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While you're contemplating the miracle of Earth, consider how rare wood or chocolate icecream is in the universe as compared to gold or diamonds or similar structures.

Life is rare. This adds a particular irony in wearing uniforms. All the uniqueness of life has this need for uniformity layered over the top.

(These deep thoughts go haywire when you realize that IRS Tax form 1040 is therefore some kind of wonder of creation and is a rare thing in the universe)


IRS Tax form 1040 is made from a tree. The tree seems much more miraculous..

HCF - Halt and Catch Fire.

New role unlocked: starving artist!

Your parents could afford a house, have kids etc etc at a far younger age but now you are single with no kids and choosing food or rent or power. You spin the wheel! Lucky! You get to eat.

Progress!


It probably has age verification on every packet.

If your packet fails age verification at the router level, it will light up the EVIL bit, and then you're in a world of hurt, man!

Yeah but they failed to adjust for age drift that may occur during the round trip latency of the packet. Unfortunately at intergalactic scale this error can be significant

Can I skip age verification by using UDP?

I don't think queues like this are a panacea but they are a good idea. They buy time. That's the whole point. Time to respond. Time for a paper trail. Time to investigate. Time to cancel.

Have a normal path, eg days, a week or more (a month!). Have a selection of fast paths. Much shorter time. Days or even hours. Exceptions require higher trust. Indicators like money / reputation / history could be useful signals even if its only part of a paper trail. Treat exceptions as acceptable but requiring good reasons and explanation. This means a CVE fix from someone with high reputation could go through faster. While exceptions don't reduce the need for scrutiny they do enable clarity about the alternative chosen. Mainly because someone had to justify it away from the normal path. That's valuable in itself.

There's no perfection here. Credit cards and credentials get stolen. Reputation drifts since people change for all kinds of reasons.

Queues buy time. Time to find out. Time to back out.


Security people should love a delay in distribution as packages wait in the queue. Then they have an opportunity to report before anyone else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

A sudden desire to have a concrete monitor stand appears in my mind.

Practical considerations: I feel like simply adding some cork to the underside of most things would increase compatibility between plastic/alum and the hardness of concrete.



Another board has become Frag complete. Important milestone!


good stuff. keep going.

any way to link instances together? I'm interested in something like this to import/export resources etc.


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