[tz] New Yorker article on David Mills and NTP
Steve Allen
sla at ucolick.org
Tue Oct 4 22:43:31 UTC 2022
On Wed 2022-10-05T04:14:42+0700 Robert Elz hath writ:
> Or, perhaps your kids knew that the clock on the wall was wrong (fast),
> and were relying upon that to get to the bus stop to catch the bus
> to school, you move the clock backwards by 10 minutes, and they miss the
> bus. [rest of adventure redacted]
We have constructed a system wherein the components only work as
expected with a simplistic notion of time that tells lies to them.
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