Must also be hard for the average Unix demon to get any street cred.
“And after the hot sulfur enema, I waterboard them. Anyway, what is your job?”
“I, eh, I wait around and when something requests some info I reply, mostly within a second.”
“That’s … supposed to be … punishment?”
“But it’s the internet! You find all kinds of vile disinformation, lewd images, large scale destabilization of society. In fact, the website I serve might appear innocent, but I suspect it’s a really an online drug market, I mean ‘Straight Dope’?!”
“Let me see, hah, their slogan is about fighting ignorance, sounds like some hopelessly wholesome goody twoshoes!”
“Hey, they admit themselves it’s taking longer than they thought!”
The only catch for Maxwell’s Demon’s scheme is how much work opening and shutting the gate is.
Don’t forget tracking the particle(s). I get exhausted just watching FtGGrandkid1 roam around non-stop.
I, eh, wait around for some dev to have screwed up and then I spew demons like you out his nose and destroy the entire server room. The only thing better than hot sulfur enemas is thousands of hot sulfur enemas.
The other demons probably laugh at the way the Unix daemons spell their names, too.
We really, really need like buttons.
Good election day strip.
I suppose taking the long view is one way of coping.
Well said.
As opposed to arbitrary fragments of rock which were probably part of solid beds for most of the past, Klerksdorp sphere - Wikipedia s have existed as discrete objects for as much as three billion years!
P.S. I wonder if Munroe is going to keep up his Harris sign for the next four years as a protest.
I remember as a child watching Fantasia and during “The Rite of Spring” segment’s early part being inexpicably sad that whole landscapes were being thrown up and destroyed unseen.
I feel the same sadness knowing the visible universe is only a part of the whole and, because of expansion, the unseen part is unknown and unreachable. Even sadder is that the visible part is shrinking and, far into the future we will be, indeed, in an island galaxy, the only one visible and keep on going from there.
There’s a really interesting vaguely Fibonacci-like recursive descent going on there. It’d be interesting to explore how it develops from various starting points or if tracking numbers/digits other than 2 & 3.
Of course you could turn it over and instead of shortages have excesses. e.g.
The math department number excess is getting worse! We have 15 2s and 12 3s on the shelf.
No, wait, 17 2s and 13 3s.
No, wait, …
I wonder if that’s one of those monotonically increasing yet also converging series.
You’ll add at least one 2 and one 3 each time, so I don’t see any sense in which the sequence would converge. Put another way, any sequence of integers that’s monotonically increasing will diverge.
I could almost believe that there was some mathematical argument that triangles have more in common with circles than with other polygons. Stranger things than that turn up in math.
They both have the trigonometry gene.