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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> Oops, hit send before done:
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message news:...
>> "Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> wrote in message
>> news:a913d10c-7799-4ec3-9357-d94e9da2deb7@googlegroups.com...
> ...
>>> A system that decides to just ignore race conditions as "unavoidable" is
>>> going in the wrong direction. Most likely, it will kill us all when it's
>>> running self-driving cars and autopilots.
>>
>> An entirely a-priori system that fails to a-posteriori-ly overtly
>> inventory, categorize, and map/fold (i.e., prune/conflate the
>> branches of) the combinatorial explosion of this-before-that and
>> that-before-this uncontrollable arrival times of real-world events to
>> conflate it to, say, linear or sublinear growth instead of the
>> natural exponential-growth combinatorial explosion is a system whose
>> excessively myopic compile-time mathematical proofs are based on the
>> wrong axiom system and the wrong possible-world in modal logic.
>
> Wow - a huge pile of buzz words that really mean nothing. It's pretty
> clear that you've drunk this kool-aid to the point that talking with
> you on this subject is pointless. But let me finish by saying that a
> system that doesn't isolate irrelevant events is garbage (and a huge
> security issue). It doesn't matter what the real-world does in that
> case -- the inability to filter irrelevant events is one reason why
> junk phone calls are so evil. (And why I almost never answer a phone
> these days.)

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