Who are the big blocks that survive the collapse though?
Some BSD server somewhere which was last rebooted in 1994. No one is really sure where it’s physically located, but it keeps everything running.
And it still pings, of course
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#32Just to mention the original was cited in the most recent Veritasium video:
"The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ
(at about the 9:50 mark)
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some BSD server somewhere which was last rebooted in 1994. No one is really sure where it’s physically located, but it keeps everything running.
And it still pings, of course
Of course.
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#34Here's a little more context about the author's motivation:
https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/116162797629337132
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#35the weird physics are mildly infuriating. still funny though
That is the joke, I think. The game is to touch anything and try to not make the rest fall down.
Not sure. It's not it being unstable, it's small bricks moving bigger stuff to the side and maybe even upward. If I missed the joke I just don't find it funny.
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#36This is very real.
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#37Register the mousemove event handler on window, then you will still get the events when the mouse moves out of the window/frame while dragging and it won't be that buggy.
Was about to comment the same. It's a common mistake/gotcha.
Possibly dumb question, but does that still hold inside p5js?
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#38I love that the initial state itself isn't stable. The world keeps moving around us. Can't choose staying still.
Interesting! It's stable on my machine. I wonder if this is due to floating-point differences.
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#39I was expecting it to open the FFmpeg website at the end.
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#40THIS IS THE BEST THING EVAR!