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Article #624152Re: OT: Trump
From: J. Clarke
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:32
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:32
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On 12 Jul 2018 17:07:41 GMT, Niklas Karlsson <ank...@yahoo.se> wrote: >On 2018-07-10, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: >> On 10 Jul 2018 20:25:19 GMT >> Niklas Karlsson <ank...@yahoo.se> wrote: >> >>> On 2018-06-30, Bud Frede <fr...@mouse-potato.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > In sanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting >>> > different results. >>> >>> Apologies for drifting on-topic again, but... by this definition, >>> insanity is the correct response to a great deal of software out there, >>> and even some hardware. >> >> By that definition it is insane to expect to saw through a thick >> piece of wood, you do the same thing over and over again dragging the saw >> through the wood and then suddenly there are two pieces of wood. > >Of course -- unless you define "saw until you're through" as one >operation. In any case, when you use a saw you do not "expect a different outcome", you expect it to cut another fraction of an inch into the wood on each stroke, until, after sufficient strokes, you have removed all the wood needed to make two pieces. >With a lot of software this isn't nearly so obvious. Of course, there >_is_ usually a deterministic reason behind it, but it can require >digging pretty deep, and/or deep architectural knowledge. Or the same >action simply starts working because the network load went down, >reducing latency or packet loss. > >Such things can be utterly opaque and mystifying to the end-user. > >Niklas
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