On a winter afternoon, long after Nora had left her last ship and the waters had calmed, a woman in a dark coat came to the museum with an envelope. She fed the envelope through the intake; Hexcmp2 compared and printed a receipt that simply said:
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: Offers on-the-fly comparison of two files while scrolling, highlighting differences in real-time. On a winter afternoon, long after Nora had