How do hackers drive?

Greg Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 1 19:32:08 PST 2003


On Saturday,  1 November 2003 at 13:20:55 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
>> I do plan out my trips, including short walks to the water fountain.
>> But I probably don't calculate in detail: I tend to take the nearest
>> turn each way, so in a situation like this
>>
>>  --------W--
>>  |         |
>>  |         |
>>  |         |
>>  --O--------
>>
>> to go from office (O) to water (W) and back, I do a clockwise circuit
>> rather than judge which route is shorter and retrace the same route
>> back
>
> That's totally insane!!!!
>
> How do you retract the invisible string that you leave behind
> you everywhere you go, if you don't use an exact reverse route?!?!
>
> You do know you have a limited supply of invisible string on a
> spool inside of you, and once you run out of string, you simply
> fall over dead, apparently of natural causes, right???

Never heard of garbage collection?

Greg
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