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A coworker and I were recently indulging in dark humor about pandemics being due to load shedding required on account of unexpected simulator platform downtime.



If we start defining irrational values ad infinitum (supposing that they're generated by the simulation on the fly as opposed to set, infinite constants), will that kernel panic their machines as their RAM and swap partitions overflow?


Apparently it was no longer enough to frequency-scale the lower-utilization human brains.




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