This brings back lots of fond memories dialing into The Forbin Project and HITS BBS in the 90s. Met lots of people in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls (319) area and I feel the BBS scene contributed to my eventual major and multiple careers in IT.

And it all started with QModem..

What happened to copy editors? It seems like half of every article I read online has some grammatical error

Because most “journalism” is just a person working from a coffee shop now.

At least it was written by a human…

so GPT would be an improvement then

Unless you want, you know, accurate facts in your news.

Even then, ChatGPT might not be worse than a journalist.

Grammatically and typographically, yes; factually, probably not.

I've had an LLM generate a typo before. Definitely not a metric to gauge by.

The 4 letter word you are looking for is “core”

This is exactly what is done to spread the satellites in their orbits.

https://support.planet.com/hc/en-us/articles/212641458-How-d...

This paper covers diff drag in more detail. https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03270