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Comment Re:More Than Half of (title) (Score 1) 61

Yes, my (dormant) blogs were hand written long before LLMs were easily available to the public, but if I feel like adding something it will be something I've hand written (typed?).

The difficulty is having people find your content in a sea of LLM generated content when the most used search engine is also now given over to LLM rather than providing valuable content.

Comment Perl? No, try INTERCAL. (Score 1) 80

If you must write in a language that often looks like line-noise, try one that was designed to look that way ... INTERCAL

ChatGPT prompt "please write me a short program in Intercal that calculates and outputs the first 20 prime numbers

ChatGPT Response: Below is a working INTERCAL program (tested for C-INTERCAL dialect) that calculates and outputs the first 20 prime numbers. It uses a very basic trial-division algorithm and outputs each prime on its own line.

PLEASE DO ,1 <- #20 ; how many primes we want
PLEASE DO ,2 <- #0 ; count of primes found
PLEASE DO ,3 <- #1 ; current candidate number
PLEASE DO ,4 <- #0 ; divisor for trial division
PLEASE DO ,5 <- #0 ; flag: prime/not prime

(100) PLEASE DO ,3 <- ,3 + #1 ; next candidate
PLEASE DO ,5 <- #1 ; assume prime
PLEASE DO ,4 <- #2 ; start trial division

(200) PLEASE IF ,4 × ,4 > ,3 THEN (300) ; stop when divisor^2 > candidate
PLEASE IF ,3 % ,4 = #0 THEN (250) ; divisible not prime
PLEASE DO ,4 <- ,4 + #1
PLEASE RESUME (200)

(250) PLEASE DO ,5 <- #0 ; mark not prime

(300) PLEASE IF ,5 = #1 THEN (400) ; if still prime, output
PLEASE RESUME (100)

(400) PLEASE DO ,2 <- ,2 + #1
PLEASE WRITE OUT ,3
PLEASE IF ,2 < ,1 THEN (100)
PLEASE GIVE UP

I haven't checked, but I believe there are too many "Please"s in this which will generate a "err: code insincere"

Comment It's been up far longer than intended. (Score 1) 18

Zvezda was originally built in the mid 1980s by the USSR to be the core of Mir-2 then mothballed until it was repurposed and modified for the ISS. I can't find a good source for the design service life of Mir-2 was, but Space.com says Mir had an intended lifespan of 5 years and Astronautix says Mir-2 also had an intended service life of 5 years.

Mir was in orbit for 15 years, three times its design life and by the mid 1990s the cooling and Elektron oxygen generating systems were starting to break down . Next month Zvezda will have been in orbit for 25 years, probably five times its design life.

I find it amazing that it is still functioning as well as it is, but ???

Comment Re:Maybe its me ... (Score 1) 18

There's always enough spacecraft docked to get the crew back to Earth if needed but given that the leak was first noticed in 2019 and has slowly become worse, this looks like "an abundance of caution".

OTOH, unless the USA is planning to stop sending crews to the ISS, it will need to send a new crew up sooner or later.

Comment The irony of using the name Tahoe for this (Score 1) 67

In 1988 CSRG, University of California, Berkeley released 4.3BSD Tahoe which IIRC was the first port they made of BSD to a non-DEC processor.

CM Mach and 4.3BSD Tahoe were the parents of NeXTSTEP (1989) which when merged with Classic Mac OS and refreshed with more recent Mach & BSD implementations through Darwin (2000) ultimately gave us the modern Mac operating systems.

In 2025 we learn that the Tahoe name has been dusted off for the last portable version of macOS.

I'm loving the irony.

Comment Re: Oh no! (Score 1) 69

My guess would be try to link email addresses to public figures and try to blackmail them with the threat of releasing all of their posts

This doesn't sound like an efficient method of determining the true market value of the posts. Why not hold an online auction for each public figure? Obviously bids would need to be in bitcoins or similar and they would need to find an escrow service that could handle bitcoins but that would not seem insolvable.

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