That observation maybe holds if the lab from a few years ago correctly selected the virus for the greatest overall lethality (why not MERS or Ebola or something else?) and made its best effort to turn it into a bioweapon. I don't know about you, but I don't think that's quite what happened...

Too few of these are revealed to the rest of us, as the piece notes. It's a shame, there's lots to learn there. Instead most will be lost to the mists of time, and some dumpster diving digital archaeologist will have to get lucky for us to hear about them.

I'm developing a distracting hypervigilance that kicks in whenever I start reading anything linked from here or lobsters or LinkedIn. Instead of focusing on whatever it's saying, I'm looking for the tells instead.

I hate what AI's doing to reading. It's like when the desktop publishing revolution reached folks who never could have put together a decent banner to save their lives, and suddenly chintzy Broderbund Print Shop-generated examples were hanging in every classroom. But at least that was limited to peeps who had access to a dot matrix printer and scads of tractor feed paper. Now clankers write for everybody who either can't write or won't put in the time, and the low-effort slop is everywhere.

It'd be one thing if they used AI to write a draft and then rewrote it to make it theirs. I'd read it! But they can't be bothered. Very unfortunate, and I refuse to waste my time on it.

Just post the prompt you used, Brand, I'd probably get more value...

1. Artists hate Perforce.

2. You will never get them to try anything else.

I'm exaggerating, but not by that much. I lost count of the number of artists who are deeply uncomfortable with technology and just manage to learn the bare minimum to do their job, and then will take no more.

So besides everything else Lore needs to nail to be acceptable, they need to make it easy for artists to switch. Maybe when UnrealGameSync grows enough knobs and switches to make it unnecessary for an artist to ever touch P4V, Epic can roll Lore into UGS as an unobtrusive option. And if by then there's good support in Unity, in JetBrains, in Maya, etc., then maybe they'll have something.

I think I’m gonna hafta keep waiting...

Or is there already a solution to this that I've been missing? (Yeah, KVM/IPMI/etc, I know, but not all hosters make it easy to get to that.)

The peeps I've talked to who've done LS swaps seemed more interested in the economic, technological, and fuel economy leaps made versus the certified air-cooled default choices rather than the power, but YMMV...