Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:11:50 -0400 From: "Coleman Kane" <zombyfork@gmail.com> To: "Wilko Bulte" <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@freebsd.org>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <346a80220604240911r6f09070bo4ad0a16c0b51ac76@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060422085249.GA56357@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200604171214.k3HCEmhi046619@repoman.freebsd.org> <868xq4yxme.fsf@xps.des.no> <44447DAE.6070009@root.org> <20060418065031.GB9933@soaustin.net> <444569E1.90609@root.org> <20060419193714.GA39763@freebie.xs4all.nl> <346a80220604201837u264e0f4el30ffb8b97b640ed7@mail.gmail.com> <20060422085249.GA56357@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On 4/22/06, Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:37:39PM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote.. > > On 4/19/06, Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:36:17PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote.. > > > > Mark Linimon wrote: > > > > >On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:48:30PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > > >>>Are you absolutely sure that the corruption isn't > intentional? Note > > > > >>>that the only non-printable characters are \a; it seems to me > that > > > the > > > > >>>point of this truncated entry is precisely to leave the reader > > > > >>>wondering what the punchline is and cursing the "line noise". > > > > >>I think the line noise should be replaced with something about > Hitler. > > > > > > > > > >Godwin's Law invoked. Film at 11. > > > > > > > > Can I claim to have invented a law also? > > > > > > Sure you can. And maybe you should commit it to the fortune/datfiles > to > > > preserve it for historical purposes? :-P > > > > > > > Nate's law: > > > > 1. Each commit to fortune/datfiles generates at least 20 comments > > > > 2. People only commit to fortune/datfiles to keep their commit bit > from > > > > expiring > > > > Conclusion: expiring commit bits cause the most discussion > > Hmmm... infinite recursion in the fortune file... 8-) > > -- > Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org I don't think that I could necessarily agree with that assessment. Each commit simply generates comments. So we've postulated that each commit generates at least 20 comments (as per rule #1 above). This means that activity on fortune/datfiles causes a directly proportional amount of activity on cvs-src@freebsd.org, albeit magnified by at least a factor of twenty. Now if we go further to hypothesize that the 20-fold increase in activity spurs further commits to fortune/datfiles (of which there has been one commit since the time T=3D0 commit event, but which cannot necessarily be attributed to resultant activity/discussion) then we can conclude that thes= e resulting actions will also result in further commits (and thus, the infinite recursion you speak of) in our universe. -- coleman
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