[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)
More information about the tz
mailing list