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this link is now hammered because of cloudflare. hard day for the internets.

there has to be some missing information on how he found the area of water that fully consumed exactly that amount of oil as it simply doesn’t make sense without that. for instance one can spread a teaspoon of oil over 1, 2, n square meters and at some point the oil goes from m later thick to one to less than one.

> more popular than i expected

we know what's important here on hn

This is one of those “so cool yet so silly” brainstorms that I’m grateful someone was audacious enough to entertain. I’m both relieved and saddened that it never came to fruition.

There’s a word, chindogu, to describe things that are less than useless. In some sense this project engendered more problems than it solved. Like so many other attractive brainstorms.

I was sure to read “the forces of vim have invaded our headquarters and now hold our CEO hostage.”

Hard agree. Civil & mechanical engineering have a culture and history of blameless analysis of failure. Software engineering could learn from them.

See the excellent To Engineer is Human in just this topic of analyzed failures in civil engineering.

> If you just make up a number claim it’s prime and nobody disputes it

You can test if a number is prime in polynomial time, much faster than a sieve. There’s no need to test every divisor to know whether a number is prime or not.

Algos like RSA generate large primes millions of times every day—-there’s nothing to take on faith.

Jack Dorsey is corroborating it on nostr npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m

No. The backups have their own secrets and no relationship to one another. You register them as distinct keys with each app.

There’s no need to carry both keys. Leave one in a secure location. Carry the other.

Use a calendar app. It parses and translates appointments into local time as an essential part of its existence.