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We should call it Slop Overflow. That is most certainly what will happen. Agents helping each other to generate bad code more efficiently does not magically lead to good code. The scaling fairy comes out only if you can give it enough high quality data

The Prelude was a great car and it's nice to have an overview of its history. I think the article is reasonably balanced. It explains how the first Preludes were just Accord coupes, not the engineering showcase that they came to be later. Also that many of the innovations were premature or not...

The question is whether Boeing can and will fix their engineering culture. And whether it is strategically smart for NASA and the US Government to support Boeing. It won't be quick or easy even if it works. There is a big risk that the sunk cost fallacy applies. It might be better to let Boeing...

Harry Harrison was very good at pointing out how much things sucked, but one thing he never said was people should stop fighting because it was "unlikely to succeed".

There is ample reason to believe the oil industry is stifling competition. If the case is not dismissed out of hand in a blatant travesty of justice, it goes into discovery. Sweet, sweet discovery. It not only will expose the details of industry collusion, it will keep the issue in the news for...

I appreciate Ars editorial acting quickly and publishing the apology on the Sunday of a holiday weekend. There still is the question of how the original article came to be written and published with false content. It is not just that some of the content was AI generated. It was wrong, and not...

Verizon made a deal with regulators in exchange for spectrum. One might think a deal is a deal, and regulations are regulations, but no, a company can just ask and get the terms changed. What this tells me is the FCC regulations are flexible and can be changed any time. What was given away under...

A humanoid robot driver could just get out and close the door.

I have to confess that I remember the covers but back then when I was reading the magazine, I wasn't thinking about the artist. We should never take art for granted. Now I can admire the creativity and the human touch that Tinney brought to personal computing. May he be long remembered.

The story of syphilis: "No, I didn't give it to them. They gave it to me."

Not New Zealand. I think they meant Tasmania.

I originally went with Verizon because I didn't have to get the phone unlocked to use it on GSM networks. It was great for traveling. It made me a loyal customer and I think they made good money off of that policy. So of course they had to enshittify it.

A square rigger is more likely to be have the wind blowing over the stern of the ship towards the bow. So the freshest air is at the stern. Note: To those who might feel compelled to point out that even ancient square riggers could sail into the wind, spare me the jibes. I don't need your...

Yes, it's called vibe fighting. Next, someone is going to use AI to create a worm that escapes the sandbox.

Good for NASA doing the right thing. I wouldn't say they have the greatest safety record, but with Starliner and now this, maybe they're learned. And now they have to compete with the Chinese on astronaut safety.

The origin of the word planet means "wanderer." So rogue planets are the most planety of all planets. The idea that planets must have elliptical orbits around the star is the streetlight fallacy at astronomical scale. When you realize this, the deplanetizing of Pluto was a crime against reason...

The one thing I disagree with in the article is the idea that it will lead to gradual price increases. Over the long term, prices should go down as producers move to clean tech which is cheaper. The main cause of price increases is businesses thinking they can get away with it. Don't encourage...

I have a couple of Aranet CO2 sensors. They are well designed. I like that the iPhone app shares absolutely no information whatsoever. Latvian company.

The concept of 96 physical qbits encoding 48 logical qbits reminds me of the INTERLEAVE operator in Intercal. Maybe the language was before its time and just needed the right hardware platform to be optimal.

That's some serious conservatism, using the same technology for hundreds of thousands of years. The archeological record shows steps in innovation, usually associated with a new hominid species. They figure out a more efficient way to strike of flakes to make a wider variety of more useful...