Maybe you were confused with Lock 'n' Chase?

HAL's problem was that he had been given secret orders before the mission, which caused the presence of a crew to become inconvenient. And now we're already seeing so-called AI do crazy things because of secret objectives that conflict with what a user asks for, and tricks to get it to avoid such secret objectives.

Fuck everything, we're doing five wheels.

I imaged all my 1980s TRS-80 floppy disks around 2008 or so. The only read errors were original errors from back in the day. Sometimes you could even see the bad spot on the disk.

I wouldn't feel so confident about 1990s 3.5" HD floppies, but that's because they were crap, especially the cheap 25-pack disks. They were always bad and don't get worse with time. It's more likely that you had problems from misaligned or dirty drive heads.

As I understand it, those 3" drives use the same connector as mainstream drives. As long as you have an actual drive, they can still be archived with a Greasweasel.

Modern archival floppy disk readers (aka Greaseweasel) don't care about drive speed, they just record the time between flux transitions. Drive speed is then handled by the decoding software.

I'm wondering why there isn't more talk about replacing management positions with AI. First of all, they are the most highly paid jobs, especially the executive suite. They also don't cause problems with quality, robustness, scalability or security, because as you say, they don't give half a shit about them!

Places making the food for take-out have learned to put stickers over the flap of the bag. Basically tamper seals for the food, because enough of these delivery people can't be trusted.

So are you saying that Serve Robotics forgot the "w" in their name?

The dirty secret is that you can get most of those shovelware "reality tv model" shows without cable. HDTV lo-def sub-channels mean that you can watch that stuff along with "classic TV" shows 7/24 with just an antenna. Some of these sub-channels are straight up the ones that you might be familiar with from cable TV, such as Comet.

As someone who lives in San Antonio, I find this funny but true. I haven't been to Houston in years. I've had more reason to go to Dallas than to Houston. (but still, I really ought to visit JSC someday)

I ditched cable TV in 2001 and every year I am a little happier about what I'm not paying for. I barely have time to watch what my DVR pulls in from the antenna, which is mostly PBS and Jeopardy. If I wanted more, there are stations with multiple channels worth of syndication shows, including stuff that you would see on those random cable channels like Discovery Channel, all free with an antenna, 24 hours per day.

FYI, a big chunk of your monthly bill goes toward "basic cable" sports like ESPN. ESPN alone is probably $8 to $9 of your monthly bill by now. If you like live sports, it might be worth it. If not, it just goes right from your pocket into Disney's money vault.

Betteridge's law of headlines

Any day now! You do know that BO has been a company longer than SpaceX, right? They've wasted far too long on their little carnival ride. Good that they're finally going to compete with old tech that's been around for years now. SpaceX has already had over 500 landings of the F9, when few rockets ever get near that number of launches.

The hell with that, what about the biological problems with having children at 40? Assuming that the woman even still has eggs left, of course.