<![CDATA[Learn Technical Independence]]>https://learn.piescale.com/https://learn.piescale.com/favicon.pngLearn Technical Independencehttps://learn.piescale.com/Ghost 4.48Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:08:29 GMT60<![CDATA[Best Rad Racer/Out Run Yet]]>A Mix of Qwen 3.8 max, and GLM 5.2 max just made by far the best 16 bit era quality racer game in a single .html file.  These are the big 2.4 trillion, and 753 billion parameter Chinese models running on arena.ai hardware.  Arena

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A Mix of Qwen 3.8 max, and GLM 5.2 max just made by far the best 16 bit era quality racer game in a single .html file.  These are the big 2.4 trillion, and 753 billion parameter Chinese models running on arena.ai hardware.  Arena ranks models against each other, and appears to be the best way to get free tokens with a big context window, although they may flag game development, and I somehow got lucky with this.  My general sense is providers don't want to fund free game development, and it's easy to burn tokens here, although hard to tell exactly how much.  My guess would be the final product here was around a million tokens, which prices out to around $6 at current prices.

RAD HORIZON — Turbo Grand Prix
Turbo Grand Prix · 6 Stages · Est. 1986
HI-SCORE 0000000
CREDITS 0
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BRAKE
NITRO
INSERT COIN
PRESS ENTER TO RACE
◀▶ STEER ▲ THROTTLE ▼ BRAKE SHIFT NITRO 1234 RADIO M MUTE G 3-D P PAUSE
A love letter to OUT RUN (Sega · 1986) and RAD RACER (Square · 1987) — every pixel drawn in code, every note synthesized live. Thread the needle between traffic to charge NITRO, hit every checkpoint, and pop on the red-cyan glasses for the full 1987 treatment.
Six stages end in the NEON TUNNEL: four blacked-out bores where the light rings strobe in time with the radio and the music muffles the moment you're inside — and where the corners flatten out so you can hold it flat through the dark.

If I am to be meticulously critical, besides the obvious sound track, and missing win animations, the biggest difference between this, and the originals is the physics engine, and turning/drifting effects.  Both games somehow created an experience that made you lean in your seat, anticipating real G forces.  And those programmers were doing it in assembly language.

Click the box below to download a single HTML file that will open and play in your browser, full screen, without internet, better than embedded in this blog here.  You can also open with a text editor, and start changing things:

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]]><![CDATA[AI Slop]]>Will you eat what they feed you?

By April 2025, it is becoming clear there are going to be two AI tracks:

  1. Slop brought to you by Microsoft, and Google
  2. Something zeroing in on pure intelligence, currently lead by Twitter, DeepSeek, and Alibaba

Intelligence is inherently efficient.  It is

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Will you eat what they feed you?

By April 2025, it is becoming clear there are going to be two AI tracks:

  1. Slop brought to you by Microsoft, and Google
  2. Something zeroing in on pure intelligence, currently lead by Twitter, DeepSeek, and Alibaba

Intelligence is inherently efficient.  It is going to run on hardware that is currently being turned into e-waste.  It is not going to require buildings full of the newest silicon, dedicated power plants, and trillions of dollars.

The slop pumpers are chained to a religion of maximizing entropy.

Pure intelligence is going to be way more zen.

]]><![CDATA[Quit Microsoft]]>It's easier than you think, and the productivity gains alone are worth it.

Linux Mint is now easier to use than Windows, it's also faster, more secure, and more stable.  OnlyOffice is better than Microsoft Office, and it's free.  You can install

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It's easier than you think, and the productivity gains alone are worth it.

Linux Mint is now easier to use than Windows, it's also faster, more secure, and more stable.  OnlyOffice is better than Microsoft Office, and it's free.  You can install it on your computer, and use it without internet, or you can install it on a server, and run your own cloud collaboration better than Microsoft 365.

And you can use this forever without ever paying anyone anything, or being forced to change.

Microsoft uses security theater to cost you money, and harm our environment by sending computers to an early grave.  They are in the business of turning money into new software that has to run on new hardware, and center every business decision around accelerating this.

But normal people want stability.  The only way to achieve stability is to quit the chaos agents at Microsoft.

]]><![CDATA[Do you long for boring tech]]>Whatever happened to stability?  Have you ever met a normal person who wanted their software to change after they learned how to use it?  How has it become so commonplace, especially among open source projects?

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Whatever happened to stability?  Have you ever met a normal person who wanted their software to change after they learned how to use it?  How has it become so commonplace, especially among open source projects?

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