The drug is the llm coding. I kind of get it, when I was a kid and first got a computer I felt the same way after I learned assembly language. The world is your oyster and you can do what felt like anything. It was why I spent almost every waking hour working on my computer. That wore off eventually but I've spent some time on my backlog of projects with Claude and it feels bit like the old days again.
Thanks I did enjoy it! One thing is, I feel like the PS1 wobble disc protection, although bypassed with swaps and mod chips, it has never been possible (besides one historic example: Datel) for someone other than Sony to make a disc bootable on the console. I feel like most PS1's weren't modded so it was quite a well done lockout. But I understand that wasn't your main point - just that it was a surprisingly effective copy protection.
I think it's interesting that they found what seems to be a real bug (should be independantly verified by experts). However I find their story mode, dramatization of how it could have happened to be poorly researched and fully in the realm of fiction. An elbow bumping a switch, the command module astronaut unable to handle the issue with only a faux nod to the fact that a reset would have cleared up the problem and it was part of their training. So it's really just building tension and storytelling to make the whole post more edgy. And yes, this is 100% AI written prose which makes it even more distasteful to me.
> An elbow bumping a switch [..] really just building tension and storytelling to make the whole post more edgy.
A guarded switch, no less.
But personally I'm trying to be more generous about this sort of thing: it is very very difficult to explain subtle bugs like this to non-technical people. If you don't give them a story for how it can actually happen, they tend to just assume it's not real. But then when you tell a nice story, all us dry aged curmudgeons tut tut about how irreverent and over the top it is :)
Finding the middle ground between a dry technical analysis and dramatization can be really hard when your audience is the entire internet.
Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died on the Apollo program. I feel it's not polite to ignore that fact even if you add an 'in flight' qualifier.
And it's even more interesting in the fact that our rocket program started with the former rocket scientists from Nazi Germany who were brought over at the end of WW2 to work in the American rocket/missile program.
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