@myname @0xabad1dea Those seem more cursed than I'd be prepared to risk...

@0xabad1dea this is one of my favourite pieces of email trivia!

@Thayer ugh, that's not great. Much as I despise using money as a proxy for ethics, isn't this going to be too expensive to roll out, given the rewards? That's what usually seems to stop these massive overreach projects...

@Thayer Congratulations on your progress!

@neil if it truly sparkled they might be forgiven, but they so rarely do

@babe middle or end, it's all squishy goodness

@Thayer Happy Birthday! 🎉🎂

@aral I used to work somewhere that made multihead graphics cards, and sometimes used the 4x4 test rig. Losing the mouse pointer on those 16 screens was a fairly regular and mildly annoying occurrence!

Still, you are some way off that. Get another screen...

@misty That's a really weird inversion. Instant availability is very cool etc. but the flip side is instant unavailability. That's harder to achieve with actual physical media, which is why I'm struggling to square that with the label "lost"!

@byjp it's a curious and intriguing friendship you have there!

@jonty @natbuckley I like the name! It took me a moment, but I got there!

@neil I'm amused/disappointed by the level of cynical self awareness needed to call something like this Humphrey publicly

@Thayer Congratulations! Whatever you find out in 2+ months, you've already achieved something great!

There are three hard problems in distributed systems:
2. Exactly-once message delivery
1. Message ordering
2. Exactly-once message delivery
2. Exactly-once message delivery
2. Exactly-once message delivery
2. Exactly-once message delivery
2. Exactly-once message delivery

@babe Can you add diagnostician right next to lawyer then?

@Thayer given the option, wouldn't we all?

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