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New comment by alliao in "My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii"

alliao — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:20:51 +0000

rare as an unicorn though, especially the smaller version

New comment by alliao in "My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii"

alliao — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:18:16 +0000

not every console stays connected to my tv... and wii stayed. wii sports is still fun and get everyone moving during a rainy day which is quite an achievement all by itself

New comment by alliao in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

alliao — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:23:30 +0000

probably should look into what Japan is doing with their 8020 campaign.. idea is you get to keep 20 of your teeth by the time you're 80yrs old

New comment by alliao in "An airport cooled by natural ventilation"

alliao — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:04:41 +0000

I really hope AI can democratise custom designs and push it further... just improve a simple Bubble-pump Absorption to either cool directly or use it to make ice etc... so much opportunities

New comment by alliao in "We must pace the frontier"

alliao — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:09:15 +0000

they just said no ipo this year, most chinese models are distilled from claude anyway

New comment by alliao in "Things I want in a modern relational query language"

alliao — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:58:00 +0000

very interesting thanks for the insight, I feel like there are broadly two camps of developers, one like yourself probably wants to know every last detail, and the other that are somewhat prefer to stay naive and taking the "declarative" part very broadly...

there's a bit of cyclic relationship at play here, the data changes the query plan, and the query plan affects the performance, while the performance is being optimised by the engine. if the architecture is bad then sooner or later the engine runs out of tricks and performance suffers but then nobody never is quite sure whether the current architecture's good enough.

I totally get the whole nosql that was the rage for a while... quick to prototype but I do believe once it's somewhat settled, moving the consolidated parts back to SQL is much easier to manage and optimise

New comment by alliao in "Things I want in a modern relational query language"

alliao — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 03:40:59 +0000

did you use llm to create the llm-friendly schema.md? This sounds like a brilliant idea I might need to steal it... thanks!

New comment by alliao in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

alliao — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 02:24:19 +0000

the fingerprint exists to do dynamic/adaptive pricing... if you never return anything they assume you'll take any price as you enjoy their services more

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%