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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 understan…

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…

"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 …

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 w…

> 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 ear…

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 …

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+.