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On the platform, my code is split between HTML, JS and CSS files.

I like modules. They exist in some form or another in most programming languages and they are one of the few definitively good ideas in software engineering. Give me the ability to split off parts of my work with some public API and hidden internals. Works on different levels too, like with a reusable library that consists of modules.

JS has a module story. But HTML and CSS just aren't connected to it, without using something like JSX.

That's why I end up abandoning "using the platform" every time.

I dont know any other environment except the browser where code is split into three in a similar way.


And a datacenter for Emacs.


If it didn't melt in summer, its start would have been further to the south.


It is correct though, since 2010 Saba is a "speciale gemeente" of the Netherlands, and its mountain is thus our highest point. Before that it was organised as a separate country "Nederlandse Antillen" with the other Caribbean islands.


That genus is part of the Canidae family though. Dogs and wolves are in the Canis genus in the Canidae group.

Jackals and foxes are also each their own genus, and there are a number more genuses.


Afaik, in Europe there is no person who "owns" the tip. It goes into a centralized pot that is shared by all the employees.

Especially because most payments are by card (where I live), the tip first ends up with the restaurant itself anyway, not individual waiters.


If they cant figure that out, then they shouldnt do it at all. Duh.

Anyway, if they're so large and special then they can hire a bunch of people. Large scale should make it easier.


People's lives, not just employees.


Sure, but just that some random statement is true isn't interesting. It's interesting if it helps understand some abstract structure better.


It could also be interesting by having a practical use.


How would the mere knowledge that it holds, without any understanding why, be useful?


Can you explain to your cat how Amazon uses graph theory to deliver their packages of cat food?

Is Amazon still delivering food to your cat?

Humans don't need to understand what AI generates. We still can get the rewards.


p = np doesn't produce any value though, the stuff you learn solving it might but the fact that they are the same wouldn't be valuable at all.


sure, agreed, but once you have a proof, you can probably get AI to reduce other problems to that problem in P.


Well then, just tell the AI that the statement is true and it will find reductions!

In reality, it wouldn't depend on the truth value of the statement, but on the AI understanding the proof. If it understands it then it might be able to use it to find reductions.

So the point remains, knowing that P=NP isn't what's important, it's the proof that matters.


Sure, we monkeys don't need to care, though.


Why wouldn't you be able to do that without a proof? I don't see the value of the proof here, just ask the AI to solve the problem you want and the proof isn't needed.


From my understanding, the two are equivalent; if you can reduce an NP problem to a P problem, you've proven P=NP. The rest is application.


Why would it not be able to find reductions now, but be able to find them just by being told that P=NP is definitely true?


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