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New comment by exac in "How real are real numbers? (2004)"

exac — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:36:14 +0000

> According to Pythagoras everything is number, and God is a mathemati- cian. This point of view has worked pretty well throughout the development of modern science. However now a neo-Pythagorian doctrine is emerging, according to which everything is 0/1 bits, and the world is built entirely out of digital information. In other words, now everything is software, God is a computer programmer, not a mathematician, and the world is a giant information-processing system, a giant computer [Fredkin, 2004, Wolfram, 2002, Chaitin, 2005]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For some reason I get the same vibe from this as people referring to LLM inference using gendered pronouns instead of "it".

New comment by exac in "Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5"

exac — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:42:08 +0000

Déjà vu.

New comment by exac in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

exac — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:00:30 +0000

Fraud aside, I think a more common thought among developers is

> Did my old job only exist because the Product Owners didn't realize we didn't have product-market fit?

New comment by exac in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

exac — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:33:24 +0000

I tried your website, but it just says "LOADING".

New comment by exac in "Angular v22"

exac — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:15:43 +0000

primitive

New comment by exac in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

exac — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:30:35 +0000

Based on the use of "≥" and em-dashes, I'd say this markdown file was written with or by an LLM.

New comment by exac in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

exac — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:11:13 +0000

Yes

New comment by exac in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

exac — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:07:11 +0000

It is more useful to read posts and threads like this exact thread IMO. We can't know everything, and the currently addressed market for Claude Code is far from people who would even think about caching to begin with.

New comment by exac in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

exac — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:28:14 +0000

At one startup I was in, Azure sales proactively reached out to the CEO on LinkedIn and then we were urged to swap off to it.

New comment by exac in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

exac — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:07:04 +0000

Could we not have used braille patterns? Start on a random one and you can just replace the character with the next one so it is possible for the user to see something was entered, but password length isn't given to someone looking over the user's shoulder?

⣾, ⣽, ⣻, ⢿, ⡿, ⣟, ⣯, ⣷

New comment by exac in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026"

exac — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:55:53 +0000

No they do not teach Scientific Realism in schools. We're taught the scientific method and then build upon that.

I can see how someone could misunderstand or forget what they're taught though.

New comment by exac in "Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate"

exac — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:35:46 +0000

Respectfully we have had Certbot for 11 years now.

New comment by exac in "Things Unix can do atomically (2010)"

exac — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:29:35 +0000

Sorry, there is zero chance I will ever deploy new code by changing a symlink to point to the new directory.

New comment by exac in "Show HN: Elo ranking for landing pages"

exac — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:30:46 +0000

How do you add a new page?

New comment by exac in "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)"

exac — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:13:46 +0000

This. It is resume-driven development. Especially at startups where the engineers aren't compensated well enough or don't believe the produce can succeed.

New comment by exac in "jQuery 4"

exac — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:11:41 +0000

As someone who doesn't use React, there is React Native (for iOS & Android), and React (and that can be server-rendered or client-rendered).

New comment by exac in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

exac — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 05:26:44 +0000

In my career I've seen startups "shut down" and lay off the NA team.

I've seen venture capital acquire startups for essentially nothing laying off the entire product team aside from one DevOps engineer to keep everything running. I've seen startups go public and have their shares plummet to zero before the rank-and-file employees could sell any shares (but of course the executives were able to cash out immediately). I've seen startups acquired for essentially nothing from the lead investor.

In none of these scenarios did any of the Engineers receive anything for their shares.

Yet every day people negotiate comp where shares are valued as anything more than funny money.

New comment by exac in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

exac — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:01:36 +0000

The only reason I paid my yearly JetBrains subscription this year was to keep my lower price locked-in. I've been using VS Code all year. I won't renew my JetBrains subscription that I've had since 2009. Sad.

New comment by exac in "Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop"

exac — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:51:54 +0000

I thought you would just use another computer in your house for the flows?

My development flow takes a lot of RAM (and yes I can run it minimally editing in the terminal with language servers turned off), so I wouldn't consider running the local LLM on the same computer.

New comment by exac in "Nine things I learned in ninety years"

exac — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:16:02 +0000

> Another old person thinking they figured out life

I didn't get this impression at all.