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How can you tell that two clocks are 22 nanoseconds apart? If the clocks are in the same room and you have a fast oscilloscope at hand, it's easy. If the cloc
by jloughry 13y ago
How can you tell that two clocks are 22 nanoseconds apart?
If the clocks are in the same room and you have a fast oscilloscope at hand, it's easy.
If the clocks are more than about 6 metres apart, it really is impossible.
- dragonwriter 13y agoSo, if you have a room that's got a dimension larger than 6 meters, and a fast oscilloscope, you can have a situation in which it is both easy and impossible?
- jloughry 13y agoI get in trouble regularly with my wife because I've been trained my whole life to think in a particular way, and that's not how other humans are wired: if (a) { b; } if (c) { d; } versus if (a) { b; } else if (c) { d; } She has mostly learned to put up with me by now, but the difference (how programmers think) still comes out sometimes. Edited to explain: programmers don't think exactly like other humans.
- dragonwriter 13y agoOf course, in programming in the first case, "b" and "d" both happen when "a" and "c" are both true in many languages, unless "b" is something like "return e" But, anyway, I was mostly joking -- its not like your meaning was at all unclear.