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New comment by vereis in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

vereis — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:01:10 +0000

the problem with this is I'd strongly argue that you could do this pen and paper process with the human brain and our consciousness too; we just lack enough understanding to put pen to paper in that case

the notion of consciousness being something an experience that other animals/humans share is entirely faith based.

the only person with evidence of ones consciousness is the person claiming they're conscious.

New comment by vereis in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

vereis — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:24:51 +0000

https://vereis.com

New comment by vereis in "Super Mario 64 for the PS1"

vereis — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:35:28 +0000

yeah this is the distinctive ps1 look I think all games look like this, at least polygonal games

New comment by vereis in "Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers"

vereis — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:26:24 +0000

i think the original quote is "Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang" :-) but your point still stands

New comment by vereis in "Show HN: Agents.erl (AI Agents in Erlang)"

vereis — Mon, 12 May 2025 11:02:42 +0000

elixir is only better imo because of better tooling, more libraries/bigger ecosystem, and macros

give me macros and I'd be happy (not preprocessor stuff, not parse transforms)

New comment by vereis in "Distributed Erlang"

vereis — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:19:58 +0000

honest q: how do you distinguish between single node erlang applications vs clustered erlang applications?

New comment by vereis in "Distributed Erlang"

vereis — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:18:52 +0000

my personal reality is that the majority of projects I've consulted on have seldom actually leveraged distributed erlang for anything. the concurrency part yes, clustering for the sake of availability or spreading load yes, but actually doing anything more complex than that has been the exception! ymmv tho!

New comment by vereis in "Distributed Erlang"

vereis — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:38:34 +0000

I recommend taking a look at the various open source Riak applications too! Might not be updated to any sort of recent versions of erlang but was a great resource to me early on.

New comment by vereis in "Distributed Erlang"

vereis — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:36:44 +0000

ahoy!! thanks for spotting the issue I wrote the post in a stream of consciousness after a long day! I'll make that edit and call it out!

the statement about what historically constitutes a large erlang cluster was an anecdote told to by Francesco Cesarini during lunch a few years ago — I'm not actually sure of the time frame (or my memory!)

likewise I'll update the post to reflect that! thanks ( ◜ ‿ ◝ ) ♡

New comment by vereis in "You Have Built an Erlang"

vereis — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:03:45 +0000

ahoy!!! never expected to see any of my posts on hn D:

for the first point it was purposely not written on the beam as otherwise there would be no post!

an original draft of did talk more in depth about replies but it just got convoluted and too long!! maybe I'll try to restore something to this end

granted on the runtime and genserver point (though technically it's just a process that receives messages, nothing so formal as a genserver itself)

New comment by vereis in "Gleam Is Pragmatic"

vereis — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 18:45:09 +0000

Gleam runs on the BEAM

New comment by vereis in "Better Dotfiles"

vereis — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:49:24 +0000

or use home-manager via nix!

New comment by vereis in "Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain"

vereis — Sun, 19 May 2024 21:08:31 +0000

well doesn't the argument suggest the only thing you can be certain of is I, or at least some 'experiencing agent' exist, otherwise there would be no subject to do the experiencing

New comment by vereis in "How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries"

vereis — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:51:42 +0000

I've not tried this for any adobe products, but you could try running them in a locked down environment (container, vm, whatever) and don't allow network access.

New comment by vereis in "What did Unix fans learn from the end of Unix workstations?"

vereis — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:42:14 +0000

Depending on the model I'd take one!

New comment by vereis in "After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel"

vereis — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:07:32 +0000

You can always use a different email address to manage the domain if that's the issue?

New comment by vereis in "MVC frameworks aren't dinosaurs but sharks"

vereis — Mon, 09 May 2022 19:27:21 +0000

Guaranteeing a singleton process is a very difficult problem which horde definitely does not solve perfectly mind you.

All is well and good until it isn't. We opted for leveraging different mix release permutations deployed on k8s as needed instead.

Definitely takes more effort than what you describe, and has its own issues... But imo definitely better understood than fighting weird state with horde

New comment by vereis in "An Introduction to Generics"

vereis — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:38:41 +0000

TypeScript bringing a half decent type system to JavaScript is orthogonal to OOP

JavaScript is OOP already. TypeScript just provides better typing like what you would find in Haskell, Ocaml or other functional languages

New comment by vereis in "From macOS to Arch Linux"

vereis — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 19:08:50 +0000

I just forego docker desktop and run docker on the command line in wsl2 instead.

Have you considered trying that?

New comment by vereis in "React Aria: A headless UI component library"

vereis — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:22:25 +0000

It doesn't come with any styling OOTB. The idea is that you're just building a frontend (all the markup, styling etc) around some provided state management