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> When I was a kid I really had this thing for switching a light switch between off and on. Know what I mean? There's a spot you can hold it between off and on where the light flickers, and buzzes, at low power, sort of randomly.

I relate to this on a spiritual level. When I was a child, I would go around the house and set all the switchs to that "in-between" state.




> A discrete decision based upon an input having a continuous range of values cannot be made within a bounded length of time.

~ Leslie Lamport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan's_ass#Buridan's_princi...

;-)


Just so people know, if you do that just wrong it can cause a fire.




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