Not a big problem to make snapshots with lvm or zfs and others. I use it automatically on every update
I'm not even sure if this is a sarcastic dropbox-style comment at this point.
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fouronnes3 commented on I program without syntax highlighting hakon.gylterud.net/opinio... · Posted by u/weeber
No compliler automatically supports all languages so I do all my programming with a magnetized needle and a steady hand.
I do all my programming by only making self sustaining full scale universe simulations that contain a copy of myself, so that by the strong anthropic principle the code has already been written.
fouronnes3 commented on I program without syntax highlighting hakon.gylterud.net/opinio... · Posted by u/weeber
I had not thought about this perspective (I wrote this essay many eons ago). But now I have a good colleague who is dyslexic, and he said the same thing. He says, for him, the colours carry more meaning than the characters often.
It is quite powerful that when you see a common keyword in the wrong color you can immediately deduce a syntax error.
fouronnes3 commented on Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU ss.ekzhang.com/p/jax-js-a... · Posted by u/ekzhang
Congrats on the launch! This is a very exciting project because the only decent autodiff implementation in typescript was tensorflowjs, which has been completely abandonned by Google. Everyone uses onnx runtime web for inference but actually computing gradients in typescript was surprisingly absent from the ecosystem since tfjs died.
I will be following this project closely! Best of luck Eric! Do you have plans to keep working on it for sometime? Is it a side project or will you abe ble to commit to jax-js longer term?
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A life hack I'm trying for 2026 is to stop setting an alarm clock in the morning, and set a bed time alarm instead. Yes, even when I have an important meeting in the morning. This does two things:
- provide a strong incentive to go to bed at the correct time for my body every day because that's the only way to not over sleep
- enjoy the joy of waking up without an alarm every day
- provide some of this clear thinking time. Either at night when I'm sitting in bed not quite super tired yet, or in the morning when I woke up a bit early before everyone else
fouronnes3 commented on Ask HN: By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? · Posted by u/nomilk
It’s immeasurable. I use AI for powering through personal projects, which would not have gotten done without AI because I also have a job and a life. It allows me to focus on the product and requirements rather than the code. It’s hard to measure because the projects would simply not have gotten done without it.
The most fascinating thing about AI is how in a thread like this one, answers range between 0% and infinity.
Phenomenal! This is a solid prototype, clean execution. I've had exactly this idea, too: I've already given the spreadsheet the relationships between these values, why can't it just work backwards when values change? That premise hides a ton of complexity, though, I'm sure. Lots of scary matrices.
Thanks! Yes I loved the ratio of apparent simplicity to underlying complexity of this project. I have filled around 120 pages of draft and notes just for the math of the solver :)
The interesting thing here isn’t “spreadsheet, but backwards” so much as “spreadsheet as a constraint system”. Classic spreadsheets are basically DAGs: data flows one way and a lot of UX assumptions (and people’s intuition) rely on that. As soon as you allow arbitrary cells to be solved for, you’re in “which variables are free?” land, and most of the confusion in this thread is really about degrees of freedom, not about the math.
One way to make this less surprising might be to flip the default: treat all cells as fixed unless explicitly marked as solver variables, and give a lightweight visualization of “these are the cells that will move if you edit this one.” That keeps the power of a general constraint solver while preserving the mental model spreadsheet users already have, and it opens the door to more serious use cases (financial models, physics, scheduling) without feeling like spooky action at a distance.
That's great feedback, thanks! I agree with you, but I don't want to flip the default because this is an experiment I made for fun, and the whole point is to lean in to the chaos a little bit. In a serious product the UX would definitely need a lot more work though.
It would make more sense to preserve the ratio if possible.
You can do this with bidicalc already! You just have to model the problem correctly. If you expect the ratio to remain constant, what you actually want is a problem with a single free variable: the scale.
A1 = 1.0 // the scale, your variable
A2 = 6 * A1 // intermediate values
A3 = 8 * A1
A4 = A2 + A3 // the sum
The way to deal with it is having some kind of handshake that indicates what protocol is being used.