Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 20 Aug 2025 20:36:15 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <107070d$3hvho$1@dont-email.me> <3rkmmlxplv.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <107cipt$2g8mr$9@dont-email.me> <107f281$35moq$4@dont-email.me> <107gjq8$3iasj$2@dont-email.me> <107gvbi$3lqmd$4@dont-email.me> <107j4lg$5ipa$2@dont-email.me> <107kcfp$d4vh$11@dont-email.me> <107lfgs$mgj0$2@dont-email.me> <107ofni$1c98g$6@dont-email.me> <68a08c08$0$28068$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <107q4lu$1o8s4$1@dont-email.me> <1080ihr$3f9p0$2@dont-email.me> <1080svs$3fk4r$2@dont-email.me> <1084337$7mtq$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tGXj+eh0g5v3qXtAqC1pIgrifkJq5Ozb/vaBdv8SJvxQXLiqVT Cancel-Lock: sha1:6nuwE0+mQEO5kxuqHvbOQVJabXc= sha256:yK5lUKIJEYhjHPE1kXUex77te9ePZdU6BHhJjlPKb7A= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71788 On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:04:39 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 19/08/2025 19:41, rbowman wrote: >> Not so obviously when the AA fuel dragsters started going through the >> traps faster than they should have. High speed photography showed the >> slicks doing very strange things. >> >> Then there are the current flow conventions... > > When you learn engineering, you learn that most derived 'laws' are not > laws at all. They are handy approximations to limited cases. > > Coefficient of friction is just one of them. Coefficient of elasticity > is another one. > > Enormous mistakes are made by people *believing* in (limited) *models* > of reality, rather than reality itself. Precisely. Scientists often have the problem of believing their models since they sometimes are not well attached to reality. Neil Ferguson's stellar models come to mind.