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@krnlg @solitha Therac-25[1] predated most of the problems: the problem is that Therac-25 isn't universally taught in CS classes![1] the accidents happened from 1985, but the Therac-25 dates to 1975 and the software was written by one dude using PDP-11 assembler who may well not have understood race conditions.

@cstross @PizzaDemon Apple's response to the "cobblestone problem" will be :1- you're holding it rong! and 2- cobblestones are so last year.Reekie and Aberdeen Councils counter that they have not brought a new cobblestone for 75 years, and will reconsider the question when current stocks wear out.

@mattblaze @cstross Titles are considered part of marketing, which is the publisher's job. When Ches and I were writing our first book, the working title was "Internet Security and Firewall Gateways". Our editor felt that something like that would get lost in the noise, hence the change to "Firewalls and Internet Security". We had trouble agreeing on a cover, though. The editor sent us a cartoon, which we loved—but he'd sent it as a joke. But it was very appropriate, so he went off and negotiated the rights. The final cover is at https://wilyhacker.com/1e/cover.jpg.

@cstross Speak to the ducks.Get all your ducks in a row.Hey presto - no more plot holes!

@Phosphenes @cstross @rachel https://berryvilleiml.com/2026/01/10/recursive-pollution-and-model-collapse-are-not-the-same/

@cstross and I was wondering for the past thirty years why the Hobbits talk about food and meals half of the time in LotR, but they never take a shit even once!

@bellinghman @cstross Yeah, I remember that one, I had a ticket for the "year of the rat" tour of Einstürzende Neubauten. Got postponed for reasons that escape my memory.

@cstross @jabgoe2089 That’s about it, with an extra factor of the regional faulting causing erosional weakness and enhanced runoff pathways, making water retention at surface worse. Plus the whole swathe over to Iran is in a long relative drought.

Fun that you talk about Hawking radiation, considering that he was apparently doing some practical experimentation on sinmaxxing (by getting invited to Epstein's island... hmm...)

@saucerlost @log @cstross yes, they are

@cstross @blogdiva cat videos?

@cstross My process, write a few words. "Anything new on YT? What's happing on social media? Damn, back to writing." Yeah, wonderful.

@BillySmith @Uilebheist @cstross From my limited knowledge of such markets I get the feeling that this is a normal occurrence. The unfulfilled futures will not be called, but just replaced by new futures. Maybe a scheme to drive up prices.Is there any way of checking that?

@cstross Frankly I am sad. I already ordered the tennis shoes and 1-piece suit. I also put an online order for a 10mx10m print of 3I/ATLAS with the words: "I am ready. Take me home." And have begun my fasting eating nothing but small pebbles and bone broth boiled with rusty hammers. Why do people have to keep playing with our emotional ontology?

@cstross @Steveg58 ouch

@cstross it's chaos!

@jguillaumes The sex industry entrepreneur who is first to market with a RealFlesh™ Fleshlight is going to make a killing …

@nickynah If you piss on them first they might not burn? Whereas if you piss on them afterwards they've still got the injuries (and the piss).

STOP PRESS:NEW MANUSCRIPT DELIVERED TO AGENTENGAGE "Mr Earbrass" MODEZZZZZZZzz …DIVIDE BY CHEESE ERROR

#WordWeavers 20 Feb—What tropes are in your current project?Space opera, master criminals, crapsack empire, repeated reincarnations, heist caper, vault robbery, long cons, revolution from the top down, lost true loves, mafia romance …