Steps to reproduce (on mac osx leopard): 1. log on using SSH 2. start screen 3. detach and logoff 4. logon again, screen -dr

At this point screen is in a weird state with the following symptoms: - DNS requests do not work: cannot resolve domain.tld: Unknown host - 'whoami' returns the uid of the user instead of the username - sudo gives: sudo: uid 501 does not exist in the passwd file!

Frost himself warned "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem – very tricky."

The assumption is that each voter will vote for the candidate or party that is closest to his or her political position. Thus when a candidate takes a position to the right of the other candidate he or she will get the votes of all to the right of that position. As with the ice cream sellers on the beach the political candidates will choose a political position that is virtually the same as their opponent's. Furthermore the candidates will be driven to select the political position of the median voter.

The Kruskal count shows how seemingly unconnected or unrelated chains of events can lock together after a while. Such counterintuitive processes underlie many amazing coincidences and startling predictions. They're what the magician has up his sleeve.

Extreme redundancy

 If the whole idea is to leverage redundancy then the groups who author the launch control code for the Space Shuttle have made this an extreme sport. They have two separate isolated teams--working in different parts of the country--who both implement against exactly the same spec but are allowed no cross-communication at all. They plan their design independently and code independently to produce two programs that both do exactly the same thing, but not the same way. Both programs are installed on redundant computers aboard the Shuttle, each receiving the same input and issuing the same commands to control thrusters and flight surfaces. Only one program is allowed to be dominant, but its output is compared against the output of its sister program to make sure they're exactly the same. If there's a deviation then ground control can pick which one "wins" the argument, or abort the mission.

When you, the student writer, understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire that skill which is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs: the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your imagined reader/gallery-goer/customer.