I'm convinced it's AI scraping. At least some of the bots were following the Analytics links (Fathom), and I could see them swarm the site. Suddenly 100,000 IPs from China are each grabbing one or two pages.

I remember a time when any stupid idea that you could put ".com" on would get shit tons of investor money. The only thing it produced mostly was bankruptcies and the opportunity for small companies to buy needed equipment for pennies on the dollar. This AI craziness strikes me the same way. AI can be useful but it'll never be the "be all things", they rarely to live up to the hype. I've seen it too many times, the dotcom boom-bust, nano-technology, Ruby on rails; anyway COBOL had a good run.

Aye. I wasted some time with Gemini and ChatGPT today. I fed it a citation from the manuscript of an alleged passage from canon law. Both Gemini and ChatGPT gave me the same initial reference, which had nothing to do with the passage. One of the hilarious painful things you learn is that, in these cases, either your prompt hits a home run or it strikes out. You're not going to refine your way into glory. I enjoyed watching the citations dance and the suggestions be always bizarre BS. I got several citations â" probably a dozen, and none of them came close to reality.

Me too. After fifteen years of use, the outermost trace (left line of the keyboard) broke, rendering the Unicomp M junk. I had to switch to the chiclet keyboards they issue at work. Three days later I came down with tendonitis. So now I have a base Cherry Brown KC MX.

From what I'm seeing online, the Three Gorges Dam in China, looks like it might not need an earthquake or a tsunami, just some floods.

More often wind shuts down because the wind is blowing too hard than it is too little.

There is a very good reason not to pay for blood, it helps ensure a more disease-free blood supply by disincentivizing people who might lie about their medical history to obtain money.

I think the fact that you don't understand that the first sentiment of your post is exactly how the opposing side felt and why they elected him in the first place, is what is most wrong with our country today.

I think that if we as a people try a little more to identify with the majority of the opposition as opposed to painting them as the worst 5% of their number and hating them, we would realize that for the most part our values are closer than we think.

We are not a country of trumptards and libtards, but a country of people who for the most part want to live a good life for their family and their neighbors. I guess the pendulum has swung far enough that the people decided that it is time for it to swing back. Our parties largely forgot the concept of actual compromise, so the political maneuvering has been largely to hurt the opposing side and prevent them from being able to win, rather than govern. I worry same may occur now. However considering the last election and this one, and the changes that occurred in the meantime I think perhaps this is a sign that our system still works.

The sticky parts here:
Delta is demanding from its contractor reparations for damages that it's refusing its customers. When they reject claims for which they have responsibility, how can they go after their contractors on the same basis?
Delta is not the only airline to use CrowdStrike, and they all had outages on July 19. Delta, however, is the only one that couldn't recover until July 24.

Crowdstrike's test and deployment processes to me look like gross negligence: their business is having companies entrust them with access to the Kernal and deploying timely and safe updates. Everyone else uses a robust testing process including staggered deployment.
But Delta, in going about a lawsuit, will be required to reveal their own IT processes and shortcomings that led to a five-day collapse.

Or they settle for zero dollars.

I'm going with hypergolic rocket fuel for station keeping and enough lithium ion batteries to keep it powered through maximum eclipse duration of around 72 minutes, especially when either of the above is hit by a micro-meteor.

I'm sure the power loss was to the satellite itself, not a terrestrial power grid and the loss of power resulted in the satellite being incapable of servicing it's customers.

So you get a ticket in the mail saying you were driving 12 MPH over the speed limit (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $30.00 fine) and passing in a "No Passing Zone" (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $150.00 fine) and a photo of your car /with plates in the left lane returning to the right over double yellow lines, misjudging by 30 feet.
You can:

• Sign the ticket and except liability, send $180.00, take a 6 point hit and watch your car insurance go up 50% for at least two years
• Contest the ticket in Court and claim you weren't driving your car the day just so the DA can ask you who was driving and possibly subpoenaing that person, lose and pay $180.00 in fine, a 6 point hit, $360 in Court Costs ($540 in total) and watch your car insurance go up 50% for at least two years
• Go to Court, try and get passing in a "No Passing Zone" (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $150.00 fine) and except 12 MPH over the speed limit (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $30.00 fine)

She was a prosecutor that kept people in prison so they could use them as penal firefighters for cheap, withheld exculpatory information from the Defense consul and put hundreds of Black men in prison for simple marijuana convictions while she smoked the same shit.

Remember the days when Boeing and ULA were arguing that SpaceX shouldn't even be allowed to bid on the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), now Boeing hasn't even been able to make a single round trip. I wonder if SpaceX will get paid at the same rate per seat for the mission contracts that Boeing won't be able to fulfill?

Well they're on the verge of losing Crimea to show for it.