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Zardoz89··on AI is a horse (2024)
So it’s a car.
Zardoz89··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
*wealth
Zardoz89··on A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square
You are missing the trees for the forest.
Zardoz89··on Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions
Here is an actual video game archive worth donating to

https://library.gamehistory.org

Zardoz89··on A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans
Shrimp taste. Go net some shrimp, filet them alive and eat them, guts removed. Report your finding.
Zardoz89··on Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?
They literally closed a deal hiring a 1100+ ZT Systems engineers yesterday.
Zardoz89··on Rumor About GPT-5 Changes Everything
30 years ago Go AI was at best 20 kyu. Low rank professionals were giving AI 30 stone handicaps and fleecing them.
Zardoz89··on The Origins of Wokeness
Say either on the streets of the US and you will find the intellectual distinction much softer than someone’s fist.
Zardoz89··on The Heroic Industry of the Brothers Grimm
List the modern fantasy titles that you find difficult to read.
Zardoz89··on The GPT era is already ending
And presented in audio narration at the head of the written article: “Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app.”
Zardoz89··on X's Objection to The Onion Buying InfoWars
Selling supplements to insecure men and dragging dead children through the mud?
Zardoz89··on Costco’s butter recall, explained
Think of the resources!
Zardoz89··on Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read
Diaspora by Greg Egan.
Zardoz89··on D&D is Anti-Medieval
DnD is primarily based on Jack Vance and Michael Moorecock’s fantasy. Moorecock’s work being a direct rebuttal of the pastoral conservatism Tolkien was peddling.

Gygax was adamantly not a fan of LoTR. The creatures of DnD are clearly not based on Tolkien’s works, and the player races you believe Tolkien invented predate his work by centuries.

Zardoz89··on Playstation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race
Almost everyday, it’s the most innovative game development space. You are just out of touch.

https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/collections/new-items

Digest some perspective.

https://youtu.be/zyVTxGpEO30

Zardoz89··on Intel to lay off 15,000 employees
Don’t forget when Jim Keller was senior VP (2018-2020) he was tasked with diagnosing the Intel’s rut and shipwrighting its future. His solution was to sell the fabs as he proclaimed them an albatross, for this he was forced out.

Gelsinger came in and with clownish bravado establishing Intel would pivot to as a third party fab service, choosing the path of maximum pain.

We know the answers now: the global delays, defective product generations. The problems Gelsinger faces are the rearing wall of hubris.

Zardoz89··on Why many studies wrongly claim it's healthy to drink a little alcohol
Source?
Zardoz89··on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
Explain that in Guantanamo
Zardoz89··on Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI
Carpenters try to solve those problems. When it’s their mother or their son. Unless you believe empathy is a political alignment, a sad and confusing world for you.
Zardoz89··on Toyota's Daihatsu to halt all vehicle shipments as safety scandal widens
Nationalize it
Zardoz89··on The Fallout from the Weirdness at OpenAI
George Boole would disagree
Zardoz89··on Running Speeds
It’s not just a number. It is also a park, a metro stop, another town over. You learn to know where you live with your feet.
Zardoz89··on Tarkovsky's films online for free
An embarrassment of riches y’all
Zardoz89··on TP–7 Field Recorder
The greatest offense is creating a product so refined in its exterior craft that offers a feature set barely competitive with the most entry level ZOOM.
Zardoz89··on Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine
Nuclear dissolution is a CDU policy, but good job regurgitiating the rhetoric
Zardoz89··on Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London
You can absolutely kill a pedestrian or another cyclist when on an e-bike, do not drink and ride