There’s word for that, but I can’t quite recall what it is. Begins with an ‘L’, I think. No wait, ‘S’.

Welcome to Night City, people.

Here’s hoping it isn’t a windy day. Or raining.

I’ve seen some beautiful visual metaphors in my time (including the original), but this immediately made my personal top-ten. Well done.

I usually hit the bottle, but I’m not about to criticize whatever works for you. If rubber duck debugging has been scientifically proven to work, I don’t see any valid argument against coding socks or smooth legs. Besides, those two things go together like insurance companies and arson or AI server farms and power supply cable cutting.

A match made in heaven, in other words.

Nobody said they replicated by authoring the replica from scratch, which seems to be what you’re assuming. A generative AI is ultimately a lump of code and a statistical model. Surely you’re not saying that it cannot copy files given file system access.

Because copying some files and starting new processes is all it really has to do to ‘self replicate’.

What a legend. Kudos!

Yeah, that sounds exactly like what everybody were looking for in an OS. /s

I’ve been very happy to be using Linux for the past decade and a half, but never more so than now.

I have a revolutionary idea for cyber-secure car locks: KEYS!

I know I’ve mentioned how I hate this timeline, but it bears repeating.

I can certainly see why you took the picture. Nobody would believe you without photographic evidence.

That’s the most extraordinary example yet. How do you even locate these, uh, remarkable examples of craftsmanship?

I’m no lawyer, let alone a US lawyer, but can somebody explain how this isn’t a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which makes it a federal offense to intentionally access a “protected computer” without authorization or by exceeding authorized access?

“…And I’m here to tell you all about it with a smile on my face. My bedside manner is impeccable too.”

There are so many options for classical American entrepreneurship here. God bless capitalism.

See, this is what I like about the Internet: No matter how obscure, a subject matter expert is almost always right there.

Thanks, buddy.

That sounds painful.

I maintain that the definition of wrong is a function of the intended outcome. The former method is absolutely the correct approach for obtaining 2 dimensional horse-smoothies. And morbidly repainting the workshop.

Straight to the middle of his designated landing zone. As we all know, he’s a well prepared kitty.

Much obliged, sir.

This is vitally important: I need to know where that’s from. For… uh, science. Yes.