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Its the dimensionality? 2nd dimension, 3rd dimension and there permutation shadows? So by the mathematical principal, there is only one interesting permutation, and thats the "natural" one within the first dimension, aka 1 and 2s.

This. We got to high on our own history lessons learned medicine in the west. Thinking that anybody shared that sentiment.

For all those other regions on the planet, the Great game never ended and is in full swing ever after. For them the WorldWars were a colonial power internal affair, and now its "our turn to become the king of the hill of skulls". The history and injustices of 2 worldwars is just a justification to go into battle for them.

Its bleak, but our reality altering screams never penetrated that mindset.

Which still is by all means a externalized watchdog, which in addition is deactivated, if its not properly implemented and still working. So the philosophy itself is brokken by the programers and the users are used as sensor to find out wether the program executed properly.

A proper implementation would be, that windows for example during the installation could "starve" the process in a API or somewhere else into a internal timeout and expect that error to come up, to proof worthiness.

Im confused. We argue for the same point. The program must know. And it can know. It can perform regular check ins and the watchdog in the program internals should reset it properly out of an error state. With an error message and the ability to save previously done work.

I totally agree with you. Its very strange that the Operating System has to do basic controll flow jobs, as in Windows with the basic regular check ins by programs with the os. It should be part of every executable.

How do you check, that your state-machine is not stuck. Its still shocking how much software can "hang", as if there is no way to detect that and reset to a "controllable" state via watchdog and error message. Its a disgrace, that such software engineering basic functionality has to be performed by the operating system.

CERN is all about breaking stuff into smallest bits and find out what makes it up, before it returns to the foam. Its basically a particle car crash factory, who tries to learn how a car works by watching millions of crash tests for outliers. And in a way it works..

The problem is to deduct second order laws and rules behind the observed bits and screws flying. Car factories, assembly lines and cnc machines..

By use of horrible metaphors, we summone the oh might particle physicists into the cycle of cyclotron..

PS: Material science wouldnt know what it would get away with outside of try and error - without particle physics..

I label the rightwing anti-migration parties as actually "anti"-climatechange-sideffects.

They are just more willing to invest ton of money in fighting symptoms, as the anti-neighbour tribal mindset is so hardwired.

Shame its never enough to really get to the roots of the problem. Would be fascinating to see the tea party turn on Big Oil because they caused this mess.

That can be migated. Just make a pre-negotiation round, were post vote, those parties who are below n% can give there vote share to the parties who make it over the limit, for a negotiated "goals" contract. No vote is lost..

It forces fringe, extremist and "eternal" oppossition parties to compromise and negotiate better terms and it can change elections that are really close.

Just say no to Nestle. Cook your own food! Same goes for piracy, if they feel violated by me not being customer, dont go to the government and its laws as company. Just try to exist without the could-be-customers. Boycott the pirates, by doing nothing.

I would stop to push specific careers. I would instead push mental tools that are career overlapping useful. The engineering mindset, to learn and adopt into a topic fast, recongize standardization patterns and be able to move within a uknown system is one such thing which is quite transferable.

Same goes for sozializing and organizing. The problem is though, that teaching such abstract tools, without a usecase tends to look pointless from a beginners perspective. Same way math looks pointless in school.

Now, this is a mature reaction to calling out handing nukes to toddlers. Well at least you took it constructive, by turning the discussion towards the material science of toddlers and societies they form. That, right here, is why we cant have nice, but dangerous things.

And remember, you got time to build up momentum, a ion drive accelerating in a spiral with swingbys, with one final push, can get you pretty high on the C if you dont want it right now.

And i was not referencing the expanse. I was referencing todays solar driven ion engines. Boring tech. Marathon tech. But given enough time it can move a mountain up a notch, without drag.

Cause everyone already had learned how to "touch"-gui, but microsoft in typical arrogance, redesigned it from the bottom up, throwing all the learnings away, you either had from android or macos. And like introducing a third language, to do the same tasks you already can perform fluent in two other languages, it was just this constant stepping into the void of expectations. It came out 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language) and was thus 9 years to late (1 iphone) and 5 years to late (1 android). It was moment were microsoft dediced to go uphill, that journey developers usually have to face, when dragging users away from windows (aka the universal gui). I mean, the normal user learns windows in school.

You only make that sort of learning effort on rare ocassions. And you dont make it just because your vendor locks you out of a previoulsy perfectly working for you ("You learned to know it blind") device.