WTF is retiring?

Rather retire and play starcraft

God I LOVE one day shipping from Amazon Prime TM, don’t you too?

Yeah I can imagine it messing up just once and burning the back of your neck would be enough to never want to turn it on.

Add artificial intelligence somewhere in there

Did researchers just use AI to train ecoli to play doom??? No but watch these ads

Yeah, kinda sick of some of the so called Doom hacks.

I saw one where they claimed they made a pregnancy test play doom. No, the dude got a small OLED display that he hooked up to a computer that ran doom and displayed it, then put the OLED in a pregnancy test, where it normally had a different and likely worse OLED.

That isn’t the point of the can it run doom thing at all

It’s also a fundamental misunderstanding of why people say “there’s no going back”.

Practically anyone with a gaming computer can download Ollama today and run a decent open source model and do stuff locally, download it, take their computer offline, then use AI without touching any billionaire’s SaaS products.

You can get some productivity out of those models. You can use LLM, generate images, use computer vision, get help coding with local offline agents. It might not be as clean as using some of the paid tools and closed source models, but they work.

And that’s what people mean by, “there’s no going back”. What the technology does is going to keep being a thing. It might dissipate a bit as the bubble pops, but it’s not going away just like it’d be weird to try and make the internet technology go away at this point, even after the dot com bust.

It doesn’t mean we can’t regulate data centers and their construction. It means the technology is developed and open source and usable by practically anyone, and the tooling will stay around.

Drinking rehydrated piss is a sacrifice

It’s the year 2099. Nvidia-Johnson Inc has just announced a new breakthrough years after their merger. Biotech finally found a means to turn human flesh into… RAM

But they need our utilities, all of them. So they want to get ahead of the game and take over that side of government now.

Except water. I bet this is some weird way of arguing they are a utility so have a right to utility infrastructure and how water is distributed.

Less “we are a utility” and more “we need all your utilities, all your clean water, all your power, and we want to decide how it’s used”

You might tell your DM to look up Sabir, where the term Lingua Franca came from, the “Frankish tongue” which wasn’t really from the Franks.

This is where the idea of a common language comes from. Sabir was a simplified pidgin mix of Mediterranean languages so traders could communicate. They still spoke fine but didn’t conjugate verbs, used Me/you a lot without different forms (myself, I, yourself, them, they, etc).

Sabir was a Mediterranean lingua franca, then Latin for 1500 years throughout Europe. Now it’s English. The idea of Common in D&D comes from Westron or “the Common tongue” in LotR which D&D was heavily inspired from, which was basically written by Tolkien so that his constructed languages had a reason to exist. He was a scholar of languages, and the idea of a common tongue comes from actual history. He wasn’t just making it up. Something like that would likely exist in a Fantasy world with lots of trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

It has real historic roots though. A common tongue isn’t unrealistic. They once used Sabir or “Frankish” where lingua franca came from, then Latin throughout Europe, now English as a global lingua franca.

As much as people think having “Common” as a language is weird, it literally has historical roots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

People have been using a Common language for millenia. Today, the global lingua franca is obviously English. For about 1500 years, the lingua franca of medieval Europe was Latin. And for a while in the Mediterranean it was Sabir, where Lingua Franca the term came from, which was a weird simplified Mediterranean mix of languages (no verb conjugation, etc).

Other areas with multiple languages have had their own Lingua Francas. It’s a common thing to happen if you have big areas with multiple languages and lots of trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lingua_francas

So it’s really not weird to have a Common tongue in games. It came from LotR which came from history since Tolkien was a huge language nerd and wrote a world for his language to exist.

Why is Newsome trying to be even less popular before the primaries?

All you have to say is the two magic words, “tax billionaires”. For fucks sake Newsome