While I share some, if not most, of your disinterest, it’s probably worth pointing out that while “we” had a Saturn V rocket system and Apollo space program that did, at least superficially the same as Artemis so far, we could not actually repeat a Saturn V launch today, as-in we lost many of those skills and associated experience.

In many ways, Artemis is essentially getting back to where we left off in 1973 with the intention of eclipsing it, but the ongoing NASA budget cuts being perpetrated by the current regime are in my opinion going to curtail the program before too long.

If I recall correctly, after Apollo 11, the TV audiences dwindled for the rest of the program, with a brief spike for Apollo 13, so perhaps there’s an aspect of that to consider.

For me the disappointment was triggered by the poor camera handling during launch, the view of backpacks, food and plushies surrounding CAPCOM at Mission Control, the broken toilet debacle and the heat shield obfuscation, all of which made this less leading edge science and more of a shitshow.

I hope the astronauts land safety in a couple of hours, but I won’t be watching for days like I did for the first Shuttle launch in 1981.

Nobody gets fired for buying IBM … apparently.

CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

So, why is this being disclosed here and not a CVE reported to Apple?

While contemplating that, my Mac has been up for longer than that and it’s working fine.

The Mac I had before that was up for years, also fine.

So … what is this really about?

They are deterministic but complex to determine.

The Assumed Intelligence systems I’m familiar with have a “random” element, but it’s unclear where that source of randomness comes from. Is it using a computational random source, or something like the lava lamp wall at Cloudflare, which is significantly more random, potentially actually random.

Unfortunately the complete article is not available, which is yet another issue exacerbated by the Assumed Intelligence cohort.

While I understand your point, deterministic with a billion variables is beyond human ability to process, let alone the multi-billion parameter models in general circulation today.

At what point does deterministic descend into random?

Assumed Intelligence is a solution for a bunch of multivariate problems, like say “the travelling salesman”, but it’s not intelligence nor in my opinion is it effectively “deterministic”.

Are you stating fact based on research and analysis, or are you venturing an opinion?

So, like a baby Yahoo! directory?

I wonder just how long it will stay relevant and how they determine if the content comes from a human. So far I’ve been accused of being a bot several times, clearly reliably detecting humans is beyond the capability of … humans.

Having had a mono radio cassette player in my bedroom in 1976, running off D-cells, that was not my experience.

The biggest drain was the volume, not the cassette player. You noticed it getting slower and slower, but the drain came from playing it loud.

My Sony Walkman a few years later ran forever on its batteries.

As it happens, actually I was buying batteries in the 1970’s. They were massive and lasted plenty long enough to play audio cassettes for several days.

Edit: I’d also point out that three decades is 1996, not 1976, that’s five decades.

The price of the batteries was never really the issue, it was their weight versus their capacity with some consideration towards size and robustness.

As far as I can tell, today the biggest hurdle is charging.

Not to my recollection. I mainly hung out on the comp.* and alt.best.of.internet groups. Together with another member we wrote the original aboi FAQ.

Edit:

Here’s something I wrote about it on another platform:

• https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/dx43ew/altbestofinternet_faq_email_on_steroids/

I’ve been looking for my first Usenet post in 1990, found a few close to the first, but not (yet) the first.

I would not be surprised if there are older posts predating the internet, stored on the Hobby Computer Club FIDO mirrors … assuming that they are still in existence.

And how will Instagram know who my parents are?

FBreader on Android phone and Calibre on Linux to manage my library.

You need to talk to your optometrist.

If they don’t give you answers then find another optometrist.

Source: I have weird eyes and my first several optometrists were not particularly informative.

Pay walled

Apparently it’s by subscription only…

Start your own “musings” community and have as much fun as you like.