It's not often I comment on blog posts, but this is honestly one of the most meaningless blogs I've ever read (not counting those fully AI-generated SEO ones). I don't get why it ended up so high on Hacker News; it has an interesting title I guess, but pretty much no substance.

[1]: https://youtu.be/vIdeGmN__Pw?t=550

This just sounds like typical requirements management software (IBM DOORS for example, which has been around since the 90s).

It's kind of funny how AI evangelists keep re-discovering the need for work methods and systems that have existed for decades.

When I worked as a software developer at a big telecom company and I had no say in what the software was supposed to do, that was up to the software design people--they were the ones responsible for designing the software and defining all the requirements--I was just responsible for implementing that behavior in code.

"I'm worried every time there's a delivery, I never know what she's ordered."

"I like it. At the interview, Mona didn't care that I have dialect or I don't have a doctorate. For her, the most important thing was that I was nice and could make coffee."

If he has learned something from the experiment, it is that it is the middle managers and all CEOs who are at risk of being replaced by AI – not the baristas.

"Without me here, it would have been difficult for Mona."

[1] https://www.mitti.se/nyheter/ai-driver-eget-kafe-i-vasastan-...

If you're going to do an experiment like this, then Stockholm is a good place to do it, since the bureaucracy here is very digitalized.

[1]: https://www.mitti.se/nyheter/ai-driver-eget-kafe-i-vasastan-...

Does anyone (or any team) have ownership of the extensions/git/package.json file?

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/22680/why-is-th...

Language is messy, some more than others [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language#Numerals

"I am a worker and I work in a vacuum cleaner factory. My wife could use a vacuum cleaner. That's why everyday I pick up a piece. At home I try to assemble the vacuum cleaner. But however I try, it always becomes a sub-machine gun.

...

This vacuum cleaner can become a useful weapon. This sub-machine gun can become a useful household appliance.

What we produce it depends on the workers, students, and engineers."

That last line is still very relevant today.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnpLS4ct2mM

There's a C++26 paper about compile time math optimizations with a good overview and discussion about some of these issues [P1383]. The paper explicitly states:

1. It is acceptable for evaluation of mathematical functions to differ between translation time and runtime.

2. It is acceptable for constant evaluation of mathematical functions to differ between platforms.

So C++ has very much accepted the fact that floating point functions should not be presumed to give identical results in all circumstances.

Now, it is of course possible to ensure that floating point-related functions give identical results on all your target machines, but it's usually not worth the hassle.

[P1383]: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p13...

So now we have a few hundred thousand people with the last name Andersson, despite most of them not being Anders's son.

Just to reiterate how ubiquitous Swish and BankID are here: 99.9% of Swedish residents age 18-67 have BankID (8.6M users), while Swish has 8.7M private users, and 93% of those users send or receive money via Swish at least once per month.

Most of these reasons just sound like fee-issues to me. I use a debit card (or Swish) to pay for everything and there's never a cheaper payment option. The fact that checks somehow cost less to use than debit/credit cards sounds ridiculous tbh, especially with all the added handling that must go into dealing with them (it just seems so inefficient).

Swish is the de facto standard for sending money between individuals [2], and that's what grandparents tend to use to send money to their grandchildren. It's fee-less (for person-to-person transfers use at least) and it connects your bank account with your phone number. So if anyone wants to send you money, they can just open Swish and enter your phone number (or scan a QR code) and send you some. You also have to sign the payment with the BankID app, which is the de facto standard for authentication [3].

And when I write de facto standard I really mean it. 99.9% of Swedish residents age 18-67 have BankID (8.6M users), while Swish has 8.7M private users (93% of which use Swish at least once per month).

[1] https://www.swedbank.se/privat/kort/bankkort/bankkort-master...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankID_(Sweden)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaseya_VSA_ransomware_attack