Maybe someone has died and we will never know. Not many people go on debugging why 911 wasn't working.

Especially if they died trying.

Can I give an AI a bunch of drawings and it will make a text adventure out of it?

Well, that's why it's called git. Everybody has to get-it.

The author is probably dyslexic.

It always seems to me that Jira was used to produce Jira itself and that's why it turned out this way.

Allegedly, they use post-it notes. https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/1292331568330022913

As the GPU!

Can't the attenuated strain mutate back to a strong dangerous one after we spread it? (Hope this isn't a stupid question)

It's pretty hard to un-mutate a deleted gene sequence. It can mutate in a novel way to somehow cause more harm, but that won't be quick.

In theory any coronavirus could, including the 4 we consider absolutely harmless.

In fact, with existing attenuated virus approaches that eventually becomes the problem, the "last mile" of this approach usually sees you needing a real vaccine to cap off the disease. Otherwise the virus kinda circulates around in a tight enough cycle that you see most if not all eventual mutations including dangerous ones that kill. Communities using attenuated virus vaccination approaches for Polio faced this in recent times, for example. And it becomes a problem in places where you can't get people to afford or accept the real vaccine.

Anyway it's a tried/tested approach to solving a pathogen problem, so it's hardly some crazy idea this person has. They do point out the there will be specific types of mutations that are less likely to mutate back if you read the whole article.

The problem with polio back mutating is limited to one of the three strain in the live vaccine and is due to the mutations not being deletion mutations. The live polio vaccine was developed before people knew this and for regulatory reasons the problem has never been fixed.

This problem is easy to avoid these days.

I have no reason to believe you're wrong, I just wanted to point out that we (as a whole community of scientists etc.) can observe an entire range and lifecycle of this approach and that we're aware of the risks based not only on theory but on practice.

Personally I see your proposal as a relatively worthy endeavor to consider.

I suggest to look into https://ifcomp.org/ - the annual interactive fiction competition is running for 25 years now and there are some great games and resources over there.

The greatest text games I have played are Curses! and Anchorhead. Both are immersive and vast. Anchorhead is genuinely scary. There are some pointless puzzles and timed puzzles, but overall, truly worth trying out.

Thanks for the suggestions! I've never heard of IF before - but I'm a long time MUD / roguelike player. This looks really great.

I recommend Counterfeit Monkey, it's the top-rated game on IFDB and I think it deserves that spot. It's also a game that would be impossible to create graphically.

https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl

We had a bug that would pop up only when we weren't working (at lunch breaks, meetings etc) but when we were at our desks it never reproduces. It ended up related to the screen saver starting up. It took us too long to find that out but that was a very good laugh.

The name "Palestine" was given by the Romans. The area was known to it's inhabitants as Judea. During the iron age the kingdoms of Judea and Israel existed in the area. The name "Israel" first appears in the Merneptah Stele c. 1209 BCE: "Israel is laid waste and his seed is no more."

The name is older, it comes from the philistines, one of the people that emerged after the bronze age colapse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines