The dining philosophers are digital. They can make whatever crazy exceptions they want. Buridan’s Ass is analogue. If it has an exception to a rule, it has to be able to be half way into the exception. It’s like how you can make a continuous function that looks a lot like a square wave, but now matter how close it gets, there’s always a point where it’s 0 instead of +-1.
The dining philosophers are digital. They can make whatever crazy exceptions they want. Buridan’s Ass is analogue. If it has an exception to a rule, it has to be able to be half way into the exception. It’s like how you can make a continuous function that looks a lot like a square wave, but now matter how close it gets, there’s always a point where it’s 0 instead of +-1.