Hacker News: zchrykng

New comment by zchrykng in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

zchrykng — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:41:33 +0000

I like mise a lot, but only use it for project specific tool management, JDK versions, etc.

I tried to use it for system wide things, but found it didn't work as well for me with things that I wanted to just be tools where I didn't care what specific version it was as long as it was more or less current, Helix, NeoVim, RipGrep, etc.

New comment by zchrykng in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

zchrykng — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:29:04 +0000

Not American as much as it is "corporatese".

New comment by zchrykng in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

zchrykng — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:45:47 +0000

... I'm not sure what part of "If you extend that logic to the world" you didn't understand.

New comment by zchrykng in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

zchrykng — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:29:12 +0000

If you extend that logic to the world, is it malpractice to teach anything before Mandarin or Hindi?

New comment by zchrykng in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

zchrykng — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:24:56 +0000

Not actually science until you can test it.

New comment by zchrykng in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

zchrykng — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:21:24 +0000

I mean, I don't think we are living in a simulation, but even if we were, there is no reason to believe that simulating something inside of a simulation is going to prove anything about the outer simulation.

New comment by zchrykng in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

zchrykng — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:20:02 +0000

I think we have different definitions of "emergency" if a text message that they may or may not see any time soon is an acceptable solution.

If it is an actual emergency, I need to know that they have received the communication in real time. I'm never leaving someone a voicemail in an emergency situation.

New comment by zchrykng in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

zchrykng — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:17:15 +0000

Sure, let me know when any of these imaginary physics is useful for predicting anything that can be observed.

New comment by zchrykng in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

zchrykng — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:21:33 +0000

Simulating it on a computer, even a "quantum computer", is not the same as testing it against actual reality.

New comment by zchrykng in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

zchrykng — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:19:46 +0000

Please enlighten us how purely theoretical mathematical constructs, that are impossible to test, help us understand anything about our universe.

New comment by zchrykng in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

zchrykng — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:25:55 +0000

Why are we talking about voicemails in the context of emergencies? If it was an emergency, I'm calling every number I have for someone until they pickup or enough time has passed that I write them off as a flake and find the next person on the list who might be able to help with whatever it is.

New comment by zchrykng in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

zchrykng — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:18:01 +0000

I will make use of Apple's AI writing tools to check my grammer and spelling before hitting send on more important messages, but that is about all the "polishing" I let it do. It always wants to change how I write, which isn't that helpful.

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

zchrykng — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:44:42 +0000

Part of the argument is that you can only know what you experience. But, if this is a simulation, "you" could be a program running on a computer and your every experience is just piped directly into your consciousness without any underlying physical reality. You might even not be interacting with other people in the simulation, it could be just you and everything else is simulated without being similar to whatever existence you have.

I don't agree with this argument, but it circulates occasionally.

New comment by zchrykng in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

zchrykng — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:15:50 +0000

Never said they couldn't withdrawal their support?

New comment by zchrykng in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

zchrykng — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:09:37 +0000

If you actually look at the data, that "study" assigned a lot of really unclear or marginal cases to "right wing". They also didn't count a lot of obvious left wing political violence as "left wing".

New comment by zchrykng in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

zchrykng — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:59:08 +0000

Is it okay to smear pretty normal people as Nazis for no good reason?

New comment by zchrykng in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

zchrykng — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:41:51 +0000

Benefit of being one of the owners/cofounders. If you don’t like your bosses’s opinions, you are free to work somewhere else.

New comment by zchrykng in "Blurry rendering of games on Mac"

zchrykng — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:34:02 +0000

See Lenovo's design here https://p4-ofp.static.pub/ShareResource/na/products/thinkpad...

New comment by zchrykng in "The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return"

zchrykng — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:49:00 +0000

Unless God actually exists and revealed himself to them. Obviously, you are free to not believe that, but believing that goes along with believing what you are dismissing.

New comment by zchrykng in "Claude 4"

zchrykng — Thu, 29 May 2025 13:57:24 +0000

The better solution would be the JavaScript people stop reinventing the world every few months.