The problem with betting on your own team in baseball is that pitchers need rest. Betting the team you manage will win today could cause you to expend an unreasonable amount of effort on this game, costing you multiple other games in subsequent days because your bullpen is completely gassed.
Putin calls Luka with panic in his voice. "You have to give me asylum, they'll be dragging my corpse through the streets of Moscow by morning if you don't!"
Luka replies, "I'm sure I can arrange something. I'll get back to you within the hour."
59 minutes later, Luka calls back. "Relax, Vova. I worked out a compromise. They'll only drag half your body through the streets of Moscow. The other half will be dragged through Kyiv."
French fries without salt are just *less* salty. Try ordering some. They'll be made fresh (since they don't keep them on hand), but I swear there's enough salt that gets in the fryer oil that you don't really *need* more.
"upside down flying" is forbidden by the software
Maverick & Goose would like a word...
Eschewing Emut will reduce Emut's costs too. Also their revenue, but that's the bed they made. Let them lie in it.
A solution which will never be adopted, but which would suit our bodies and our brains even better, would be to shorten standard winter work and school hours by one hour.
It would give some of the natural effect of ancient Roman and Jewish temporal hours or pre-modern Japanese wadokei clocks, but without giving up the standardization and precision of modern timekeeping.
The answers should be provided after the due date. If the student failed one or more particular concepts or techniques, why wait until they fail them at an exam to find out? That doesn't mean the instructors need to spend their time checking the homework, it's sufficient for the student to grade their own homework and say "I'm not getting this, I better ask for help".
It would make sense to me if the answer key was posted after the homework came due. The students could grade their own work against the answer key if they choose, and if they consistently got something wrong they could ask about it. This means less work for the instructors while still performing the due diligence of giving the students feedback on the quality of their homework. Those who care will use what is provided. Those who don't, won't.
I don't think the main issue is the end-user software. It's all the other stuff that makes the company work. I work for a small startup, and I can list at least a dozen software platforms that we use, and I'm sure there are dozens more; none of which we could trivially migrate away from. (Fortunately, most of which I don't really want to, as they work fairly well.)
Besides the technical stuff, there's the HR benefits, the expense reporting, the door lock manager, the office reservation system, etc. I'm sure all of these are subscriptions. Many are probably quite inexpensive, but some aren't.
At some point, it will be cheaper to tell Claude, "We use the OverPriced platform. Examine our usage of it, and develop a replacement platform tailored to our needs, and include a transition plan to suck all our existing data and configurations over to the new system." But then there's one more system to support locally, which may not be worth the cost. Or if OverPriced is too ridiculous, do the same, but spin it off as FairPriced and compete.
The solution of this problem is trivial and is left as an exercise for the reader.
