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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by bee_rider on Saturday October 21, 2023 @09:32PM (#37972085)
I’m sure FDIV-like bugs are absolutely eclipsed by typos and misclicks from doing things manually.
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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by TeMPOraL on Sunday October 22, 2023 @05:18AM (#37973949)
Yeah, but typos and misclicks don't scale. What was that saying? "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
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