy he doesn’t seem as old I guess. But anyway, it’s highly doubtful something like that will happen any time soon.

If I’m clicking around on a website and find a gallery of images, that’s something I’m supposed to have access to. If I start typing in URLs that aren’t linked anywhere on the site, then I’m accessing stuff the site hasn’t explicitly indicated I have access to. If I’m doing this with the intent of getting data and distributing to others, then yeah that would be illegal.

The law allows for someone to exercise judgement. The people who do this are not so coincidentally called Judges. If the 4chan guys had have been white hat and reported the issue to the site owners, then they’d be fine. But it’s obvious to anyone their intent was to get private information, they poked around to find some private information, and then distributed that private information to others causing a privacy violation. Yes, it was easier to do than it should have been, but it’s obvious they had malicious intent and it’s obvious they were accessing information they weren’t supposed to access.

A crime being really easy to commit doesn’t make it no longer a crime. Many times I’ve seen things that I could easily steal, but I don’t steal things when I have an opportunity to do so because a) stealing is wrong and b) saying “they just left this thing out there in a place anyone could steal it” would not be any kind of legal defense. Simply because you’re presented an opportunity to do a crime doesn’t mean it’s acceptable to do a crime, both legally and morally speaking.

Terrible analogy. You have permission to read books in a library.

Forgetting to lock your door isn’t granting permission to people enter your house, and it doesn’t grant people permission to take your valuables. It may be neglectful to leave your door unlocked, but it doesn’t imply granting permission to enter your house.

Same goes with computer security. Leaving your computer insecure may be neglectful, but it does not imply someone has permission to take your data.

Yeah, if I leave my house door wide open for a few weeks and I get robbed, it’s still burglary.