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Needless to say i'm talking about the oversimplified and misleading version of the Schrödinger's cat paradigm, where he is both dead and alive until you watch it.

I don't have a job but i follow theater courses at an academy. And my improvisation is both funny and awful until i show it to others.

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[–] Strider@thelemmy.club 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For work I use a database written in COBOL. Reports are simultaneously running and frozen until I either get the report results or sufficient time has passed that I'm certain the system has crashed.

[–] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't that the halting problem?

[–] Strider@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 weeks ago

A textbook example, yes. And Today I Learned something!

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 points 2 weeks ago

What thinking about a close one. Some Application and servers are OK and KO as long as you don't look at it