The Langoliers
by Stephen King · first published 1991
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A group of travelers on a red-eye flight from California to Maine wake up to discover that most of their fellow passengers have vanished mid-flight, along with the pilots and flight attendants. ([source][1])
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“Information is destroyed as you go forward in time; it’s not destroyed as you move through space,” Oppenheim said. Strangely, this reminds me Stephen King's "The Langoliers".
on “Does time really flow? New clues from intuitionist math” ↗Stephen King novel "The Langoliers" (made into a bad TV movie) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langoliers They are creatures that come and eat up the world after time has moved past, dead web sites (and dead forum sites in particular)…
on “Five days with Pebble” ↗The Cronophage makes me think of the Eponymous Langoliers Novella from Stephen King's "Four past Midnight". I wonder if he saw this clock and gained some inspiration from it? The "inspirations" section of the Wikipedia page only cites alleged plagiarism of unrelated…
on “Corpus Clock” ↗…time explaining to a peer why we were experiencing an unexpected side effect and redraw and explaining how `useMemo` and `useCallback` actually need to be used [0] and made me think of Stephen King's Langoliers. It occurred to me that "React is the new IBM" [1] It has become so dominant in the market that no one can get away from it. But that also means that it can no longer innovate. Andrew Clark's twitter…
on “React is a fractal of bad design” ↗