The more complex a system becomes, the more interesting it is likely to be when a catastrophe strikes.<\/p>\n
Take, for example, a cup of water on an empty table.\u00c2\u00a0 When the cup gets knocked over, the water spills out on the table and isn’t terribly exciting.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s replace the water with some Hawaiian Punch.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Now you knock it over and you get a red pool on the table and a red stain left behind once you clean it up.\u00c2\u00a0 See?\u00c2\u00a0 More interesting.<\/p>\n
So let’s add a bit more to it.\u00c2\u00a0 Like, say, a computer.\u00c2\u00a0 You know, keyboard, mouse, tower.\u00c2\u00a0 Stuff like that.\u00c2\u00a0 And speakers.\u00c2\u00a0 And a rat’s nest of cabling to connect it all together.\u00c2\u00a0 Change the table to a computer desk.\u00c2\u00a0 Put a nice light colored carpet underneath all of it.\u00c2\u00a0 We can’t forget the power strips on the ground behind the set up, either.\u00c2\u00a0 And, oh yeah, a slight incline making the desk higher in the front.<\/p>\n
Now tip over the cup.<\/p>\n
The mouse pad, keyboard, speaker cable, and tower effectively contain all of the liquid in a small space on the desk.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing spills out the front, nothing spills out the side.\u00c2\u00a0 However, let’s not forget the incline.\u00c2\u00a0 The incline causes what would be a containment fence on a level surface to become a funnel, which swiftly and efficiently drains the pool of sugary liquid through a narrow space between a section of the desk and the computer tower, and out the backside of the desk, where it produces a red cascade directly onto the rat’s nest of wiring, the power strips, and the white carpeting\u00c2\u00a0below.<\/p>\n
Yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 That was -AWESOME-\u00c2\u00a0 You just can’t anticipate that kind of failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The more complex a system becomes, the more interesting it is likely to be when a catastrophe strikes. Take, for example, a cup of water on an empty table.\u00c2\u00a0 When the cup gets knocked over, the water spills out on the table and isn’t terribly exciting.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s replace the water with some Hawaiian Punch.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Now you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[31,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}