[tz] New Yorker article on David Mills and NTP

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Tue Oct 4 23:03:56 UTC 2022


Steve Allen wrote in
 <20221004224331.GA26297 at ucolick.org>:
 |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.

You can smear a bit, here and there.  To adjust the outcome to the
expectation.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)


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