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This made me wonder if you could do it with color and apparently you can: https://1mentat.github.io/qr-code-shenanigans/

30 minutes with /goal for the solution from Sol w/ high.

You’re very sure because you’ve built one at scale? This is such peak HN. And you have plenty of other people who have never built a billing system at scale to agree with you. The …

The idea that most people who are doing professional public speaking are reliable narrators is a bit quaint. There is a lot of room for framing that you have to allow for story tel…

I ask a lot of questions on code reviews as it's usually less easily perceived as conformational and I have come to assume that I'm missing context when something is really off. As…

Wasn't aware that Canada had moved to 1940s Europe...

Saying this seriously a few decades after computers were room sized is I think a bit short sighted. Betting against technical progress especially in density / materials / weight is…

You don't think the US government requires information sharing?

Seemed even a bit longer before that on the peninsula coastside. The whole thing felt magical, to even know that much beforehand.

See regulatory capture.

That was designed as a fundamentally subversive set of lessons. I doubt we even have the will to make an accurately subversive movie version of Diamond Age (look at what happened t…

Being on call aligns incentives. If it's someone else's problem when what you just design and build then it will operate less well.

Really exceptional response. A surprising number of people aren't aware of moral constitution, practically, even though this was a core topic for at least the last few hundred year…

I don't think big bounties are capital gains.

What kind of firewall work didn't have default drop? Once you take that off the table you really do have a problem but I've only seen that one in 20 years of professional work.

It's plenty for people who already have a pile of cash. That seems a bit problematic right?

Thank you for your straightforward appraisal. Makes me take Matrix a lot more seriously.

You don't have health checks?

How can you look at rate and range of mutation and make blithe comments on how many will die based on original covid rates?

"Remain obsessed" with transmission of a highly contagious virus that has shown significant ability to mutate at scale? That sure seems worth being obsessed about. When it mutates …

Yes, exactly. That OP needs to know the time is the problem being solved.

Yes, and a few orders of magnitude more expensive.

Have you looked at something like fly.io to do physical placement near players globally while still supporting consistency?

This seems the most like case to me. Google loves their query PBs.