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New comment by acron0 in "Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies [video]"

acron0 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:31:16 +0000

I'd say that 99% of the problems that 99% of us are solving are not novel, new domains and someone out there has already thought up an ontology for it. He speaker lists some in the talk e.g. FIBO. These are always malleable to whatever use case you need. The win here is being able to enforce adherence to a set of rules that exist at the business level, not the code level. Of course, if your ontology is "wrong" it won't be as effective, but increasingly, those of us who are more like "LLM Product Pilots" than software developers are spending more time having conversations at the ontological level, than the code level.

New comment by acron0 in "Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies [video]"

acron0 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:26:47 +0000

As expressed in the article, can't we get some way towards, perhaps not "integrated" ontologies, but ontologies being enforced at the edge through tools? Inefficient as it may be for now, it still should have the same outcome?

New comment by acron0 in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

acron0 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:47:43 +0000

My follow-up: I'm grateful for the advice from commenters. I perhaps should have specified that my issue isn't insomnia, it's sleep procrastination, which gets a lot less sympathy.

New comment by acron0 in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

acron0 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:43:21 +0000

I think the question is fair. I don't tend to drink caffeine after about 5pm so had kinda written this off as a potential.

New comment by acron0 in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

acron0 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:18:18 +0000

My thought exactly. For people who struggle with this, and conventional wisdom doesn't seem to stick, what are we supposed to do?

New comment by acron0 in "Punk, or why I don't stream anymore"

acron0 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:13:14 +0000

I think 99% of the commenters in this thread seem totally tone deaf to the article and the phenomenon being attacked by geohot. Granted, he doesn't articulate it well, but as you say, these aren't new concepts and much better introduced by Nick Land, Mark Fisher, Byung-chul Han etc.

New comment by acron0 in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

acron0 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:20:49 +0000

Maybe don't fill your games with ads and release them on restrictive, exploitative platforms?

New comment by acron0 in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

acron0 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:52:04 +0000

I don't really buy this. From my personal experience, indie devs are more likely to use methods which make their server tech distributable (e.g. Minecraft). Large game publishers appear to go in the opposite direction for control and lineage reasons: "Crew 1 is dead so you need to buy Crew 2 now".

Anyone who gamed before 2005 knows that games do not require magic, expensive, managed remote services. We all used to run our own servers! The GameSpy era!

New comment by acron0 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

acron0 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:47:48 +0000

I couldn't agree more. Socratic methodologu, domain modelling, systems thinking, pipes-and-arrows problem solving etc. These are the skills that get real work done in coding agents these days.

New comment by acron0 in "Google changes its search box"

acron0 — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:08:24 +0000

My partner recently bought a receipe book that was probably 100% slop, from the recipes themselvea to the images for each dish.

New comment by acron0 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

acron0 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:34:26 +0000

Ok, but that doesn't really address "pernicious". I understand pursuits of philosophy are inherently concerned with truth, but does not truth mean pernicious? My experience of reading philosophers is limited; is Rovelli just a materialist and that's that? Is this positivism?

New comment by acron0 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

acron0 — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:59:44 +0000

> It is time to give up the pernicious dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness and embrace the reality that our soul, or our spiritual life, is consistent with our fundamental physics.

Why is it pernicious?

New comment by acron0 in "Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company"

acron0 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:40:50 +0000

I think the judgement angle is the only interesting part of this article, and the piece worth pursuing is automating the judgement where possible.

New comment by acron0 in "Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them"

acron0 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:51:19 +0000

> Callable skills can’t activate on a schedule or listen for events

I feel like they can. cron and git hooks have existed for a long time.

New comment by acron0 in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

acron0 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:28:50 +0000

There is something uncanny about the way you've phrased your comment, as if to suggest nothing about what Tesla did was wrong.

New comment by acron0 in "Cursor 3"

acron0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:04:39 +0000

I've heard rhetoric like "we have to use LLMs to stay competitive now" which attempts to justify the cost

New comment by acron0 in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

acron0 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:19:08 +0000

Could be wrong but I guess it more likely communicates with the charger. The car will always try to draw if it's plugged in, but most chargers can be switched on ("charge") and off ("don't charge") remotely. It's probably quite trivial to have something watch the price of power and on/off as appropriate

New comment by acron0 in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

acron0 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:28:35 +0000

Is global economic collapse not an eschatological scenario?

When you say "everything is still getting better", what do you mean? Because the price of fuel and food, isn't getting better. It seems to be getting worse. Your version of "reality" doesn't seem to reflect the experience of a lot of people.

> people will buckle down and sort it. It's an interesting series of words that don't say a lot. There is much to wonder about.

New comment by acron0 in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

acron0 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:43:24 +0000

Bozhidar always writes like this. I can see why you would think it's AI style but I would vote that it isn't. Look at some of his pre-AI blogs, if you care to.

New comment by acron0 in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

acron0 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:10:37 +0000

How can you combat one unprovable framing by insisting on another unprovable framing?