2024-Lifelock

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+#The awkward Sidewalk-Dance
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+Don't worry, we've all been there... You walk towards a stranger on a narrow pathway or in a doorway and realize that you’re both on the same lane and therefore cannot pass each other. Since you are a quick thinker, you change lanes. Surprisingly, the stranger is again in front of you, blocking your pathway as he did exactly the same. So you switch again, but so do they...
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+In computer science we call this phenomenon a livelock, and it occurs when several processing units running in parallel constantly adjust their actions to avoid conflicts but never make progress. In a livelock scenario, processing units keep changing their state in response to each other, preventing eachother from completing their tasks.
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+## Author 
+Fabian Dudler