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What designing cards taught me about B2B sales ...

tl;dr: author "discovers" hypertext

Yep, putting a DRM free version in escrow should be a legal requirement.

However in the EU end users have the right to resell that license.

Me neither on Chrome on Win10. "WEBGPU initialization failed".

It's easy to make a chessbot that only makes valid moves. Making a chessbot that plays optimally is hard.

But OP wasn't talking about solving optimalization problems, but understanding the rules of a business domain.

That wouldn't solve the core issue: if Claude makes a mistake during the MCP generaration, it would poison further agentic use.

It's adding another failure point to the process for no gain.

"Graeber wrote about this astutely in his original 2013 Bullshit Jobs essay"

I wouldn't take his word too seriously. According to him, corporate lawyers, administrative assistants and compliance officers shouldn't exist.

Helped or overworked?

Or they're a prolog programmer.

That's an American problem though. In most of Europe you need a masters degree to teach highschool and that involves at least an undergrad level of understanding the subjects you will teach.

E.g. in Hungary I had a university CS professor that originally wanted to be a highschool teacher and a highschool physics teacher that originally wanted to be researcher. Their choice of degree didn't determine which outcome they got. The researcher and teacher curriculum had an 80%+ overlap.

If you can come up with a way to do math without reasoning, that would be, in a sense, even more interesting than AI.

Logic is just syntactic manipulation of formulas. By the early 90s logical reasoning was pretty much solved with classical AI (the last building block being constraint logic programming).

Every public toilet eventually becomes and ad-hoc homeless shelter.

Covid boosted the sale of canned food, but people avoid the sugary syrup of canned fruits in non emergency situations.

Did they? How long have they been around?

Stockpiling uranium ore, or lowly enriched uranium is much simpler than stockpiling natural gas.

OG actionscript was very similar to Javascript. It only started to diverge when type hints were introduced.

Sounds like a less efficient version of the mixture of experts approach.

Why are you doing meaningless microbenchmarks?

Since OpenJDK was released there isn't much point maintaining GCJ.

American cities lack medium density mixed commercial-residential areas.

The problems you mentioned are policing and welfare problems, both things that America sucks at.

Reason Japanese carpenters do or did that is that sea air + high humidity would absolutely rot anything with nail and screw.

The other reason was that iron was very expensive in Japan as they had only low quality iron ore.

The most useful feature of LLMs is giving sources (with URL preferably). It can cut through a lot of SEO crap, and you still get to factcheck just like with a Google search.

Delphi has been dead for 10+ years. Nobody uses it except for a few legacy applications and licenses cost $1200+.

missing the real problem that your developers are probably using their home gaming PC for work because it's 10x faster than the garbage you gave them.

Yes, this happens. All the time. You just don't know because you made the perfect the enemy of the good.

That only happens in cowboy coding startups.

In places where security matters (e.g. fintech jobs), they just lock down your PC (no admin rights), encrypt the storage and part of your VPN credentials will be on a part of your storage that you can't access.

How can you do quality assurance on code no one can understand?

Didn't you still rely on the DOS HAL (by using system libraries)? The C IDEs came with a lot of graphics util libraries too (e.g. Turbo C).

Another thing to consider is availability: many companies don't even allow powershell for dev users.

IMHO Java's official documentation is quite decent as well.