> seizing on word choice in AI notes that might have a sinister connotation
Ironic use of “sinister” when you probably mean “nefarious” and don't mean to perpetuate silly old superstitions about “left-handed” people being evil :p
For in-person conversations to keep the conversation flowing, sure, but any good transcription will say [unintelligible] when the scribe couldn't tell despite being able to listen over it again and again.
> I thought this is technically impossible, and it will never happen
I always hated this meme/mindset, because if you dig in to the history of them you'll see that their original purpose was to collide. They were labels to identify messages in Apollo's distributed computing architecture. UID and later UUIDs were a reversible way to mark an intersection point between two dimensions.
Any two nodes in a distributed system would generate the same UID/UUID for the same two inputs, and a recipient of an identified message could reverse the identifier back into the original components. They were designed as labels for ephemeral messages so the two dimensions were time and hardware ID (originally Apollo serial number, later 802.3 hwaddress etc).
I think a lot of the confusion can be traced to the very earliest AEGIS implementation where the Apollo engineers started using “canned” (their term, i.e. static or well-known) UIDs to identify filesystems. Over time the popular usage of UUID fully shifted from ephemeral identifiers where duplicates were intentional toward canned identifiers where duplicates were unwanted and the two dimensions were random-and-also-random.
That's not why people use JDownloader. There are plugins for every popular file-sharing site that automate navigating download pages, handling countdown timers, and pausing for ratelimits.
A few millennia too late for that: the “mark of the beast” is just money — “so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark”. How does one buy or sell without money? Otherwise we would call it bartering.
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