Yes people, including those on HN, use the word infinite to mean very very large as opposed to the mathematical definition of infinite as a set that contains a

Yes people, including those on HN, use the word infinite to mean very very large as opposed to the mathematical definition of infinite as a set that contains a proper subset with equal cardinality. Doing a Google search for uses of infinite on HN will reveal just as much, for example people complaining about websites with "infinite scrolling", or that the Fed has printed an infinite amount of money recently, or that software can be copied infinitely many times, or someone claiming that their friend has an infinite amount of memory. In all these cases, they are using the word infinite to simply mean very very large.