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> I have very strong, probably controversial, feeling on arstechnica, but I believe the acquisition from Condé Nast has been a tragedy. For the curious, this acquisition was 18 years ago.
God, I didn't need to know that
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First one that comes to mind is https://morethanmoore.substack.com/
Run by a Dr. Ian Cutress. Never heard about before, seems to describe themselves like this: > Industry Analyst, More Than Moore. Youtube Influencer and Educator. Seems they're one example of the sad trend of people going from being experts and instead diving into "influencing" instead, which comes with a massive list of drawbacks.
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If you tried this shit in a real engineering principle, you'd end up either homeless or in prison in very short order.
You might notice that these real engineering jobs also don't have a way to verify the product via tests like that though, which was my point. And that's ignoring that your statement technically isn't even true, because the engineers actually working in such fields are very few (i.e. designing bridges, airplanes etc). The majority of them design products where safety isn't nearly as high stakes as that... And they fre…
The electrical engineers at my employer that design building electrical distribution systems have software that handles all of the calculations, it’s just math. Arc flash hazard analysis, breaker coordination studies, available fault current, etc. All manufacturers provide the data needed to perform these calculations for their products.
Other engineering disciplines have similar tools. Mechanical, civil, and structural engineers all use software that simulates their designs.
I have very strong, probably controversial, feeling on arstechnica, but I believe the acquisition from Condé Nast has been a tragedy. Ars writers used to be actual experts, sometimes even phd level, on technical fields. And they used to write fantastical and very informative articles. Who is left now? There are still a couple of good writers from the old guard and the occasional good new one, but the website is flood…
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They are basically the embodiment of the fact that sites and organizations don't matter, but individuals do. I think the overwhelming majority of everything on Ars is garbage. But on the other hand they also run Eric Berger's space column [1] which is certainly one of the best ones out there. So don't ignore those names on tops of articles. If you find something informative, well sourced, and so on - there's a good c…
Somehow, you picked the least credible Ars staffer to me.
I have very strong, probably controversial, feeling on arstechnica, but I believe the acquisition from Condé Nast has been a tragedy. Ars writers used to be actual experts, sometimes even phd level, on technical fields. And they used to write fantastical and very informative articles. Who is left now? There are still a couple of good writers from the old guard and the occasional good new one, but the website is flood…
I think the fact that they one of the last places surviving from that generation of the Internet says a lot. The Condé Nast acquisition may have been a tragedy, but they managed to survive for this long. They’ve been continuously publishing online for about 30 years. It’s honestly amazing that they’ve managed to last this long. Yes, it’s very different than it was back in the day. You don’t see 20+ page reviews of op…
You can see a new generation of media that charge subscribers enough to make a modest profit, and it's things like Talking Points Memo ($70 base cost per year), Defector ($70 or $80 I think), The Information ($500), 404 ($100), etc.
I think for some people this could be a redeemable mistake at their job. If someone turns in a status report with a hallucination, that’s not good clearly but the damage might be a one off / teaching moment.
But for journalists, I don’t think so. This is crossing a sacred boundary.
The context here is this story, an AI Agent publishs a hit piece on the Matplotlib maintainer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729 And the story from ars about it was apparently AI generated and made up quotes. Race to the bottom?
There is no bottom. It's turds all the way down!
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Certainly not the only old fart ‘round these parts. Your comment reminded me of Dr Dobbs Journal for some reason.
Anyone remember "Compute!"? I still have (mostly) fond memories of typing in games in Basic. Actually, bugs in those listings were my first bug-hunts as a kid.