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Ever since the last MacOS update, my MacBook has been overheating very easily, very often. When this happened in the past, I would simply put it in the freezer for a few minutes and then pull it out and get back to work. Now something strange is happening: The MacBook itself will be ice-cold, but unlike before when it would just resume working wonderfully, now it "sort of" works, but not really. For example synching stops and says "It needs to wait until the temperature drops". I installed an app to see what's going on and it's reading the CPU at 190º+ F and the GPU at 200º+. Why? How could anything inside be that hot when the frame itself is ice cold?

In the new "New Reddit" force-unloaded last year, there have been many (unfortunate) changes to post edit mode; one of them is that if you have several images and extra spaces between them, deleting even one such extra space sometimes inadvertently deletes the image above such spaces, even if there were, say, 4 spaces between images and you only deleted the bottom-most. Or sometimes it will delete any text above the line you just deleted if the spaces were between text and an image.

Here's the weird part (or at least for me it is): I inadvertently discovered by mistake that if you go to your DESKTOP menu and select "Undo" ... about 7/10 times it actually "undoes" the deletion within Reddit's edit mode and reposts any images/text lost.

How is this possible, ie, how do desktop OS functions work while editing in a website?

Suppose you were having a conversation with a demonstrably capable hacker and it doesn't go so well, after which, the following happens:

- You hear what sounds almost like a power generator going off in the distance, except it's a "softer", more "bass"-boosted and buzzing sound and doesn't have that final "crackle" exploding sound at the end; more like a slowed-down version of the sounds leading up to that final "generator blew out during the storm" sound - During this, the light in your room noticeably dims for a brief moment, but then goes back to normal (the nearby cable TV box if fine, not rebooting or anything) - However, your laptop (Mac, if it makes a difference) that you reasonably recently updated the battery for at a reputable, licensed location inexplicably shuts off (no warning, no fan overheating sound (no fan at all, actually), not a lot of apps open to stress processor or memory - Your laptop at this moment was not just fully charged, but also plugged in - The laptop self-reboots, whereupon you notice your battery charge is now inexplicably "0%"; opening up the settings panel, the graph shows that your laptop was in fact fully charged until just a moment ago when the charge inexplicably nose-dived to "0%" (when that outdoor "power generator humming buzzing sound happened and the light dimmed) - This part didn't happen exactly this way and I don't want to go into details of how it did happen, but let's say something like this happened: Upon your laptop rebooting, let's say there is an open sticky note or a notepad app that inexplicably opens also and something like the following was typed in: "Hope you saved your work at (hour)(minute) on (day)(date)" – so basically you do not have doubts that "this was no accident"

My question is 2-fold: (1) How is it possible to instantly discharge your laptop's battery so that it goes from 100% to 0% in a split second, and, more importantly (2) how is it possible to rewrite your laptop's "whatever" so that if the battery suddenly has 0% charge, the hardware is reset to ignore the fact that it can draw power from also being plugged in?

I'm not expecting (though I'd love) any "As a hacker who used to do just this sort of thing to people, I know exactly how they did it" answers, but ANY ideas about how this may have been possible would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

You may not believe we are currently living in a simulation, but if we are, such a state would have some very important implications, for example:

(1) Is it possible to examine (and possibly hack) the underlying source code in order to improve the lot of both humanity and the other living organisms we share our planet with?

(2) Is it a digital simulation encompassing the whole universe (which for all we know may be just-in-time rendered background filler), or is it a biological simulation localized to, say, experimental colonies of an alien civilization (for example, what if there were 100s or 1000s of "Plan-ETs/ET-Plans", each with their own versions of Joe Biden and the NASDAQ and Ukraine and Putin and so on)?

Since there are no current tangible standards for assessing the likelihood of the simulation hypothesis being true and if so to what extent it is (save for a few philosophical postulates and Moore's law), can we come to a reasonable conclusion that "something", however imperfect and possibly objectionable it may be, is better than nothing?

What is being proposed is something that, however ridiculous it may seem at first glance, will at the very least allow for for the calculation of probabilities ("What are the odds that all these similarly-themed things are concurrent coincidences?").

Currently putting the finishing touches on such a presentation and transferring it to some managed hosting service for public contemplation.

What are your thoughts on the subject, Hacker News?

What if something came up that, although not 100% perfect evidence of the actuality of a sim, allowed you to calculate the likelihood of such to, say, a 99.99999999999...% likelihood?

Anybody see potential logical flaws with this approach?

Unfortunately, this was a bit to long to fit into HN's submission text field:

https://drive.proton.me/urls/HDA5M1MJEC#JcyAWGpy9PXl

It's 6 pages consisting of explanations/examples of logic/code to arrive at the conclusions.

It also just occurred that the "ID" part turns into "13", as in what will be aired in "Best Moments Of" re-broadcasts on TV next Monday, the 13th.

It would especially be appreciated if someone was knowledgeable enough to write a program figuring out the probability of all this being coincidental.

Anyway, should you care to amuse yourself with "something different", again, the document is 6 pages (1 of which is mostly images).

For anyone who downloaded it in and took the time to read it, thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

A four page treatment complete with background explanation and step-by-step logic/"code", submitted for your consideration (sorry, but the material was slightly over Hacker News' text field capacity):

https://drive.proton.me/urls/0X5J3DXW6C#xAcSeUQDodXR

Thank you for your time and consideration.