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28 Jul 2024 10:23:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Conservation of sanity  
From: clipka
Date: 25 Jun 2014 06:03:05
Message: <53aa9e59$1@news.povray.org>
Am 23.06.2014 21:50, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
> According to the first law of thermodynamics, heat is conserved. As
> such, if you put a hot object next to a cold one, the cold one will warm
> up - but the hot one will also cool down.
>
> I posit that sanity obeys a similar conservation principle. When I work
> on a really old piece of code, as my work progresses the code becomes
> more sane - but I become less sane...

Makes sense; after all, according to quantum mechanics there /is/ such a 
thing as conservation of information...

(... and it appears that black holes violate this law by swallowing 
information, so yes, sanity in the universe is slowly declining...)


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