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One more on the topic of determinism and I'm done for today:
If the future is known, then couldn't that mean that with some kind of super-powerful computer, you could predict it?
And if future events are known in the past, doesn't that create the ever-popular Predestination Paradox?
If not, then our understanding of time must be waaaay off. As a matter of fact, I think I read an article in Discover magazine on the subject...I don't remember all the details, but it was an interesting read (not necessarily fun, just interesting).
My theory: If you were to know the events of the future (say, by travelling to the past), and you could influence the events of the past to "change" the future, you're simply moving along a different timeline than you were before; i.e. there are an infinite number of alternate timelines, and our idea of "free will" is simply the ability to choose which timeline we follow.
I'm pretty sure there's support for that idea as well. So maybe the universe is completely deterministic, but at the same time, free will can exist.
Wondering if I get the one of the jobs from my interviews last week and trying to understand how i can screw up following a step by step tutorial. I try very hard to create run ons. lol. Have a nice day everyone. this thread just keeps going and going and going.
Just curious, wonder what the subject matter was from the longest thread ever run on LQ?
$ echo 'Univat zber sha jvgu NFZ.
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> V znqr n cebtenz gung nccyvrf EBG13 gb fgqva naq cevagf vg gb fgqbhg, hfvat whfg Yvahk flfgrz pnyyf naq ab P yvoenel shapgvbaf.' | ./rot13
Having more fun with ASM.
I made a program that applies ROT13 to stdin and prints it to stdout, using just Linux system calls and no C library functions.
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But you do know that asm is unportable and unportable is bad.
Using the C lib its not architecture portable but is OS portable.
Without using the C lib it is not portable at all.
It nips at me a bit if something is not portable.
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