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Not sure what you mean by cryptographic strength - they are both Unique ID generators, not meant for anything related to cryptography.

UUIDv7 has 62 bits of random data, ULID uses 80 bits, so if anything ULID is "stronger" (meaning less chances of generating the same id within the same millisecond)


UUIDv7 has 74 bits of randomness, not 62, you forgot rand_a portion, so the difference is just 6 bits and only matters within the same millisecond.

I stumbled over your string art turtle some time ago and like one of the commenters on [1], I was wondering about your tool to create points from a image

[1] https://turtletoy.net/turtle/dd4c8beb92


Thanks! If you wanna do more, i wrote a bit about it on x/twitter, recently 3d printed an object to actually test such string art. if you have specific questions, happy to answer ofc! https://x.com/mknol/status/1993708617586077928

Sounds like the people behind Solar Roadways found a new project.

Because all the conference rooms were already booked.


What resources will it pull away if it’s unmaintained?


Contributors to alternatives.


Not a great analogy, since a digital copy leaves the original intact unlike your apples


You are missing the point. Blocking a CDN providers IP range, means blocking all the websites using the CDN - not just the nazi-poster.com.


Well then perhaps the CDN shouldn’t be protecting those sites?


Different countries have different laws regarding what falls under freedom of speech. The CDN providers say they take a net-neutrality stance. If a court order from a specific country tells them to block certain sites, I'm pretty sure they will comply, but only for clients coming from within that country.


I’m pretty sure running pirate streams of soccer games doesn’t fall under freedom of speech


This is quite close to the whole Nazi bar analogy isn't it?

You run a bar. You let anyone in, and some of your customers are a bit edgy.

But one day, Nazis start using your bar for their regular gathering and you don't kick them out.

Congratulations: now you have a Nazi bar.


An obvious problem with this analogy is that the percentage of Cloudflare's traffic which could be Nazis even if they were hosting all the Nazis in the world would still start with a 0 followed by a decimal point.


The analogy is not about Cloudflare but about the hosting provider Cloudflare is blocking.


There is no threat of any particular service being overrun with any particular ideology. That isn't how this works. If the same host is hosting the websites of both Israeli and Muslim groups, neither of them would even be aware of the other being on the same servers unless somebody told them.

Moreover, Cloudflare is the CDN being blocked by foreign ISPs because their laws require ISPs to do blocking on the basis of IP address even though Cloudflare's IP addresses are shared by huge numbers of other customers. It's effectively an attempt to punish international companies for having customers who do something which is illegal in one country even if it's legal in their own country, e.g. some content is in the public domain in one country but not another. It's an attempt to apply one country's laws to another country.

Which is a trade barrier because it prevents a company from serving the customers in both jurisdictions, creating a preference for domestic companies that don't operate in the jurisdictions with less restrictive laws.


I've heard that a major hurdle for these "cell-factories", is moving from lab to industrial scale. Ofc initial cost of the product is typically also a lot higher, but that is the same of any product addressing externalities of existing production


28 pounds - that's gigantic compared to this https://now.tufts.edu/2011/09/05/worlds-smallest-electric-mo...


> "There has been significant progress in the construction of molecular motors powered by light and by chemical reactions, but this is the first time that electrically-driven molecular motors have been demonstrated, despite a few theoretical proposals," says Sykes. "We have been able to show that you can provide electricity to a single molecule and get it to do something that is not just random."

"something that is not just random" ==> Probably a long way away from something in production. I wouldn't hold off on any urgent transportation needs waiting on this tech.


The article states that it's a proprietary project


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