Alt F4
Software that outlasts the hype.
Alt F4 is a software company in Munich. This site is where we follow the world of software development and its changes. There have been 2,048 posts since 2010, and now and then you'll find an essay. The rest of the time we build procurement software, and occasionally something else.
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- Speed isn't the only metric for delegating to AI. Dishwasher mode puts it well: that dishwasher might be slower than you, but it works while you do something else, and clean beats fast (at least for dishes). The ideal tasks are narrow, annoying, and off the critical path.
- In 1897, Indiana's House unanimously passed a bill "proving" the circle could be squared, which is popularly read as setting π to 3.2. A Purdue professor who happened to be in the building stopped it in the Senate.
- Laws as machine-checked acceptance criteria? Interesting. Bend.
- It's a nice solution if you have a Mac and at least 64GB of RAM: dwarfstar.sh.
- So Singapore's government is running its own dating service, and it's using the Gale-Shapley Stable Marriage Algorithm.
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