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I feel like we're stretching the analogy pretty thin here.

We don't have the time to sit back and let epistemic knowledge wash over us. We know more or less what needs to happen (less sunlight in, more heat out). All attempts to resolve th…

Well, hopefully we have some time to practice first. Because we're the only person in the room and the patient is bleeding out.

There is no alternative. We have "aggravated the situation" (as you put it) beyond recovery. Doing nothing will now surely lead to an unacceptable outcome. We are going to have to …

Putting aside "a space-based solar sunshade represents a technological leap forward and would be really cool" -- which I think speaks to me on an emotional level -- I do think this…

Aha! I was wondering where the github stars were coming from. :) I did get a kick out of this from the OP: > Binary: Born from YouTube compression being absolutely brutal. RGB mode…

The N900 was everything I ever wanted. :(

Huh! Thanks for the correction. That makes a lot of sense -- I have some more reading to do...

Different keys. For example, you might currently be using a public/private keypair for 4096-bit RSA. That keypair (by definition) only works for the RSA key exchange algorithm. Lik…

I would put celery in that class of software that's good enough to be useful, but enough trouble that you'll never be truly happy with it. We got a lot of mileage out of it (in a p…

At the risk of being reductive: Make more of our software copyleft? Even weak copyleft? As a thought experiment, imagine how the modern web might've played out if KHTML was release…

As far as yesterday was concerned, Edwardsville (and neighboring areas) knew they were in the line of fire by 8PM local time. The tornado hit the facility at ~8:40. Source: my phon…

I don't think I do? I'm not 100% sure I understand your example. Is it RDP server (remote) -> RDP client (local) -> cell phone?

The simple answer is: 4-color (standard): 7500 bytes 8-color: 8750 bytes monochrome: 5000 bytes Those numbers are with the standard, fairly high ECC setting (~20% of the image) tha…

Right now, it's both. The decoder has a lot of image processing work to do (intriguingly well-suited for the GPU), and also lots of popcnts. I've optimized it a fair bit, but there…

Multiple sizes isn't a bad idea. I'm not sure I know enough about what sizes would be appropriate though. :) Transfers getting stuck like that usually is an indication that the dec…

Well, as for acks specifically -- cimbar itself doesn't really need them, thanks to fountain codes [0]. But I can imagine a reverse (request?) channel being useful, if it had enoug…

Probably a good idea. Noted.

Definitely. I had to draw a line somewhere for an initial "does anyone care about this?" release, so there's some rough edges here. There are a number of loose ends that I'd like t…

Well, there's diminishing returns in format shifting. The encoded barcode contains various types of quasi-redundant visual information (e.g. error correction codes) to allow decodi…

I like the way you think. :) Though I think 720p is towards the low end of resolutions this'll work on -- the cimbar code itself is 1024x1024, and while there's some wiggle room (h…

Hmm... no, but that's a good idea!

Hello all, You've seen QR codes, maybe Microsoft HCCB [0], maybe jabcode [1] – well, here's a prototype of something new for the pile. :) I saw txqr [2] a while back and was impres…