Bad idea: you know how sometimes people have a "me but a bot" account? Where they've trained a gpt3 bot on their original posts, and have it regularly generate a fake post by them?
Why stop there? Train another bot on the first bot account's output. And another.
See how many bot accounts it takes until foonebot7 is just posting "floppy floppy floppy floppy floppy floppy" 24/7
@vga256 I remember my Tandy 102/TRS-80 Model 100 tapes being the same way - the computer would accept multiple copies of the program, and would basically stop overwriting it in RAM when it got a good clean copy that passed sanity checks :)
I think I had one tape where the instructions said it had three or five copies.
I remember seeing some audio equipment once where the firmware updates came on DAT tapes and it had the same thing the tape the vendor sent you had ten copies, since DAT burps
Sometimes when you learn how something works, you think, Thanks knowledge, that really helped, everything makes more sense, and other times you look up how wrists turn, and it's like WTF?!
of course my car decides to start throwing Engine Malfunction messages and randomly going into limp mode on the Sunday immediately before the bank holiday Monday when I'm meant to be driving to EMF, meaning I can't get it to a mechanic for diagnostics let alone a repair in time.
OBD-II scanner shows nothing at all, inbuilt test mode shows two generic DTC codes that provide no useful information other than it's maybe a sensor doing something wrong.
@gsuberland before you panic... look for broken/disconnected vacuum lines, and make sure the air intake isn't loose.
My Subaru likes to periodically try to give me a panic attack by simply shedding its air inlet tube between the MAF and throttle, causing the EFI sensor data to be extremely wrong and the engine to sound as if it's been blown the F up
@gsuberland Most of them are topside. Just look for anything that's visibly disconnected, cracked, or leaking. The largest one goes to the power brake booster (if applicable on your vehicle) - there will be a big round tubby thing on the firewall with one large hose out the bottom. if that disconnects, the car will act very bad, but at least the fix is really easy.
@gsuberland it's kinda a gotcha.... the self tests that lead to codes being set might not flag a fault until it's been driven some time, and the logic behind them is spotty.