> But then Gibson must have done some pretty in depth research for Neuromancer, right?
Isn't he on record that his documentation was listening to techies talking shop in bars?
> And then do you really want to harshly judge the book on that one slightly laughable thing about memory when, in other ways, it was incredibly forward looking and almost prophetic.
He seems to understand humans. Gibson's world and Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar are imo the most "prophetic" sf books written so far.
Lately, 9 out of 10 times i click on a github link to access the repo for $random_project_hosted_on_github I get a page saying that I've been rate limited. Even if it's my first click on a github link for the week.
I guess THAT page has the three nines availability.
Yep, sounds like the usual time pressure tactics. Perhaps because no one's actually trying it.
In the mean time, their vibe coded frontend doesn't actually let me use Fable because it thinks i'm trying to hack open source software. What I'm actually doing is debugging null pointer crashes due to data corruption in the closed source software i work for these days, but no, you dirty hacker, you can't do that.
So let's recapitulate:
- they put out some marketing copy about Fable being a world ending threat for finding security vulnerabilities
- they get banned by the US government, which believes the marketing copy
- they add "safeguards" and the US government allows them to make it public again
- said safeguards make the product useless for their paying customers
> the first versions until idTech 5 were open source and a number of important engines, like Source, derive from it
Huh? They were made open source when they were obsolete, Valve did license ID IP for the first Half Life but they paid for it. And that evolved indeed in Source.
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Btw I use LLMs. So don't expect me to buy the "AI" hype bullshit because I see what they can do.