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  • And I just want to add as a physicist: The most interesting manifolds are the differentiable ones, because there you can do general relativity! But manifolds are also relevant in other, more unexpected places, like a pendulum: It moves on a submanifold of R^3 due to the constraint of the string.

















  • But I think it’s better for it to fail from expected behavior vs unexpected behavior. Your storage being full is very transparent and expected, but that a file reaches max size and starts cutting off is unexpected and would surprise a lot of people.

    I myself use supercomputers and the log files can get into a lot of GB, and I would hate it if it just cut off at some point.