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New comment by AllegedAlec in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

AllegedAlec — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:32:06 +0000

> Well not everyone has the privilege to buy new books, especially course-mandated books that the professor "coincidentally" wrote and costs hundreds of dollars.

Do you even understand what you sound like? "Writing in something you own is vandalism because poor people".

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

AllegedAlec — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:37:19 +0000

We could also fit more people in if you crushed everyone, dehydrated them and stored they remains in huge compressed cubes. Efficiency is not all we want

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

AllegedAlec — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:48:21 +0000

> The actual cost is going to drop 99% in ~4 years.

And fusion power is just 2 decades into the future!

New comment by AllegedAlec in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

AllegedAlec — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:56:33 +0000

So many China shills running interference and whataboutism...

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds"

AllegedAlec — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:21:07 +0000

"Hey guys, good news! You will all be made redundant by AI and we, some intellectual elite who somehow think we're not going to be affected by AI think you're going to be happy about it!"

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

AllegedAlec — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:16:07 +0000

Today it's Trump, yesterday it was something else. Tomorrow it'll be a third thing.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

AllegedAlec — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:05:18 +0000

We've had this discourse happen again and again over the last... Christ, 20 years fuck me.

At some point people have to start realizing "oh wait, maybe the current situation isn't unique and people have felt like this since forever".

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

AllegedAlec — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:48:45 +0000

> No, it works not worse, but better.

"Is it me who is wrong? No, it's everyone else!"

New comment by AllegedAlec in "A Message from the Ruby Central Board"

AllegedAlec — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:46:05 +0000

I really want to like Ruby; it's my Smalltalk-lite for small projects, because it's easier to run and get going than spinning up VMs. However, it's retarded shit like this drama that makes me move away from languages.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "How to run Qwen 3.5 locally"

AllegedAlec — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:16:26 +0000

I found that the drivers I had were no longer compatible with the newer kernels. After upgrading to newer drivers it was able to offload again.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Maybe there's a pattern here?"

AllegedAlec — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:15:58 +0000

> Well, for a time greek city states did fight pretty much like this. Small armies of hoplites were raised outside harvest season, went out, fought almost show-battles with very few casualties, and tribute changed hands based on the results. Everyone went home for the harvest.

This is a view held by a small group, but is in no way the accepted view of it for historians. See the link for a blogpost of a military historian talking about the orthodox and heterodox schools of thought on this.

https://acoup.blog/2025/11/14/collections-hoplite-wars-part-...

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Ubuntu is planning to comply with Age Verification law"

AllegedAlec — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:53:35 +0000

Absolute insanity

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Excommunicated devs making games with AI"

AllegedAlec — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:54:33 +0000

Totally! I'm sick of not being able to see what tools they use. In fact, I feel that we should also start tagging devs that use an IDE instead of properly coding games in notepad.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

AllegedAlec — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:48:35 +0000

I'll have to try projects I guess, but I just want to sometimes ask questions without it bringing up shit I asked about in the past which isn't relevant to what I'm asking this time.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

AllegedAlec — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:15:05 +0000

In online Claude I often use incognito mode precisely because I don't want results to be influenced by what we talked about earlier. It's getting rather annoying to be honest.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "We mourn our craft"

AllegedAlec — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:01:25 +0000

POSIWID

New comment by AllegedAlec in "We mourn our craft"

AllegedAlec — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:19:41 +0000

While I'm on the fence about LLMs there's something funny about seeing an industry of technologists tear their own hair out about how technology is destroying their jobs. We're the industry of "we'll automate your job away". Why are we so indignant when we do it to ourselves...

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

AllegedAlec — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:54:43 +0000

Still a vacuum so the same heat dissipation issues, adding to it that the lunar dust makes solar panels less usable, and the lunar surface on the solar side gets really hot.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Allowlisting some Bash commands is often the same as allowlisting all"

AllegedAlec — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:59:42 +0000

My concern isn't really clarity of intention, but that 'allowlisting' just doesn't flow as well when reading as whitelisting does.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Allowlisting some Bash commands is often the same as allowlisting all"

AllegedAlec — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:35:48 +0000

Not entirely related to the content but man 'allowlisting' reads so badly. We should just out of ease of reading return to whitelisting.