On: Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?

[copperx]

> Every problem gets solvable if you break it into enough pieces

Someone needs to just sit down and break P vs NP into enough pieces.

[warrenm → copperx]

Traveling Salesman is "solved" basically this way with modern map apps: it may not be "optimal", but it's close enough

And close enough, as the adage goes, is almost always "close enough"