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> Ed Zitron doesn't say that AI doesn't work, that its impact on the world will not increase

He's said variants of both of these things before! That's the point OP makes too, people say "He doesn't say that" or "But what about this" when he's said a million, sometimes contradictory things.

In the first paragraph:

> While videogames are as profitable as ever on paper

And the linked article is about revenue going up YoY, not profit. And then it says:

> It's remarkably dissonant with, say, the current 'Xbox reset' which has Microsoft cancelling games and looking to ax studios left and right

Xbox in their own earnings report said their revenues dropped by 7% YoY.

Yeah OK, I guess games journalist are as bad as they've ever been.

Huh? Qwen released the weights of 3.8 Max, the only difference is the vision capability is "closed": https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

Xi has made it official policy, see his keynote speech at their World AI Conference last month:

> We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing. [1]

People have pointed that this seemingly made Alibaba/Qwen turn around from closing their models (this was rumored after the shakeup early this year [2]) and release the weights for even the Max variant of their new models, which they previously did not.

1: http://english.scio.gov.cn/topnews/2026-07/18/content_118605...

2: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/

It's simple, they aren't subsidizing tokens at all.

You thought this helped your case??? My dude it literally says bacon flavored bits!

Brother I don't know what to tell you. Chick'n, Bac'n, Be'ef etc. are well-known vegan susbtitutes for the pun'd meats. Most of them explicitly say they're vegan on the box. That's not shrinkflation, you just didn't read the package.

> I think it's pretty reasonable to think that an extreme climate would cause extreme mortality.

No, it's not reasonable. They're using the same label, but there's no evidence showing that.

Easy enough to explain: they're benchmaxxing. Fable is intelligent but not benchmaxxed. Opus is less intelligent but benchmaxxed.

Huh? I went through the first ten messages in his thread and there's no praise there at all.

Photos of the food, at least in the US, started with "immigrant" restaurants. When Thai/Vietnamese/Chinese restaurants started opening up in areas without high concentrations of those people, they'd put photos in the menu so you could see what you were getting since that wouldn't be clear from the names or descriptions in the menu. A lot of these restaurants were cheap, which is why I think you associate it with low-quality restaurants.

You can't imagine someone getting excited about difficult problems as an engineer? And you can't imagine why there's creativity involved?

I don't know, it feels like you can't process the output of human creativity.

The higher margin is mostly coming from assembly costs, right? I can't imagine it comes from the actual cost of the battery being so much higher. I hope that once they start pushing these out and retool factories for them they can sell them more broadly.

It's not really a small percentage of users. All users will have trouble with the battery - eventually. My DS4s ran out of battery life in about three years of usage; I still have one of them that I use wired with my PC, but I absolutely cannot use it wireless. Likewise with my DS5s - one of them barely held a charge 2-3 years in. I'm sure with good battery management you can extend the lifespan to be closer to 5-6 years, like my M1 MBP from 2021 that still has a 9+h battery life (though down from 12 as I remember), but that only keeps them going for a little longer. It's just a fact of how Li-ion batteries work that they will lose their capacity eventually.

E: DS4 = DualShock 4, DS5 = DualSense; these are the standard PlayStation controllers for the PS4 and the PS5 respectively.

Yeah, I strongly remember getting Sonnet 3.5 with Aider to boostrap an (albeit basic) project and getting it to work. Especially vivid because I told my roommate at the time about it and he also tried it out and was also shocked. I'd put maybe $20 in credits into the API haha. Feels so quaint, it's almost a foregone conclusion with the current models and harnesses.

> How much React code you wrote 6-8 years ago will work perfectly and identically with today’s React toolchain?

Today's Elm toolchain is the Elm toolchain of 6 years ago!

I'm so happy I have something I can link to that clearly and patiently engages with all the people who concern troll about Wikipedia. It genuinely bothers me how the temperature of the conversation about wikipedia (even here on HN) has changed so much because of people who don't know anything, don't care to verify anything, but have an axe to grind.

> when Android Auto connects on my phone, it tends to stop me from using the maps app on the phone

This is on Google Maps. Nothing about Auto/CarPlay prevents this. Google just chose to do this.

I'm skeptical there actually is a difference. I've compared my iPad with the white point, brightness and color filters set for comfort and it's no worse for reading than a Kindle Paperwhite with the reading light on (which you usually want for higher contrast). I'd attribute more of that fun reading experience to it being a single-purpose device more than the quality of the screen.

Yeah for the first time in a long time I ended up using my entire weekly quota. Usually I go slow but with Fable I actively saw a huge benefit in pushing it and doing much more.

If you think so you've only ever worked in a trash org. If my productivity was hurt by things outside my control I'd expect (and have had) managers to fight for me.

This is insane reporting. Their own article says the data center buildout happened in 2017. The article they link about it says the same thing. And so rate changes now - in 2026, nearly a full decade after those DCs were built out - are somehow the fault of the measly 37 datacenters there? They don't even say that outright - they're just insinuating this from the title and wording in the artcile to be sneaky about it. This is garbage! They just put "$current_thing bad" in the headline and nobody's really checking that they're straight up lying by omission!

> As a workplace I'm glad we're not a monoculture of 100% like-minded individuals.

But if you're tolerant of someone in your workplace that wants to make it a monoculture, and then succeeds in doing so, will you remain glad?

Every time I use opus these days I go shut up... you are not fable.. Hard to imagine how just three days with it changed how I saw LLM use.

You can use them in the team plan, but not the enteprise plan.

No? I live very close to Loudoun county, there's DCs across the road from homes.

I'll never forget it. It's always on the back of my phone, so even if I'm in a hurry and run out I can still read a book on the metro.

I've read an entire book on the X3 attached to the back of my phone and it hasn't been an issue. Reading horizontally I get close enough to the 80 chars per line ideal that it doesn't bother me at all.

Specifically climate data, which can be used to argue for climate change action.

You can make one yourself in ~100 lines of code.