Cute, QR codes are pretty ugly. Can you make it work with various color schemes?

I'd call it Code NoiR.

Yes, it's possible to implement different color schemes, but the more colors used to encode the data, the harder it is to decode. QR wins here - it's well optimized with only two colors, black and white.

You can have any colour you like as long as it is noir.

American novels frequently don't follow these tropes. It's more of a Hollywood thing, part of telling a satisfying story in 100-160 minutes.

Obviously we have different monitors, but on mine the geneva-9 font doesn't render properly in the subpixels causing alternate green and purple, the underlines don't line up to the beginning of the words, and the whole thing stretches across the window the same way.

I'm honestly surprised they didn't reread the 2009 Gmail Autopilot April Fools Day joke in earnest.

It might be nice to have more than 8 MB of memory available.

This is evidenced by the people who constantly dismissed the Wi-Fi pop-up on iOS. Which is just about everyone I know with an iPhone.

Which pop-up do you mean?

It's a setting that iPhones had for a long time, where they would prompt you to join the nearby WiFi networks. I don't currently have one, so I don't know what it's currently like, but a large number of people would pull out their phones, start doing something, dismiss the pop-up, and continue, many times in a day. Probably they almost never actually used it to join a WiFi network at all. You could turn it off in settings but they didn't.

I think it implies that the best competitors are not participating.

Neither are the best humans in that particular race.

Fair, but if you had a cycle vs foot race where one wasn't consistently on top, you'd probably say it wasn't a real competition.

Andre Dickens; David Dinkins was mayor of NYC in the late 80s.

Yes, good catch!

It is a little crazy that Florida's politicians want to lay blame for school shootings, which have happened regularly in Florida since long before AI was a thing, although a large number of incidents are not fatal or mass shooting events.

Probably the only response stupider than "Nothing could have prevented this" is "Random thing, other than the mental state of the murderer and the access to firearms, caused this."

See also, video games, dungeons and dragons, etc.

heavy metal music, television, radio, Harry Potter books, females not covered in clothing head to toe, the lack of a good Christian upbringing, rap music, the banning of corporal punishment, being made aware of the existence of homosexuality, sex education in schools, the legalisation of abortion, open borders, a visit to Europe, proximity to wind farms, divorce, witches.

Obviously, anyone with 3 or more is a ticking time bomb.