HakFoo
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- Comment on Friendly reminder 1 day ago:
Who are the skeletons fighting? Do we need to do well intentioned symbolic support gestures on social media?
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 4 weeks ago:
The Atari XL seriea computers cut a nice space between retro and futuristic.
They’re much sleeker looking than their 400/800 predecessors, as well as the Apple II and the breadbin VIC 20/64/C16. Only the 64C and Plus/4 really look similarly minaturized and not-in-need-of-a-big-wristrest-for-comfortable-typing.
The use of metal and smoked plastic trim gives it a premium appearance. The 1200XL even hides the cartridge slot on the side to avoid anyone nistaking it for a mere console…
- Comment on Oddware: Cadet PC Radio AM/FM tuner card with RDS 1 month ago:
You could get a SDR dongle. The cheap ones probably won’t fo AM well, but they make excellent FM tuners, as well as aircraft, 2-metre and 70cm ham bands with a pretty basic antenna.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 month ago:
Our new defacto president is the avatar of bubble economics.
Even the other oligarchs, thry made something at dramatic scale to justify their wealth. Microsoft did sell a lot of software. Facebook got 176 billion people on board to blast adverts at. They’re trillion dollar firms that do correspondingly large run rates.
Tesla is still a minor player in its space, and SpaceX is inherently a narrow business. Even PayPal, where the horrors all came from, isn’t a major value add, it’s a thin mask atop the clunkiness of American payment rails that should have been replaced by something like FedNow by 2003.
But he’s taken these tiny fundamentals and convinced Wall Street to puff more air into them than a fresh bag of Lay’s.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 1 month ago:
How can we ask “are we closer” if we don’t know what the destination is?
LLMs might still end up being an interesting special-purpose system, perhaps with fairly broad applications, but in a direction that’s different from where true AGI ends up coming from.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 2 months ago:
Would we know it if we saw it? Draw two eye spots on a wooden spoon amd people will anthromorphise it. I suspect we’ll have dozens of false starts and breathless announcements of AGI, but we may never get there.
More interestingly, would we want it if we got it? How long will its creators rally to its side if we throw yottabytes of data at our civilization-scale problems and the mavhine comes back with “build trains and eat the rich instead of cows?”
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 months ago:
Vampire’s Dawn 3. I suspect I’m exhausting my opportunities to powerlevel through the content, being that my party reached level 86 and never having seen any zone tagged at a level over 85. I might have to use gasp strategy to finish it.
- Comment on "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX" Anime Announced with Visual, PV 3 months ago:
I figured it was the Gundam brand they sold on Amazon. I was very satisfied with my GQUUUUUUX brand Space Battleship Bismarck. 30% cheaper than better known space battleships.
- Comment on Trump threatens a 100% tariff on BRICS countries if they abandon U.S. dollar 3 months ago:
What will get manufactured locally will be the things where there’s enough margin in it. Nothing to do with how vital or desirable it might be to make locally.
- Comment on Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games 4 months ago:
But GOG is alresdy the Steam with Principals.
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