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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.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Claude's new constitution"

AllegedAlec — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:57:53 +0000

"I disagree with this point of view so it's objectively wrong"

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Banning Things for Other People Is Easy"

AllegedAlec — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:20:42 +0000

It's the same kind of bad line of argumentation we disputed for decades with banning piracy (implicit assumption that every pirated copy was a sale lost).

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Find a pub that needs you"

AllegedAlec — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:25:46 +0000

> In 2026, at 18y minimum wage is €7.36 per hour and at 21y it rockets up to €14.71

And the average house price just went past half a million. Even cheap housing is north of 350K. You can't save up against yearly price increases.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Garbage collection is contrarian"

AllegedAlec — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:14:01 +0000

Indeed. I also hope we stop using all of these "high-level" languages. So much overhead just so people don't have to learn how to write proper optimized machine code. It's super-trivial to write a website directly in that too, and it only takes a bit longer, but it is almost twice as fast.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

AllegedAlec — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:59:07 +0000

Please god no.

New comment by AllegedAlec in "What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project"

AllegedAlec — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:27:43 +0000

"My god, a slight hyperbole! Let me run over to my jewelry box and get some pearls to clutch!"

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Building a high performance home"

AllegedAlec — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:59:29 +0000

> I’ve never seen such incompetence in the tech industry, so perhaps that’s why I was so naive.

How

New comment by AllegedAlec in "Are you stuck in movie logic?"

AllegedAlec — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:45:03 +0000

INdeed. The entire point of Chuckie's "If you're still here in 20 years I'll kill you" was just that.