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Re:Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016 by slmyers on Friday July 29, 2016 @04:06AM (#12185537)
Is anything truly "mastered"?
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Re:Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016 by lorenzhs on Friday July 29, 2016 @04:50AM (#12185657)
Just yesterday I got a blank result page for a sensible query, seems to have hit some rarely visited bucket combined with a busy machine somewhere or the like, and the background request timed out. Of course a refresh fixed it, but software is never perfect.
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Re:Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016 by iopq on Friday July 29, 2016 @04:29AM (#12185596)
It's not "perfect", it's just "mastered"
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Re:Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016 by ZenoArrow on Friday July 29, 2016 @05:47AM (#12185790)
What's the difference?
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Re:Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016 by SXX on Friday July 29, 2016 @05:56AM (#12185822)
Probably "mastered" mean constant quality.
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Re:Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016 by iopq on Sunday July 31, 2016 @03:45AM (#12196107)
A grandmaster chess player has mastered chess, but he can't play perfectly because he's still a human.
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