You may call it equity, or equinox or whatever woketerm you like but you can't sugarcoat what those of us in the North know:the Southern Hemisphere is stealing the very essence of our dwindlingdays. Sucking out the insolation like a milkshake and slurping it allacross the equator.
I am amused to see that Warcraft III isstill out there being played. I think it was my son's first PC game and maybe the second to last one I ever played regularly.And it's Maia E. who's doing it. She reports "Warcraft III was patched into oblivion over the years,and it looks like the patches introduced some bugs intocampaign quests. At least they didn't rename Thrall into(undefined)!"
...to know which way the wind blows.This week, it's been an ill one. Two of our readers sent us references to the BBC's reports on unusual weather in Bristol - one from the web, and one mobile. Maybe that will help you deduce the source of this error.Frist, Graham F. shared a screenshot of the beeb's mobile app, bellowing"I know Milton is hitting the US hard right now but that'snothing compared to the 14,000 mph winds here!"
The most common type of submission Error'd receivesare simple, stupid, data problems on Amazon. The textdoesn't match the image, the pricing is goofy, or someother mixup that are just bound to happen with a databaseof zillions of products uploaded by a plethora ofbarely-literate mountain village drop-shippers.So I don't usually feature them, preferring to find something with at least a chance of being a creative new bug.But I uncovered a story by Mark Johansen about his favoriteauthor, and decided that since so many of you obviously DO thinkonline retail flubs are noteworthy, what the heck.Here is Mark's plain-text story, and a handful of bungledproducts. They're not exactly bugs, but at least some ofthem are about bugs."I guess I missed your item about failings of AI, but here's one of my favorites:Amazon regularly sends me emails of books that their AIthinks I might want to read, presumably based on booksthat I've bought from them in the past. So recently Igot an email saying, "The newest book by an author you'veread before!" And this new book was by ... Ernest Hemingway.Considering that he died almost 60 years ago, it seemedunlikely that he was still writing. Or where he wassending manuscripts from.Lest you wonder, it turned out it was a collection ofletters he wrote when he was, like, actually alive. Thebook was listed as authored by Ernest Hemingwayrather than under the name of whomever compiled the letters."What do we all think? Truly an Error'd, or just some publishertaking marketing advice from real estate agents? Let me know.A while back, Christian E."Wanted to order some groceries from nemlig.com. So I saw the free (labelled GRATIS) product and pressed the info button and this popped up. Says that I can get the product delivered from the 1st of January (today is the 2nd of march). Have to wait for a while then..." Not too much longer, Christian.
No obvious pattern fell out of last week's submissions for Error'd, but I did especially like Caleb Su's example.Michael R., apparently still job hunting, reports "I have signed up to outlier.ai to make some $$$ on the side. No instructions necessary."
Amateur physicist B.J. is going on vacation, but he likes to plan things right down to the zeptosecond."Assume the flight accelerates at a constant speed for the first half of the flight, and decelerates at the same rate for the second half. 1) What speed does the plane need to reach to have that level of time dilation? 2) What is the distance between the airports?"
...Screens of Death. Photos of failures in kiosk-mode always strike me as akin to the wizard being exposed behind his curtain. Yeah, that shiny thing is after all just some Windows PC on a stick. Here are a few that aren't particularly recent, but they're real.Jared S. augurs ill: "Seen in downtown Mountain View, CA: In Silicon ValleyAI has taken over. There is no past, there is no future,and strangely, even the present is totally buggered. However, you're free to restore the present if you wish."
