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gargalatas··on How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC?
the word "over" makes the difference I guess.
gargalatas··on How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC?
suposedly the sepc for ATX was mentioing 4 seconds. But today's laptops take way longer.
gargalatas··on Tesla Roadster
It's just a supercar. Supercars are allowed to be pointless.
gargalatas··on Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
that's different.
gargalatas··on Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?
Idk where you are coming from but I am Greek and compared to Greece there is ZERO bureaucracy. You send your documents pretty much whenever you like, you don't get fined for stupid things and you just need to prepare the financial report once per year. We are talking about a very clear and flat system. 20% tax on dividend and for good tax payers it can go as low as 14% as far as I remember. The only "bureaucracy" things is that you have to travel all the way to your country's Estonian embassy to get your e-residency card. Last but not least, don't count on Estonian banks. They don't like e-residents and even if they like them today, don't trust them. reply
gargalatas··on A Chess Playing Machine – Shannon (1950) [pdf]
This guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a...
gargalatas··on A Chess Playing Machine – Shannon (1950) [pdf]
Claude Shannon was the father of computer science (information theory) and modern telecomunications (maximum theoretical data rate) also. Unfortuantely he is not praised as much maybe because his life was kinda.. boring compared to other scientists on the fields so there is no much to present in a movie for example. Novertheless it's always good when some nerds remember him and his work lives on!
gargalatas··on The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon
Yeah but imagine that if it was writte in anything else it would never had made it to the shelves with the processor power back then.
gargalatas··on A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble
I totaly agree with the author. Not even the smartphone or the iphone brought such a sudden change to so many people and in many cases, for free. I know we want to oppose this huge thing just because it doesn't make sense moraly but when you learn using this tool there is no way back. Just imagine what is coming in the next 5-10 years. Even if the tools remain at the same level as today, people have learned to use it so well that ever sector every industry will speed up tremendously. We will see great new products and ideas emerging. Just can't wait for the revolution.
gargalatas··on The future of solar doesn't track the sun
Trackers tend to suffer from mechanical failures. Even 15 years ago, there was only one way to make money out of solar panels: Install them and forget them. If you need to waste time and money on the installation then the small profit vanishes really quickly. I really don't know how those companies convienced the investors for trackers.
gargalatas··on Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'
obviously he was.. taking a nap.
gargalatas··on Alexander the Great's tunic identified in royal tomb at Vergina?
I would never expect such a Greek matter would become headline in here. Turns out that Alexander the Great was globally accepted.

But let me clarify from what I have read that it's just a conjecture and not a very strong one.

gargalatas··on Research in psychology: are we learning anything?
I have a solid example here that bogles my mind every now and them watching people killing other people especially in the US: I would expect after all those years mental health to be accounted in a serious criminal case like killing somebody. Meaning that a person who kills somebody else definitely has mental issues that come from their childhood. So what about parents in those cases, aren't they having their part on the sick mentality of their child? Why not pressing charges to them?
gargalatas··on Daemonization in Unix programs is probably about restarting programs
daemonization is the process of running a process in the background and without being attached to a terminal. Many applications exit when they are detached from the terminal they starter even when they yield no output. Maybe that is why it's still there. Of course back in the day fork() was all about creating background processes that were running quietly in the background were screen didn't exist yet and terminals were actual machines, not just one more window. Today System D doesn't like daemonization. IT prefers a process that can be attached somewhere.
gargalatas··on Ask HN: I don't want to be a Software Engineer any more. What else could I do?
For me AI helped me to implement all those things I was lazy to do all those years. Feel proud now! In the actual code writing it helped me a lot on writing boring unit tests. Sometimes it's just a hit of enter key to write the whole test with GH pilot.

Just telling you all those things to maybe help you see AI differently and more friendly. Writing code and trying to follow all those new technologies is a very mind intense and stressful activity. Maybe it's just this. Changing career was never bad for anybody. You can always make a comeback if you change your mind.

Maybe you try to become a product owner or something?

gargalatas··on Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? (2022)
Well how deep a nuclear assault can reach? In Greece there are some witnesses saying that the major internet provider backbone fiber was found buried 10cm below the road. Just after the asphalt inside the pebble.
gargalatas··on AI products like ChatGPT much hyped but not much used, study says
I am using ChatGPT every day. It helps me on my engineering tasks since it has a lot of knowledge. It also helps me on coding a lot but there I am using Github's Copilot. Certainly LLMs made my life way easier and they simplified many tasks that I was procrastinating and considering them huge hurdles on my everyday work and hobbies as well. This greatly improved my productivity and creativity! Trying to solve an engineering problem sometimes mind stucks in stupid ways to implement them. LLMs helped me to see another way of doing thigs greatly improving my efficiency!

So we have improvement on creativity, productivity and efficiency. What else do we need from LLMs really? I don't understand why people are not using it.

gargalatas··on Ask HN: My Cofounder was diagnosed with cancer, what should I do?
Work harder to cover his absence. As simple as that.
gargalatas··on Are we past peak IPv4?
CGNAT is also a thing lately..
gargalatas··on Ask HN: Why is HN not reachable through IPv6?
But unfortunately nodays with the prices of IPv4s it's like it's broken. The best price you can lease is probably in the ballpark of around 0.5 USD / IP.
gargalatas··on What Alan Turing means to us
Well I am not, but I believe it can shape some aspects of it. But since I find you so dogmatic about it how about reading some papers which I really found very easily on google: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/finding-new-home/2...
gargalatas··on What Alan Turing means to us
"While there is no generally agreed-upon definition of personality"

Are you sure?

gargalatas··on What Alan Turing means to us
Because Shannon's name has to be heard as well just for some people who admire Steve Jobs as the biggest IT Idol in the universe and have no idea who the hell is Dennis Ritchie. Just saying..
gargalatas··on What Alan Turing means to us
Although I believe that Claude Shannon [1] was the father of computers and a much more important person than Alan Turing who probably had a more "controversial" personality and thus he became a "cinematic" figure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

gargalatas··on The dictatorship in Turkey is falling tomorrow
Erdogan was a good leader as long as he was applying his beliefs. Once he decided to listen to the most uneducated part of turkey he became a dictator. More than 40% of the people still like him. If it wasn't the earthquake we would still be first!

On the other side, Kilicdaroglu is a worst nationalist than Erdogan. Most probably for me, he will try to exploit the situation and become the new king. I hope the other members will hold him.

gargalatas··on Zuckerberg gave up on running: 'the problem is, you can think a lot'
if you can think a lot then you are running slowly my friend Zucky.
gargalatas··on Six Ground-Breaking New Linux Laptops Released in the Last Two Weeks
To add to your saying: Probably this is the Linux year we anticipated for so long. Maybe it's here!
gargalatas··on The age of Scrum is over
Scrum is dead. Long line kanban!
gargalatas··on From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button
20 watthours per liter of drinking water is not bad and it's way more efficient than the dehumidifiers. Looks like a great solution even at that slow production rate.
gargalatas··on Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”
This is how Sergey Brin and Larry Page have raised 30% their fortune the last years. They already did enough to their workers but even more and worse tactics I am expecting to see from them the next years.
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