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What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.
UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
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@mttaggart @glyph @jalefkowit correction: I *can* think of one, and it's "they accidentally quoted from the hit-piece blog articles instead"
But they didn't do that, those don't contain the quotes either.
@SnoopJ @mttaggart @glyph Looks like the article has been completely deleted.
Aurich said in the comments before it vanished that they were aware of the issue and looking into it. I assume the findings were pretty dire.
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What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.
@mttaggart archive dot org link since they took it down: https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart Crap, they DID?! I still have it open! Anything you want before it goes into the void?
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@mttaggart Crap, they DID?! I still have it open! Anything you want before it goes into the void?
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart a "we have hallucinated too and have pulled the article that was here before" would have been better. Good thing you saved it.
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
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@mttaggart And thus we close it.
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@mttaggart And thus we close it.
@mttaggart I got the comments though.
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@mttaggart I got the comments though.
@hackillu Nice!
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart of course they did, but now they'll need to explain how they managed to let that get published
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart I suppose one thing you can say about old newspapers - no one can pretend an article was never printed
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart So it was a double slop article? -_-
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What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.
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@drsbaitso Was just about to post this, thank you.
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@drsbaitso Was just about to post this, thank you.
@mttaggart Also, this is not a good situation. Ars has some serious explaining to do.
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart I happened to be reading in the comment section before the article got pulled.
Here is Aurich's last post saying the article was pulled and they're going to be investigating, but there probably won't be any answers until Monday and they'll update readers then. -
@mttaggart So it was a double slop article? -_-
@catsalad Slop on slop on slop. Literally.
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UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie
@mttaggart Oh, I wish you'd gotten the comments too. I can only imagine what some familiar handles would have had to say in them.
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@mttaggart Oh, I wish you'd gotten the comments too. I can only imagine what some familiar handles would have had to say in them.
@theotherbrook Someone else in these replies did!
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@evan I yelled at my company for this once upon a time: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/04/17/why-dont-you-just/
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@glitchypixel SDL has stuff for IO. I've never used it, so I can't vouch for it, but here's the docs https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/CategoryIOStream
for math, I think your best bet would be to write vala bindings for the libc stuff you need.
containers is probably the trickiest one. there's probably a good C library I don't know about. otherwise you could probably lift implementations from https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL and wrap them for VALA
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@evan The second thing I don't like about the reply is "just". It reduces every thing to one thing - "just" that. The world tends to look cartoonish when people use that word. If you want to force your opinion on someone, "just" makes sense. If your goal is to learn and get more wise, "just" gets in the way.
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@evan I dislike this genre of questions too. I think the right category for it is a leading question. Which means that it is actually not a question, but an opinion packaged as if it was a question. Typically, people who pose questions like that are not really interested in the answer. So people like me, who live by the value that people who ask me something, all things being equal, I owe them an answer - we end up wasting a lot of time.
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@jeffgerstmann.com That's a good thing to live for.
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@20002ist @muzeum As an ex-Washingtonian that was my first thought too! But it appears to not be directly connected
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