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New comment by alliao in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

alliao — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:21:08 +0000

if coding is free, the number 1 issue that need to be resolved is separating features so people can roll back any part they don't like and the magic would be resolving all the gory consequences of such action well enough

New comment by alliao in "Neocities: Create your own free website"

alliao — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:32:00 +0000

awww geocities how much have world changed since, it was an era of stranger danger don't get in strangers car world. It was about connection online however, no matter who they are, post your corner of the world online for all to see, hoping to strike up some connection. It was about tiny pictures, midi files because we have no bandwidth. We were optimistic, eager, and already had to filter out the paedophiles by pretending to be a 60/f/china. I miss the era for sure, the optimism especially, we truly believed internet would bring so much progress, world peace wasn't even that far away even.

To get a hint of the backdrop.. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/1993-rabin-and-ar...

New comment by alliao in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

alliao — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:14:55 +0000

usual shortsightedness from bean counters, while studio do lost revenue on second hand trades they gained another player! I can't believe they think that's not a worth while trade. Games are like books, the amount of time people spent on it far outweighs their opportunity cost in earnings, and you only have such a short window to capture that audience so do it however you can, allowing piracy is a legit business strategy, let alone trading second hand games!

New comment by alliao in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

alliao — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:58:37 +0000

same rule applied during housing boom in taiwan in the 1970s, my parents bought an apartment as the construction company had their headquarter in the very same building on the 2nd floor!

New comment by alliao in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

alliao — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:56:12 +0000

they can lean at all sort of weird angles too, experienced finish carpenter are worth their weight in gold

New comment by alliao in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

alliao — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:33:13 +0000

don't buy your drugs from shady operators children! always get it from the source

New comment by alliao in "Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins"

alliao — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:12:42 +0000

interesting, I remember reading population of Beijing seem to have lithium in their water or air so their new born and mothers carrying seem to have 20x of lithium concentration of what's considered normal...

New comment by alliao in "How to earn a billion dollars"

alliao — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:23:26 +0000

making customer happy is one thing, didn't huxley specifically wrote about how consumer hedonism is how tech bros gain control? lol honestly are we at the end stages that billionaires are trolling oxford union... so DIRE

New comment by alliao in "Why Your CPU Is Fast but Your Program Is Slow: Understanding the Memory Wall"

alliao — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:53:45 +0000

so glad performance is back on the agenda again... oh and removal of stuttering of any sort from modern computing experience will make me a very very happy individual...

New comment by alliao in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

alliao — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:34:42 +0000

if you click fast enough you summon additional axes from the ether

New comment by alliao in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

alliao — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:39:55 +0000

yeah and alignment is all about how to be less evil which is no easy job... I can just imagine Chinese LLM renders 1989 tianmen square as an incident orchestrated by CIA which CCP successfully thwarted etc etc

New comment by alliao in "I want to live like Costco people"

alliao — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:10:17 +0000

to me this erodes trust in the Costco brand, they should've put these back in the prices, as this suggests everyone else are paying extra 4%

New comment by alliao in "I want to live like Costco people"

alliao — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:45:13 +0000

unfortunately when there are so many choices the usual reason is because they are all bad...

New comment by alliao in "I want to live like Costco people"

alliao — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:42:48 +0000

shopping at Costco reminds me of reading news in a bad way, Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect way. And it's bit of a shame because there's this already implicit trust that have formed over the years, but it just seems really hard to keep enshittification at bay. For Costco to continue they really need to up their game and make consumer their absolute fan by first stop destroying their gut health. Junk food's fine, but chicken mince honestly don't need all that additives.

New comment by alliao in "I want to live like Costco people"

alliao — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:38:51 +0000

tariffs made Japanese rice farmers lazy.. just drop it and Japan will go back and eat rice

New comment by alliao in "I want to live like Costco people"

alliao — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:37:11 +0000

https://x.com/patrickheizer/status/2051972462414307659

New comment by alliao in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

alliao — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:25:16 +0000

all in storage stocks! imagine how much extra storage the world over is required...

New comment by alliao in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

alliao — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:23:41 +0000

i think if google can show that they know what it does and able to contain it then sure, it's a tool they have power over. if not then I don't see how it is being contained by the terms

New comment by alliao in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

alliao — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:53:54 +0000

they're all tilted so the new comer don't feel so awkward with that bump on it's head --source: me

*edit: I'd like to also comment on the crazy lighting going on.. if the photographer of this can see this comment, please take a pic of the setup..this look quite intense

New comment by alliao in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

alliao — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:10:04 +0000

what do governments get out of this? Like I get it from ad/commercial perspective, but I don't see how this is highly unpopular from governments and still being implemented