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I'm not a sysadmin but I often hear about server failures due to hardware just wearing out. Is there an expected shelf life of the hardware? I would expect for sure on the storage devices. So if that were the case then why isn't there some sore of daemon or system software service that tracks the expected life of the hardware? I would expect that the software would start showing warnings of imminent useful life of devices to expire.

Shareholder primacy is a drain on so many levels. Think of all the R&D that could have been spent instead of buying back shares.

Your son should blog the experience. That could be an interesting read.

Financial risk management is a great industry for data science. I've been doing it for 15+ years. It is amazing the data rich environment which includes credit bureaus, customer transaction history, call center dynamics, and of course finances. It is a gold mine of opportunity to find new and fresh ways to observe the organization. This is also what makes risk management difficult as well. There is so much to know. LLMs are going to change risk management as it is changing every other industry. It will be interesting to see where it is headed.

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.

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

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

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

Should change the name to Matrix Processing Units

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

"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.

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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

I don't see why not. Mixed Integer usually involves ways of setting up the variables for optimization. PDLP appears to use a lot of presovling which I'm sure helps to establish those bounds whether continuous or integer variables.

A lot of competition for tacos in Texas. I can vouch for it.

According to the premise of the article then go-carts, ATVs, jet skis, or any other machine for recreational activity is also useless. I agree that the useless premise is wrong.

My opinion that is biggest fete of engineering in the last decade. Amazing

For comparison the Statue of Liberty is 93m. Big Ben is 96m.

Absolutely. Fortran about 500 lines of code vs <20 lines for Python. The ease of use and flexibility of Python across so many application types makes for a good reason for its popularity. The rise of hardware computing performance makes speed tradeoff trivial.

In the finance and banking world a lot of the larger decisions are done in committees. These committees usually require a majority vote to get things approved. Most of the voting members of the committees are the Execs. You can imagine the political and bureaucratic intertwining of getting things done in these organizations with those types of personalities.