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Every time I start dealing with time, programatically, I’m reminded of this quote Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had some tyrannical god contrived to enslave our minds to time, to [...]
Let us pretend for a moment that you have a critical system which can *just* handle the strain that it’s under (I’m sure all of you have workloads well under your system capabilities, or capabilities well over your workload requirements, of course; still for the sake of argument…) And you have a job to do [...]