That’s actually a great point that I did overlook.

You know, this really has me pondering my projects architecture. We have tiers of services.

At the top, we have the UI. Then we have a “consumer” an “orchestra” and a “data” tier.

Data is the tier that exclusively talks to databases. Orchestra talks to the multiple data services. A good chunk of business logic is here. Consumer uses the orchestra and handles UI requests.

All it essentially does is split the monolith into 3 services at minimum. And since it’s on the cloud, there’s a start up cost where we need to spin up 3 machines instead of whatever you can do with microservices. What benefit do I get?

The managers do say “move fast and break things.”

They don’t like it when we do which is odd.

Fun yes.

Funding? What’s that?

Independent.

Speed of light in a true vacuum.

Speed of light through any non-vacuum decreases.

The speed of causality remains the same.

Look man. Mycelium. It’s all connected don’t you see? I don’t mean clones. They’re not clones. Its something else. It’s one BIG connection. It’s one BIG organism.

And it’s MASSIVE. You think it’s just a little mushroom on the forest floor. But under that mushroom is a string. A string that connects to another string that may be connects to a root or another mushroom. Then strings with no mushrooms between the trees. And the strings outpace the trees.

So the direction the trees grow in? Isn’t decided by the trees, or the larger environment around it at all. It’s decided by the mycelium. They grow outward, find the nutrients, and set the conditions for seeds to grow there, and change conditions elsewhere.

The war between fungi and bacteria is an ancient and bloody one.

I don’t fear the bacteria. No. They can colonize and grow resistance to antibacterials produced by the fungi and chemists. But fungi? Fungi can communicate. Fungi can parasitize. Fungi can grow in radiation contaminated environments.

They are the dominant lifeform on this planet.

And if you still don’t believe me, wait until you inexplicably have a yeast infection despite practicing hygiene taught at a super young age. That itch. That pain. It’s a higher evolved organism consuming everything.

The fact that you knew exactly what I was talking about enough to pull up the relevant XKCD is impressive good sir/ma’am/(actually I don’t know what the non binary term would be there. I know military it’s “Sir” regardless).

Wait. Actually.

This is brilliant. Jees. I hope I have a couple of these guys show up. I need so much help organizing my house it overwhelms everyone I know, but cult members seeking cult members sound like an excellent opportunity if all I have to pay is the wear and tear on my social battery.

Eh. It would create a whole new set of problems.

Especially when it comes to theorists vs experimentalists. Both agree that experiment is necessary to prove the theory. Both agree that unexpected observation in experiments needs new theory.

Theorists are usually the type to mentally explore possibilities based on prior knowledge before physically testing possibilites. Some may never actually experiment they get so wrapped up in the exploration.

Experimentalists are usually the type to physically test possibilities before mentally exploring “why” the outcomes happened. Some may never actually mentally explore possibilities because they died in an experiment.

This seems to be intrinsic to these scientists. So much so the interactions would be similar to anyone actually willing to talk to missionaries.

If it were possible to convert people to theorists, we’d have a lot less proven, and if it were possible to convert people to experimentalists, we’d all be dead.

No no no, there are no forces. It’s energy controlling invisible fields literally everywhere.

Physics, is it’s own terror

But you want to know what is magic about physics?

Forces. Forces are definitely observable. But they are fictitious. A photon (force mediator of the electromagnetic force) is a packet of energy on the electromagnetic field that creates a curvature in the electromagnetic field such that two particles with opposing charges (intrinsic charge) has that field curved together, resulting in what an observer would see as a force.

Gravity? The thing keeping everything on the ground? Not real. Just a result of the spacetime field being curved by the presence of energy in it. In order to escape the curve, you have to exchange energy, which is to be a force.

Been there too OP. Not a good place.

It’s usually easier to find another job, it will reset your mind, and fear won’t be driving you.

Or you could just commit what you have, comment “YOLO” and auto resolve conflicts and push.

Are you referring to the holographic principal?

My dad is a mathematician and loves to play with it. He’s got entire notebooks with it but unfortunately nothing profound (he was a professor for years). Mostly just proofs resulting in what’s already been published (not sure why, maybe he’s looking for something or just thinks it’s cool?)

It’s all fun and games until someone points out that anti-atoms are predicted to have identical properties to atoms.

Then the whole chiral parity symmetry stuff gets involved, and you talk about quantized spacetime, and how come the entire universe is essentially perturbations on a continous universe spanning set of fields, and things start getting existential.

I personally believe time is the real problem.

The concept of foreign languages in code confuses and frightens me

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Yep. You’re right.

I couldn’t possibly think anyone would do that with CSS which is why it caught me off guard.

Wait, that last one. It’s a syntax I don’t recognize. What is this slightly less nonsensical design?

Hehehehe

You absolutely won’t be disappointed by explosing your database to SQL directly from the API.