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Of course (let me go distopic) we could end up with a dozen of one man companies powered by AIs and robots selling or bartering products and services to each other, what's enough to have food, a house with a pool, a doctor and everybody else has died long before.
It's in the nature of being humans. Or God created the universe and one is God and knows exactly how everything works. No wrong beliefs but please teach us.
> Mary is 24 years old. She is twice as old as Ann was
So Ann was 12
> when Mary was as old as Ann is now
So Mary is older than Ann.
The age of Ann is somewhere between 12 and 24. Without much thinking I'd say that probably 12 and 24 are not included and probably it is an even number.
We can test each of them.
If Ann is 14 now, when Mary was 14 (10 years ago) Ann was 4 year old and Mary would be 8 now, this is not the solution.
If Ann is 16 now, when Mary was 16 (8 years ago) Ann was 8, Mary would be 16 now, nope.
If Ann is 18 now, when Mary was 18 (6 years ago) Ann was 12, Mary would be 24 now and she is. This is the solution.
Ann is 18.
> how many variables can you really remember at once?
and our brain being a bad runtime for programming:
I started programming on a Sinclair ZX81 with 1 kB of RAM. I wrote my program on paper, reasoned about it by tracing variables on paper and eventually I typed in the program on the keyboard and run it. That was much better than typing line numbers and BASIC commands directly into the REPL.
Of course I had bugs and the actual values of those variables surprised me. They still do but I have a much wider view on the software now, usually a couple of 100x50 columns of code side by side. The ability to follow the values is not much better, but values are seldom the important matter, at least in web development, backend and frontend. It's more about the control flow and the data structure. That's more similar to the organizational issues of many other human activities. This goes there, that goes into that other place. My old 1 kB computer programs had little space for organization.
I guess a keyboard auto corrected i into I.
I got a Sony Xperia Compact from maybe 2016. I use it as a bicycle navigator / recorder. Recently it stopped reading SIMs, probably rusty contacts, but all I need is wifi to update OSMAnd and send me the tracks I recorded.
I also have a very old tablet, maybe 2014. My SO uses it to view movies with VLC and TV via TVHeadend.
Somebody suggested in other comments that the data could be from OpenStreetMap. Or let people add their own castles, but then you have all the sort of problems of content moderation.
> plan deeply, then capture the plan as a todo list, then start.
I do the plan deeply phase by writing a 50 line specification myself and then asking Claude to evaluate it, find what I missed, ask questions. I answer the question and we iterate until I know that we have what I had in mind to do.
Then I ask it to write the implementation plan, that I might end up reviewing because it always asks some more question. Finally it implements the steps.
If the planning was good the implementation is fast.
Basically in every country of the world you can travel one hour from big cities and get in a place deep in the fields or the woods with very different needs and dynamics from the city. They could be different countries and maybe both cities and countryside will be better off if we could have fractally composed states with different laws and regulations.
wavefunction, for example light or any particle, this can't be argued.
the complex plane, because? But a complex number is only a pair of numbers and I know that in polar notation it's handy for:
rotation! And I remember that the electric and magnetic components are on orthogonal planes so we are back to complex numbers and maybe the components rotate, but how about neutral particles? But they are not neutral inside. I think that I'm already off track, very lost.
Energy = frequency, because I know that higher frequency photons are more energetic.
Finally, usually we learn about kinetic energy, then E = mc^2 and maybe about the relativistic effects, without the formula. Those things can be understood easily and are taught at school. The jump to angular rotation and the complex plane is something that few people are exposed to and, as I hope to have demonstrated, it's not easy to map to common experiences, which could be inevitable.
On the other side, equatorial countries have about the same sunset and dawn all year long. Again, DST is useless.
Where DST is useful is in a place like the one I'm living at, at 45 degrees North. I'd go with permanent DST plus an extra DST in summer. Basically it's what Spain have been doing for almost a century.
It's cloudy and still reasonably bright outside here. It will be dark past 22:00. I'd take an extra hour of light in the evening and darkness until 6:00 in the morning. It matches the time people goes to sleep and wake up here.
The usual computer analogy /s You don't run a LLM on a Core Duo 2, but of course https://yeokhengmeng.com/2025/04/llama2-llm-on-dos/
So: investment, not good will.
Before AI we had prompts called "requirements" and of course they were the starting point for reviewing code: the customer needs X, the code doing that is Y.
With agents that prompt became much longer, with the original requirement a short note at the beginning of the conversation with the AI, but the resulting code is about the same size. Maybe in YOLO development the original requirement is all the AI needs but I'll be surprised because requirements from customers are too fuzzy and can be turned into very different features, often too different from what the customers had in mind.
Actually I never looked at the detailed prompts of coworkers, only at the original requirements from customers. How they instructed their agents is not particularly interesting except maybe to get a gist of the different approaches.
> Thunderbird’s robust functionality is its superpower, but a dated interface shouldn’t be a barrier to entry for newer users.
I started preparing for the worst.