They're getting on towards initiation of the actual rewarming protocol, so Catchall will wind down and finish up, here.

"...really, the whole concept of Exception Handling is an element of creeping fridge horror as a design pattern in computer programming.  It normalizes the idea that your ordinary code is not actually correct in general, only correct by coincidence for specific inputs, and sometimes needs to 'throw exceptions' when it reaches conditions under which the code's underlying incorrectness would otherwise manifest."

"Nothing in Civilization works in general, it breaks as soon as it encounters slightly unusual challenges, no social system within all Civilization is actually generally correct and known to be correct.  Our approach to this as a society has been to slap Exception Handling on top of it as a patch."

"For this to be even slightly okay, it requires that at least Exception Handling work."

"And then it doesn't work."

"If we came across a computer program as poorly designed as Civilization, we'd throw the entire thing in the trash and start over and not hire anyone who'd caught a glimpse of the previous code."

"They say it's a famously hard problem to predict what the Aliens will be like, when we finally meet them, some billion years hence.  After today, I think I will dare to venture a prediction as to how specifically the Aliens might differ from us, and I'm not entirely joking either."

"When we meet the Others, they will, during their corresponding historical period insofar as their history can be aligned with ours, have had better healthcare that was more robust to out-of-distribution inputs."

"Thank you for listening to this rant, since I cannot actually rant about it on television in this particular case.  We don't have long before the rewarming protocol will be initiated, now, but I have courteously made certain to reserve at least a hundred seconds for questions, objections, and comments.  Are there any such?"

They're getting on towards initiation of the actual rewarming protocol, so Catchall will wind down and finish up, here.

"...really, the whole concept of Exception Handling is an element of creeping fridge horror as a design pattern in computer programming.  It normalizes the idea that your ordinary code is not actually correct in general, only correct by coincidence for specific inputs, and sometimes needs to 'throw exceptions' when it reaches conditions under which the code's underlying incorrectness would be made manifest."

"Nothing in Civilization works in general, it breaks as soon as it encounters slightly unusual challenges, no social system within all Civilization is actually generally correct and known to be correct.  Our approach to this as a society has been to slap Exception Handling on top of it as a patch."

"For this to be even slightly okay, it requires that at least Exception Handling work."

"And then it doesn't work."

"If we came across a computer program as poorly designed as Civilization, we'd throw the entire thing in the trash and start over and not hire anyone who'd caught a glimpse of the previous code."

"They say it's a famously hard problem to predict what the Aliens will be like, when we finally meet them, some billion years hence.  After today, I think I will dare to venture a prediction as to how specifically the Aliens might differ from us, and I'm not entirely joking either."

"When we meet the Others, they will, during their corresponding historical period insofar as their history can be aligned with ours, have had better healthcare that was more robust to out-of-distribution inputs."

"Thank you for listening to this rant, since I cannot actually rant about it on television in this particular case.  We don't have long before the rewarming protocol will be initiated, now, but I have courteously made certain to reserve at least a hundred seconds for questions, objections, and comments.  Are there any such?"

They're getting on towards initiation of the actual rewarming protocol, so Catchall will wind down and finish up, here.

"...really, the whole concept of Exception Handling is an element of creeping fridge horror as a design pattern in computer programming.  It normalizes the idea that your ordinary code is not actually correct in general, only correct by coincidence for specific inputs, and sometimes needs to 'throw exceptions' when it reaches conditions under which the code's underlying incorrectness would be made manifest."

"Nothing in Civilization works in general, it breaks as soon as it encounters slightly unusual challenges, no organizational structure within all Civilization is actually generally correct and known to be correct.  Our approach to this as a society has been to slap Exception Handling on top of it as a patch."

"For this to be even slightly okay, it requires that at least Exception Handling work."

"And then it doesn't work."

"If we came across a computer program as poorly designed as Civilization, we'd throw the entire thing in the trash and start over and not hire anyone who'd caught a glimpse of the previous code."

"They say it's a famously hard problem to predict what the Aliens will be like, when we finally meet them, some billion years hence.  After today, I think I will dare to venture a prediction as to how specifically the Aliens might differ from us, and I'm not entirely joking either."

"When we meet the Others, they will, during their corresponding historical period insofar as their history can be aligned with ours, have had better healthcare that was more robust to out-of-distribution inputs."

"Thank you for listening to this rant, since I cannot actually rant about it on television in this particular case.  We don't have long before the rewarming protocol will be initiated, now, but I have courteously made certain to reserve at least a hundred seconds for questions, objections, and comments.  Are there any such?"

They're getting on towards initiation of the actual rewarming protocol, so Catchall will wind down and finish up, here.

"...really, the whole concept of 'exception handling' is an element of creeping fridge horror as a design pattern in computer programming.  It normalizes the idea that your ordinary code is not actually correct in general, only correct by coincidence for specific inputs, and sometimes needs to 'throw exceptions' when it reaches conditions under which the code's underlying incorrectness would be made manifest."

"Nothing in Civilization works in general, it breaks as soon as it encounters slightly unusual challenges, no organizational structure within all Civilization is actually generally correct and known to be correct.  Our approach to this as a society has been to slap Exception Handling on top of it as a patch."

"For this to be even slightly okay, it requires that at least Exception Handling work."

"And then it doesn't work."

"If we came across a computer program as poorly designed as Civilization, we'd throw the entire thing in the trash and start over and not hire anyone who'd caught a glimpse of the previous code."

"They say it's a famously hard problem to predict what the Aliens will be like, when we finally meet them, some billion years hence.  After today, I think I will dare to venture a prediction as to how specifically the Aliens might differ from us, and I'm not entirely joking either."

"When we meet the Others, they will, during their corresponding historical period insofar as their history can be aligned with ours, have had better healthcare that was more robust to out-of-distribution inputs."

"Thank you for listening to this rant, since I cannot actually rant about it on television in this particular case.  We don't have long before the rewarming protocol will be initiated, now, but I have courteously made certain to reserve at least a hundred seconds for questions, objections, and comments.  Are there any such?"