meditating on when I was still reading hacker news and somebody posted “the solution to the halting problem is to simply terminate execution after a while” and it was extremely upvoted and I realized these were not my people

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@zzt remember that this is literally the solution the Ethereum Virtual Machine uses, your badly coded function runs out of money

[robinsyl@meow.social]

@zzt The solution to the grandfather paradox is "just don't do that"

[lproven@social.vivaldi.net]

@zzt @davidgerard

This is the community of utter twonks that the head of platform at Ubuntu asked "what do you want to see in Ubuntu $NEXT?"

Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? | Hacker News

(news.ycombinator.com)

The result was killing Unity, the end of the phones and tablets, returning to GNOME, and a legion of other epic mistakes.

Absolute complete suicidal fool, asking this maelstrom of toxic nerd masculinity for _guidance_.

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@zzt I mean, I can easily solve the halting problem in any algorithm on any computer. Give me a hammer and I'll make sure it halts.

[spinnyspinlock@infosec.exchange]

@zzt I am very happy I don't visit that site anymore, but sad I miss out on such computer science breakthroughs

[kkarhan@jorts.horse]

@zzt this doesn't work unless one can pre-determine all states of a program and required runtime.

• If your program/task is simple enough for that, watchdog functionality is easy to support.
  • If not (which is the case with anything not hard-realtime capable!) then that doesn't succeed…

Also HackerNews/Ycombinator is just gsrbage…

[kkarhan@jorts.horse]

@davidgerard @zzt Eeyupp, also with #Solana.

• One can literally burn through tons of shitcoins just because one's validator isn't able to saturate it's 10G-NIC and destroy it's NVMe's with IOPS at the same time.
  • And no, I'm not joking: #CryptoBros are still a problem, they judt habe less $$$$$$$$ than the #AIbros!

[starkrg@myside-yourside.net]

@kkarhan @zzt Set up a skyscraper-sized antimatter bomb to go off after, say, 100 instructions. Then you know for a fact that the program will always terminate once it's processed 100 instructions.

[abucci@buc.ci]

"I will respond to my inability to decide something by changing the rules, deciding a different thing, pretending that I've decided the original thing, and rallying a bunch of people to pretend with me" sums up a lot of modern dysfunction, seems to me.

[demallien@mindly.social]

@zzt oh dear, I literally spent the first 15s after reading this wondering «  but what if the while never finishes - you never get to the terminate ». Which in a funny way is exactly the problem.