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New comment by alfiedotwtf in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

alfiedotwtf — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:22:12 +0000

Isn't cholesterol released into the bloodstream to protect arteries when it gets acidic, and over time turning into plaque buildup? Also, going the other way doesn't help either because if you got a spike in acid your arteries wouldn't cope with the overload

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

alfiedotwtf — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:13:35 +0000

if trucks had free reign before and after peak times, this wouldn't happen

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "Nokia’s years of mobile-phone supremacy ended in an afternoon"

alfiedotwtf — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:17:00 +0000

N900. So say we all.

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

alfiedotwtf — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:15:04 +0000

It’s the perfect analogy! People these days complain about AI are complaining about how the sausage was made rather than how the sausage tastes. Prove me wrong

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

alfiedotwtf — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:42:37 +0000

Just drive anywhere with more than usual density in traffic and you’ll find trucks in the fast lane when they stop and start create gaps in the fast lane where no traffic can go. If you took out trucks altogether during peak hours you wouldn’t have these slow bubbles of traffic at the worst times..

Edit: let’s think of this from a pure scientific point of view - if you had 3 lanes and split traffic across them based on a range of speed - that would be the most optimised in terms of throughput for all lanes. Now, consider a reverse Amdahl's Law… what’s the worst thing you could do to make the fastest lane crawl which in effect kills total throughput across ALL lanes? Put a slow truck in it! Put a few, and you’ve just turned the lane giving you the highest throughput to most likely the slowest lane.

I just parked my car after another morning of commuting. Thought experiments alone in today’s traffic again confirmed my theory.

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

alfiedotwtf — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:25:43 +0000

The way to maximise traffic congestion would be to remove trucks off the road during peak times, banning trucks from the fast lane at all times, making it the social norm to toot someone in the fast lane so they move over.

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

alfiedotwtf — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:20:19 +0000

> like the more colds you have in life

Whoa wait what? This is the first time I’ve heard of this - is this actually common knowledge?

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

alfiedotwtf — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:40:21 +0000

Thank you. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and couldn’t express what I was thinking about… but when you linked information theory to thermodynamics, it clicked.

Given the quantum fields were collapsed in the early universe, I’m now wondering how information theory looked like during the different phases on the universe

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

alfiedotwtf — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:33:18 +0000

Using the superpowers skill will help fill in the gaps for what’s needed to one-shot (it’s more setup so you can one-shot).

And if it gets it wrong, at least you have 80% scaffolding that you can ask to iterate on.

Hoping you’ll get 100% you asked for is going to fail. Hell… you can even achieve this with humans!

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church"

alfiedotwtf — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:00:12 +0000

Did you just hand wave off the crusades?

And when you say “historically better at integrating local cultural practices”, India, China and Australia, would like a word with you. Holy shit you should just delete your account right now

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church"

alfiedotwtf — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:53:47 +0000

Fun fact - not every Christian sect believes in the trinity.

Another fun fact, the Jewish God and the Christian God are the same… it’s just that the Jewish God didn’t have a son who was also himself that killed himself only to resurrect himself negating the sacrifice

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs"

alfiedotwtf — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:06:35 +0000

I looked at gptel and eca about a year and a bit ago… how far have they come, at the time they were more geared toward code completion and essentially a buffer for communications - but all while not having some kind of Ralph Loop, Skills, and auto-compaction.

Is this all built in these days so that you can Superpowers a prompt to the point where it will automagically chug along for hours until it’s satisfied it’s completed the end goal?

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "GPT-5.6"

alfiedotwtf — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:45:39 +0000

It’s wild the people don’t want to see the thinking

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

alfiedotwtf — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:38:44 +0000

Not accepting a PR because it was purely written by AI is like saying PRs will only be accepted if the developer used a standing desk for more than 75% of the time during the code's creation. In the end, as long as the code is not shit, who cares how the sausage was made!

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "I think I have LLM burnout"

alfiedotwtf — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:41:35 +0000

> I've noticed LLMs feed my unhealthy "don't want to take a break and waste time being idle" mindset, and I need to correct it.

Embrace it if you’re like me and feel uncomfortable having an idle mind, embrace it! You’ll get more done and being 120% go go go is impossible over the long run so eventually your body will just say I need a break then once you recover full steam head again on the treadmill

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "The revenge of the philosophy majors"

alfiedotwtf — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:47:32 +0000

> a prominent philosopher of consciousness at N.Y.U., observes…

The irony

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

alfiedotwtf — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:23:16 +0000

> Is it more draining and lacking of focused work?

To be completely honest, I’m living life right now. I love programming with my bare hands, but man I’m living just building a gajillion things a mile a minute with LLMs. I then come home and spend hours building stuff for myself using local models. I’ve never been so excited about just building shit, that I sometimes want to pull all nighters because I’ve been in the zone (a for work and at home).

Draining? Sorry… inject that LLM serum right into my veins

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

alfiedotwtf — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:10:05 +0000

I can imagine boardrooms everywhere asking LLMs what’s the most successful way to make money, and overnight every company pivots to gambling, tobacco, and porn.

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

alfiedotwtf — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:07:37 +0000

I guess that all depends on how much your company revolves around Minecraft

New comment by alfiedotwtf in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

alfiedotwtf — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:03:57 +0000

You know… up until your comment I’ve never even considered there are companies right now outsourcing overseas to people who will just vibecode it for a quick buck, my those companies live in interesting times