I'd bet that no one, not even the site's [human] creators, has ever read that homepage end to end. At best, it might have been handed over to a swarm of reviewer agents.
That's not what the original comment is saying at all (if I'm reading it right). It's saying that negative results are valuable knowledge that are difficult to discover and collate since they tend to never be published. Nice high horse tho.
We have the printing press from Gutenberg and so-on and so-forth, then Maxwell equations and Einstein. No computers just pencils and paper, maybe some chalk and slate. No need for AI driven global machine powered brains. Do the work, either you’ll get a discovery or someone will build on your work and make a discovery in the future. The electrical grid might go down, though. Or hacked by an AI swarm. Then we’re stuck with pencil and paper, chalk and slate. :)
The older the system/the more changes it's had, especially if it's "enterprise software", the more insane things tend to be; in one memorable case, it was a .zip containing JSON, which then contained base64-encoded XML, wrapping another base64-encoded .zip containing more XML, and in that XML was base16-encoded ASN.1 PER with the actual payload (encoded in a proprietary format). I won't disclose specifics, but perhaps someone may recognise that from its description; suffice to say the industry that was related to started using computers in the days of mainframes and punched cards.
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