Scramblejams

In-place! Sporty! Good luck! :-)

I couldn't endure the wall of slop long enough to figure out what it's really about. Other than being an ad, of course. Is it too much to ask to have a human write your ad copy?

Strange where we've ended up. If I cared enough, I'd ask an AI to read what an AI wrote to tell me what it's about. Machines are just writing for machines now.

A whole culture suffers due to the awful taste of a few. The more things change…

Leaving aside for the moment the DDoS issue, that link is currently working for me. Archived pages on that site are puzzling, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, I'm not sure what accounts for the difference.

I'm interested.

I guess when they get their vaccine game down we’ll really have to worry!

> The real deal needs a lab messing around with viruses and whatever happened a few years ago ... and it did not destroy humanity.

That observation maybe holds if the lab from a few years ago correctly selected the virus for the greatest overall lethality (why not MERS or Ebola or something else?) and made its best effort to turn it into a bioweapon. I don't know about you, but I don't think that's quite what happened...

This is fascinating, thanks for the link. I love to learn about big systems that are developed in the same room where the problem they're solving lives, so to speak.

Too few of these are revealed to the rest of us, as the piece notes. It's a shame, there's lots to learn there. Instead most will be lost to the mists of time, and some dumpster diving digital archaeologist will have to get lucky for us to hear about them.

I need this for Wayland. Maybe when the maintainers discover that joy in computing both exists and can be a worthwhile pursuit.

My antennae were twitching early on, it was "That is a floor, not a total" that flipped the switch for me and I closed the piece.

I'm developing a distracting hypervigilance that kicks in whenever I start reading anything linked from here or lobsters or LinkedIn. Instead of focusing on whatever it's saying, I'm looking for the tells instead.

I hate what AI's doing to reading. It's like when the desktop publishing revolution reached folks who never could have put together a decent banner to save their lives, and suddenly chintzy Broderbund Print Shop-generated examples were hanging in every classroom. But at least that was limited to peeps who had access to a dot matrix printer and scads of tractor feed paper. Now clankers write for everybody who either can't write or won't put in the time, and the low-effort slop is everywhere.

It'd be one thing if they used AI to write a draft and then rewrote it to make it theirs. I'd read it! But they can't be bothered. Very unfortunate, and I refuse to waste my time on it.

Just post the prompt you used, Brand, I'd probably get more value...

The Grid Compass series (especially the II models with the big screen) looked like it came from the future. Stunning in its era. Wouldn't mind seeing a reboot.

I doubt that very much. 20ish years ago I read about the Indians being very upset that the engines in the Sukhoi fighters they bought weren't even making it to the promised (very modest) 300 operating hours between overhauls. That's far less than Western engines routinely achieve. And with the hollowing out of the Russian industrial base that's occurred since then, I'd be surprised if it's gotten any better in the intervening years.