Good number of heavy lines to understand from his speech. “Most of us discover where we were headed once we arrive”… a philosophy I’ve built out of that was trying new things even when I thought I’d found the best, new places, restaurants, ideas.

Life’s all about the experiences, even the ones far off the beaten path.

Arcs don’t need to be high current. But this will absolutely fail at some point, how soon is a question.

Fuck yeah, this is one of my favorites. I see if my dates can get with the weirdness by sending this to them and see what they think. Too weird? No worries, cya!

No, some 1200cc motorcycles use them.

Bigger fish to fry at that point bub

Words! Verbs! Adjective adjective adjective!

#capitalistPropaganda

Oh fuuuuck. Nature is crazy 😬

Shit like this is why I don’t believe there’s a god

I really, really dislike the guy, but if he didn’t actually use imagery from the film… Does this suit actually have standing?

C’mon guys, cripes. What are we doing here, feeding lawyers for the sake of feeding lawyers??

Hmm… Is this like that black mirror episode where the vet thought he lived in a beautiful house, but was in fact a hovel because of the government implant changing what he could see?

Brush yo teeth bruh.

Just kidding 🤪

Gonna be a long, hard boat ride.

Socal?

First wall problems compounded by geometric constraints, fueling, magnetic & corresponding mechanical complexities, particularly over long periods of time where material fatigue sets in due to coils applying heavy, dynamic loading… there’s a lot against tokamaks.

They seem to impress people, and we could all use novel research into MHD. But @[email protected] is kind of correct.

I like taking care of kids, pets and eating edibles just fine, thanks.

All of what you’re saying seems correct. I think this is more of a meta discussion, on how (in this case) retries, even with exponential back off, aren’t a solution by themselves when you look at the system overall. There are interesting hidden caveats to any common solutions, this is one I personally wasn’t aware of.

Practically, adding a timeout budget so that the clients themselves just error out (forcing a manual refresh) sorta accomplishes the same as what you’re positing.

Is there anything like this in the US? Seems like a fun group.

Hmm… I’d say that was an obvious example to cause the situation, the real point was exposing the more subtle problems with feedback loops.

What happens if the server in question was at 80% capacity, and due to hardware faults, that leads to 100% utilization? Can you reconfigure your services if there’s a cascading overload through enough of the system without actually adding to the system load? What do you do about the fact that these loops gets ever more powerful and sudden the larger the system?

The author seemed to be suggesting that we carefully consider how to avoid open feedback loops, and build stability in. This article clued me in that stability problems can be borne from “industry standard” advice if you don’t carefully think about it.

Very interesting, thanks for this article. It’s funny how I notice ever more repetition of phenomena through different branches of engineering; metastable failure caused by feedback loops is possible both in mechanical and electrical engineering. Named differently though, resonance and ringing, respectively.

Good article, thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC1C0lH1SqM for the werewolf version