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New comment by larrydag in "The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar"

larrydag — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:12:19 +0000

It works for me. Cathedral is analogous to free software being a religion. It is a theocratic worldview that has a zealous following that must apply the rituals of old. Bazaar is the marketplace. It is supposed to be a efficient market metaphor for software being transactional and not relational.

Is this a perfect metaphor? I think its a rigid way of looking at software on either side. I think it is more grey. I like the merits of both sides.

New comment by larrydag in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

larrydag — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:30:44 +0000

Adding the letter archive into a LLM prompt is a good read. you can use this as a source https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html

New comment by larrydag in "Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris"

larrydag — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:02:42 +0000

perhaps I'm missing something. Why not start the learning at a later state?

New comment by larrydag in "Amatuer codebreaker may have solved Zodiac killer identity"

larrydag — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:06:17 +0000

behind paywall. Amateur sleuth from West Virginia may have decoded the Z13 cipher and solved the mystery of the Zodiac killings identity.

Amatuer codebreaker may have solved Zodiac killer identity

larrydag — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:06:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/black-dahlia-zodiac-killings-new-theory-21259726.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379211

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by larrydag in "The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit"

larrydag — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:22:08 +0000

Should change the name to Matrix Processing Units

New comment by larrydag in "They Thought They Were Free (1955)"

larrydag — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:33:16 +0000

The US Constitutional government is meant to be slow, methodical and gridlocked. It is supposed to take enormous compromise to get any decision created into law.

New comment by larrydag in "They Thought They Were Free (1955)"

larrydag — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:16:42 +0000

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy" -James Madison

New comment by larrydag in "Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo"

larrydag — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:32:53 +0000

Very close. In fact you could still say that it still is competing with Python for users. There is still an active community of developers.

New comment by larrydag in "Spending too much time at airports"

larrydag — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:56:29 +0000

While the 1 hour rule is mostly true be careful with discount airlines. Frontier Airlines does do a 1 hour boarding. I've heard of cases that if you are late to boarding, even if half hour ahead of departure, they will not let you board the plane. I'm sure it depends on specific airport agents protocols. My point is I'm not sure you can always use the 1 hour buffer.

New comment by larrydag in "The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States"

larrydag — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:16:45 +0000

That management philosophy is one of the reasons that the US lost its dominance in auto manufacturing and market share, in my opinion.

New comment by larrydag in "If you're remote, ramble"

larrydag — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 12:52:37 +0000

I agree. Group channels on relevant topics is very helpful. Especially on technical details relevant to getting work done.

Yet here goes my rant. Nothing can replace a good in-person interaction. Perhaps I'm the old guy in the room. When teams are trying to build something there is nothing like water-cooler talk and banter about the work that helps relate shared challenges. Granted this is going to very specific to organizational needs.

I don't work in software development so perhaps my needs are different than most on Hackernews. I've managed teams in person and remotely. I've found that managing in person is a much more productive way to work.

New comment by larrydag in "NASA Is Worth Saving"

larrydag — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:31:20 +0000

"If SpaceX can do it, NASA can do it."

Space Shuttle never achieved is core objective and project shelved. Space Launch System is way past deadlines and cost. As far as launching systems NASA has not kept up since Apollo.

I would argue NASA has achieved great progress in Space research. Hubble, Voyager, Mars rovers, Webb telescope have made great advances in discovery. I would have NASA change its core objectives to new research activities.

New comment by larrydag in "The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code"

larrydag — Sat, 31 May 2025 12:47:42 +0000

That would be something. When a AI/LLM can create new axioms or laws that have not discovered by humanity.

New comment by larrydag in "No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones"

larrydag — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:46:26 +0000

I believe disruption can come in the form of underwriting and servicing loans. The old model of large call centers that do buying and servicing loans has been around forever. It scales fairly well but it is costly and very inefficient. If those processes are lean then savings could be passed to pricing. Basically creating a credit union model to a national scale.

New comment by larrydag in "The engineering behind the San Antonio River Walk"

larrydag — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:11:33 +0000

Also it should be equated to a wilderness fort. A fortress it was not.

New comment by larrydag in "Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition"

larrydag — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:10:30 +0000

I've been using Linux for 15+ years. Here are my counterpoints.

1. Linux is a software ecosystem. Varying flavors and options to fill almost any need of computing solution.

2. Bugs and Regressions are crowd-source community solved. Bugs don't last long if it's keeping something from working.

3. There are so many open-source games native to Linux/Windows/Mac that don't get enough attention. Most of them are free too.

4. Filesharing on linux is as simple as a command line operation. See rsync. Also there are countless GUI apps that use rsync.

5. Funding is everywhere in Linux and open source software. See IBM, RedHat, Google, Microsoft, Amazon among a few.

6. Hardware drivers are plentiful for Linux. Hardly have any issues.

7. The community will help you. They've helped me for years.

New comment by larrydag in "US credit card defaults jump to highest level since 2010"

larrydag — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:05:08 +0000

Here is the NY Fed household data statistics on the subject. The NY Fed reports quarterly on US credit and debt. Aggregate delinquency rates going up.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc/background.ht...

New comment by larrydag in "The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)"

larrydag — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 02:28:45 +0000

This is really interesting. It's not unlike building a credit bureau model like a FICO score. Just trying to find a probability of likelihood outcome.

New comment by larrydag in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"

larrydag — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:18:00 +0000

I place the lottery in the same category. Punitive on those who least likely can afford it.