I really hope they do it well. Some of the things that were new in Neuromancer are tropes these days. e.g. the payphone ringing, in the Matrix and more relevantly in Person of Interest.
It's going to be very hard to navigate between faithfulness to the book and still have it feel fresh.
That and inherent difficulty of taking Gibson's prose to the screen. Maybe it will be by voiceover.
On my Tesla Model Y there's a hand brake on the push button of the right lever. On the left hand lever there's another push button, the windshield wiper liquid. Guess what have I mistakenly, and scarely, done twice already when driving at highway speeds when my windshield was a little dusty?
New designs are prone to ill decision-making from engineers, drivers and pilots alike. Every pathway of let's do it differently is the beginning of a journey of fine-tuning loops until stability.
It's just possible that someone at some big AI company just pressed a button to add this to their collection of training material. And lazily or otherwise just hit the checkboxes for 'repeat' and 'forever'.
Without knowing more about it, this coulda also just be one of the uncountable amounts of automated scanners that are iterating the whole internet constantly trying to find wp-admin etc. type vulnerabilities.
Kerberos is 'fun'. I had to manage a system which used Kerberos
to provide authentication between a Rubik's cube of various Windows flavours with various crypto standards, Linux machines of various versions and Java versions and apps of various maturity. It was an ever present source of weird behaviour and I had to bury myself in the innards of all these systems.
I know, not directly related to the article. Just needed to vent bitterly.
One good (and obviously bad) thing about Subversion was the ability to change history. As admin I was asked numerous times to change a commit message. To point to the correct Jira issue, for instance.
Also easier to enforce pre-commit, since it was done server side.
It's going to be very hard to navigate between faithfulness to the book and still have it feel fresh.
That and inherent difficulty of taking Gibson's prose to the screen. Maybe it will be by voiceover.
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