Linux all the way, for loads of practical and ethical reasons

Truat me, you ro not want to experience CPU based rendering on high resolution displays

Until now I could get by with Scihub and Arxiv for college and personal hyperfixation research, but I’d actually love to ask an author directly some time if I ever run into a paper where that’s necessary.

My college doesn’t include any of the popular publishers in it’s online library, so yeah. It’s either open access or Sci-Hub

One person can only be on the spot for one number. As soon as more than one gets killed, that would mean that the trolley has traversed some distance, which implies that it has killed an infinite number of people. That is impossible in any finite timespan under the aforementioned assumption. Thus the only logical conclusion is that it gets stuck after the first person is killed, at the exact spot the first number is mapped to.

I guess there could also be a different solution when you look at the problem from a different angle. Treating infinity with this little mathematical care tends to cause paradoxes.

Assuming that it takes some amount of energy to kill one person, and that the trolley doesn’t have an engine with infinite power, choosing the bottom track would save lives. The trolley would have to expend an infinite amount of energy to move any distance from the starting point, so it would just get stuck there while trying to crush the unimaginable amount of people bunched up in front of it.

I love documentation like this. No need to be formal when a simple analogy works too

They don’t exactly build the cocoon. Caterpillars periodically shed their outer skin layer, and the “cocoon” is just one of those layers. Turning into soup is also quite inaccurate. This video explains the process pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RaCURU6A2o