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Thank you for linking this! I'm a big fan of Egan but had never read this particular short story. I feel like Egan is perhaps the only contemporary author who actually _gets_ consc…

Yes, I strongly agree with all of this. Relatedly, I am seriously considering getting a landline again so that I (and my young children) can once again live in a world where the ba…

If you've got it working then obviously it must be possible, but I'm a touch confused because the ErsatzTV documentation says "A Plex Pass is required for ErsatzTV to work with Ple…

Thanks for this - I need to solve exactly this problem on a toy project I've been working on; you've saved me the time to hunt down the appropriate algorithm!

Weird to see this show up on HN - I was just looking at this page a couple of days ago. I have a little puzzle I've been trying to solve in my spare time; maybe someone here can po…

This is absolutely my experience as well. I used to encounter this regularly in a professional context and ended up just replying with a confirmation that "option A" was what he'd …

I'm very much a lurker in online spaces (this is the first comment I've ever made in HN!) but I've found the atmosphere on tiles very appealing. I'd love an invite if you'd be will…