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Even in your own examples 0 means different things. It’s not an approximation, it’s wrong.
by wzdd 2y ago
Even in your own examples 0 means different things. It’s not an approximation, it’s wrong.
- bvaldivielso 2y agoAll models are wrong, some are useful. I found his explanation useful while knowing it was not correct
- helpfulContrib 2y agoBut this statement is wrong and should not be propagated: "pid 0 refers to myself". pid 0 refers to the thing that is running 'myself', not to myself, itself. It is the thing which gave way to allow 'myself' to be executing in the current context. It is more accurate to say "pid 0 is the source of cpu 'attention' which allows myself 'awareness'", as it discovered I was not idle, and granted me power to proceed with processing ..
- echoangle 2y agoBeing slightly wrong is kind of the thing that makes an approximation an approximation
- mrits 2y agoI think generalization would have been a better word but everyone understands what they meant