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The approaches described in the article are clever and the results are impressive, so kudos to the team!

However, while reading, it felt weird that they treated Skipper as a third-party dependency, even though it is developed and operated by their colleagues. I mean, they could've tried contributing some updates and improvements to Skipper, maybe reusing Skipper's discovery mechanism, instead of rolling out their own, completely independent LB module.

And yes, it's true that in big companies it can be hard to organise cross-team collaboration, but IMO it's still worth a try.

Can it be that Pangram doesn't send any spam itself but instead (intentionally or not) leaks your email address to some spammer who then does the sending?

Isn't yyyy-mm-dd a ISO-8601 compliant date format?

They're mentioned on a dedicated page about uncommon Danish plugs and sockets [1].

[1] https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Danish2.html

True

And it's a shame they used it incorrectly in the title - "embiggen" means "enlarge, make bigger", not "become bigger" which is the case with Power11

Great article! Although it seems that the last section (about YouTube recommendations) is incomplete, as there's no query to actually calculate the recommendations.

Nice article! It's always interesting to look behind the scenes of payment infrastructure.

BTW, when I tried the interactive demo [1] I noticed that it appended "undefined" to the end of the generated XML. Happens both in Firefox and Chrome, so it doesn't seem to be a browser quirk.

[1] https://www.iso20022js.com/demo

"More importantly, its intended targets are unaccompanied ships that may be carrying contraband"

I wonder what kind of contraband the ship has to carry to warrant the use of a bomb to tear said ship in half

Here's what KCL authors say about it themselves

https://www.kcl-lang.io/docs/user_docs/getting-started/intro...

Last year there was this HN post about people's efforts to validate results of the Nigerian elections.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35272227

AFAIU, 3600$ is also a price for "raw RAM" that will be used by your common database via sys calls and not via a "usable API operated by someone else"

This paper [1] explains some basics

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06217

Did anyone catch why `Let` type in the second code listing had to have both `expr` and `value` properties?

Am I the only one who finds the idea of sending a full history of your private messages to some publisher for printing a little bit unsettling?

There's a "Map Men" episode on this: https://youtu.be/DeiATy-FfjI

I really like the idea but I don't understand the naming. Why "gatherer"? Doesn't "gather" mean more or less the same as "collect"?

something like this - https://www.humaaans.com/ ?

cool