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New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

NERD_ALERT — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:32:06 +0000

If you actually try and use frontier models with basic harnessing and skills setup, you can’t seriously make this claim. Agentic coding is getting extremely good when you take time to properly setup an environment for an agent to work in.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

NERD_ALERT — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:58:58 +0000

I don’t disagree that social media has played a massive role in changing the world in a negative way. This is a very far reaching claim though and one that kinda misses the forest for the trees. The problem is that fundamentally capitalism demands that companies find more ways to siphon more money from customers every quarter or they fail.

Social media is a perfect storm for the elites in this system. It’s a CIA wet dream. It’s literally a globalized and hyper personalized propaganda distribution platform. This is the inevitable outcome of capitalism and human behavior. Meta’s whole purpose is to create the most optimized pipeline for accepting money from 3rd parties in exchange for convincing as many people as possible of what they want those people to believe.

Social media is evil but it’s also the natural course of what happens with current technology and the incentives of capitalism.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

NERD_ALERT — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:54:55 +0000

I started college 10 years ago and all of my homework was computer based, including Calculus and Linear Algebra. Of course for those higher level math classes I had to use paper and pencil to get to the answer but absolutely everything was submitted through an online portal. For any other classes the work was purely done on the computer.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

NERD_ALERT — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:41:14 +0000

The name of the company is literally Meta. That’s why people call it that…

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

NERD_ALERT — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:39:43 +0000

It’s absolutely not a one time cost. Once you have it you need to hire people full time to maintain it and eventually upgrade it. Hardware fails constantly

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

NERD_ALERT — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:50:35 +0000

> I just don’t understand it

Maintaining and updating your own hardware comes with so much operational overhead compared to magically spinning up and down resources as needed. I don’t think this really needs to be said.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

NERD_ALERT — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:05:42 +0000

Peter Thiel owns a company called Palantir that designs its offices to look like Hobbiton.

It might be less of a misinterpretation and more of an on the nose joke about being overtly evil.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

NERD_ALERT — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:23:08 +0000

Why is Wayland a disaster? Most of the Linux community is strongly in favor of it.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo"

NERD_ALERT — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:27:11 +0000

Hosting a developer environment remotely that you SSH into is very common. That’s how you would approach working with a monorepo that has any serious size to it.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "I Used Arch, BTW: macOS, Day 1"

NERD_ALERT — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:43:00 +0000

You should use pyenv instead of relying on homebrew for your python version

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "The Death of the Middle-Class Musician"

NERD_ALERT — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:17:33 +0000

What? Why would US taxes have anything to do with people in poorer countries?

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Rovo Dev agent, now available in the CLI"

NERD_ALERT — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:22:59 +0000

Atlassian is well positioned to release a coding agent. If they leverage the integration with the rest of their cloud ecosystem it could turn out to be a very cohesive dev loop.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?"

NERD_ALERT — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:22:18 +0000

I felt this way with Github Copilot but I started using Cursor this week and it genuinely feels like a competent pair programmer.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says"

NERD_ALERT — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:31:37 +0000

What company is allowing employees to have so much data locally? Almost all work is stored in a cloud now. Documents, spreadsheets, design docs, code… If you really are constantly seeing this then that says a lot about the corporation using severely outdated practices.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it"

NERD_ALERT — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:18:04 +0000

Free will hasn’t been proven. It’s up in the air how much is predetermined, and how to even define “free” in the context of free will. Even if we do have free will it’s still influenced to some degree by our biology.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Elon Musk's $55B Tesla Pay Package Voided by Judge"

NERD_ALERT — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:43:38 +0000

The Model 3 is not even close to the “best selling vehicle of all time” by any metric.

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium"

NERD_ALERT — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:43:03 +0000

Which left wing governments has the US defended against right wing coups?

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium"

NERD_ALERT — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:21:42 +0000

The US/CIA has a long history of inciting coups, rigging elections, and funding far right terror organizations across Latin America for matters similar or lesser than this [1]. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss this as unprovoked internal conflict. Especially given that only a year after this event, another election was held in which Luis Arce won in a landslide [2]. Luis Arce was importantly the finance minister for the Evo Morales administration [3]. There’s no evidence that popular support had ever waned for the Movement for Socialism in Bolivia. Yet Jeanine Añez was able to win in 2019 and exile Evo Morales in an election that involved, “irregularities and serious human rights abuses by security forces,” according to independent human rights organizations [4].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Bolivian_general_electi...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Arce

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/17/bolivia-govern...

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium"

NERD_ALERT — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:54:23 +0000

The 2019 Bolivian political crisis [1] came right off the heels of Evo Morales negotiating lithium trade with Russia and China. Bolivia happens to have the largest lithium reserves of any nation.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_political_cris...

New comment by NERD_ALERT in "GitUI"

NERD_ALERT — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 21:36:49 +0000

I’ve been a daily lazygit user for years and tried this out a few months ago. Seems like a case of rewriting a near perfect tool in Rust just for the sake of doing it. From what I remember this project didn’t have any features that aren’t present in lazygit but was lacking some that are.