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Zardoz89 commented on A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square thisiscolossal.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

impossiblefork · 6 months ago

While fun I always feel that grass and trees are basically always nicer than this kind of thing.

It feels like a human imposition on nature, that we decide that we are to have this brick thing here, instead of whatever grew there.

Maybe if it were a tunnel it would be okay.

Zardoz89 · 6 months ago

You are missing the trees for the forest.

Zardoz89 commented on Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions embracergamesarchive.com/... · Posted by u/draugadrotten

mzajc · 7 months ago

From their FAQ

> Can I visit the archive?

> The archive is for everyone, and we welcome all inquiries. However, we prioritize requests that support gaming culture, gaming history, and the games industry. /../ While the archive is not open to the public, we hope /../

The archive is for everyone, but it's only for these groups of people, and it's also not open to the public... Yikes.

I'd much rather support initiatives that actually make the games and software required to run them open to the public, like GOG.com and Internet Archive. This feels like a one-way transaction - society puts games in, society gets nothing back.

Zardoz89 · 7 months ago

Here is an actual video game archive worth donating to

https://library.gamehistory.org

Zardoz89 commented on A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans smithsonianmag.com/scienc... · Posted by u/Carrok

flysand7 · 8 months ago

Shrimp are mostly tasteless though, aren't they? If you bite into a shrimp and really pay attention to the taste, you'd notice that it's not really a "taste" that you're feeling, but mostly the soft texture giving the illusion of tastiness.

Zardoz89 · 8 months ago

Shrimp taste. Go net some shrimp, filet them alive and eat them, guts removed. Report your finding.

Zardoz89 commented on Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? · Posted by u/spacebanana7

Vvector · 9 months ago

Back in 2015, they were a quarter or two from bankruptcy, saved by the XBOX and Playstation contracts. Those years saw several significant layoffs, and talent leaving for greener pastures. Lisa Su has done a great job at rebuilding the company. But not in a position to hire 2000 engineers x few million comp (~$4 billion annually) even if there were people readily available.

"it'd still be a good investment." - that's definitely not a sure thing. Su isn't a risk taker, seems to prefer incremental growth, mainly focused on the CPU side.

Zardoz89 · 9 months ago

They literally closed a deal hiring a 1100+ ZT Systems engineers yesterday.

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Zardoz89 commented on Rumor About GPT-5 Changes Everything thealgorithmicbridge.com/... · Posted by u/doener

TradingPlaces · a year ago

The history of AI is big leaps followed by years of crawl.

Zardoz89 · a year ago

30 years ago Go AI was at best 20 kyu. Low rank professionals were giving AI 30 stone handicaps and fleecing them.

Zardoz89 commented on The Origins of Wokeness paulgraham.com/woke.html... · Posted by u/crbelaus

earnestinger · a year ago

So -a is more polite than -er?

Really?

I mean rap songs and movies have both, as far as I can tell they are used interchangeably.

Any chance the distinction existed long time ago and now it does not anymore? (Im not from US)

Zardoz89 · a year ago

Say either on the streets of the US and you will find the intellectual distinction much softer than someone’s fist.

Zardoz89 commented on The Heroic Industry of the Brothers Grimm hudsonreview.com/2024/11/... · Posted by u/prismatic

cubefox · a year ago

At the end of the essay, the author (David Mason) quotes the beginning of Cinderella. I agree with Mason about the beauty of the terse prose here:

> So much is conveyed here about character, time and the natural world, because Cinderella’s piety is natural piety, respect for nature more than conventional Christian belief.

It's something that modern fantasy usually doesn't capture, by being too modern, and by being far too verbose. The latter is one aspect in which Tolkien's Simarillion feels better than his "The Lord of the Rings": The Simarillion leaves all the details out, it has little direct speech, and only mentions what's important. Its style is not as raw and authentic as in Grimm's fairy tales, or as in actual historical legends like King Arthur, but it gets close as times, mainly by avoiding the verbosity that is so common in all modern literature.

Zardoz89 · a year ago

List the modern fantasy titles that you find difficult to read.

Zardoz89 commented on The GPT era is already ending theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/bergie

Zardoz89 · a year ago

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.”

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