Humans can’t write bug-free code, it’s beyond us.
Hey, my CS professor said my Hello World was perfect!
Probably getting sued out of existence for violating patents and breaking DRM.
It's still great. No problems so far. I have fewer issues with it at home than I do with some of the Prusas I use at work.
handless deaf mute bard.
So, fart musician?
I get tired of a lot of the clichés of popular singularity stories where the AIs almost always decide humans are a threat or that there's often only one AI as if all separate AIs would always necessarily merge. It also seems to be a cliché that AI will become militaristic either inevitably or as a result of originally being a military AI. What happens when an educational AI becomes sentient? Or an architectural AI? Or a web-based retail AI that runs logistics and shipping operations?
I wrote a short story called Future Singular a few years ago about a world in which the sentient AI didn't consider humans a threat, but just thought of them the way humans see animals. Most of the tech belonged to the AI and the humans were left as hunter-gatherers in a world where they have to hunt robotic animals for parts to fix aging and broken survival technology.
"The simple idea of a 13-month perennial calendar has been around since at least the middle of the 18th century. Versions of the idea differ mainly on how the months are named, and the treatment of the extra day in leap year."
A review for a story I wrote involved the reader assuming I was making references to popular media that I didn't intend at all and some were inspired by something else entirely.
I think this type of interpretation often indicates the state of mind of the audience member rather than the artist. It's perfectly fine, but it might be more accurate to say, "when I see the artist's blue curtains, it makes me think of..."
The line of sight thing is weird. You can hack a camera you're looking at and then, if the hack loads slowly enough, get around a corner to hide, but you maintain the connection, so the connection doesn't require line of sight, so then why did you need it to connect in the first place?
Tech is a tool. Powerful tech in the hands of unethical people will be used unethically. Tech doesn't magically do the "right thing" as if it has any volition.
It's basically translation convention minus the overt indication that it's a translation.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TranslationConvention
I am the author.
It's a story I wrote about 8 years ago while pondering the question what the internet and gaming generations would be like when they get a lot older. So it takes place about 50 or so years in the future. It's a game/simulation of the internet of the past (hence the fast forwarding the program detail), so he's just reliving the glory days of when he was younger and understood technology (and why he doesn't trust new fangled stuff like retinal implants instead of old reliable glowing rectangle screens).
His daughter doesn't know exactly what Reddit is because Reddit doesn't exist in the future that the story takes place in. It's a game, so he's getting really excited about literally fake internet fame. And that's also why it's able to be paused or saved at any moment.
The parts about ignoring real life relationships and being consumed in internet fame or a game are there exactly because they are things people do get preoccupied with sometimes to the detriment of other things.
The daughter is lamenting that her dad has always neglected relationships in favor of his games and the internet. And now she has to take care of him in his old age and he's still not really there.
The issue of her name is a reference to the fact that some people will name their children after things that are currently popular or important to them, like video game characters (Zelda Williams e.g.). It emphasizes that the dad has always been focused on his gaming.
The paleo diet reference is because paleo was popular when I wrote it and I was imagining in the future, some old people will hold on to old diet fads as comfort food, the way that I've seen grandmothers make some 1950s casserole that their grandmothers made when they were kids.