On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 21:55:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Nah, that's not even anywhere close to nuclear fusion.
The atoms which make up your body (and basically everything
else) are mostly empty, with just a tiny speck of a nucleus,
and a bunch of extremely tiny electrons zipping about. There's
plenty of room for hundreds, if not thousands or millions, of
persons to occupy the same space without any of the particles
running into each other.
But nobody will be building a fusion engine out of race
conditions anytime in the foreseeable future. :-D
T
Now my analogy sounds silly.
It's still valid though.
If something might be used by someone else it's better not to
touch it, unless one has confirmation it is not used by someone
else.
This is what shared has to enforce.
