Good question and a great segue into a fun fact: it seems quite possible people waking up in the middle of the night was the norm for centuries, and that the assumption of sleeping the whole night is potentially a more modern idea.
I am having trouble finding a specific article, but a historian recently catalogued a large number of historical entries which note 'the second sleep'. He basically posited that it's likely that for ages, people in the pre-industrial world would sleep for about 3-4 hours, wake up in the middle of the night for an hour or two, and would then go back to sleep.
Article talking about it.
Articles quite often say that writing as far back as homer talk about an hour which terminates the first sleep like a normal thing everyone knows about. I haven't read much of homer or Virgil so i can't personally confirm or deny that.
It's more a philosophy for Unix systems. When we say that "everything is a file", we're saying that even devices should show up on the filesystem (/dev), even network ports should show up on the filesystem, even processes should show up on the filesystem(/proc), etc... and that is as opposed to having a different system abstraction handle those functions instead.
Of course when you look deeper into it, linux does not explicitly follow that rule, it more just adheres to it. It's more a guideline than an explicit statement of fact
Top left sounds pretty much how i'd expect death to be like anyways. Whatever emotion you're feeling as you pass just gets freeze-framed like a tv glitching out, and then you just experience that. Period. Confusion being that emotion doesn't sound too horrible.
Then again, whatever the VR thing is could be fine. If it's too small a space, though, then perhaps not. Also, if it's a bad place then that's just a form of hell.
In regards to I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, they aren't in a virtual reality , at least not based on the descriptions given. It seems that the machine is just so powerful that it can keep those it is tormenting alive indefinitely.
No, they couldn't pronounce the 'th' sound. The best they could do was a breathy 't' sound. So in the original printing presses, mostly produced in France, thorn was omitted, and 'th' was used instead. That convention has continued all the way into modern type. At least that's the story I've been told in the past.
Thank you. I figured i'd gotten info wrong but all the articles I found about him were being extremely vague, so i figured i'd leave things up to Cunningham's Law.
I think yes, because saying 'no' also throws into question whether present you consenting on future you's behalf is moral, which can lead down a path of concluding autonomy itself is immoral.
Meanwhile, if we just say 'yeah, the non-existant future you is allowed to consent to things on past you's behalf', we avoid all that mumbo jumbo. Honestly, it's something people do actually do sometimes, now that I think about it. Forgiveness almost operates in that fashion.
Good question and a great segue into a fun fact: it seems quite possible people waking up in the middle of the night was the norm for centuries, and that the assumption of sleeping the whole night is potentially a more modern idea.
I am having trouble finding a specific article, but a historian recently catalogued a large number of historical entries which note 'the second sleep'. He basically posited that it's likely that for ages, people in the pre-industrial world would sleep for about 3-4 hours, wake up in the middle of the night for an hour or two, and would then go back to sleep. Article talking about it.
Articles quite often say that writing as far back as homer talk about an hour which terminates the first sleep like a normal thing everyone knows about. I haven't read much of homer or Virgil so i can't personally confirm or deny that.