I’m glad there’s someone else out there with the same concerns.

I’d be more glad if unknowns and inconsistencies were frankly acknowledged. Even though in some senses Feynman contributed to the metaphorical tech debt, one of the things I love about his lectures is his frankness in regard to the (then) current state of knowledge, and about how much was simply unknown. Much of that is still unknown, and there are major glaring inconsistencies that are handwaved into oblivion.

To be clear, this is not an “anti-science” comment, but rather a desire to see the institution of science become more consistent, and to address unknowns honestly.

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The state cannot have been absolutely static - if it was, the big bang would not have occurred, and the same stasis would be existing now, unchanged.

Darn. I fold.

Time is change, and exists whether or not we measure it.

Fireman’s ball.

Any information given would obviously be for use with another device.

QR code, for example. These are instructions or information about the crash, not links (except the QR code, which would obviously be read by another device).

The only proper response.

Because for the bulk of users, unless they are power users, all they need to know is that things didn’t work.

Things actually useful to have on the BSOD:

• distro-specific instructions for submitting a bug report
• option to reboot
• option to show debug info
• option to show a qr code that submits a bug report
• and, if configured by the distro or system admin, debug info

I don’t think the contributions of the dishwasher and the Baker are equal, unless perhaps the dishwasher is deeply dedicated to the bakery - to the point where they’re dedicating their life to it.

What is to prevent them from entering into an exploitative partnership?

This. The institution of science is deeply biased towards the established knowledge base - partly due to monetary interests, partly due to ‘simple’ social inertia, like when someone doesn’t want some kid to come up with ideas that may invalidate things they have seen to (seem to) work.

Like with magnetohydrodynamics - it’s useful for modeling some things, but depends on the notion that space (as in, the interplanetary and interstellar medium) is either nonconductive or infinitely conductive - which simply isn’t the case.

Plasma cosmologists have made some really nutty assertions. However, ideas should be treated on their merit - and some of what they theorize has a lot of solidity. But in general, it’s treated with derision, because (admittedly) it also traffics in unicorns.

If someone who purports to traffic in unicorns also traffics in the Principia Mathematica, it doesn’t invalidate the latter.

Well, I used to sleep in a lake.

Love the love, hate the hate. It’s a good default.

Well said.

Meh. Everything that can happen, does happen.

I believe there’s an absolute infinity.

• It’s not PHP
• It’s already implemented in browsers

Well, to play devil’s advocate - and species eating it’s own on the regular would be a failure - but much more so for one whose primary strength is working together.

I’m referring to the laws of the universe, which have not always been consistent. A strange attractor can form states that are temporarily dynamically stable - and for something like the universe, we may not notice any small changes to ‘constants,’ as we are directly subject to them (including our tools of measurement). Aside from that, change is likely so slow that we may not even notice it.

Nevertheless, if the big bang is in any form to be believes, we must accept that the universe’s basic laws can change, and yet they enter states where they do not noticeably change. If the pattern of the rest of nature holds (massive numbers of similar forms and structures distributed over time and space, where rough repetition along a common theme is a common theme), the universe will probably do similarly.

What would be incredibly odd would be:

• something came into existence from nothing
• that something happened for a while
• that something basically stops happening due to even distribution of energy throughout space
• end of story

Or

• no consistency whatsoever

Either of those seem unlikely. But, of course, I live in this universe, so I could be biased. :-)