Re:Gmail having issues
by thaumasiotes on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:40AM
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> but software is fundamentally deterministic.
That's true, but human behavior is also fundamentally deterministic, and those two observations are about equally useful.
> Note that this is rather different from physical, mechanical systems which can fail in all kinds of exciting and unpredictable ways due to physical wear and tear, things getting jammed in places, component failure, etc.
That's true, but human behavior is also fundamentally deterministic, and those two observations are about equally useful.
> Note that this is rather different from physical, mechanical systems which can fail in all kinds of exciting and unpredictable ways due to physical wear and tear, things getting jammed in places, component failure, etc.
No it isn't. Those are deterministic too.