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by djur 1503 days ago
"The solution is trivial: [possible solution]! Well, unfortunately, [problem with solution]."

The issue here isn't so much sarcasm than that "is" should be read as "seems" here. But I don't see any other idiomatic reading that is sincerely calling the solution trivial.

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> But I don't see any other idiomatic reading that is sincerely calling the solution trivial.

Agreed - it may not be obvious on first glance, but there's no other reasonable reading.