And for everyone who says they have an "open mind" on the issue, just give it up. There is no evidence of any alien craft/people/technology. EVERYTHING (that lends any credence) has been investigated with a fine comb. There is nothing that most physicists would want more than to find evidence of aliens. There is no way to keep it secret if it did exist. The US army would BROADCAST any alien technology to the world as a power play. I really don't have to argue this point; it should be obvious. JUST STAHP.

So someone did a proof of concept on something that was obvious and actually quite trivial. So we have that now.

France has been doing this since the 80s whenever they are negotiating for a better price out of Microsoft. Nothing to see here.

So it's slow as fuck, with memory leaks, impossible to maintain, lacking comments, nasty race conditions, 10 times bigger than the original, uses 10 times the memory, freeze trying to open files.... you know, the coding stuff.

Let me know when we can see some head to head QA. Hey, maybe we are there. But I've not seen anything more than vague "proofs of concept." I still want to see AI produce microcode for a new undocumented chop/board. Do you read it the API like a nursery rhyme?

Or to put it another way, if it relies on samples of code to exploit, how is it going to produce NEW code?

The prompt is that little $_, or #, or blinking square, etc. showing you where to type. See VT100 terminals. A shell is the commands and features available by default when using that shell on your terminal. Make sure that you let the shell know what type of terminal it is running on. The command line is that space next to prompt, where you can input shell commands, pass through to system commands, or actually act interactively on a more feature-full terminal like a VT320, for example, a menu that allows you to navigate using the arrow keys. The MacOS terminal app is just a simple window (holdover from Next based on Freebsd unix) running one of the local shells, imitating the old DEC IBM, or whatever physical terminal.

Pedantry is not an annoyance, it's an art.

Why do people keep talking about putting something HOT in space. Outer space is NOT COLD. The main requirement for computing (after power) is cooling. Infrared radiation is the usual form of cooling, and that ain't fast. They have to know this. So either someone is Dunning Krugering all over the place, or it's another scam to get money from people who are ignorant of the reality.

How can the poster make such a ridiculous OBVIOUS mistake? Makes the pedantic 90% of my brain seethe. "the loose, powdery layer that blankets the Moon's surface" The lunar soil is NOT "powdery." It sharp and pointy like crystals or shards of glass. To be "powdery" would require some way to grind it (eg water), which the moon has never had. Now it is quite possible, and would be required, to grind the soil before using it to grow plants, but damn it, who with any scientific knowledge does not know this?

Recommended moon setting book (nothing to do with grinding lunar soil): "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". And of course "The Menace from Earth."

There's a film called Idiocracy which shows a future where complete drooling idiots are running the government. It used to seem like a gross exaggeration. Now I not so sure.

To pump up stocks by firing thousands of people who's work you lay claim to is just GOOD BUSINESS. That the American way. Now, in practically any other country the company would be required to treat their employees legally and with respect. Those are BAD countries. All those stupid Europeans, Asians, et al. GOOD BUSINESS is just something they don't understand. Maybe that's why they can't double there billions of dollars since Covid. You need those billions. You have a golf game next week and Smithee won't be able to brag about his investments being better than yours. That's GOOD BUSINESS, anything that puts you ahead of the other billionaires. I mean, come on, those thousands could just go work at Walmart. It's not like they are "real" SMART people. If they were, they'd be the ones firing all of their employees.

Because it is our arrogance to think that signals must exist in the electromagnetic realm. We DO NOT know the ins and outs of the universe. Physics is NOT how things work. It's what we show and demonstrate and wrap math around. We've had, what a couple hundred years in using radio signals to communicate. The trilobites had MILLIONS of years to work on their understanding of the universe, and thinking that we would be able to find a millennia of EM usage historical representation of trilobite technology is just goofy. Science is WHAT WE CAN SAY about how the universe works, proven through decades of other scientists trying to break any theory. There is no reason to think that we will not scrap EM in a few millennia and look back at how innocent and quaint we were to think that EM runs the universe. All that the scientists are presenting their data. It's the ignorant "reporters" who put all these grand theories around it. Good data. Keep looking. That's what science does. Pretty boring huh?

So who here asked for AI features? Crickets or just the wind.

Lets say I want to use AI to write my code.
Here's what the bosses think an AI developer does: "main() Make a game better than hungry birds; " Done.
Here's what I found on coding websites.: "line of C code, call some AI object, line of C code, call some AI function......."

I have no comment except to say: THIS IS BONKERS

What they should do is get the story from a ouija board, type it up with a dozen rhesus monkeys, and edit by a 10 year old with crayons.

"In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction,"

WTF. You just assume that because YOU like something EVERYONE must like it. No. B5 is not "classic science fiction." It's debatable if it's even science fiction. Writers like Heinlein, Asimov Clark, Smith (Doc and Cordwainer), ++ ad nauseam wrote "classic science fiction," but none have written anything goofy like B5. B5, Star Trek, Star Wars,.. have never been and will never be "classic science fiction.' During the classic years, science fiction was written for the science/math/engineering geeks. Now it's been taken over by people want to wear goofy costumes and argue which series is better. NOT smart people. Idiots as a matter of fact. I'm so tired of it. The only show I'd give a pass to since the 80s would be Blakes 7. As least they tried, with authors like Tanith Lee pitching in. Ramble over. Pass though and ignore this old guy who remember a very different time when there was no science fiction without REAL science.