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New comment by gargalatas in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

gargalatas — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:12:55 +0000

that's different.

New comment by gargalatas in "Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?"

gargalatas — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:13:17 +0000

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

New comment by gargalatas in "A Chess Playing Machine – Shannon (1950) [pdf]"

gargalatas — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:53:46 +0000

This guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a...

New comment by gargalatas in "A Chess Playing Machine – Shannon (1950) [pdf]"

gargalatas — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:12:27 +0000

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!

New comment by gargalatas in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"

gargalatas — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:18:58 +0000

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.

New comment by gargalatas in "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble"

gargalatas — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:34:06 +0000

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.

New comment by gargalatas in "The future of solar doesn't track the sun"

gargalatas — Sun, 04 May 2025 21:33:07 +0000

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.

New comment by gargalatas in "Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'"

gargalatas — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:48:25 +0000

obviously he was.. taking a nap.

New comment by gargalatas in "Alexander the Great's tunic identified in royal tomb at Vergina?"

gargalatas — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 15:42:49 +0000

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.

New comment by gargalatas in "Research in psychology: are we learning anything?"

gargalatas — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:48:53 +0000

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?

New comment by gargalatas in "Daemonization in Unix programs is probably about restarting programs"

gargalatas — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:38:40 +0000

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.

New comment by gargalatas in "Ask HN: I don't want to be a Software Engineer any more. What else could I do?"

gargalatas — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:05:02 +0000

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?

New comment by gargalatas in "Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? (2022)"

gargalatas — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:09:56 +0000

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.

Future of CrowdStrike

gargalatas — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 07:21:42 +0000

Do you think CrowdStrike is going bunkrupt now? Is it going to get some myriads of lawsuits?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41014747

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New comment by gargalatas in "AI products like ChatGPT much hyped but not much used, study says"

gargalatas — Thu, 30 May 2024 09:05:27 +0000

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.

New comment by gargalatas in "Ask HN: My Cofounder was diagnosed with cancer, what should I do?"

gargalatas — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:58:13 +0000

Work harder to cover his absence. As simple as that.

New comment by gargalatas in "Are we past peak IPv4?"

gargalatas — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:30:47 +0000

CGNAT is also a thing lately..

New comment by gargalatas in "Ask HN: Why is HN not reachable through IPv6?"

gargalatas — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:18:01 +0000

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.

New comment by gargalatas in "What Alan Turing means to us"

gargalatas — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 21:26:31 +0000

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...

New comment by gargalatas in "What Alan Turing means to us"

gargalatas — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 21:05:52 +0000

"While there is no generally agreed-upon definition of personality"

Are you sure?