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The one I always think of when variants come up: https://imgur.com/gallery/good-boy-indeed-gmyzBT0

My motherboard has two NVMe slots. I imagine that if I’d had the funds and desire to populate both of them, this same issue could rear its ugly head.

Oof. I see where I’ve gone wrong. I’ve jumped to erasing people who already exist and not just those who might never exist. Those aren’t the same thing. (Not being sarcastic here, I’m acknowledging that fact.)

A lot of the original C coders are still alive or only very recently gone (retired, or the ultimate retirement, so to speak), and they carried their cramped coding style with them from those ancient and very cramped systems. Old habits die hard. And then there’s a whole generation who were self-taught or learned from the original coders and there’s a lot of bad habits, twisted thinking and carry-over there too.

(You should see some of my code. On second thought, it’s probably best you don’t.)

Edit: I’ve jumped too far to reach to a conclusion here. Left for posterity.

So, what you’re saying is that everyone who was alive in Germany at the end of WWII should have been murdered?

Look at yourself.

For writing loops, many early BASICs had FOR/NEXT, GOTO [line] and GOSUB [line] and literally nothing else due to space constraints. This begat much spaghetti. Better BASICs had (and have) better things like WHILE and WEND, named subroutines (what a concept!) and egads, no line numbers, which did away with much of that. Unless you were trying to convert a program written for one of the hamstrung dialects anyway, then all bets are off.

Assembly style often reflects the other languages people have learned first, or else it’s written to fit space constraints and then spaghettification can actually help with that. (Imagine how the creators of those BASICs crammed their dialect into an 8 or 16K ROM. And thus, like begetteth like.)

C code style follows similarly. It is barely concealed assembly anyway.

COBOL requires a certain kind of masochist to read and write. That’s not spaghetti, it’s Cthulhu’s tentacles. Run.

It depends, and it’s not necessarily the same answer every time even if it’s the same player(s) playing the same scenario in the same game over and over.

We should be wary of making blanket statements like that. That way fascism lies. The only thing that’s horribly wrong with Russian “culture” at the moment is the desire to subjugate Ukraine, and by extension, any desire to do the same to other countries once that’s done.

Everyone in Russia who doesn’t share that particular world view is keeping their head down - or, as this article implies, refusing to breed with those of that world view. Or else, for reasons related to the fact that those of that world view exist.

Should they rise up and topple the oligarchy? Easier said than done. It takes courage the average person (Russian or otherwise) doesn’t have. And Putin is skilled at making people and their families suffer if they step out of line.

All the other problems Russia has exist at least in part in other countries not allied with them. Should those countries also pack up and die?

This isn’t Russia apology. I firmly believe they need to quit this needless war, bring their troops home and stay the heck out of Ukraine until trust can be regained. That might take centuries but the first step is an easy one.

Ehh. Not strictly true. They’re very similar, but the differences are somewhat important.

Snuggies are rectangular, and bathrobes are not. Bathrobes don’t have hoods, but a backwards Snuggie basically does have one because of the extra material. For related reasons, the top edge / collar of the bathrobe is much less comfortable on the neck when worn backwards than is the equivalent Snuggie.

Then there’s the matter of belt loops, belt and pocket locations which are a complete mismatch.

Finally, the material of a Snuggie is generally not designed to be absorbent like a bathrobe is. If anything, this changes your assertion to “a dressing gown worn backwards is a snuggie”, but the since the rest of the above arguments still apply, it’s still not quite accurate.

This is going to be incredibly confusing for the people who spring into existence as a result of the change but have memories consistent with them never having existed. I mean, what would their memories even be?! And it would be even more confusing for their living ancestors who may find that as well as now having (grand)children they have no memory of, the ones they do have memories of suddenly no longer exist.

There are too many timeline branches from that one incursion to cover all the bases here. Does someone with my name exist (alternative sperm / egg theory)? Do they live in the same house? Do I get caught and arrested either way? How soon do I realise what’s happened?

I mean I probably realise a lot sooner than the average person because I’ve consumed a lot of sci-fi and am well aware of It’s a Wonderful Life, but it doesn’t really help.

