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Ah, yes, that would work.

But then there is reliance on an underlying platform to resolve the conflict by providing a globally unique identifier. Instead of process ID, there is the IP address mechanism.

So it's turtles all the way down, if I understand correctly.

If I understand this correctly, the algorithm depends on the underlying platform to ensure correct ordering. Two processes may each get the same bakery ticket number. The conflict is resolved by the process with the lower process id being allowed to go first. This process ID is in effect a ticket number issued by the underlying hardware. If the processes were running in a distributed environment, there would not be a common underlying platform to resolve this conflict.

Alexander Smirnov's article was discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38434914

From the link, it appears that it was developed by a single person in 2000, who then brought on board 2 other people as contributors in 2002 and after.

Any typescript frameworks you recommend?

Also it requires an inherent level of talent which gets turned into skill.

Not everyone who takes piano and music harmony lessons can become a jazz composer, especially in 6 weeks or 6 months.

In a few years, as mid-level cognitive tasks get automated by LLMs, resulting in elimination of some percent of well-paying white-collar jobs, there will be economic dislocation and social disruption.

Oligarchic capitalist societies with a hypocritical philosophy of free market economics (such as the USA) will experience social unrest and civil strife.

In the meantime, social-democratic societies that have effective governance and can grow their safety net with universal basic income will be advantaged in this new economic order. Thinking Scandinavian and some Asian economies.

The geopolitical balance of power will shift toward stable societies that are able to make the conceptual leap to UBI. Others who follow the primitive fantasy of free market economics will crumble and get left behind.

At least that is how it looks right now.

> it sounds like Phreesia is an outlier.

Phreesia is a subsidiary of United Health (NYSE: UNH) which has almost a half-trillion market cap (USD$478B).

The undocumented workers that I personally know are skilled, motivated, and diligent workers. Perhaps in part because they desperately need to hold on to this source of income. If anything, I think they would boost productivity metrics.

> This tend to be true for most serious projects, that the amount of test code is greater than that of the code that is being exercised.

Reading this comment, I was thinking "Oh that must mean the test code is 2x or maybe even 3x the amount of source code"

Going to the SQLite web site, I was surprised to find that the test code is 600x larger than the source code. Impressive.

Is this 600:1 ratio typical for other projects? The ones that I have seen are more like 1x or 2x, but I have not worked with many open source systems.

The notion of decentralized identity has been an enchanting vision since Christopher Allen first articulated it in 2016. Since then, DID spec has been around for years in draft form, and there are at least a dozen vendors and/or projects producing DID-compatible or DID-relevant technology.

Of course, these different packages are not (yet) compatible, but that's not the problem. The problem is that, after a good 4 or 5 years, it's hard to find a single project that uses DID protocols at scale in a worthwhile and effective manner.

There are tons of pilot projects and PoCs. A few go into production at limited scale, languish for a while, and then do a slow fade.

I agree with other commenters that DID does not seem to address real-world pain points. I also think that the spec appears murky, abstract, overly complex and hard for developers to work with. I have tried to use DID in projects a couple of times, and found myself sidelining or pushing it into a corner of the system, because it did not seem to serve a useful purpose.

There's a recent alternative to DID, which is narrower in scope and more pragmatic. That is "login with Metamask" or "sign-in with Ethereum" (or something similar in the case of other blockchain platforms).

Intentions are good, but I found this system confusing and not useful for me.

I use to use Everytimezone, but find Dateful's dual timezone display more useful for my needs.

https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

Edit: Added positive remark about good intentions.

Your statement shows lack of understanding of how the modern corporation works.

The COO may have been there 30 years, and may lack an MBA, but increasingly it is this type of CxO that has been reyling upon MBAs and other consultants (operations research) to restructure the organization into an optimized-but-fragile state.

It is the rare old-hand that can standup to younguns talking tech and math, subjects he does not feel comfortable with.

Co-founded a 2-person tech company in Korea while residing in the US. My co-founder is Korean living in Seoul. We started during the pandemic, with no capital, working remotely out of our homes. Now 18 months later we have modern offices in a tech district of Seoul, with 14 people working on multiple tech products and projects.

I very much agree with the commenter who described the US as a third-world country, when compared with advanced nations such as Korea (as well as other nations mentioned in this thread).

There are many reasons to back up this observation: health care system, education, culture, social values, transportation, digital infrastructure.

Korea is not a perfect country, but it is years ahead of the US in the areas that matter.

EDIT: Added clarification: After 12 months working remotely from the US, I immigrated to Korea and have not left.