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New comment by Ardren in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

Ardren — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:00:35 +0000

> I always look it up in the original Hebrew if I really want to understand

Why do you assume a entire team of biblical scholars, working for years to translate the Old Testement for the NIV didn't know what they were doing?

But you do?

New comment by Ardren in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

Ardren — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:40:30 +0000

Have the comments been combined with another story? Because this isn't about a LLM reading and sending contents of the file to be processed, but the agent framework uploading every single file in /home/user to a random server.

New comment by Ardren in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"

Ardren — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:59:53 +0000

You know why :-)

New comment by Ardren in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

Ardren — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:35:36 +0000

> Isn't Wikipedia a compendium of facts? Odin's existence is one of those facts. /shrug

Nope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...

New comment by Ardren in "LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions"

Ardren — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:41:27 +0000

> For compatibility with other computer languages, the following classic Lua operators can be written in a more customary syntax:

Why though? What does changing `and` to `&&` actually achieve? Were people confused?

Changing the syntax seems very surface level. It's not actually fixing any problems, just making Lua no longer look like Lua. It's not going to help anyone write/learn Lua. It will make everything more complicated as there are now two ways to do everything.

This feels like adding braces to Python because you don't like indenting your code.

New comment by Ardren in "HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30"

Ardren — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:05:11 +0000

They?

I had no idea HN had so many cookers.

New comment by Ardren in "Your ePub Is fine"

Ardren — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:13:18 +0000

ePub3 is CSS2.1 (+ some extras) CSS21 standard says "Illegal values. User agents must ignore a declaration with an illegal value."

Ignore != Fatal error

New comment by Ardren in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

Ardren — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:09:33 +0000

What function signature isn't going to look messy with 36 keyword arguments.

https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/blob/0798e6cbe11b30...

New comment by Ardren in "How is Groq raising more money?"

Ardren — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:21:35 +0000

> Groq Launches European Data Center Footprint in Helsinki, Finland

https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-launches-european-data-center...

That sounds like they are renting racks in a Equinix data centre. Do Groq have 4 data centers worth billions?

New comment by Ardren in "LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear"

Ardren — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:30:37 +0000

Creationism does not want to say "magic" and admit that God is intentionally trying to deceive people. So that's why some of these responses seem silly. I mean they are, but only because the pro-creationism arguments are silly.

New comment by Ardren in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

Ardren — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:26:13 +0000

100k per seat? That's crazy. How do you even hire or train employees with software that expensive?

New comment by Ardren in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

Ardren — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:01:21 +0000

Wow, I bought a 128GB Strix Halo machine for $2000 USD in September. Same model is currently on special for $4,399. Insane.

New comment by Ardren in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

Ardren — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:12:37 +0000

It's actually is a literal transformation (and only a Catholic thing)

https://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/arch...

283

> Transubstantiation means the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of his Blood. This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit. However, the outward characteristics of bread and wine, that is the “eucharistic species”, remain unaltered.

New comment by Ardren in "Magnifica Humanitas"

Ardren — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:10:18 +0000

> who better to lead the cause of humanity than the Catholic Church?

Oh no, is my sarcasm meter broken?

New comment by Ardren in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

Ardren — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:08:43 +0000

> Do you disagree with the Pope?

Yes I do. I don't think you a prayer can literally transform wine into blood. How about you?

New comment by Ardren in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

Ardren — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:06:14 +0000

It's actually litterally true.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/arch...

283

Edit: It's a catholic thing, and it's very silly (other denominations say its symbolic)

New comment by Ardren in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

Ardren — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:00:11 +0000

> Presidents through out American history has believed various forms of genocide and slavery were applicable practices to modern problems; hell the current president thinks variously incredulous things.

And we shouldn't criticize them? Is that the point?

New comment by Ardren in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

Ardren — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:16:06 +0000

It seem confusing. My understanding is the AI assistant part (i.e. chat) is configurable. But Junie IDE is only via credits through Jetbrains.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/articles/SUPPORT-A-1833/What-...

(To make it more confusing, Junie CLI seems to say it will any provider)

New comment by Ardren in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

Ardren — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:55:27 +0000

"Ah, the classic Poe’s Law in action. Reality has officially outpaced parody"

Do you want these to be shorter for quick replies on X/Twitter, or longer for more detailed forum discussions?

New comment by Ardren in "Will you heed my warnings now?"

Ardren — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:38:51 +0000

Is there a better benchmark to use?

Honest question.

How can a lay person track the real word progress of quantum computers?