My parents probably live in the same place. I’d go there for help if I hadn’t figured it out yet. Maybe if I had. I don’t know whether they would help for sure though.

My father might think I’m actually a descendent of one of his parents’ relatives. My mother would definitely see the resemblance. Maybe I also look like my “replacement”. That would be traumatic and confusing for all concerned though.

Imagine getting a DNA test done to prove it. That’s a long way off and/or unlikely , but it would conclusively prove I’m their kid. There’d be hospital mix-up investigations. It wouldn’t be the first time there have been twins. Now I must be a long lost fraternal twin of another person who has my name.

If they have no child of a similar age, that just raises even more questions. Did they collectively lose their minds and abandon a child at some point?

But that’s distant speculation. Maybe they tell me to get lost. Maybe I don’t go there in the first place.

If I do realise what’s happened sooner rather than later, maybe I leave my parents alone. I’d probably go to a local hospital and lurk around the cafe and shop until I get help, get my head together with a better plan, or get arrested. I need medication anyway, not that I can prove that. I assume drug names are the same.

I’d probably have to take each moment as I find it and act accordingly. As to how I’d act, that’s very hard to say until it’s actually happening.

This has the same energy as that Tumblr thread* about how all odd numbers (in English) have an ‘e’ in them, and people butting in and saying things like “Nonsense! Eight is even and it has an e in it.”

* The same thing may also have happened on Twitter if not elsewhere.

Since there’s a reasonably strong link to calculus, and mechanics as you’ve already found, it could theoretically help in physics simulations either in a computer or on paper.

As for practical application, well, emulating physics is pretty important in a lot of computer games, or getting robots (assembly line arms, androids, automated vacuum cleaners) around the place and to do what they need without accidentally catapulting themselves into next Tuesday.

How that’s actually programmed might not involve dual numbers at all, but they’re one way of looking at how those calculations might be done.

A lot of “advanced” maths comes from asking “What if this was a thing, how would that work? Would it even work?”, so you could say there’s a deliberate sense of “fake” about it.

Dual numbers come from “What if there was another number that isn’t 0 which when multiplied by itself you get 0?”

Basic dual numbers (and complex numbers) are no harder than basic algebra, shallow end of the pool kind of stuff, but then not everyone is comfortable getting in the water in the first place, and that’s OK too.

Came here to say this, but since it’s already here, I’ll throw in a bonus mind-melting fact: ε itself has no square root in the dual numbers.

1. I have this odd, perhaps part troll, feeling that there are two, and only two, roots of the Riemann Zeta function that aren’t on the critical line, and are instead mirrors of each other at either side of it, like some weird pair of complex conjugates. Further, while I really want their real parts to be 1/4 and 3/4, the actual variance from 1/2 will be some inexplicable irrational number.

2. Multiplication order in current mathematics standards should happen the other way around when it’s in a non-commutative algebra. I think this because transfinite multiplication apparently requires the transfinite part to go before any finite part to prevent collapse of meaning. For example, we can’t write 2ω for the next transfinite ordinal because 2ω is just ω again on account of transfinite and backwards multiplication weirdness, and we have to write ω·2 or ω×2 instead like we’re back at primary school.

Ahh, Liquid Television. Thank you. The other block of odd programmes that ended up on BBC2. It’s been a long, long time, so I’m not surprised I mixed them up!

Aeon Flux (the anime TV series, not the movie)

I want to say it was aired as part of the Def II, teenage audience program slot on BBC2 in the '90s, the original UK home of Ren and Stimpy and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, but the Wikipedia article for Def II doesn’t mention it at all.

Edit: Nope, it was Liquid Television (see reply). Some but not all of MTV’s weird programmes ended up on BBC2, sometimes even under the original parent name, like Liquid Television.

Did you mean this one: https://imgur.com/iHcSTI5

20th century? The Yalta Conference was a pretty big one in WWII. Churchill, FDR and Stalin all met to determine what was to be done about a certain Austrian and his fan club.