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		indigoabstract on March 20, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what ast... Call it professional bias, but I like to think about it as a big VM. If for some reason, things go awry, the (said) programmer will hit the pause button, then diligently go to the last valid snapshot, fix the bug and then get things going again. If this isn't desired, fixing the current mess is also an option. The time required for fixing bugs isn't really an issue in this case, he can take as long as he likes.

function_seven on March 20, 2025 [–]

VMs are too resource hungry.

No, the many-worlds interpretation shows that our universes are merely containers with copy-on-write behavior :)

indigoabstract on March 20, 2025 | [–]

Yeah, could be a giant LMDB, but that's implementation detail :)

I imagine there's some serious optimization involved to make it all fit in memory.

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